- **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
- **File - Send to:**
- (Add) Icons to distinguish each send type
- (Add) Allow to configure processes to open the file with (#352)
- (Improvement) CXDLP: When encoding the file, only attempt to change the machine name if not starts with 'CL-' (#351)
- (Improvement) UI: Remove the "0/?" and just show the title on the progress bar
- (Change) CTBv4: Remove the following validation to be compatible with lychee and CTB SDK: "Malformed file, PrintParametersV4 found invalid validation values, expected (4, 4) got (x, y)" (#354)
- **File -> Send to -> Device**
- (Add) Progress with the transfered megabyte(s) and allow to cancel the transfer
- (Add) It will prompt for drive ejection [Configurable - On by default] [Windows only] (#340)
- **Windows MSI:**
- (Fix) Use the folder programs x64 instead of x86 for new installation path (#254)
- (Improvement) Mark program and all files as x64
- (Improvement) Add UVtools logo to side panel and top banner
- (Improvement) Add open-source logo to side panel
- (Improvement) License text aligment and bold title
- (Add) File format: OSLA / ODLP / OMSLA - Universal binary file format
- (Add) Calibration - Lift height: Generates test models with various strategies and increments to measure the optimal lift height or peel forces for layers given the printed area
- (Add) Layer Actions - Export layers to images (PNG, JPG/JPEG, JP2, TIF/TIFF, BMP, PBM, PGM, SR/RAS and SVG)
- (Add) About box: License with link
- (Add) Include a copy of the LICENSE on the packages
- (Improvement) File formats: Implement `Wait time before cure` properties on file formats with light-off delay, when used it will calculate the right light-off delay with that extra time and set to `LightOffDelay` property
- (Improvement) Change all date times to Utc instead of local
- (Fix) Tool - Flip: 'Both' were not working correctly
- (Fix) Linux: File 'UVtools.sh' with incorrect line break type, changed to \n (#258)
- (Upgrade) AvaloniaUI from 0.10.2 to 0.10.3
- (Change) PrusaSlicer printers: Set 'Light-Off Delay' and 'Bottom Light-Off Delay' to 0 as default to allow UVtools auto-compute the right value once open the file in
- **Exposure time finder:**
- Optimize layers by merge same position/exposure layers
- Add a fence option to the zebra bars
- Add a option to pattern the loaded model and generate multiple exposures on that
- Allow to generate tests without the holes feature
- Prevent from using more chamfers than the base height
- Removed two of the largest holes
- Hide not so often used 'Multiple brightness' and 'Multiple layer height' by default
- Disable Anti-Aliasing by default
- Change 'Part margin' from 1.5mm to 2.0mm
- Change 'Multiple exposures - Bottom exposure step' default to 0
- Fix a error when generating tests with multiple exposures
- Fix some typos
- **XYZ accuracy test:**
- Change 'Wall thickess' default from 2.5mm to 3.0mm
- (Improvement) Allow compute print time without a lift sequence
* **File formats:**
* PhotonS: Implement the write/encode method to allow to use this format and fix the thumbnail
* VDT: Allow to auto convert the .vdt to the target printer format using the Machine - Notes, using a flag: FILEFORMAT_YourPrinterExtension, for example: FILEFORMAT_CTB
* (Fix) Unable to convert files with no thumbnails to other file format that requires thumbnails
* **Tools:**
* (Add) Re-height: Option to Anti-Aliasing layers
* (Fix) Morph and Blur: The combobox was not setting to the selected item when preform a redo operation (Ctrl+Shift+Z)
* **GUI:**
* (Change) Progress window to be a grid element inside MainWindow, this allow to reuse the graphics and its elements without the need of spawning a Window instance everytime a progress is shown, resulting in better performance and more fluid transaction
* (Improvement) Clear issues when generating calibration tests
* **Core:**
* Fix some improper locks for progress counter and change to Interlocked instead
* Fix a bug when chaging layer count by remove or add layers it will malform the file after save and crash the program with some tools and/or clipboard
* Fix when a operation fails by other reason different from cancelation it was not restoring the backup
* When manually delete/fix issues it will also backup the layers
* **LayerManager:**
* LayerManager is now readonly and no longer used to transpose layers, each FileFormat have now a unique `LayerManager` instance which is set on the generic constructor
* Implemented `List<Layer>` methods to easy modify the layers array
* Changing the `Layers` instance will now recompute some properties, call the properties rebuild and forced sanitize of the structure
* Better reallocation methods
* **Clipboard Manager:**
* Add the hability to do full backups, they will be marked with an asterisk (*) at clipboard items list
* When a partial backup is made and it backups all the layers it will be converted to full backup
* Clipboard can now restore a snapshot directly with `RestoreSnapshot`
* Prevent restore the initial backup upon file load and when clearing the clipboard
* Clip's that change the layer count will perform a full backup and also do a fail-safe backup behind if previous clip is not a full backup
* **Pixel dimming:**
* Allow to load an image file as a pattern (Do not use very large files or it will take much time to dump the data into the textbox)
* Empty lines on patterns will be discarded and not trigger validation error
* **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
* (Upgrade) EmguCV/OpenCV to v4.5.1
* (Upgrade) AvaloniaUI to 1.0
* (Improvement) GUI re-touched
* (Improvement) Make pixel editor tab to disappear when pixel editor is disabled
* (Improvement) Simplify the output filename from PrusaSlicer profiles
* (Improvement) All operations require a slicer file at constructor rather than on execute, this allow exposure the open file to the operation before run it
* (Improvement) Calibrations: Auto set "Mirror Output" if open file have MirrorDisplay set
* (Change) Tool - Redraw model/supports icon
* (Change) photon and cbddlp to use version 3 by default
* (Add) Tool - Dynamic layer height: Analyze and optimize the model with dynamic layer heights, larger angles will slice at lower layer height
while more straight angles will slice larger layer height. (#131)
* (Add) Calibration - Exposure time finder: Generates test models with various strategies and increments to verify the best exposure time for a given layer height
* (Add) File load checks, trigger error when a file have critical errors and attempt to fix non-critical errors
* Layers must have an valid image, otherwise trigger an error
* Layers must have a incremental or equal position Z than it previous, otherwise trigger an error
* If layer 0 starts at 0mm it will auto fix all layers, it will add Layer Height to the current z at every layer
* (Add) Tool - Edit print parameters: Allow set parameters to each x layers and skip n layers inside the given range.
