- **(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
- **(Improvement) SL1:** (#314)
- Complete the SL1 file format with some defaults for convertions
- Change some data types from bool to byte as in recent prusaslicer changes
- (Upgrade) .NET from 5.0.10 to 5.0.11
- (Upgrade) AvaloniaUI from 0.10.7 to 0.10.8
- (Fix) PWS, PW0, PWM, PWMX, PWMO, PWMS: Incorrect set of layer height for the layer definition when using same positioned layers
Helpers.cs: Added new SHA256 and AES helper methods
FileFormat.cs: Add as available file format, does not appear in the UI
CTBEncryptedFile.cs: New FileFormat implementation for these encrypted CTB files. Keys are left as an excercise
- **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) 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"
- (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
* **File formats:**
* Add Voxeldance Tango (VDT)
* Add Makerbase MKS-DLP (MDLPv1)
* Add GR1 Workshop (GR1)
* Add Creality CXDLP (CXDLP)
* When decoding a file and have a empty resolution (Width: 0 or Height: 0) it will auto fix it by get and set the first layer image resolution to the file
* Fix when decoding a file it was already set to require a full encode, preventing fast saves on print parameters edits
* **GUI:**
* When file resolution dismatch from layer resolution, it is now possible to auto fix it by set the layer resolution to the file
* When loading a file with auto scan for issues disabled it will force auto scan for issues types that are instant to check (print height and empty layers), if any exists it will auto select issues tab
* **(Add) PrusaSlicer printers:**
* Creality HALOT-SKY CL-89
* Creality HALOT-SKY CL-60
* (Improvement) Tool - Adjust layer height: Improve the performance when multiplying layers / go with higher layer height
* (Fix) PrusaSlicer Printer - Wanhao D7: Change the auto convertion format from .zip to .xml.cws
* **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
* (Fix) phz: Files with encryption or sliced by chitubox produced black images after save due not setting the image address nor size (Spotted by Burak Cezairli)
Tiago Conceição
tslater2006