What's new in ThreeDify Designer 5.5.1
Feb 18, 2014
- Fixed a possible resource double delete in the color picker that could lead to incorrect GUI display.
- Reversed the mouse-wheel zooming in/out to comply with the convention used by most other CAD programs.
New in ThreeDify Designer 5.5.0 (Oct 21, 2013)
- Adds multi-object selection, deletion and visibility toggling
- Greatly enhances the robustness of 2D polygon boolean operations
- Enhance the Polygon Offset tool so that a positive offset expands the polygon while a negative one shrinks the polygon
New in ThreeDify Designer 5.3.9 (Jun 5, 2013)
- Fixed an rendering crash on NVidia card in HW rendering mode.
- Fixed a picking crash on Intel HD 4000 card in HW rendering mode.
- Fixed an issue in Group Move tool.
- Fixed a picking issue in Fillet and Polyline Offset tools.
New in ThreeDify Designer 5.3.8 (Mar 29, 2013)
- Enhanced DXF Import module to support POLYFACE meshes
- Enhanced DXF EXport module to export each individual 3D mesh as a POLYFACE instead of all visible meshes as one collection of FACEs.
- Added Middle-mouse Pan command
- Noticeable rendering speed-up in hardware rendering mode.
- Misc bug fixes and minor enhancements.
New in ThreeDify Designer 5.3.7 (Dec 15, 2012)
- Added 64-bit build which can coexist with the 32-bit version on a single machine.
- Enhanced the robustness of the Solidify Envelope command.
New in ThreeDify Designer 5.3.6 (Dec 15, 2012)
- Updated the installation instructions in Help.
- Minor maintenance build.
- Fixed a build issue that caused DXF import module to fail.
- Fixed an installation issue. The installer now creates the start menu folder for standard users.
- Fixed a minor GUI issue with 3D slicing using a XY-Plane
- Migrated to a new licensing scheme.
New in ThreeDify Designer 5.3.3 (Jun 20, 2012)
- Fixed a build issue that caused DXF import module to fail.
New in ThreeDify Designer 5.3.2 (Jun 20, 2012)
- Fixed an installation issue. The installer now creates the start menu folder for standard users.
New in ThreeDify Designer 5.3.1 (Jun 20, 2012)
- Fixed a minor GUI issue with 3D slicing using a XY-Plane
New in ThreeDify Designer 5.3.0 (Jun 20, 2012)
- Migrated to a new licensing scheme.
New in ThreeDify Designer 5.2.6 (Apr 2, 2012)
- Fixed a critical bug in loading v5.2.3 .asd files. Users who use v5.2.3 should upgrade immediately to get around this bug.
- Adds powerful parts and assembly grouping feature with a drag & drop interface.
- support for materials (diffuse, specular, ambient, emissive, height, normals, shininess,
- opacity, vertex displacement, and ambient occlusion)
- Adds significant rendering optimization for complex scenes: the performance of object creation and most editing operations are now independent of scene complexity. In a complex scene with large # of objects, they perform just as fast as in a small scene.
New in ThreeDify Designer 5.2.2 (Sep 5, 2011)
- Fixed a Zoom All issue when a group is empty or the group contains only axis aaligned planar polylines.
New in ThreeDify Designer 5.2.1 (Sep 5, 2011)
- This maintenance release fixes several bugs:
- group object not working in HW mode,
- HW mode not working in Word and PowerPoint
- texture mapping not working in HW mode in PowerPoint,
- potential double delete for non-undoable commands in the EndCommnd call
New in ThreeDify Designer 5.2.0 (Sep 5, 2011)
- Added a powerful drap and drop interface to object and folder grouping: user can now move objects from one group or folder to another group or folders and groups to another foler with drag and drop interface.
- Rendering optimization for large scene: drawing new objects in a large scene is now just as fast as drawing them in a small scene!
New in ThreeDify Designer 5.1.0 (Sep 5, 2011)
- Added object grouping: all objects are now grouped based on type. All objects imported from a file are now grouped under the name of the file in the control panel tree view. This makes it easy to work with multiple object groups in a single session.
