- **UI:**
- (Improvement) Layer navigation load time by parallel `Mat` to `Bitmap` conversion
- (Improvement) Allow to show exceptions without the stack trace and detailed trigger action by using the `MessageExceiption` (#644)
- (Improvement) Allow progress to have and display a detailed log (#644)
- (Improvement) Convert format to another with multiple versions will now only show the possible versions for the extension
- **Suggestion - Wait time before cure:**
- (Improvement) Set the first wait time based on first valid layer mass rather than use the fixed limit
- (Improvement) Set zero time to empty and dummy layers
- (Improvement) When creating the dummy layer also increment the bottom layer count as the created layer count as one
- **PCB Exposure:**
- (Add) Excellon Drill Format (drl) to cut off holes (Implementation may lack some advanced features, please confirm the result) (#646)
- (Fix) Arc (G03) with negative offsets (I-/J-) was not drawing the shape correctly
- (Fix) Implement the rotation for the outline primitive (#645)
- **File formats:**
- (Improvement) Formats now sanitize the selected version before encode given the file extension, if version is out of range it will force the last known version
- (Fix) CBDDLP: Remove a table from the file that might cause layer corruption
- (Add) Operations - `AfterCompleteReport` property: Gets or sets an report to show to the user after complete the operation with success
- (Improvement) Suggestion - Wait time after cure: Set zero time to empty and dummy layers
- (Improvement) Slight improvement on the contour intersection check, yields better performance on resin and suction cup detection
- (Improvement) Allow to trigger message boxes from operations and scripts (#644)
- (Upgrade) .NET from 6.0.12 to 6.0.13
- **Layer:**
- (Add) Property: `LayerMatBoundingRectangle`
- (Add) Property: `LayerMatModelBoundingRectangle`
- (Add) Method: `GetLayerMat(roi)`
- **Issues:**
- **Islands:**
- (Improvement) Islands detection performance
- (Improvement) Required area to consider an island is now real area instead of bounding box area
- (Fix) Logic bug when combining with overhangs
- **Overhangs:**
- (Improvement) Overhangs detection performance
- (Improvement) Overhangs are now split and identified as separately in the layer
- (Improvement) Overhangs now shows the correct issue area and able to locate the problem region more precisely
- (Improvement) Compress overhangs into contours instead of using whole pixels, resulting in better render performance and less memory to hold the issue
- (Fix) Bug in overhang logic causing to detect the problem twice when combined with supports
- (Improvement) Touching bounds check logic to spare cycles
- **Tool - Raise platform on print finish:**
- (Add) Preset "Minimum": Sets to the minimum position
- (Add) Preset "Medium": Sets to half-way between minimum and maximum position
- (Add) Preset "Maximum": Sets to the maximum position
- (Add) Wait time: Sets the ensured wait time to stay still on the desired position.
This is useful if the printer firmware always move to top and you want to stay still on the set position for at least the desired time.
Note: The print time calculation will take this wait into consideration and display a longer print time.
- (Add) FileFormat: AnyCubic custom machine (.pwc)
- (Downgrade) OpenCV from 4.5.5 to 4.5.4 due a possible crash while detecting islands (Windows)
- **Shortcuts:**
- (Add) **Delete:** While on layer preview and with roi or mask(s) selected, will remove the selected area from layer
- (Add) **Alt + Delete:** While on layer preview and with roi or mask(s) selected, will remove the selected area from all layers
- (Add) **Ctrl + Delete:** While on layer preview, will remove the current layer
- (Add) **Insert:** While on layer preview and with roi or mask(s) selected, will keep only the selected area in layer
- (Add) **Alt + Insert:** While on layer preview and with roi or mask(s) selected, will keep only the selected area in all layers
- (Add) **Ctrl + Insert:** While on layer preview, will clone the current layer
- (Add) **Home:** While on layer preview will go to first layer
- (Add) **End:** While on layer preview will go to last layer
- (Add) **Page up:** While on layer preview will skip +10 layers
- (Add) **Page down:** While on layer preview will skip -10 layers
- (Add) Tool - Lithophane: Generate lithophane from a picture
- (Fix) Pixel arithmetic: When run with masks it produce a incorrect outcome
- (Fix) CXDLP: Layer area table miscalculation, causing slow down prints
- **Settings:**
- (Add) Remove source file after automatic conversion (#444)
- (Add) Remove source file after manual conversion (#444)
- (Add) **Average resin bottle cost:** The average cost per one resin bottle of 1000ml.
