Changes to the Program

Version 2.10.9: December 23, 2008

• Added an option that creates a texture that contains the color for each of the layers that are selected. UV coordinates are created for every polygon for the meshes located on the selected layers. The selected layers can then be combined into a single layer. This feature also works in batch processing of files.

Version 2.10.8: November 11, 2008

• The X, Y and Z edit boxes have been activated for the 'Pivot', 'Move'. 'Rotate' and 'Scale' operations in the 'Adjust' group of controls on the 'Edit' page in the Tool Palette.

• Added an option to make all layers children of a selected layer.

• Fixed OpenGL viewer so that the object can not be stretched in the horizontal direction or not drawn at all when the size of the view window is changed.

• Added an option so that a material attribute from a layer can be global copied to either all layers or only to those layers selected for display in the view window.

Version 2.10.7: October 28, 2008

• Added creation of thumbnails using the command line.

• Added reading and writing of CableMod XML files.

• Added a new set of controls for creating, deleting and modifying quads on a per layer basis.

Version 2.10.6: May 3, 2008

• Added reading and writing of geometry and basic material properties only for Satellite Tool Kit, STK, files.

• Added reading of Tecplot ASCII files.

Version 2.10.5: January 24, 2008

• The watertight check has an option to display the edges for holes on a new layer.

• 'Snap to Vertex' mode in 'Edit Vertices' module: If multiple vertices are selected, their positions remain relative to the first vertex when it is snapped to another vertex.

• Lasso a group of polygons by drawing an outline around them.

• Added a new feature to 'Edit Vertices' module: select an edge and divide the edge and its adjacent triangles into multiple triangles.

Version 2.10.4: November 4, 2007

• Added an option to convert the top of a mesh or a collection of meshes to a landscape.

• Added an option to save LWS files when creating objects containing clip maps which are saved to LightWave LWO files.

• Added partial reading of 3DMF files.

• 'Edit Vertices' module has been revised.

• Added write support for Collada DAE files.

• Fixed a problem with the normals written to a STL file.

• The "no indent" flags for the ASCII file formats have been replaced with one general "no indent" flag.

• Added an option to check if polygon meshes are watertight.

• Added an option to erase either point clouds or lines from all layers.

• Added read support for NASTRAN BDF files.

Version 2.10.3: July 17, 2007

• Fixed a problem with the OpenGL viewer on Windows Vista where several textures were all displayed as the same texture.

• When reading a VRML file, the parser now detects when the space character is missing between URL and the following string.

• Problem with the JPEG component that occurred when the DLL was used with Borland C++ Builder 6 has been fixed.

Version 2.10.2: May 23, 2007

• Improved removal of messages from the operating system message queue which may aid program operation on Windows Vista.

• Added option to not reset zoom speed on file read and reload.

• The list of layer names can be displayed in either one column or multiple columns on the 'Layers' page in the 'Tool Palette'.

• Right click on camera field of view, camera pan, camera rotate and camera zoom buttons to reset to default state.

• The orientation of the object affects how the UV coordinates are projected onto the object for planar, cylindrical and spherical mapping. New controls allow for controlling the orientation of the object during texture creation.

Version 2.10.1: March 10, 2007

• Added optional display of textures blended with the colors from the triangle delete, triangle divide, triangle fracture and triangle relocation modules.

• Fixed a problem in the create UV coordinates module where the texture translation controls did not work correctly when the texture scale was less than 1.0.

• Added a routine for combining a series of short polyline segments into one polyline for the extrusion module.

• Improved routine for removing vertices from polylines used in the extrusion module.

• Added sharp edges when calculating normals for smooth rendering.

Version 2.10.0: February 10, 2007

• Small changes to code.

Version 2.9.24: January 10, 2007

• New feature creates polygon meshes for exploded solids that have been saved to a R12 (Release 12) DXF file. Primitive solids are not supported as AutoCAD does not write primitive solids to a R12 DXF file.