- **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)
- **(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) 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"
- (Add) Layer preview - Outline: Skeletonize
- (Add) Actions - Export layers to skeleton: Export a layer range to a skeletonized image that is the sum of each layer skeleton
- (Add) Pixel editor - Text: Allow to rotate text placement by any angle (#206)
- (Add) Calibrate - XYZ Accuracy: Drain hole diameter (#205)
- (Add) Tool - Light bleed compensation: Compensate the over-curing and light bleed from clear resins by dimming the sequential pixels
- (Add) Infill: Honeycomb infill type
- (Upgrade) MessageBox from 1.2.0 to 1.3.1 to fix the small size messages
- (Upgrade) AvaloniaUI from 0.10.4 to 0.10.5
- (Improvement) VDT: Implement a new key for better auto convert files between with latest version of Tango
- (Change) Exposure time finder: Bar fence offset from 2px to 4px
* (Add) File format: Zcode (Uniz IBEE)
* (Add) PrusaSlicer Printer: Uniz IBEE
* (Add) Extract: Output an "Layer.ini" file containing per layer data and include the Configuration.ini for Zip file formats
* (Improvement) Zip: Increase the GCode parsing performance
* (Fix) File formats: Wasn't set bottom / light off delay per individual layer on generic formats, defaulting every layer to 0
* (Fix) Edit print paramenters: When changing bottom layer count, layers didnt update thier properties
* (Add) Calibrator - Stress Tower: Generates a stress tower to test the printer capabilities
* (Add) PrusaSlicer printer: UVtools Prusa SL1, for SL1 owners must use this profile to be UVtools compatible when using advanced tools
* (Fix) Tool - Calculator - Optimal model tilt: Layer height wasn't get pulled from loaded file and fixed to 0.05mm
* **(Fix) FileFormats:**
* When change a global print paramenter, it will only set this same parameter on every layer, keeping other parameters intact, it was reseting every parameter per layer to globals
* SL1: Verify if files are malformed and if there's missing configuration files (#126)
* CTBv3: Set EncryptionMode to 0x2000000F, this allow the use of per layer settings
This release bump the major version due the introduction of .NET 5.0, the discontinuation old UVtools GUI project and the new calibration wizards.
* (Upgrade) From .NET Core 3.1 to .NET 5.0
* (Upgrade) From C# 8.0 to C# 9.0
* (Upgrade) From Avalonia preview6 to rc1
* Bug: The per layer data gets hidden and not auto height on this rc1
* (Add) Setting - General - Windows / dialogs:
* **Take into account the screen scale factor to limit the dialogs windows maximum size**: Due wrong information UVtools can clamp the windows maximum size when you have plenty more avaliable or when use in a secondary monitor. If is the case disable this option
* **Horizontal limiting margin:** Limits windows and dialogs maximum width to the screen resolution less this margin
* **Vertical limiting margin:** Limits windows and dialogs maximum height to the screen resolution less this margin
* (Add) Setting - General: Take into account the screen scale factor to limit the dialogs windows maximum size. Due wrong information UVtools can cap the windows maximum size when you have plenty more avaliable or when use in a secondary monitor. If is the case disable this option
* (Add) Ctrl + Shift + Z to undo and edit the last operation (If contain a valid operation)
* (Add) Allow to deselect the current selected profile
* (Add) Allow to set a default profile to load in when open a tool
* (Add) ENTER and ESC hotkeys to message box
* (Add) Pixel dimming: Brightness percent equivalent value
* (Add) Raft relief: Allow to define supports margin independent from wall margin for the "Relief" type
* (Add) Pixel editor: Allow to adjust the remove and add pixel brightness values
* (Add) Calibration Menu:
* **Elephant foot:** Generates test models with various strategies and increments to verify the best method/values to remove the elephant foot.
* **XYZ Accuracy:** Generates test models with various strategies and increments to verify the XYZ accuracy.
* **Tolerance:** Generates test models with various strategies and increments to verify the part tolerances.
* **Grayscale:** Generates test models with various strategies and increments to verify the LED power against the grayscale levels.
* (Change) PW0, PWS, PWMX, PWMO, PWMS, PWX file formats to ignore preview validation and allow variations on the file format (#111)
* (Change) Tool - Edit print parameters: Increments from 0.01 to 0.5
* (Change) Tool - Resize: Increments from 0.01 to 0.1
* (Change) Tool - Rotate: Increments from 0.01 to 1
* (Change) Tool - Calculator: Increments from 0.01 to 0.5 and 1
* (Fix) PW0, PWS, PWMX, PWMO, PWMS, PWX file formats to replicate missing bottom properties cloned from normal properties
* (Fix) Drain holes to build plate were considered as traps, changed to be drains as when removing object resin will flow outwards
* (Fix) When unable to save the file it will change extension and not delete the temporary file
* (Fix) Pixel dimming wasn't saving all the fields on profiles
* (Fix) Prevent a rare startup crash when using demo file
* (Fix) Tool - Solifiy: Increase AA clean up threshold range, previous value wasn't solidifing when model has darker tones
* (Fix) Sanitize per layer settings, due some slicers are setting 0 at some properties that can cause problems with UVtools calculations, those values are now sanitized and set to the general value if 0
* (Fix) Update partial islands:
* Was leaving visible issues when the result returns an empty list of new issues
* Was jumping some modified sequential layers
* Was not updating the issue tracker map
* (Fix) Edit print parameters was not updating the layer data table information
* (Add) Changelog description to the new version update dialog
* (Add) Tool - Infill: Proper configurable infills
* (Add) Pixel area as "px²" to the layer bounds and ROI at layer bottom information bar
* (Add) Pixel dimming: Alternate pattern every x layers
* (Add) Pixel dimming: Lattice infill
* (Add) Solidify: Required minimum/maximum area to solidify found areas (Default values will produce the old behaviour)
* (Add) Issues: Allow to hide and ignore selected issues
* (Add) Issue - Touch boundary: Allow to configure Left, Top, Right, Bottom margins in pixels, defaults to 5px (#94)
* (Add) UVJ: Allow convert to another formats (#96)
* (Add) Setters to some internal Core properties for more abstraction
* (Improvement) Issue - Touch boundary: Only check boundary pixels if layer bounds overlap the set margins, otherwise, it will not waste cycles on check individual rows of pixels when not need to
* (Change) Place .ctb extension show first than .cbddlp due more popular this days
* (Change) Pixel dimming: Text "Borders" to "Walls"
* (Change) Issues: Remove "Remove" text from button, keep only the icon to free up space
* (Change) Ungroup extensions on "covert to" menu (#97)
* (Fix) Issues: Detect button has a incorrect "save" icon
* (Fix) SL1: Increase NumSlow property limit
* (Fix) UVJ: not decoding nor showing preview images
* (Fix) "Convert to" menu shows same options than previous loaded file when current file dont support convertions (#96)
* (Fix) Hides "Convert to" menu when unable to convert to another format (#96)
* (Fix) Program crash when demo file is disabled and tries to load a file in
* (Fix) Rare crash on startup when mouse dont move in startup period and user types a key in meanwhile
* (Fix) On a slow startup on progress window it will show "Decoded layers" as default text, changed to "Initializing"
Tiago Conceição