Version 6.9.0 - May 12, 2015. Highlights (news):
Modeling algorithms
- Fuzzy Boolean operations - possibility to specify global tolerance for a Boolean operation;
- Support of multiple arguments for a single Boolean operation;
- Improved performance and thread safety;
- Shape proximity detector;
- Revised usage of Closed flag in shapes;
- Precise evaluation of edge tolerance;
- Additional options to tune
BRepMesh
algorithm; - More robust algorithms of surface-surface intersection and curve on surface projection;
- Improved support of user feedback messages in Shape Processing;
- New tool to eliminate small solids in
ShapeFix
;
Visualization
- Redesign of selection mechanism for better performance;
- OpenGL ES 2.0 compatibility improvements;
- Support of OpenGL viewer on iOS and ray tracing on OS X;
- Robust implementation of immediate mode using FBO;
- Option to disable automatic re-triangulation of shapes on display;
Data Exchange
- Reconstruction of p-curves optimized to accelerate import from STEP;
- Colors of edges and faces are written to IGES 5.3;
- Orientation of faces is preserved on export to IGES 5.1;
- Export to STL and VRML 2.0 corrected;
Other
- Support of parallelism without TBB library;
- 64-bit mode becomes default on Windows;
- Improved stability of performance measurements in tests;
Products
- Express Mesh: improved quality of mesh near face boundary;
- C# and Java wrappers: Support of SWIG 3.x;
- DXF Import: Reading of the recent DXF versions with ACIS data encoded in binary form;
- ACIS SAT Import: Reading of SAB (Standard ACIS Binary) files