Product Updates September 2026, part 2 of 2

What shipped in September 2026, part 2 of 2

• 34 releases published between 2026-09-01 and 2026-09-12. This is an archive page — the current release notes live on the main product updates page.
• 2026-09-12 — Clearer Results, Portable Settings and Safer Handoffs: More Fabricator controls and Photo Prep comparisons now follow your language. Guides describe preserved raster tones and show where to check current tool pricing. Export and import validated Photo Prep settings as JSON. Artwork stays out of settings files, and imported settings never start processing automatically. Review production package dimensions and operations before download. Packages include file checksums, and private production handoffs stay tied to the approved proposal. Job links open their saved Armory result.
• 2026-09-11 — MASTER — Optional Dense Supporting Texture: MASTER now offers Dense Supporting Texture for finer detail around your main motifs. It is separate from Motif Scale, defaults off, and keeps High quality and credit pricing unchanged. Exact cutouts remain protected. Proof fine details on scrap before production.
• 2026-09-10 — Reviewed Outline Repair and Magic Edit Upgrade: Fill Outline can propose connections for some broken single-part outlines. Review the highlighted changes and confirm the estimated shape before applying the art zone. Uncertain outlines remain blocked; original images are preserved. Magic Edit uses an updated editing engine while keeping the existing quality setting and credit pricing. Pixels outside your painted edit area remain protected.
• 2026-09-10 — Fabricator — Outline Readiness Checks: Fabricator now checks thin outlines and suspicious background selections before a paid run. Broken boundaries need repair instead of becoming an almost-full canvas art zone. Closed outlines still fill automatically while preserving cutouts; inspect your painted area before FIRE.
• 2026-09-10 — MASTER — Exact Cutouts and High Quality: MASTER no longer adds automatic extra clearance around holes and windows. Your selected padding remains in control, High quality is enforced for every MASTER run, and maximum-native canvas sizing remains enabled. Credit prices are unchanged.
• 2026-09-10 — MASTER High — Maximum Native Canvas: MASTER now requests the largest supported native canvas for your part’s proportions at High quality, with detail preserved through final processing. Credit prices are unchanged; proof fine details on scrap before production.
• 2026-09-09 — MICRO+ Motifs, Independent Line Detail and Burnability Cleanup: Motif Scale now reaches MICRO+ for long parts that need many smaller, complete repeating motifs instead of one oversized centrepiece. Advanced monochrome runs can set Line Detail to Auto, Fine or Intricate independently of motif size, so a dense composition can retain finer internal detail. Export now includes free Burnability Cleanup profiles. Set True Size, start with Standard, then compare ART with VECTOR: cleanup removes undersized isolated marks, flags thin connected detail for review and restores the original if a proposed cleanup is too aggressive. The millimetre settings are digital preparation targets, so verify the result with a scrap-material test.
• 2026-09-09 — Hero Placement — Whole and Centred on Every Nano Engine: Ask FORGE, SPARK or ULTRA for a hero — an eagle, a portrait, a logo — and it now lands whole inside solid material with scrollwork around it, instead of straddling a slot or hole. On smaller PANEL ULTRA sheets, a selected hero panel can be drafted in three candidate cells and the best one retained. Dense sheets keep one selected hero and reserve the atlas for every real panel, so support panels are not displaced.
• 2026-09-09 — Photo Styles — Eight Ways to Redraw a Photograph: Vector Artist now offers Clean Subject, Detailed Outline, Precision Pencil, Pencil Sketch, Classic Engraving, Stipple Portrait, Scratchboard and Linocut. Fidelity-heavy styles use MASTER 2.0; clean graphic styles use ULTRA CORE. Choose Standard, Detailed or Max Detail output before generating. Each tier shows its full 6, 8 or 10 CR price up front, and every result still includes PNG plus an automatic SVG trace when tracing succeeds.
• 2026-09-08 — MASTER 2.0 — Our Finest-Detail Engine, Upgraded: MASTER is now MASTER 2.0, running on a second-generation model: the same 10 CR flat price with High Quality included, about three times faster, with an improved relief mode for white-on-black styles and the ultra-fine line density our most detailed member pieces are known for. Existing MASTER CORE pieces in your Armory keep their original name.
• 2026-09-08 — Science & Discovery Style DNA: Explore Ammonite Fossil Cabinet, Armillary Astronomy and Compound Microscope Study in the new Science & Discovery Style DNA family. Saved personal styles now retain the composition type visible in your sample. Fabricator better respects requested lettering and preserves empty material when you choose no Style DNA.
