0.9.18+patch.6

^2025-08-27

Originally intended to be bugfix releases only, these patch releases are getting bigger and bigger it seems, increasingly adding new features too, while the focus remains on making the .18 experience more solid, before I dive into .19, for which I plan to add some bigger later-stage-workflow tools.

And while Blender 4.2 LTS is still supported, I would suggest people upgrade at minimum to 4.3 now, or better 4.5 LTS. For two reasons: 1. Edge Weight Bevels and 2.Modifier gizmos. Without either of these some of the HC Example insets will no longer work 100% in 4.2

Create Split Boolean

With this release I'm most excited about the Create Split Boolean tool. You could already create split booleans using AddObjectAtCursor, HyperCut or the Boolean tools of course, but what's cool about the CreateSplitBoolean tool is that it works from a selection of an existing Difference Boolean Operand Object.
That means you can setup a regular Difference Boolean, then modify that with additional modifiers on the operand object, and once happy with that you can create the "negative" split-off part from it. This allows for more complex splits, which weren't as easily possible before, without doing everything twice.

The tool will then automatically invoke the RemoveUnusedBoolean tool as well, as Split booleans tend to create these. Also, it's super accessible through it's own little gizmo button at the bottom right:

Creating a Split Boolean from an existing Difference Boolean operand, which hosts 2 Boolean mods itself

Also, in combination with the Extrude Face tool, it's now very easy to turn Lazy Splits (from HyperCut) into real splits: Just Extrude the manifold lazy-split cutter to encompass the to-be-split-off part, then invoke Create Split Boolean. The tool will remove the Shell mod for you too then.

Face Bevel

You can now easily bevel entire faces by invoking the Bevel Tool from the face pie.
Under the hood, it will create the Edge Selection for you, and then Invoke the regular Edge Bevel tool.
You can repeat previous bevels via ALT or create mesh bevels using CTRL exactly as for the Edge Bevel tool.

Bevelling a face

Inset Collection sorting

Insets dropped or added from the Asset Browser will now by default be sorted in the _Insets collection. This can be renamed in the addon preferences, or disabled completely.
There's also a dedicated Sort Insets tool in the sidebar now, that performs the same sorting, but for the entire scene.

Within the _Insets collection Hyper Cursor will create 2 sub-collections: Hooks and Subsets to collect - well Hook Handle Objects and Subsets (rendered non-mod objects, like a screw's head for instance).

The _Insets collection and its sub-collections

Select X-Ray

In edit mesh mode, Hyper Cursor will now automatically and temporarily enable X-Ray allowing you to select through an object and so select back-faces toot, if you drag out your selection box to the left side. If you drag it to the right a regular box select is performed, leaving X-Ray however it is. If X-Ray is enabled already and you drag to the left, it will also be left as it is.

X-Ray is temporarily enabled for the selection only, when the box is dragged out to the left.

Hyper Hooks

In the Example Insets I've replaced use of all Hook modifiers with a custom geo node Hyper Hook mod, that supports moving both ends in opposite directions at the same time.
In addition it is now controlled via Gizmo, which allows removing the Hook Handle Object.

Hyper Hook inset with it's yellow modifier gizmo to the left, and the the right with another modifier active and ⬆ gizmo at the top right used to reveal the modifier gizmo it again

The mod also still does support such an object to control the offset however, because it's useful to be able to control multiple hooked objects with a single control object.

Object and Modifiers panel with the Hyper Hook exposed in it's own section

The same panel for a different Hyper Hook inset, that's using a Hook Handle Object to control multiple objects at once

Transform Edit Mesh Mode Selections

Previously I've introduced the ability to move objects using the TransformCursor tool by toggling S to move the selection instead of the cursor, or toggling Q to move the selection along with the Cursor.
This is different from passing through to the Blender native Transform tools via ALT and useful, because it allows you to take advantage of the Transform Cursor tools' snapping features.

Moving a mesh selection by toggling S in the Transform Cursor tool

This now also works for edit mode mesh selections.

Tool Header

The Tool Header now provides quick access to display preferences for the Header, previously only exposed in the addon preferences.

