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Version 7.5.0 - November 4, 2020. Highlights (see also Release Notes):

General

  • Redesigned API of progress indicator for parallel tasks
  • Support of compilation for WebAssembly (with Emscripten SDK)
  • New printer Message_PrinterSystemLog for logging messages to system log

Modeling

  • Support of progress indicator in BRepMesh
  • New alternative algorithm for triangulation of 2d polygons
  • Tool to remove internal sub-shapes (with INTERNAL orientation) from the shape keeping topological connectivity
  • Allowed usage of multi-dimensional compound arguments for Boolean Cut and Common operations

Visualization

  • Use of sRGB textures and render buffer
  • PBR Metallic-roughness shading model
  • Normal map texture support
  • Option to compute BVH trees used for interactive selection in background thread
  • Support of non-standard style font families (“Narrow”, “Condensed”, etc.) and multi-font .ttc files in Font Manager

Data Exchange

  • Support of reading STEP files containing non-Ascii symbols (Unicode or local code pages) in text strings
  • Support of writing Unicode text strings to STEP (as UTF-8)
  • New API for STEP reader accepting C++ stream on input
  • glTF 2.0 writer
  • Improved performance of (ASCII) STL and OBJ readers

Application Framework

  • Management of several documents (open, save, close, etc.) in parallel threads (one application per thread)
  • Inheritance of attributes to reuse their persistence mechanisms
  • Progress indicator in TDocStd_Application
  • Optimization of Commit operation for large modifications

Draw Test Harness

  • Colorized message output
  • Support of Unicode symbols in DRAW console on Windows
  • Flight-mode navigation in 3D viewer via WASD keys and 3D mouse input on Windows
  • Experimental teleport-mode navigation in 3D viewer using OpenVR

Samples

  • Unification of mouse gestures for 3D viewer manipulation in samples
  • New WebGL viewer sample
  • Update of JNI sample for Android Studio (from Eclipse project)
  • New Qt OCCT Overview sample

Documentation

  • Restructuring of OCCT documentation for easier orientation and higher user-friendliness

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