- **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)
- (Upgrade) AvaloniaUI from 0.10 to 0.10.2
- (Remove) Unused assemblies
- **Issues**
- Improve the performance when loading big lists of issues into the DataGrid
- Auto refresh issues on the vertical highlight tracker once cath a modification on the Issues list
- **Layer preview - Difference:**
- Layer difference will now only check the pixels inside the union of previous, current and next layer bounding rectangle, increasing the performance and speed
- Previous and next layer pixels if both exists was not showing with the configured color and using the next layer color instead
- Respect Anti-Aliasing pixels and fade colors accordingly
- Unlock the possiblity of using the layer difference on first and last layer
- Add a option to show similar pixels instead of the difference
- Change previous default color from (255, 0, 255) to (81, 131, 82) for better depth preception
- Change next default color from (0, 255, 255) to (81, 249, 252) for better depth preception
- Change previous & next default color from (255, 0, 0) to (246, 240, 216) for better depth preception
- **(Fix) Pixel editor:**
- Modification was append instead of prepend on the list
- Modification was not updating the index number on the list
- (Fix) PrusaSlicer printer: Bene4 Mono screen, bed and height size
* **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
* **Operations:**
* Force validate all operations on execute if they haven't been before, if validation fails it will show the message error
* Add some utility functions to ease layer and mat allocation in the file
* Layer remove: Disallow to select and remove all layers
* Tool - Edit print parameters: Retract speed wasn't propagating the value to normal layers
* File formats: Better control, set and checking for null/empty thumbnails
* **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) Calibration - Exposure time finder: Option to "Do not perform the lifting sequence for layers with same Z positioning"
The lift height will be set to 0 for sequential layers that share same z position.
Some printers may not support this and always require a lift after each layer.
* (Fix) Hide MaterialMilliliters from layer data if unable to calculate the value (NaN)
* (Fix) CWS: A missing line break wasn't lifting printer on finish
* (Fix) Layers: Allow to set LiftHeight and LightOffDelay to 0 per layer
* (Improvement) Cache per layer and global used material for faster calculations
* (Improvement) Better internal PrintTime management
* **(Improvement) GUI:**
* Show per layer used material percentage compared to the rest model
* Show total of millimeters cured per layer if available
* Show bounds and ROI in millimeters if available
* Show display width and height below resolution if available
* Don't split (Actions / Refresh / Save) region when resize window and keep those fixed
* **(Improvement) Calibrate - Grayscale:**
* Add a option to convert brightness to exposure time on divisions text
* Adjust text position to be better centered and near from the center within divisions
* (Fix) Calculate the used material with global layer height instead of calculate height from layer difference which lead to wrong values in parallel computation
* (Fix) Converting files were not setting the new file as parent for the layer manager, this affected auto convertions from SL1 and lead to crashes and bad calculations if file were not reloaded from the disk (#150, #151)
* (Fix) PositionZ rounding error when removing layers
* (Add) Computed used material milliliters for each layer, it will dynamic change if pixels are added or subtracted
* (Add) Computed used material milliliters for whole model, it will dynamic change if pixels are added or subtracted
* (Improvement) Round cost, material ml and grams from 2 to 3 decimals
* (Improvement) Operation profiles: Allow to save and get a custom layer range instead of pre-defined ranges
* **(Improvement)** PhotonWorkshop files: (#149)
* Fill in the display width, height and MaxZ values for the printers
* Fill in the xy pixel size values for the printers
* Change ResinType to PriceCurrencyDec and Add PriceCurrencySymbol
* Change Offset1 on header to PrintTime
* Change Offset1 on layer table as NonZeroPixelCount, the number of white pixels on the layer
* Fix LayerPositionZ to calculate the correct value based on each layer height and fix internal layer layer height which was been set to position z
* Force PerLayerOverride to be always 1 after save the file
* (Fix) Actions - Remove and clone layers was selecting all layer range instead of the current layer
* (Fix) Redo last action was not getting back the layer range on some cases
* (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
* **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
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) Pixel Dimming: Chamfer - Allow the number of walls pixels to be gradually varied as the operation progresses from the starting layer to the ending layer (#106)
* (Add) PrusaSlicer print profiles: 0.01, 0.02, 0.03, 0.04, 0.15, 0.2
* (Change) Morph: "Fade" to "Chamfer" naming, created profiles need redo
* (Change) Pixel Dimming: Allow start with 0px walls when using "Walls Only"
* (Change) PrusaSlicer print profiles names, reduced bottom layers and raft height
* (Remove) PrusaSlicer print profiles with 3 digit z precision (0.025 and 0.035)
* (Fix) PW0, PWS, PWMX, PWMO, PWMS, PWX file formats, where 4 offsets (16 bytes) were missing on preview image, leading to wrong table size. Previous converted files with UVtools wont open from now on, you need to reconvert them. (ezrec/uv3dp#124)
* (Fix) Unable to run Re-Height tool due a rounding problem on some cases (#101)
* (Fix) Layer preview end with exception when no per layer settings are available (SL1 case)
* (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