- **Tools:**
- (Add) PCB exposure: Converts a gerber file to a pixel perfect image given your printer LCD/resolution to exposure the copper traces.
- (Improvement) Export settings now indent the XML to be more user friendly to edit
- (Improvement) Layer import: Allow to have profiles
- (Improvement) Layer import: Validates if selected files exists before execute
- (Fix) Lithophane: Disallow having start threshold equal to end threshold
- (Add) Windows explorer: Right-click on files will show "Open with UVtools" on context menu which opens the selected file on UVtools (Windows MSI only)
- (Improvement) Island and overhang detection: Ignore detection on all layers that are in direct contact with the plate (On same first layer position)
- (Improvement) Cmd: Better error messages for convert command when using shared extensions and no extension
- **Core:**
- (Add) Machine presets and able to load machine collection from PrusaSlicer
- (Improvement) Core: Reference EmguCV runtimes into core instead of the UI project
- **File formats:**
- **CXDLP:**
- (Add) Detection support for Halot One Pro
- (Add) Detection support for Halot One Plus
- (Add) Detection support for Halot Sky Plus
- (Add) Detection support for Halot Lite
- (Improvement) Better handling and detection of printer model when converting
- (Improvement) Discovered more fields meanings on format
- (Fix) Exposure time in format is `round(time * 10, 1)`
- (Fix) Speeds in format are in mm/s, was using mm/min before
- (Add) JXS format for Uniformation GKone [Zip+GCode]
- (Improvement) Saving and converting files now handle the file backup on Core instead on the UI, which prevents scripts and other projects lose the original file in case of error while saving
- (Fix) After load files they was flagged as requiring a full encode, preventing fast save a fresh file
- **UVtoolsCmd:**
- Bring back the commandline project
- Consult README to see the available commands and syntax
- Old terminal commands on UVtools still works for now, but consider switch to UVtoolsCmd or redirect the command using `UVtools --cmd "commands"`
- **Tools:**
- **Change print resolution:**
- (Add) Allow to change the display size to match the new printer
- (Add) Machine presets to help set both resolution and display size to a correct printer and auto set fix pixel ratio
- (Improvement) Real pixel pitch fixer due new display size information, this allow full transfers between different printers "without" invalidating the model size
- (Improvement) Better arrangement of the layout
- (Add) Infill: Option "Reinforce infill if possible", it was always on before, now default is off and configurable
- (Improvement) Always allow to export settings from tools
- **GCode:**
- (Improvement) After print the last layer, do one lift with the same layer settings before attempt a fast move to top
- (Improvement) Use the highest defined speed to send the build plate to top after finish print
- (Improvement) Append a wait sync command in the end of gcode if needed
- (Fix) When lift without a retract it still output the motor sync delay for the retract time and the wait time after retract
- **PrusaSlicer:**
- (Add) Printer: Creality Halot One Pro CL-70
- (Add) Printer: Creality Halot One Plus CL-79
- (Add) Printer: Creality Halot Sky Plus CL-92
- (Add) Printer: Creality Halot Lite CL-89L
- (Add) Printer: Creality Halot Lite CL-89L
- (Add) Printer: Creality CT133 Pro
- (Add) Printer: Creality CT-005 Pro
- (Add) Printer: Uniformation GKone
- (Add) Printer: FlashForge Foto 8.9S
- (Add) Printer: Elegoo Mars 2
- (Improvement) Rename all Creality printers
- (Fix) Creality model in print notes
- **(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 and remove some image types that can be open
- (Add) `CanProcess` method to know if a file can be read under a format and to allow diferent formats with same extension
- (Fix) `LiftHeightTotal` and `RetractHeight` was rounding to no decimals and returning wrong values
- (Improvement) Round all float setters on `Layer` class
- (Improvement) Decode/encode RAM usage and performance by processing in batch groups
- **Pixel Dimming:** (#262)
- (Add) Option "Lightening pixels" to add brightness/lightening instead of dimming/subtract pixels
- (Fix) "Dim walls only" would reset body brightness by increase pixel brightness two times it value
- **Pixel Arithmetic:**
- (Change) Transpose "Pixel Dimming" to "Pixel Arithmetic"
- (Improvement) New options and manipulations
- **(Fix) Exposure time finder:**
- Generate top staircase based on selected measure (px or mm)
