What's new in MatterControl 2.22.04.11457
May 25, 2022
- Support For Holes:
- MatterControl now supports Holes. Holes are an intuitive and powerful way to think about designing parts. They create the ability to mark any object in the scene as a negative space. When a hole is combined with another object it will automatically be subtracted.
- Transparent Rendering:
- You can now set any part to have transparent rendering to help with modeling and placement.
- Fuzzy Surfaces:
- Select any part in the scene, right click it and and 'Convert to Fuzzy Region' in the Modify -> Printing menu. With this tool you can now create a fuzzy effect on any surfaces you want.
- Part Settings Object (PRO Tool):
- Now with MatterControl PRO you can create settings for a specific part and save them with it. This is tremendously useful when doing commercial printing or adjusting settings that are specific to a single part. Settings are only saved when using MCX files (MatterControls native format).
- Additional Improvements:
- Boolean operations (combining and subtracting shapes) are dramatically more robust and handle many more conditions
- We now show the output state of Supports, Wipe Towers and Fuzzy objects in property panel
- Bug Fixes:
- G-Code generation of long line segments was not applying leveling correctly
- When switching or adding materials the display did not always update
- Fixed crash when invalid geometry was added to the scene
- Repair tools was not honoring 'weld tolerance' correctly
New in MatterControl 2.22.02.11288 (Feb 16, 2022)
- Features:
- Portable MCX file support. MatterControl now has a portable file format so you can easily create, iterate and share all the incredible designs you make
- Improving first time experience and initial setup
- Added multi-line support to Text Tool
- Added Support for loading 3MF files
- Added Right-Click options to toolbar (turn on and off tools)
- Added support for human generated translation
- Bug Fixes:
- Improved Monotonic infill pathing
- Better CCW outer loops, helps with Quantum Filament printing
New in MatterControl 2.21.12.11215 (Nov 30, 2021)
- Changes:
- Features:
- New boolean functions that can handle degenerate geometry
- Improved monotonic path planning
- Ensure perimeter winding always outputs in same direction
- New Resources tab that shows filament buying options
- Added [index] support to radial and advanced arrays
- Bug Fixes:
- Handle bad icon load
- Scroll bars on wrong side
- Crash when Autopilot added to design tab and bed edited
New in MatterControl 2.21.10.11144 (Oct 6, 2021)
- Features:
- Montonic Infill
- Image Editor Improvements
- Auto detection of best image mode
- Improved histogram slider
- Added Sliders
- Added the ability to expand and colapse toolbar groups
- New seam modes
- Library, Save and Bed menus improved
- Experimental support for auto printing with MatterControl Pro 'Autopilot'
- UI improvements:
- Added F2 rename to objects and folders
- Added back button support to library
- Improved Sheet Editor
- Bugs:
- Web image cache misses
- Fixed bug with culling back faces
- Crash on invalid bounding box
- Bug with wrapping on right side
- Bug with image comparisons
New in MatterControl 2.21.6.11058 (Aug 21, 2021)
- Changes:
- Features:
- Zoom to mouse cursor (thanks to visdauas for his work)
- Curve Tool now has angle and improve help
- Measure tool shows size
- New Description Tool
- New Edge Controls
- Improved merge overlapping lines in slicer
- More warning messages for bad settings
- Measure lines always in front
- Bugs:
- Parts sheets working again
- Fixed bad moves when path planning supports
- Fixed bad transparency when looking up from the bed