• 2026-09-08 — Faith & Sacred Art and Refreshed Style References: Explore Faith & Sacred Art: Archangel Warrior, Sacred Heart and Rosary, and Passion Vine and Cross join devotional favorites in a dedicated Style DNA category. Refreshed style previews show fuller compositions and clearer motif detail. Multi-panel designs handle typed requests and relief-style backgrounds more consistently.
• 2026-09-07 — Spanish Design Guides and Clearer Project Details: Explore Spanish guides for the Fabricator, Image Lab, Outline Studio and pricing. Switch languages from the menu and continue into the tools in your chosen language. Before-and-after examples now load images sized for your screen. Public project pages present the creator’s descriptions and available project details more clearly.
• 2026-09-07 — Choose Your Hero Panel: Choose a panel in Fabricator to place your hero or reference images there, with supporting ornament on the other panels. Available in FIRE on desktop and mobile for SPARK, FORGE, FORGE COLOR and ULTRA.
• 2026-09-07 — Reliable Vector Artist Image Handoff: Vector Artist now reads saved images passed from Background Remover correctly. Unreadable source images are rejected before credits are charged.
• 2026-09-07 — Spanish Recovery and Workflow Details: Spanish now covers legacy Fabricator recovery notices, credit confirmations, Coin Designer accessibility labels and Image Lab stage actions. Amounts and refund conditions remain explicit.
• 2026-09-07 — Clearer Workflows, Export Evidence and Recovery: Spanish labels now cover more Fabricator, Coin Designer and Image Lab controls, photo preparation and recovery messages. The navigation signup action fits intermediate desktop widths. Save reusable local photo settings, compare Coin Designer takes and record an optional test-card result in a production package. Compatibility guidance distinguishes native projects from import files. Saved Fabricator outputs link to their job and credit settlement, project Trash shows individual recovery deadlines, and Shop Manager offers a private production handoff checklist. Cancelled or failed image downloads no longer count as successful exports. The free photo route and plan guide are easier to find, and learning searches can clear all filters in one step.
• 2026-09-06 — Clearer Mobile Help and Reliable Recovery: Image Lab batches recover unfinished files after reload and let you check an interrupted job without starting another paid attempt. Purchase and contribution histories now distinguish connection problems from an empty history. Laser-Ready files, Proof of Burn and Challenges now support Spanish throughout their forms, purchases and status messages. Contribution forms show the upload limit and keep support reachable after an error. One mobile Support menu brings together help, jobs and feedback. Larger color controls, clearer labels and tooltips, a growing assistant composer, readable touch inputs and a point-cloud timer make everyday tools easier to use.
• 2026-09-06 — Every Public Price Now Reads the Live Rate: AI Photo Vector Artist is now 6 CR (was 8). The change went live on September 4; this note records it, because the September 2 pricing release was the last one announced here. Every credit figure in public page copy, search descriptions, and FAQ answers is now generated from the same rate the app charges. The pricing page, Image Lab, Magic Edit, Map Maker, Outline Studio, Style Foundry and AI Design Assistant pages had prices written by hand, and some had fallen behind a repricing. They cannot drift again.
• 2026-09-06 — Motorsport & Kustom Style DNA Category Live: New Motorsport & Kustom category launched in Style DNA with Crossed Pistons and Sparks, Knobby Tire Tread, and Vintage Speed Tachometer alongside classic flames, hot rod engines, pinstriping, and racing checkering for motorcycle derby covers, timing covers, and custom automotive metal.
• 2026-09-05 — Reticle AI Design Assistant Upgraded: The Reticle AI Design Assistant now delivers faster and more capable reasoning for laser settings, machine safety, and multimodal material photo analysis.
• 2026-09-05 — Clearer Guides and Connected Tutorials: All 18 tutorials now include concise workflow checkpoints in English and Spanish, with links to the matching tools, manuals and related lessons. The Fabricator guide now includes MASTER and the current standard engine prices. Topic hubs add practical checks for materials, LightBurn, photo preparation, MOPA color and tumbler workflows.
• 2026-09-05 — Clearer Export Checks and Project Recovery: Crystal exports now show both warnings when a point cloud is sparse and extends beyond the safety margin. Changing the cloud requires a fresh review before export. Reopening a Fabricator project now identifies artwork and vector layers that could not load while keeping the successfully restored layers available.