- Zebra bars when used in mm measures, it was using X density instead Y to calculate the thickness
- Move 'Unit of measure' to 'Object configuration'
- Custom text with wrong Y position when using out of portion resolutions/LCDs
- **CTBv4:**
- (Fix) More Unknown fields discovered and implemented
- (Fix) Reserved table is 384 bytes instead of 420
- (Fix) When full encoding it was forcing to change to version 3. This also affected convertions. (#263)
- (Fix) `BottomRetractHeight2` was being set to `BottomRetractSpeed2`
- (Fix) `RetractHeight2` was being set to `RetracSpeed2`
- (Fix) The PrintParametersV4 table address
- (Fix) Generates invalid files to open with Chitubox and printers (#263)
- (Fix) Better progress report
- **(Add) PrusaSlicer printer notes variables:**
- BottomLiftHeight2
- BottomLiftSpeed2
- LiftHeight2
- LiftSpeed2
- BottomRetractSpeed
- BottomRetractSpeed2
- BottomRetractHeight2
- BottomRetractSpeed2
- RetractHeight2
- RetractSpeed2
- **UI:**
- (Add) File - Open current file folder (Ctrl+Shift+L): Locate and open the folder that contain the current loaded file
- (Improvement) Hide some virtual extensions from file open dialog filters
- (Improvement) UI: Refresh active thumbnail when changed
- (Change) Icon for File - Open and Open in a new file
- (Change) Rename File - Extract to: Extract file contents
- (Upgrade) AvaloniaUI from 0.10.6 to 0.10.7
- (Fix) PW0, PWM, PWMX, PWMO, PWMS: Unable to decode some files with AntiAliasing (#143)
- **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)
* **PrusaSlicer:**
* **In this release is recommended to discard your printer and refresh it with uvtools updated printer or replace notes over**
* (Add) FILEFORMAT_XXX variable to auto-convert to that file format once open in UVtools
* (Update) Print profiles fields with new PrusaSlicer version
* (Remove) LayerOffDelay from printer notes and use only the LightOffDelay variable instead, both were being used, to avoid redundacy LayerOffDelay was dropped. Please update your printer accordingly!
* (Remove) FLIP_XY compability from printers
* (Remove) AntiAlias variable from printers
* **(Add) Settings - Automations:**
* Auto save the file after apply any automation(s)
* Auto convert SL1 files to the target format when possible and load it back
* Auto set the extra 'light-off delay' based on lift height and speed.
* (Add) Allow all and future formats to convert between them without knowing each other (Abstraction)
* (Add) XYResolution and XYResolutionUm property to file formats
* (Add) Calculator - Optimal model tilt: Calculates the optimal model tilt angle for printing and to minimize the visual layer effect
* (Add) Bottom layer count to the status bar
* **(Add) FileFormat propertiers:**
* MirrorDisplay: If images need to be mirrored on lcd to print on the correct orientation (If available)
* MaxPrintHeight: The maximum Z build volume of the printer (If available)
* (Add) ZCodex: Print paramenter light-off delay"
* (Add) SL1: Implement missing keys: host_type, physical_printer_settings_id and support_small_pillar_diameter_percent
* (Change) File formats: Round all setters floats to 2 decimals
* (Change) Island Repair: "Remove Islands Below Equal Pixels" limit from 255 to 65535 (#124)
* (Change) LightOffTime variables to LayerOffDelay
* (Fix) Files with upper case extensions doesn't load in
* **(Fix) SL1:**
* Prevent error when bottle volume is 0
* bool values were incorrectly parsed
* (Fix) **ZIP:**
* Material volume was set to grams
* Bed Y was not being set
* (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"
* (Add) Settings & Issues: Enable or disable Empty Layers
* (Add) PrusaSlicer Printer: Nova Bene4 Mono
* (Add) CWS: Support the GRAY2RGB and RBG2GRAY encoding for Bene Mono
* (Add) Layer issue Z map paired with layer navigation tracker bar
* (Change) Shortcuts: + and - to go up and down on layers were change to W and S keys. Reason: + and - are bound to zoom and can lead to problems
* (Upgrade) OpenCV from 4.2 to 4.3
* (Fix) CWS: Add missing Platform X,Y,Z size when converting from SL1
* (Fix) CWS: Invert XY resolution when converting from SL1
* (Add) Allow chitubox, phz, pws, pw0 files convert to cws
* (Add) Allow convert between cbddlp, ctb and photon
* (Add) Allow convert between pws and pw0
* (Improvement) Layers can now have modified heights and independent parameters (#9)
* (Improvement) UVtools now generate better gcode and detect the lack of Lift and same z position and optimize the commands
* (Fix) zcodex: Wasn't reporting layer decoding progress
Tiago Conceição