Used to calculate the material cost when the file lacks that information.
Use 0 to disable this feature and only show the cost if file have that information.
If this value is changed, you need to reload the current file to update the cost.
- (Change) Move "Expand and show tool descriptions by default" to From `General` to `Tools` tab (Setting will reset to default)
- **File formats:**
- (Add) Property `StartingMaterialMilliliters`: Gets the starting material milliliters when the file was loaded
- (Add) Property `StartingMaterialCost`: Gets the starting material cost when the file was loaded
- (Add) Property `MaterialMilliliterCost`: Gets the material cost per one milliliter
- (Improvement) Update `MaterialCost` when `MaterialMilliliters` changes (#449)
- **Raft relief:**
- (Add) Linked lines: Remove the raft, keep supports and link them with lines
- (Improvement) Change the supports detection parameters to be more effective and precise on detect the starting layer
- (Fix) Brightness percentage not getting updated
- (Fix) Remove anti-aliased edges from Tabs
- (Improvement) Core: Minor clean-up
- (Fix) Issue repair error when 'Auto repair layers and issues on file load' is enabled (#446)
- (Fix) UI: Selecting a object with ROI when flip is verically, will cause 1px up-shift on the preview
- (Fix) macOS permission error due loss of attributes on the build script, WSL have bug with mv, using ln&rm instead
- **(Add) Suggestions:**
- A new module that detect bad or parameters out of a defined range and suggest a change on the file, those can be auto applied if configured to do so
- **Avaliable suggestions:**
- **Bottom layer count:** Bottom layers should be kept to a minimum, usually from 2 to 3, it function is to provide a good adhesion to the first layer on the build plate, using a high count have disadvantages.
- **Wait time before cure:** Rest some time before cure the layer is crucial to let the resin settle after the lift sequence and allow some time for the arm settle at the correct Z position as the resin will offer some resistance and push the structure.
This lead to better quality with more successful prints, less lamination problems, better first layers with more success of stick to the build plate and less elephant foot effect.
- **Wait time after cure:** Rest some time after cure the layer and before the lift sequence can be important to allow the layer to cooldown a bit and detach better from the FEP.
- **Layer height:** Using the right layer height is important to get successful prints:
Thin layers may cause problems on adhesion, lamination, will print much slower and have no real visual benefits.
Thick layers may not fully cure no matter the exposure time you use, causing lamination and other hazards. Read your resin dtasheet to know the limits.
Using layer height with too many decimal digits may produce a wrong positioning due stepper step loss and/or Z axis quality.
- **Core:**
- Convert the project to Nullable aware and "null-safe"
- **File Formats:**
- (Add) `Volume` property to get the total model volume
- (Add) `SanitizeLayers` method to reassign indexes and force attribute parent file
- (Improvement) Merge `LayerManager` into `FileFormat` and cleanup: This affects the whole project and external scripts.
If using scripts please update them, search for `.LayerManager.` and replace by `.`
- (Change) Chitubox encrypted format can now be saved as normal
- (Fix) Converted files layers was pointing to the source file and related to it
- **Layers:**
- (Add) Methods: `ResetParameters`, `CopyParametersTo`, `CopyExposureTo`, `CopyWaitTimesTo`
- (Improvement) `IsBottomLayer` property will also return true when the index is inside bottom layer count
- **Scripting:**
- (Add) Configuration variable: `MinimumVersionToRun` - Sets the minimum version able to run the script
- (Improvement) Allow run scripts written in C# 10 with the new namespace; style as well as nullables methods
- (Improvement) Convert scripts to use Nullable code
- **UI:**
- (Add) Fluent Dark theme
- (Add) Default Light theme
- (Add) Default Dark theme
- (Change) Use fontawesome and material design to render the icons instead of static png images
- (Change) Some icons
- (Change) Move log tab to clipboard tab
- (Change) Tooltip overlay default color
- (Improvement) Windows position for tool windows, sometimes framework can return negative values affecting positions, now limits to 0 (#387)
- (Fix) Center image icon for layer action button
- (Fix) Center image icon for save layer image button