• 2026-09-05 — More Reliable Shared Proposals: Accepting a shared proposal now saves its status and work order together. Repeated submissions keep the original acceptance without creating duplicate work orders. Older proposal links explain when the shop needs to publish them again. Use Copy Link or Send in Shop Manager to refresh a saved proposal.
• 2026-09-05 — Clearer Job Recovery and More Reliable Exports: Production Bridge rejects unsupported clipping and masks before they can change the exported machine geometry. Identical inputs now produce identical production packages. Paid Jobs can load older history and find a job from its direct link. Recovery messages make clear which jobs have been loaded. Magic Edit keeps a copyable support reference and shows whether a refund is confirmed or still pending. Checking an existing result or refund does not start another generation. Production Bridge, Paid Jobs and first-fire Fabricator guidance follow your English or Spanish selection, including export instructions and recovery states. Outline and account exports use the shared browser and native file handoff. Account history loads older entries in bounded pages.
• 2026-09-05 — Safer Multipart Artwork Alignment: Fabricator now keeps a panel in place when a proposed final alignment adjustment would remove more artwork inside its art zone. Existing hard clipping and supported offset corrections remain in place.
• 2026-09-05 — Smoother Sample Setup and Free Tool Corrections: Fabricator result QA now keeps recorded request and composition concerns visible as Ready with notes instead of showing an unqualified Ready. The Fabricator guided sample now prepares its bundled image correctly and waits for part preparation before announcing that it is ready. The free DPI calculator starts in the displayed conversion direction, so 300 DPI correctly gives a 0.0847 mm interval. Contact form validation messages now follow your language selection immediately, including errors already on screen.
• 2026-09-03 — Matched Parts Keep Every Requested Detail Complete: When a multipart request asks for the same subject and lettering on both grips or on each panel, Fabricator now composes one complete copy inside every part instead of splitting one design across the gap or clipping it at an edge. Two-part subject sheets also preserve their original left-to-right order and use the full-resolution one-sheet path instead of a repeated candidate board.
• 2026-09-03 — Reticle Red Now Speaks Spanish: Choose English or Español from the navigation or your profile. Spanish now covers the home and discovery experience, account and purchasing journeys, support and partner flows, shared system messages, and transactional email. Your language changes immediately, follows shareable ?lang links, stays selected on this browser, and syncs to your member profile when you sign in.
• 2026-09-02 — Credit Prices Now Track What Each Engine Really Costs: ULTRA CORE is now 9 CR (was 8), AI Photo Vector Artist 8 CR (was 4), and the Coin Designer ULTRA tiers 6 CR in 2D, 10 CR in 3D and 15 CR for HD Relief. Every price on the pricing page and every FIRE button reads the live rate, and a failed generation still refunds in full. SPARK, FORGE, FORGE COLOR, MASTER and the UNBOUND coin tiers are unchanged.
• 2026-09-01 — Bake Surface Detail Into the Real Coin Depth Map: Coin Designer now gives Surface Detail an explicit free server bake. Choose up to 35%, preview it instantly, then create a new QA-checked 16-bit production map that becomes the download and is saved as a separate Armory copy; the original stays intact. Moving the slider still spends nothing and changes only the 8-bit browser preview. Baking requires the matching original Coin artwork, preserves the black-floor manufacturing contract, and never calls an image provider or charges credits.
• 2026-09-01 — Coin Depth Now Matches What You Download: Coin Designer now catches a second rare field defect where faint background relief is connected to the coin instead of floating separately. Only the proven field component is flattened; uncertain maps are stopped and refunded instead of reaching the Armory. The depth view, download, and Armory now agree on the production 16-bit map. Optional browser detail adjustments are clearly marked as an 8-bit preview study and can no longer silently replace the file you actually receive.
• 2026-09-01 — Motif Scale Now Says What It Changes: Fabricator’s former Pattern Size control is now named Motif Scale and clearly reads MANY SMALL to FEW LARGE. It changes the size and repetition of complete motifs—not line thickness—so MICRO no longer implies a physical hairline width the artwork generator cannot guarantee.
• 2026-09-01 — Your Free Credits Now Come With a Clear First Step: New members now receive one Reticle Red inbox message and one welcome email when their 12 free credits land. Both point directly to The Fabricator for part-shaped laser art or Coin Designer for coins and medallions, explain that Spark starts at 2 credits, and make the first project easier to begin.

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