- **Exposure time finder:**
- (Add) [ME] Option: 'Use different settings for layers with same Z positioning'
- (Add) [ME] Option: 'Lift height' for same Z positioned layers
- (Add) [ME] Option: 'Light-off delay' for same Z positioned layers
- (Improvement) Auto-detect and optimize the 'multiple exposures' test to decrease the print time, by set a minimal lift to almost none
- (Improvement) Better information on the thumbnail
- (Fix) Importing a profile would crash the application
- (Fix) Error with 'Pattern loaded model' fails when generating more models than build plate can afford (#239)
- **GCode:**
- (Fix) When the last layer have no lifts and a move to top command is set on end, that value were being set incorrectly as last layer position
- (Fix) Layer parsing from mm/s to mm/m bad convertion
- (Add) File formats: Setter `SuppressRebuildGCode` to disable or enable the gcode auto rebuild when needed, set this to false to manually write your own gcode
- (Fix) ZCode: Some test files come with layer height of 0mm on a property, in that case lookup layer height on the second property as fallback
- (Upgrade) EmguCV from 4.5.1 to 4.5.2
- **File formats:**
- (Add) Getter `IsAntiAliasingEmulated`: Gets whatever a file format uses real or emulated AntiAliasing
- (Add) Getter `IsDisplayPortrait`: Gets if the display is in portrait mode
- (Add) Getter `IsDisplayLandscape`: Gets if the display is in landscape mode
- **Tool - Resize:** (#235)
- (Fix) Division by 0 when start layer is equal to end layer
- (Fix) Calculations when using the option "Increase or decrease towards 100%"
- (Add) About window: OpenCV build number and a button to copy build information to clipboard
- (Improvement) Exposure exposure finder: Improve the **Multiple brightness** section to auto fill with correct values for file formats that use time fractions to emulate AntiAliasing, this can be used to replace the **Multiple exposures** section
- (Fix) UVJ: Error when using a null or empty layer array on manifest `config.json` file (#232)
- (Fix) GCode parser: When only a G4/wait command is present on a layer it was setting the global exposure time and discard the this value per layer
- **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"
- (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)
- (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
- **Exposure time finder:**
- Add a enable option for each feature
- Add a staircase: Creates an incremental stair at top from left to right that goes up to the top layer
- Add a section dedicated to the bullseye and revamp the design
- Add a section for counter triangles (this will take the space of the old bullseye)
- Allow negative fence offset for zebra bars
- Allow to preview the exposure time information
- Changed some defaults
- (Add) Layer actions - Export layers to animated GIF
- **Note:** Non Windows users must install 'libgdiplus' dependency in order to use this tool
- (Add) Tools - Dynamic lifts: Generate dynamic lift height and speeds for each layer given it mass
- (Improvement) File formats using json files are now saved with human readable indentation
- (Fix) GCode builder: Raise to top on completion command was not being sent when feedrate units are in mm/min
- (Fix) Tools - Layer Range Selector: Fix the 'to layer' minimum to not allow negative values and limit to 0
- (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:**
* 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
* **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:**
* 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
* **(Improvement) Calibration - Elephant Foot:** (#145)
* Remove text from bottom layers to prevent islands from not adhering to plate
* Add a option to extrude text up to a height
* **(Improvement) Calibration - Exposure time finder:** (#144)
* Increase the left and right margin to 10mm
* Allow to iterate over pixel brightness and generate dimmed objects to test multiple times at once
* **(Fix) File format PWS:**
* Some files would produce black layers if pixels are not full whites, Antialiasing level was not inherit from source
* Antialiasing level was forced 1 and not read the value from file properties
* Antialiasing threshold pixel math was producing the wrong pixel value
* **(Fix) Raw images (jpg, png, etc):** (#146)
* Set layer height to be 0.01mm by default to allow the use of some tools
* When add layers by clone or other tool it don't update layers height, positions, indexes, leading to crashes
* **(Fix) Actions - Import Layers:** (#146, #147)
* ROI calculation error leading to not process images that can potential fit inside the volumes
* Out-of-bounds calculation for Stack type
* Replace type was calculating out-of-bounds calculation like Stack type when is not required to and can lead to skip images
* Better image ROI colection for Insert and Replace types instead of capture the center most
* (Fix) Settings window: Force a redraw on open to fix auto sizes
* (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) PrusaSlicer printers:
* Peopoly Phenom XXL
* QIDI 3D ibox mono
* Wanhao CGR Mini Mono
* Wanhao CGR Mono
* (Add) PrusaSlicer light supports profiles
* (Add) Calibration - Elephant Foot: Mirror output
* (Add) Calibration - XYZ Accuracy: Mirror output
* (Add) Calibration - Tolerance: Mirror output
* (Add) Calibration - Grayscale: Mirror output
* (Add) Scripts on github
* (Change) Save 'Display Width' and 'Height' to calibration profiles and load them back only if file format aware from these properties
* (Fix) Tool - Morph: Set a rectangular 3x3 kernel by default
* (Fix) Tool - Blur: Set a rectangular 3x3 kernel by default
* (Fix) Calibration - Elephant Foot: Include part scale on profile text
* (Fix) MSI dont store instalation path (#121)
* (Add) Pixel editor - Text: Preview of text operation (#120)