- **Tools:**
- (Add) Layer re-height: Offset mode, change layers position by a defined offset (#423)
- (Improvement) Rotate: Unable to use an angle of 0
- (Improvement) Remove layers: Will not recalcualte and reset properties of layers anymore, allowing removing layers on dynamic layer height models and others
- (Improvement) Clone layers: Will not recalcualte and reset properties of layers anymore, allowing cloning layers on dynamic layer height models and others
- (Fix) Exposure time finder: Very small printers may not print the stock object as it is configured, lead to a unknown error while generating the test. It will now show a better error message and advice a solution (#426)
- **Terminal:**
- (Add) More default namespaces
- (Improvement) Set a MinHeight for the rows to prevent spliter from eat the elements
- (Change) Set working space to the MainWindow instead of TerminalWindow
- **(Upgrade) .NET from 5.0.14 to 6.0.3**
- This brings big performance improvements, better JIT, faster I/O operations and others
- Read more: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/performance-improvements-in-net-6
- Due this macOS requirement starts at 10.15 (Catalina)
- Read more: https://github.com/dotnet/core/blob/main/release-notes/6.0/supported-os.md
- (Add) Native support for MacOS ARM64 architecture (Mac M1 and upcomming Mac's) (#187)
- (Exchange) Dependency Newtonsoft Json by System.Text.Json to parse the json documents
- (Remove) "Automations - Light-off delay" in favor of new suggestion "wait time before cure" module
- (Fix) File - Send to: Winrar or 7zip have a wrong extension on the list (uvt) when should be (uvj)
- (Upgrade) AvaloniaUI from 0.10.12 to 0.10.13
- **Issues:**
- (Add) Suction cups: Additional setting to specify the required minimum height to be flagged as a issue (#302)
- (Change) Allow touching bounds to have a bounding rectangle and zoom into the issue
- (Change) Disable the ability to copy issues row text from list as this is crashing the program
- (Change) Decrease cache count of the layers from x10 to x5 to free RAM
- (Fix) Touching bounds are reporting areas of 0
- (Fix) Draw crosshair for issues are called multiple times
- (Fix) Detection error when resin traps are enabled on some cases (#303)
- (Fix) Resin trap false-positives (#305)
- (Fix) When removing multiple islands at once only the first is cleared from the issue list
- **UI:**
- (Change) Tool - Resize icon
- (Change) Move "Crosshairs" button inside "Issues" button
- (Add) Tool - Morph - Offset crop: Like erode but discards the outer pixels
- (Fix) Corrected bottom lift unit label in light-off delay calculator (#304)
This method determines a minimum bounding box that can contain both contours, it then draws each contour to its on Mat, offset appropriately for the determined bounding rectangle. A bitwise AND then checks to see if there is any overlap.
- (Add) Allow to choose custom locations for "Send to"
- (Improvement) Better random generation for benchmark
- (Fix) Outline - Hollow areas: Not outlining the second closing contour for contours with child
- (Fix) Pixel editor - Eraser: It was selecting the whole blob even if have inner parents
- **(Add) Layer outline:**
- Blob outline: Outline all separate blobs
- Centroids: Draw a dot at the gemoetric center of a blob
- (Add) Adjust layer height: Allow to change exposure time on the dialog and inform that different layer thickness require different exposure times
- (Add) Resin trap detection: Allow to choose the starting layer index for resin trap detection which will also be considered a drain layer.
Use this setting to bypass complicated rafts by selected the model first real layer (#221)
- (Improvement) Disable mirroed preview when loading a file that is not mirroed
- **File Formats:**
- (Add) SL1S: Prusa SL1S Speed
- (Add) CTB v4 support (318570758)
- (Improvement) PHOTON, CBDDLP, CTB v2, PHZ: Disallow per layer settings, beside the format support, printers never use it
- (Improvement) Longer Orange format with new found keys
- (Improvement) CXDLP: Fix the resolution from CL-60 and trigger an error when a invalid resolution was set and unable to detect the printer model
- **Prusa Slicer:**
- (Add) UVtools Prusa SL1S SPEED
- (Add) Longer Orange 120
- (Fix) Creality HALOT-ONE CL-60: Flip resolution & display and remove mirror
- (Fix) Creality HALOT-SKY CL-89: Remove mirror
- (Improvement) Longer Orange printers with better default settings
- (Add) Button on `Help - Sponsor`: Open github sponsor webpage
Tiago Conceição
tslater2006