- **(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
- **File formats:**
- (Add) Wait time before cure: The time to rest/wait in seconds before cure a new layer
- (Add) Wait time before after: The time to rest/wait in seconds after cure a new layer
- (Add) Wait time after lift: The time to rest/wait in seconds after a lift/peel move
- (Change) All gcode file formats dropped light-off delay field in favor of new 'Wait time before cure' field, setting light-off delay still valid but it redirects to the new field
- (Change) Reorder 'Light-off delay' before 'Exposure time'
- (Improvement) Recalculate the print time when a related property changes
- (Fix) Generic time estimation calculation was ignoring exposure times
- (Fix) Unable to load files with uppercase extensions
- (Fix) ZIP: Use G1 at end of gcode instead of G0
- (Fix) CWS: Use G1 for movements
- **(Fix) CXDLP:** (#240)
- Layer area calculation
- Validation checksum
- **(Fix) ZCODE:**
- Use G1 at end of gcode instead of G0 to prevent crash to top bug on firmware
- Put back the M18 motors off at end of gcode
- **GCode Builder/Parser:**
- (Add) Allow to choose between G0 and G1 for layer movements and end gcode
- (Fix) Safe guard: If the total print height is larger than set machine Z, do not raise/lower print on completeness
- (Fix) Light-off delay is the real delay time and not the calculated movement of the lifts plus the extra time
- (Improvement) Parse gcode line by line instead searching on a group of layers to allow a better control and identification
- **Tools:**
- **Change print parameters:**
- (Add) Tooltips to labels
- (Add) Sun UTF-8 to the Light PWM value unit to describe intensity
- (Improvement) Dynamic lifts: Round lift height and speed to 1 decimal
- (Fix) Exposure time finder: Time estimation when using 'Use different settings for layers with same Z positioning'
- **Prusa Slicer:**
- (Add) Note keyword: BottomWaitBeforeCure_xxx
- (Add) Note keyword: WaitBeforeCure_xxx
- (Add) Note keyword: BottomWaitAfterCure_xxx
- (Add) Note keyword: WaitAfterCure_xxx
- (Add) Note keyword: BottomWaitAfterLift_xxx
- (Add) Note keyword: WaitAfterLift_xxx
- (Change) Uniz IBEE: Remove light-off delay and implement wait time keywords
- **macOS:** (#236)
- (Remove) osx legacy packages from build and downloads
- (Fix) macOS: Simplify the libcvextern.dylib and remove libtesseract dependency
- (Fix) macOS: Include libusb-1.0.0.dylib
- Note: `brew install libusb` still required
- **UI:**
- (Fix) Refresh gcode does not update text on UI for ZIP, CWS, ZCODEX files
- (Fix) Operations: Import a .uvtop file by drag and drop into the UI would not load the layer range
- (Change) When convert a file, the result dialog will have Yes, No and Cancel actions, where No will open the converted file on current window, while Cancel will not perform any action (The old No behaviour)
- **File formats:**
- (Add) CXDLP v2
- (Improved) GR1, MDLP, CXDLP decode and encode performance and memory optimization
- (Remove) CXDLP v1 from available formats
- (Add) Pixel editor - Drawing: New brushes of shapes/polygons
- (Upgrade) .NET from 5.0.6 to 5.0.7
- (Fix) When there are issues on the list, executing any operation will navigate to the last layer
- (Fix) PrusaSlicer printer: Rename "Creality HALOT-SKY CL-60" to "Creality HALOT-ONE CL-60"
* **File formats:**
* PhotonS: Implement the write/encode method to allow to use this format and fix the thumbnail
* VDT: Allow to auto convert the .vdt to the target printer format using the Machine - Notes, using a flag: FILEFORMAT_YourPrinterExtension, for example: FILEFORMAT_CTB
* (Fix) Unable to convert files with no thumbnails to other file format that requires thumbnails
* **Tools:**
* (Add) Re-height: Option to Anti-Aliasing layers
* (Fix) Morph and Blur: The combobox was not setting to the selected item when preform a redo operation (Ctrl+Shift+Z)
* **GUI:**
* (Change) Progress window to be a grid element inside MainWindow, this allow to reuse the graphics and its elements without the need of spawning a Window instance everytime a progress is shown, resulting in better performance and more fluid transaction
* (Improvement) Clear issues when generating calibration tests
Tiago Conceição