Version 7.0.0 - April 5, 2016.
Major release to include complete code refactoring, elimination of CDL and WOK. Highlights (see also Release Notes):
Configuration
- Conversion of CDL classes to plain C++
- Use of CMake as main build system, replacing WOK
Foundation Classes
- New implementation of shared pointer (
Handle) - Redesign of OCCT type system
Modeling algorithms
- Refactoring of B-Spline evaluation
- Ability to perform Boolean expressions on an arbitrary number of arguments
- Intersection of surfaces produces more accurate b-spline curves
- More predictable offset of 3D shapes with a large offset value in “Intersection” mode
Visualization
- Activation of selection modes without opening the local context
- OpenGL graphic rendering methods exposed to the client code
- Support of zoom persistent selection
- Configurable font orientation
- Direct3D integration toolkit
- Support of antialiasing using multisampling technique (MSAA)
Application framework
- Interface for reading / saving documents from / to arbitrary C++ stream
- Main OCAF toolkits are made independent on Visualization toolkits
Data exchange
- Support of reading and writing semantic PMI entities for STEP AP242 format
- Optimization of shape triangulation export to STL and VRML
Products
- ACIS SAT Import-Export: new geometrical entities and color attributes supported
- DXF Import-Export: improved translation of UNICODE text
- BestFit: improved calculations with non-null offset on two-sided models
- Mesh Framework Kernel: accelerated interfaces to STL and OBJ formats
- Advanced Samples: new WPF Import/Export sample added to the Advanced C# Wrapper tool