Beta Update 2 Public - build 423 (January 2010) General: - Added Command Line Interface (CLI) mode which enables translation in batch mode. Start 'CAD Exchanger Command Prompt' from the Start menu or invoke 'ExchangerConv.exe --help' to get usage details. - Added CAD Exchanger Software Development Kit (SDK) which enables integration of CAD Exchanger software libraries into customer applications. For details please contact info@cadexchanger.com. - Improved performance of computation of surface model triangulations; this affects import, changing display modes and changing triangulation precision operations. Additional gain can be received on multi-core systems due to execution in parallel threads. GUI: - Slightly improved visual settings for more stylish appearance of 3D models. - Added export of 3D view contents to PNG and BMP formats. - Added option to apply multi-threading for computation-intensive algorithms (currently affects triangulation computation only). ACIS-SAT format: - Added support of colors to import and export. - Exporter now has a user-defined option to specify target ACIS format version (from 2.0 to 20.0) Beta Update 2 Invitational - build 371 (Dec 2009) ACIS-SAT format: - Added support for transformations with reflection, shear and scaling. - Added support for variable radius blend surfaces with round_chamfer and rotated_ellipse radius types. - Added processing of blend support of the blendsupzro type. - Improved processing of coedges using pcurves sub-ranges and/or when 3d curve and pcurve use different parametrization ranges Beta Update 2 Invitational - build 359 (Nov 2009) - Fixed a bug of losing gradient background in 3D view after closing a neighbor document - Improved performance of importers and exporters. - ACIS-SAT: added ACIS-SAT import and export. Current scope includes geometry only. For additional limitations refer to Release Notes. - STL: fixed bug in writing binary files which prevented correct reading by some STL viewers. Beta Update 1 (July 2009) - New display mode - triangulation. Displays underlying triangulation of surface models; equivalent to wireframe mode for mesh models. - Ability to change precision of the surface models triangulation. This parameter affects visualization quality and conversion of the surface models into mesh formats (such as STL, VRML, etc) - VRML 2.0 (1997) export is now supported. Current scope includes geometry only. - BRep importer now always ignores stored triangulation and uses user-defined value of the triangulation precision. - BRep and STL exporters now do not export hidden models (i.e. unchecked in the Model Explorer). IGES and STEP exporters still export them. - Automatic checking for updates. User will be automatically notified when new product releases become available. - Skipping invisible (blank) entities when importing IGES files at user's discretion. Beta (April 2009) - Initial release