github Open-Cascade-SAS/OCCT V6_9_0

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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

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