- (Add) Allow to pause and resume operations (#654)
- (Add) `Layer.FirstTransitionLayer`
- (Add) `Layer.LastTransitionLayer`
- (Add) File format: Elegoo GOO
- (Add) PrusaSlicer Printer: Elegoo Mars 4
- (Improvement) Allocate maximum GPU memory for Skia up to 256 MB
- (Improvement) Set and sanitize transition layers exposure time from last bottom layer and first normal layer instead of global times (#659)
- (Change) CXDLP: Default version from 2 to 3
- (Fix) UI was not rendering with GPU (ANGLE)
- (Fix) `Layer.IsTransitionLayer` was returning the wrong value
- (Upgrade) .NET from 6.0.13 to 6.0.14
- **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
- **UVtoolsCmd:**
- **print-properties:**
- (Change) `-b`, `--base` option to `-a`, `-all` to indicate all properties and sub-properties, now defaults to only show base properties
- (Add) `-r`, `--range` option to prints only the matching layer(s) index(es) in a range
- (Add) `-i`, `--indexes` option to prints only the matching layer(s) index(es)
- (Add) Command: `set-properties <input-file> <property=value> Set properties in a file or to it layers with new values`
- (Add) Command: `print-issues <input-file> Detect and print issues in a file`
- (Add) New option to the `run` command: `-p, --property <property=value> Set a property with a new value (Compatible with operations only)`
- (Remove) Command: `print-layers` as it has been moved to `print-properties`, use `-r :` to obtain same result as default on `print-layers`
- **Issues:**
- (Fix) Issues groups with only one issue was displaying the wrong area value
- (Fix) Volume incorrectly calculated, resulting in a high value for group of issues
- (Fix) Incorrect calculation of the bounding rectangle for a group of issues
- **Repair layers:**
- (Add) Switch to opt between "Re-detect the selected issues before repair" and "Use and repair the previous detected issues" (Default)
- (Improvement) Do not allow to run the tool if there are no detected issues when the option "Use and repair the previous detected issues" is selected
- (Improvement) Linux: Recompile libcvextern.so on a older system to be able to run on both older and newest system (#603)
- (Upgrade) .NET from 6.0.10 to 6.0.11
- **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
- **Benchmark:**
- (Add) PNG, GZip, Deflate and LZ4 compress tests
- (Change) Test against a known image instead of random noise
- (Change) Single-thread tests from 100 to 200 and multi-thread tests from 1000 to 5000
- (Improvement) Same image instance is shared between tests instead of create new per test
- (Fix) Encode typo
- **Core:**
- (Add) Layer compression method: Allow to choose the compression method for layer image
- **PNG:** Compression=High Speed=Slow (Use with low RAM)
- **GZip:** Compression=Medium Speed=Medium (Optimal)
- **Deflate:** Compression=Medium Speed=Medium (Optimal)
- **LZ4:** Compression=Low Speed=Fast (Use with high RAM)
- (Improvement) Better handling on cancel operations and more immediate response
- (Fix) Extract: Zip Slip Vulnerability (CWE-22)
- **File formats:**
- (Improvement) Better handling of encode/decoding layers from zip files
- (Fix) ZCode: Canceling the file load can trigger an error
- (Fix) VDA: Unable to open vda zip files
- **Tools:**
- (Improvement) Allow operations to be aware of ROI and Masks before execution (#436)
- (Improvement) Scripting: Allow save and load profiles (#436)
- (Fix) Adjust layer height: When using the Offset type the last layer in the range was not taken in account (#435)
- **UI:**
- (Improvement) Allow layer zoom levels of 0.1x and 64x but constrain minimum zoom to the level of image fit
- (Improvement) Update change log now shows with markdown style and more readable
- (Fix) Windows MSI upgrade to this version (#432)
- (Fix) Auto-updater for Mac ARM, was downloading x64 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
- **Pixel Arithmetic:**
- (Add) Corrode: Number of passes
- (Change) Corrode: Noise area default from 3px² to 1px²