This allow the use of optimizations in a layer pattern, for example, to set 3s for a layer but 2.5s for the next.
* (Add) Layer height property to "Layer Data" table: Shows layer height for the slice
* (Fix) When automations applied and file is saved, it will not warn user about file overwrite for the first time save
* (Fix) Tool - Redraw model/supports: Disable apply button when no file selected
* (Fix) Tool - Infill: Lack of equality member to test if same infill profile already exists
* (Fix) Auto converted files from SL1 where clipping filename at first dot (.), now it only strips known extensions
* (Fix) SL1 encoded files wasn't generating the right information and lead to printer crash
* (Fix) PrusaSlicer printer "Anycubic Photon S" LiftSpeed was missing and contains a typo (#135)
* (Fix) PrusaSlicer profile manager wasnt marking missing profiles to be installed (#135)
* (Fix) PrusaSlicer folder search on linux to also look at %HOME%/.config/PrusaSlicer (#135, #136)
* (Fix) Operations were revised and some bug fixed, most about can't cancel the progress
* (Fix) Some typos on tooltips
* (Fix) Prevent PhotonS from enconding, it will trigger error now as this format is read-only
* **(Fix) Ctrl + Shift + Z to redo the last operation:**
* The layer range is reseted instead of pull the used values
* Tool - Arithmetic always disabled
* Action - Layer import didn't generate info and always disabled
* (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) Issue: Overhangs - Detects potential overhangs on layers (#64)
* (Add) PrusaSlicer Printer: Phrozen Sonic Mini 4K
* (Improvement) CWS: Allow read files with "slice*" filenames as content (#67)
* (Improvement) Allow convert chitubox files to CWS Bene4 Mono printer, must configure a printer containing "Bene4 Mono" name on Chitubox (#67)
* (Improvement) Edit print parameters: Show changes on confirm dialog
* (Improvement) Edit print parameters: Dedicated reset button hides when value is unchanged
* (Improvement) More detailed descriptions on error messages
* (Fix) Some islands wont remove from list when many selected and click remove
* (Fix) Extract: Use trail zeros to layer filenames
* (Fix) MSI installer not creating shortcuts (#66)
- Threshold helpers changed to DropDownList
-Confirmation string added for Edit Parameters
-Changed progress delimiter for %complete from '-' back to '|'
Mostly text updates, with a few adjustments
to dialog box layouts or controls.
Presets for Threshold, for example, where changed
from buttons to a combobox selections.
Allowed the line splits added by Designer to remain, but
did fix any mid-word breaks.
* (Add) PrusaSlicer Printer: Elegoo Mars 2 Pro
* (Add) PrusaSlicer Printer: Creality LD-002H
* (Add) PrusaSlicer Printer: Voxelab Polaris
* (Add) File Format: UVJ (#8)
* (Add) Mutataor: Pixel Dimming
* (Add) Pixel Editor tab with new drawing functions
* (Add) Pixel Editor: Bursh area and shape
* (Add) Pixel Editor: Supports
* (Add) Pixel Editor: Drain holes
* (Add) Settings for pixel editor
* (Add) Setting: File open default directory
* (Add) Setting: File save default directory
* (Add) Setting: File extract default directory
* (Add) Setting: File convert default directory
* (Add) Setting: File save prompt for overwrite (#10)
* (Add) Setting: File save preffix and suffix name
* (Add) Setting: UVtools version to the title bar
* (Improvement) Force same directory as input file on dialogs
* (Improvement) Pattern: Better positioning when not using an anchor, now it's more center friendly
* (Change) Setting: Start maximized defaults to true
* (Fix) Pattern: Calculated volume was appending one margin width/height more
* (Fix) When cancel a file load, some shortcuts can crash the program as it assume file is loaded
* (Fix) pws: Encode using the same count-of-threshold method as CBDDLP (ezrec/uv3dp#79)
* (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
Bryce Yancey