Quick-access Display Toggles in the Tool Header, with a warning shown because Blender has disabled all Gizmos

If you disable Gizmos globally and you have hints enabled, HyperCursor will let you know about it, and offer a way to enable them again.
This also happens if you have Modifier Gizmos disabled, while having an active object with Modifier gizmos selected.

A Warning because Blender has Modifier GIzmos disabled, while an object making use of them is active

Also you can very quickly get to the addon preferences now via little gears ⚙ button. All of these toggles can be collapsed too.

Furthermore, Cursor History controls are now exposed here too now.

Quick-access Display Toggles are collapsed, and Cursor History is shown

Sidebar

In the Sidebar's Gizmos panel, Object Gizmos now have their own section, and you can pick and chose exactly which of these you actually want to see.
Also, like in the Tool Header, a quick access button ⚙ for the addon preferences is also shown in the HyperCursor header, but can be disabled in the addon prefs.

Pick and chose which of these button-gizmos you want to see and use

Also, in the Add-Object-History, the names of insets are now more aggressively shortened depending in the number of different libraries and asset blend files are represented in the current history.

Item names in the Add-Object-History are now shorter if possible

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The Push Face tool now supports disabling self-snapping via S and wire-object-snapping via W while snapping is active via CTRL.

Self- and Wire-Object-Snapping disabled in Push Face tool

Also, the Duplicate Object Tree tool - usually accessed from the Object and Modifiers panel - can now act on multi-object selections when invoked from its new gizmo or the sidebar.

Duplicate gizmo for multi-object selections

Furthermore there's a Toggle Renderability tool in the Object and Modifiers panel tool now, to quickly switch not just an object's display type, but also whether it's rendered or not.

Last but not least, if you uses the Tools Pie in MACHIN3tools, you can now very quickly set it up for HyperCursor, directly from HyperCursor's addon preferences.

Easily tweak the MACHIN3tools Tools Pie from HyperCursor's addon interface preferences

There is plenty more, but the rest is mostly just behavioral tweaks and fixes, see changelog for details.

0.9.18+patch.5

^2025-07-05

Wake up Babe, new HyperCursor just dropped.

This release adds the MESHCUT operation for the Boolean and AddObject tools.

Cutting the mesh from object mode - geo gizmos are added for visibility

It's supported for insets created via the CreateAsset tool as well now. I'm not sure just how useful this will be yet - for insets in particular - but it's kind of cool.

Secondary Booleans

Secondary Booleans just refers too booleans set up on an inset's root object. There always has been the option "to use" secondary booleans, which has now been renamed to "Transfer Secondary Booleans".
If enabled (when creating the inset via CreateAsset tool), it means that any booleans on the inset's root object will be transferred to the inset's boolean host object - so the object you drop the inset on.

I've added some simple example insets to demonstrate this and made sure it all works as intended for MeshCut and Split booleans too now.

Difference - Secondary boolean stays on the Inset, or is transferred to the inset's host object

MechCut - Secondary stays on the Inset and contributes to the cut, or is transferred to the inset's host object

For Split Booleans there's also a new option to Ignore Secondary Booleans, which will keep the secondary booleans it on the newly split-off object part, but will not add it to the inset's host object.

Split - normal (sec. contributes to cut), ignore secondary boolean (on host) and transfer boolean (to host)

Create Asset Popup with 'Ignore Secondary' option for Split Insets

Evaluated Extract

The Evaluated Face extract tool now has the option to remove boundary edges, which can be useful, if you follow up meshcut.
Do note however, that this does work on the original mesh, not the evaluated one, and so is best used on objects with no or few mods, in particular booleans in the area of extraction.

Toggling 'Remove Boundary' will remove the edges on the base mesh

Transform Cursor, Point Cursor

TransformCursor, when invoked from the MACHIN3tools Cursor and Origin pie will now only set Blender's Transform Orientation, when you change the Cursor's rotation only, and will only set Blender's Transform Pivot, when you change the Cursor's location only.

Previously both Pivot and Orientation where always set, when Set Transform Pivot/Orientation was enabled, either by default or toggled via the T key.

The Point Cursor tool now has that option too, and since it only ever sets Cursor rotation - it will also only set the Transform Orientation when enabled. Also either by default (addon prefs) or toggled via the T key.