* (Add) Calibration - Elephant Foot: 'Part scale' factor to scale up test parts
* (Change) Allow tools text descriptions to be selectable and copied
* (Fix) Pixel editor - Text: Round font scale to avoid precision error
* (Add) About box: Primary screen identifier and open on screen identifier
* (Add) Calibrator - External tests
* (Change) Rewrite 'Action - Import Layer(s)' to support file formats and add the followig importation types:
* **Insert:** Insert layers. (Requires images with bounds equal or less than file resolution)
* **Replace:** Replace layers. (Requires images with bounds equal or less than file resolution)
* **Stack:** Stack layers content. (Requires images with bounds equal or less than file resolution)
* **Merge:** Merge/Sum layers content. (Requires images with same resolution)
* **Subtract:** Subtract layers content. (Requires images with same resolution)
* **BitwiseAnd:** Perform a 'bitwise and' operation over layer pixels. (Requires images with same resolution)
* **BitwiseOr:** Perform a 'bitwise or' operation over layer pixels. (Requires images with same resolution)
* **BitwiseXOr:** Perform a 'bitwise xor' operation over layer pixels. (Requires images with same resolution)
* (Change) Icon for Tool - Raft Relief
* (Change) Windows and dialogs max size are now calculated to where window is opened instead of use the primary or first screen all the time
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) 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) Settings & Issues: Enable or disable Empty Layers
* (Add) PrusaSlicer Printer: Nova Bene4 Mono
* (Add) CWS: Support the GRAY2RGB and RBG2GRAY encoding for Bene Mono
* (Add) Layer issue Z map paired with layer navigation tracker bar
* (Change) Shortcuts: + and - to go up and down on layers were change to W and S keys. Reason: + and - are bound to zoom and can lead to problems
* (Upgrade) OpenCV from 4.2 to 4.3
* (Fix) CWS: Add missing Platform X,Y,Z size when converting from SL1
* (Fix) CWS: Invert XY resolution when converting from SL1
* (Add) Pixel Editor: Eraser - Right click over a white pixel to remove it whole linked area (Fill with black) (#7)
* (Add) Pixel Editor: Parallel layer image save when apply modifications
* (Add) GCode: Save to clipboard
* (Change) Issues Repair: Default noise removal iterations to 0
* (Fix) Edit: Remove decimal plates for integer properties
* (Fix) cws: Exposure time was in seconds, changed to ms (#17)
* (Fix) cws: Calculate blanking time (#17)
* (Fix) cws: Edit LiftHeight and Exposure Time was enforcing integer number
* (Fix) cws: GCode extra space between slices
* (Fix) cws and zcodex: Precision errors on retract height
* (Add) Layer remove button
* (Add) Tool: Layer removal
* (Add) Layer Repair tool: Remove empty layers
* (Add) Issues: Remove a empty layer will effectively remove the layer
* (Fix) SL1: When converting to other format in some cases the parameters on Printer Notes were not respected nor exported (#12)
* (Fix) Pixel Editor: Draw pixels was painting on wrong positions after apply, when refreshing layer some pixels disappear (Spotted by Nicholas Taylor)
* (Add) Thumbnail image can now saved to clipboard
* (Add) Setting to allow choose default file extension at load file dialog
* (Add) Double click middle mouse to zoom to fit to image
* (Add) Move mutator to move print volume around the plate
* (Add) Pattern tool
* (Change) Setting window now have tabs to compact the window height
* (Fix) Progress for mutators always show layer count instead of selected range
* (Add) UVtools now notify when a new version available is detected
* (Add) Mutator "Flip"
* (Add) Mutator "Rotate"
* (Add) User Settings - Many parameters can now be customized to needs
* (Add) File load elapsed time into Title bar
* (Add) Outline - Print Volume bounds
* (Add) Outline - Layer bounds
* (Add) Outline - Hollow areas
* (Add) Double click layer picture to Zoom To Fit
* (Improvement) Huge performance boost in layer reparing and in every mutator
* (Improvement) Layer preview is now faster
* (Improvement) Islands detection is now better and don't skip any pixel, more islands will show or the region will be bigger
* (Improvement) Islands search are now faster, it will jump from island to insland instead of search in every pixel by pixel
* (Improvement) ResinTrap detection and corrected some cases where it can't detect a drain
* (Improvement) Better memory optimization by dispose all objects on operations
* (Improvement) Image engine changed to use only OpenCV Mat instead of two and avoid converting from one to another, as result there's a huge performance gain in some operations (#6)
* (Improvement) UVtools now rely on UVtools.Core, and drop the UVtools.Parser. The Core now perform all operations and transformations inplace of the GUI
* (Improvement) If error occur during save it will show a message with the error
* (Improvement) When rotate layer it will zoom to fit
* (Improvement) Allow zoom to fit to print volume area instead of whole build volume
* (Removed) ImageSharp dependency
* (Removed) UVtools.Parser project
* (Fix) Nova3D Elfin printer values changed to Display Width : 131mm / Height : 73mm & Screen X: 2531 / Y: 1410 (#5)
* (Fix) Fade resizes make image offset a pixel from layer to layer because of integer placement, now it matain the correct position
* (Fix) sl1: AbsoluteCorrection, GammaCorrection, MinExposureTime, MaxExposureTime, FastTiltTime, SlowTiltTime and AreaFill was byte and float values prevents the file from open (#4)
* (Fix) zcodex: XCorrection and YCorrection was byte and float values prevents the file from open (#4)
* (Fix) cws: XCorrection and YCorrection was byte and float values prevents the file from open (#4)
* (Fix) cws: Wrong # char on .gcode file prevent from printing (#4)
* (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)
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