Released: Feb 9, 2021

Updates in 2021

Features

Drafting

• Hatch entity.
• BOM and Balloons.
• Improved VectorView selection, you can now change curve properties without setting the View current.
• ArcDimension import (as angular) from DWG/DXF.

Proprietary File Format

• Multi-file read/write. Added the ability to read/write assemblies from/to disk as one file per block.
• Lazy loading. Allows Table of Context only loading of a complex assembly, leaving to the user the ability to load a single assembly component at time.

CAM

• Manufacture environment with classes for defining milling setups, tools, 2x and 3x milling strategies, leads & ramps and stocks. Manufacture environment includes material removal simulation with true sweeps for ball, bull nose and flat end mills.

Collision Detection

• Complete refactoring for accurate collision detection which is now much faster (up to 40x).

General

• ReadPDF class to import vector drawings from PDF documents.
• Redesigned Eyeshot control resize.
• ObjectManipulator label.
• WorkManager, an asynchronous WorkUnit queue manager.
• NVidia Grid support.
• Improved small text rendering.

Entities

• Stock & SimulationStock.
• MachiningPlane & MachiningBoundary.
• Hatch.
• Balloon.
• FastMesh entity, a Vertex Buffer Object based mesh.