Regular Keymaps

The previous patch brought a HyperBevel keymap that works even with the HyperCursor tool disabled.
This release adds additional keymaps for PickHyperBevel, HyperCut, PickObjectTree and HyperBend. All are disabled by default, so they have to be enabled in the addon prefs.

All of these keymaps are now also exposed under the keymaps tab, in addition to the individual Tool Defaults under the Settings tab.

Regular 'Outside' Keymaps in the addons prefs under the Keymaps tab now have their own sub-panel

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See the changelog for a list of all changes and fixes.

0.9.18+patch.4

^2025-06-19

Mostly a bugfix release but also adds a few things, and tweaks some behaviors, in particular for the TransformCursor tool.

Transform Cursor

Grid Increment Snapping was always possible, but now it's visualized too!
Just scroll up or down while you snap the cursor to the grid.

Grid Increment Snapping at 1/10th scale

Grid Increment Snapping at 1/100th scale

MACHIN3tools Cursor and Origin Pie

The Transform Cursor tool now behaves a bit differently when invoked from the MACHIN3tools Cursor and Origin pie.

Cursor Transform behavior mirroring the Cursor tools in MACHIN3tools

Invoked from the MACHIN3tools pie while ALT was pressed - cursor takes (only) location from face

Invoked from the MACHIN3tools pie while CTRL was pressed - cursor takes (only) rotation from Edge

You can now also optionally let the tool set Blender's transform pivot and orientation, which allows using Blender's native transform tools in cursor space.

Toggle via T

The default behavior for this (and other tools) is adjustable in the addon prefs.

Tool Defaults Settings in the addon preferences

Hyper Bevel + Cane T

In the past I have moved all keymaps under the HyperCursor tool, meaning they will only work while the HyperCursor tool is active.
This is one of the main reasons why Blender introduced the concept of tools - to make better use of always-limited keymap real-estate and avoid conflicts with other tools and addons.

Watching Cane T's recent tutorials it's obvious however that this can be limiting, and that having some tools accessible "from the outside" might be a good idea. Personally I'm almost always in the HC tool these days, but I understand that this will not be the case for everyone.

I'm bringing a better way to switch between tools to MACHIN3tools in the upcoming release too for that reason.
On discord Adasky said: "I always hated useless active tool sidebar..." and I couldn't agree more :)

For HyperCursor however, I've added a second HyperBevel keymap now, that works in regular Object Mode, no matter what tool is active. It's still the same CTRL + B, but has to be activated in the addon preferences first - and can be remapped there too of course.

Enable the HyperBevel keymap under the Tool Defaults Settings

Check out Cane's tutorial, it's awesome. There's a cheap first part too.

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Check out the changelog for details on the various fixes.

0.9.18+patch.3

^2025-06-07

Small bugfix release, continuing my efforts to make 0.9.18 rock solid. Thanks for the reports LKAMinco!

See changelog for details.

0.9.18+patch.2

^2025-06-03

This mostly fixes bugs I've encountered, or that were reported since February. Quite a few actually.

But also, it supports and defaults to MANIFOLD booleans in Blender 4.5, which should give you significant speed and stability imrovements especially when making heavy use of EXACT booleans, like HyperBevels. There's a conversion tool in the sidebar too, so you can easily update older models.

HyperCursor's Blendulate tool has been updated to match the new abilities in CURVEmachine 1.4.

The TransformCursor tool can now snap in the grid while moving, not just when dragging.
Also when dragging a selection with the tool - toggled via S or Q keys - you can now flip the selection upside down via the X key, when you snap on geometry or the grid.
This is and has been default behavior before already, to allow for easy face-to-face or vert-to-vert or vert-to-face (etc. etc.) alignments. It can be useful to not flip however, in particular directly after having just dragged the selection along with the cursor - I really need to demo this, ha.

If you have PUNCHit 1.3 installed, then you can now punch from object mode via the face pie. Supports multiple hyper-selected faces too, but is still limited to single face island extrusions.

Check out the changelog for the rest, basically just bug fixes.

0.9.18+patch.1

^2025-02-14

Smol bugfix release.

0.9.18

^2025-02-10

Massive release covering 8 months of almost full time development, bringing a completely new HyperBevel tool.

See changelog for details.