TailWag 1.3: it cuts out your dog now 🐕

[everyday3d]

Hey everyone,

1.3 is out, and Tucker approved it. Well, he bounced off the couch, did a lap of the living room and tried to run off with the USB cable, which around here counts as a yes.

Grab it here: https://github.com/everyday3d/tailwag/releases/tag/v1.3.0

The big one: cut to the subject

You know that moment when your dog photo comes out great, but it's stuck on a big square slab with the couch behind him? Not anymore.

Open Shape and extras, pick Subject (automatic), wait about as long as it takes to say "who's a good boy" a few times, and TailWag cuts the print to your dog's outline. Or your cat, your kid, your grandma's teapot. No tracing, no fiddling with the eraser tool for an hour.

A couple of sliders let you leave a bit of room around the edge and smooth out the fluff, because whiskers are adorable but printing them one strand at a time is not. Frames follow the outline too, so you get a little bevelled border hugging the shape.

It all runs on your own computer. Your photos never leave it.

Crop, turn and "this part matters"

There's a new Edit photo window. Crop, straighten that slightly crooked phone pic, and then the fun bit: paint over the part you care about most, usually a face, and TailWag gives it first pick of the colours. No more perfect background and muddy-looking eyes.

It got a makeover

The whole app has been redone: calmer colours, clearer labels, and fewer buttons yelling at you in all caps. The filament stack under the 3D view is now one bar showing every layer's colour, and you just drag the handles to move a colour change. It also fits on smaller laptop screens now, which a few of you asked about (thank you!).

Little things

• Tucker is now on the loading screen. He gets printed layer by layer, then wags his little docked tail. Yes, this was the most important feature. No, I won't be taking questions.
• Copy debug info in the About box, so bug reports are one paste instead of twenty questions.
• Fixed a nasty one where Vivid mode would sometimes refuse to export a perfectly good .3MF over a difference of one thousandth of a millimetre. Fussy software, fixed.

Heads up

The download is bigger this time (around 260 MB on Windows) because the subject finder comes built in, so it works offline. If Windows throws the blue "protected your PC" screen at you, click More info, then Run anyway. We're still too small for a code-signing certificate.

If something breaks, and something always breaks, tell me in Issues. And please show off your prints in Show and tell. Bonus points for dogs.

Happy printing!
BoxerDawg 3D (and Tucker)