- Added support for import of Blender 3D .blend file and Izware Nendo ( *.ndo) files)
- Window resize optimization in hardware mode: resize window is now real time as we no longer regenerate VBOs on Window resizing
- Fixed a crash in cloning 3D text objects
- Other minor fixes and optimizations
New in ThreeDify Designer 5.0.2 (May 7, 2011)
- Fixed the crash when copying 2D text
- Fixed occasional crash in the Fillet / Chamfer tool
New in ThreeDify Designer 5.0.0 (May 7, 2011)
- Added hardware rendering option. User can now dynamically switch between software rendering and hardware rendering at run time.
- Added support for materials (diffuse, specular, ambient, emissive, height, normals, shininess, opacity, vertex displacement, and ambient occlusion)
- Added support for multi-texturing and shaders (with per pixel lighting effects, bump mapping, parallax mapping, gloss mapping, and vertex displacement mapping)
- Added perspective-correct zoom in, zoom out and zoom window.
- Numerous other smaller enhancements, optimizations, and bug fixes (including the fix for a major resource leak).
New in ThreeDify Designer 3.1.2 (Aug 23, 2010)
- Fixed a long standing bug: occasionally, ThreeDify menus or control panel buttons stops responding.
- On resize, width of Designer's control panel and height of Designer's 3D scene window will not reset back to default.
New in ThreeDify Designer 3.1.0 (Aug 23, 2010)
- Added Object Normal Flipping tool
- Added Copy Object tool
- Added Indoor Viewing mode
- Added support for importing DDH (diamond drill hole) files.
- Added options for creating pre-defined view clipping planes.
- Added support for a dozen more images formats (for use as background and textures)
- Fixed a crash in Undo/Redo certain commands
- Fixed a crash when adding ThreeDify Designer control is added to Office App while in Design Mode.
- Fixed an issue When running in Excel: Key press not working
- Fixed Zoom Window issue when importing a file with objects whose center is far away from coordinate origin;
- Fixed a bug in saving material colors (material colors not saved)
- Fixed a bug in Creating Profiles: profile creation using pre-defined planes does not work as expected
- Known issue: First toggle to Texure mode might not work on some files. Toggling back and forth corrects the problem.
New in ThreeDify Designer 3.0.1 (Aug 23, 2010)
- Support for texture import from all supported file formats
- Support for material color import from all supported file formats
- Support for Microsoft Office Live Server (can stream to and from MS Office Live Workspace)
- Support for Saving/Loading very large model files
- Imported mesh are now automatically sewed even if it contains textured faces
- Fixed a crash on selecting OK in Redo To while no item is selected in the dialog.
- Fixed a crash when applying Voxel Model on a 3D text.
- Made angular dimension work better by highlighting the 2nd edge when selected as opposed to when mouse moves.
New in ThreeDify Designer 2.7.5 (Aug 23, 2010)
- Added support for 38 new file formats, including the two primary CAD formats IGES and STEP (via IGES/STEP import plugin that is installed separately), and most other 3D modeling and gaming file formats (installed as part of the main distribution).
- Added the new Change View Target tool.
- 32-bit Vista ready: fixed a number of compatibility issues with 32-bit Windows Vista.
- Drawing of objects now respect their own aspect ratio, as opposed to that of their hosting window (i.e., the 3D scene window).
- Location of the coordinate axis is now drawn in the fixed location as opposed to changing based on the 3D Scene window size.
- Fixed a bug in saving certain models.
New in ThreeDify Designer 2.6.9 (Aug 23, 2010)
- Updated with full support for ThreeDify Designer for Microsoft Office 2.6.9 (the first GA version of ThreeDify Designer for Microsoft Office)
New in ThreeDify Designer 2.6.8 (Aug 23, 2010)
- Separated ThreeDify Designer for Microsoft Office out of the ThreeDify Designer Standad and Pro distribution.
- Fixed the long standing invasive Keyboard focus bug when hosted in MS Excel which enabled ThreeDify Designer for Microsoft Excel to enter the beta stage!
New in ThreeDify Designer 2.6.6 (Oct 19, 2008)
- Fixed a bug where Online Help does not work in ActiveSolid for MS Office.
- Misc minor fixes.