- (Change) Fuzzy skin preset: Wall thickness from 6px to 4px
- (Change) Fuzzy skin preset: Max noise offset: 64
- (Add) Core: More helper functions: Area, Volume, LastBottomLayer, BottomLayersHeight, SetNoDelays, SetWaitTimeBeforeCureOrLightOffDelay
- (Change) Display the current layer volume instead of area
- (Fix) Having a first empty layer will miscalculate the model rectangle bounds
- (Fix) Tool - Calculator - Model tilt: Change formula to use arctan instead of tanh
- (Upgrade) OpenCV from 4.5.4 to 4.5.5
- (Upgrade) AvaloniaUI from 0.10.11 to 0.10.12 (#378)
- **Pixel Arithmetic:**
- (Add) Corode: Noise pixel area, defaulting to 3px2
- (Change) Corode: Cryptonumeric random to normal random to speed up calculation
- (Change) Fuzzy skin preset: Set a ignore threshold area of 5000px2
- (Improvement) Masking performance and auto crop the layer to speed up the processing when using an "Apply to" other than "All"
- (Fix) Some "Apply to" methods was creating a wrong mask with some operators
- **CXDLP V3:**
- (Fix) Checksum (CRC32) (#389)
- (Fix) Software name and material name serialization
- **Tool - Morph:**
- (Add) Operator: White tophat - Removes small isolated pixels and only return its affected pixels (Image - Noise removal)
- (Add) Operator: Black tophat - Closes small holes inside the objects and only return its affected pixels (Gap closing - Image)
- (Add) Operator: Hit or miss - Finds pixels in a given kernel pattern
- (Remove) Operator: 'Isolate features' as that is the same as the 'White tophat' and is already inbuilt into OpenCV
- **Kernels:**
- (Add) Option: Use dynamic kernel to enhancement the quality of the borders (#367)
- (Add) Kernels are now saved with the operation profile
- **PrusaSlicer:**
- (Add) Support to slice files to be converted for encrypted CTB format
- (Add) Printer: Elegoo Mars 3 (#370)
- (Add) Printer: EPAX E10 5K
- (Add) Printer: EPAX X10 5K
- (Add) Printer: Phrozen Sonic Mini 8K
- (Add) Printer: Phrozen Sonic Mega 8K
- (Fix) Printer: AnyCubic Photon Mono 4K - display size (#369)
- (Fix) Printer: AnyCubic Photon Mono X 6K - display size (#369)
- (Add) Tool - Double exposure: Kernel configuration
- (Add) Tool - Pixel arithmetic: Kernel configuration
- (Add) Calibration - Elephant foot: Use dynamic kernel to enhancement the quality of the borders (#367)
- (Fix) Calibrate - Elephant foot: Redo (Ctrl + Z) the operation was crashing the application
- (Fix) CTB, PHZ, FDG: Converting files with a null machine name would cause a exception
- (Fix) Anycubic files: Bottom lift and speed were showing default values instead of real used value
- **Pixel arithmetic**
- (Add) Apply to - Model surface: Apply only to model surface/visible pixels
- (Add) Apply to - Model surface & inset: Apply only to model surface/visible pixels and within a inset from walls
- (Add) Preset: Fuzy skin
- (Improvement) Speed up the Corrode method
- (Change) Heal anti-aliasing threshold from 169 to 119
- **Calibration - Grayscale:**
- (Add) Enable or disable text
- (Fix) Calibration - Grayscale: Crash program when redo (Ctrl+Z)
- (Change) Some defaults to better values
- (Fix) Layer arithmetic: Crash program when redo (Ctrl+Z)
- (Add) Apply to - Model surface: Apply only to model surface/visible pixels
- (Add) Apply to - Model surface & inset: Apply only to model surface/visible pixels and within a inset from walls
- (Improvement) Speed up the Corrode apply method
- **Pixel arithmetic**
- (Add) Corrode: Random dithering, use for eliminating visual prominence of layer lines. Can also be used to add a microtexture to enhance paint bonding (#307)
- (Add) Ignore areas smaller or larger than an threshold
- (Add) Preset - Heal anti-aliasing: Discard uncured faded pixels and turn them into solid black (0)
- (Fix) Resin traps: Discard traps with drain holes directly on first layer / build plate
- (Fix) The setting 'Auto flip layer on file load' is not respected when off
Added switch to random offset as it smooths the diffusion service by
leveraging grey values.
