- **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
- **(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
- **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
* **Core:**
* Write "Unhandled Exceptions" to an "errors.log" file at user settings directory
* Increase layer height max precision from 2 to 3 decimals
* **Settings - Layer Preview:**
* Allow to set hollow line thickness to -1 to fill the area
* Add tooltip for "Auto rotate on load": Auto rotate the layer preview on file load for a landscape viewport
* Add option to masks outline color and thickness
* Add option to clear ROI when adding masks
* Add option "Auto flip on load": Auto flip the layer preview on file load if the file is marked to print mirrored on the printer LCD
* **Layer preview:**
* Add selectable rotation directions 90º (CW and CCW)
* Add preview flip (CTRL+F) horizontally and/or vertically
* Add maskable regions to process on a layer (SHIFT + Alt + Click) on a area
* ROI: Shortcut "Shift + left click" now also selects hollow black areas inside a white perimeter
* ROI: Shortcut "ESC + Shift" to clear only the ROI and leave masks in
* Fix a crash when using the pixel picker tool outside image bounds
* **Pixel editor:**
* Change drawings brush diameter limit from 255 to 4000 maximum
* When using layers below go lower than layer 0 it no longer apply the modifications
* **File formats:**
* Add an internal GCodeBuilder to generate identical gcode within formats with auto convertion, managing features and parsing information
* Internally rearrange formats properties and pass values to the base class
* Fix "Save As" filename when using formats with dual extensions
* CBDDLP and CTB: "LightPWM" was setting "BottomLightPWM" instead
* CWS: Fix problem with filenames with dots (.) and ending with numbers (#171)
* CWS: Improved the enconding and decoding performance
* CWS: Implement all available print paramenters and per layer, missing values are got from gcode interpretation
* CWS: Use set "light off delay" layer value instead of calculating it
* CWS: Get light off delay per layer parsed from gcode
* CWS - RGB flavour (Bene4 Mono): Warn about wrong resolution if width not multiples of 3 (#171)
* ZCode: Allow to set Bottom and Light intensity (LightPWM) on paramters and per layer
* ZCode: Allow to change bottom light pwm independent from normal light pwm
* LGS: Light off and bottom light off was setting the value on the wrong units
* UVJ: Unable to set per layer parameters
* **Issues:**
* When computing islands and resin traps together, they will not compute in parallel anymore to prevent CPU and tasks exaustion, it will calculate islands first and then resin traps, this should also speed up the process on weaker machines
* Gather resin trap areas together when computing for other issues to spare a decoding cycle latter
* When using a threshold for islands detection it was also appling it to the overhangs
* Fix the spare decoding conditional cycle for partial scans
* Change resin trap search from parallel to sync to prevent fake detections and missing joints at cost of speed (#13)
* **Tools:**
* Add layer selector: 'From first to current layer' and 'From current to last layer'
* I printed this file: Multiplier - Number of time(s) the file has been printed. Half numbers can be used to consume from a failed print. Example: 0.5x if a print canceled at 50% progress
* Pixel dimming: Increase wall thickness default from 5px to 10px
* Import layers: Importing layers was not marking layers as modified, then the save file won't save the new images in, to prevent other similar bugs, all layers that got replaced will be auto marked as modified
* (Add) Setting: Auto repair layers and issues on file load
* (Improvement) When ComputeIssuesOnLoad is enabled and issues are detected it will switch the view to the Issues tab
* **(Improvement) Raft Relief:**
* Add parameter "Mask layer index": Defines the mask layer to use and ignore the white blobs on the raft
* Increase the automatic support detection allowance on more odd shapes
* Prevent layer 0 to be used as a mask, if so it will quit
* If the ignored layer number are set and equal or larger than mask layer index it will quit
* Fix progress count when using ignored layers
* Change supports dilate kernel from Elipse to Rectangle for a better coverage of the pad
* Change the default values for a more conservative values
* (Fix) When both ComputeIssuesOnLoad and ComputeIssuesOnClickTab are enabled, clicking the issues tab will rescan for issues
* (Fix) Tools: Set a default profile insn't working
* (Fix) Redoing the last operation was not recovering the custom ROI on the operation
* (Add) Settings - Automations: Change only light-off delay if value is zero (Enabled by default)
* (Fix) Calibrators: Some file formats will crash when calibration test output more layers than the dummy file
* (Fix) Undo/redo don't unlock the save function
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) IsModified property to current layer information, indicates if layer have unsaved changes
* (Add) Splitter between preview image and properties to resize the vertical space between that two controls
* (Fix) Unable to save file with made modifications, layer IsModified property were lost when entering on clipboard
* (Fix) After made a modification clipboard tries to restores that same modification (Redundant)
* (Fix) Current layer data doesn't refresh when refreshing current layer, made changes not to show in
* (Fix) Hides not supported properties from current layer data given the file format
* (Add) RAM usage on title bar
* (Add) Clipboard manager: Undo (Ctrl + Z) and Redo (Ctrl + Y) modifications (Memory optimized)
* (Add) Current layer properties on information tab
* (Fix) Long windows with system zoom bigger than 100% were being hidden and overflow (#90)
* (Fix) Do not recompute issues nor properties nor reshow layer if operation is cancelled or failed
Tiago Conceição