Added UI, preserves void option duplicates the "model only" option but
is significantly faster as it avoid the calculation for void voxels.
Incorporated crypto random and using spans for array access based on PR feedback.
Add pixel arithmetic operation to randomly remove pixels based on
intensity. The random dithering significantly reduces layers lines and
also provides an excellent bonding surface for paints. Intial
implementation is a primitive PoC.
- **UI:**
- **Menu:**
- (Add) File - Open recent: Open any recent open file from a list
Shift + Click: Open file in a new window
Shift + Ctrl + Click: Remove file from recent list
Ctrl + Click: Purge non-existing files
- (Add) File - Send to: Copy the file directly to a removable drive (Windows only)
- **(Add) Layer navigation buttons:**
- SB: Navigate to the smallest bottom layer in mass
- LB: Navigate to the largest bottom layer in mass
- SN: Navigate to the smallest normal layer in mass
- LN: Navigate to the largest normal layer in mass
- (Add) Layer outline - Distance detection: Calculates the distance to the closest zero pixel for each pixel
- **Tools:**
- **Dynamic Lifts:**
- (Improvement) Select normal layers by default
- (Improvement) Hide light-off delay fields when the file format don't support them
- (Fix) Light-off delay fields was not hidding when set a mode that dont require the extra time fields
- **Exposure time finder:**
- (Fix) Fix the 'light-off delay' field not being show on files that support wait time before cure
- (Change) Field name 'Light-off delay' to 'Wait time before cure'
- (Add) Fade exposure time: The double exposure method clones the selected layer range and print the same layer twice with different exposure times and strategies
- (Add) Double exposure: The double exposure method clones the selected layer range and print the same layer twice with different exposure times and strategies
- (Add) Clone layers: Option to keep the same z position for the cloned layers instead of rebuild model height
- (Improvement) The layer range selector for normal and bottom layers now selects the correct range based on IsBottom property rather than layer index
- (Fix) The layer range selector was setting a very high last layer index when bottom layer count is 0
- (Fix) Pixel arithmetic: Threshold types "Otsu" and "Triangle" are flags to combine with other types, it will auto append the "Binnary" type
- (Add) Support for Encrypted CTB (read-only)
- (Add) Setting - Max degree of parallelism: Sets the maximum number of concurrent tasks/threads/operations enabled to run by parallel method calls.
If your computer lags and freeze during operations you can reduce this number to reduce the workload and keep some cores available to other tasks as well.
<= 0: Will utilize however many threads the underlying scheduler provides, mostly this is the processor count.
1: Single thread. (#279)
- **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)
- (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
- **Tools:**
- (Add) Pixel Arithmetic
- (Add) Layer arithmetic: Operator $ to perform a absolute difference
- (Add) Allow to save and auto restore operation settings per session (#195)
- (Add) Allow to auto select the print volume ROI
- (Add) Allow to export and import operation settings from files
- (Improvement) Calculator - LightOff delay: Hide the bottom properties or the tab if the file format don't support them (#193)
- (Change) 'Arithmetic' to 'Layer arithmetic'
- (Remove) 'Threshold pixels'
- (Fix) Solidfy was unable to save profiles
- (Fix) A redo operation (Ctrl + Shift + Z) wasn't restoring the settings when a default profile is set
- **Operations:**
- (Fix) Passing a roi mat to `ApplyMask` would cause unwanted results
- (Improvement) Allow pass a full/original size mask to `ApplyMask`
- **Scripting:**
- (Add) an script to create an printable file to clean the VAT (#170)
- (Improvement) Allow to change user input properties outside the initialization
- (Improvement) Auto format numerical input box with the fixed decimal cases
- (Add) Settings: Section 'Tools'
- (Improvement) GUI: The 'Lift, Retract and Light-off' at status bar now only shows for the supported formats
- (Fix) Print time estimation calculation was wrong since v2.9.3 due a lacking of parentheses on the logic
Tiago Conceição
Finn Neuik