CAD Builder

Version 1.2.0

November 30, 2020

CAD Builder 1.2.0. is transferred to the latest version of Open CASCADE Technology — 7.5.0. (released on November, 19).

These new features and improvements have been introduced in CAD Builder 1.2.0.:

Features:

Rounding corners of wire (1D fillet feature)
Curve fitting feature in Sketch
Offset feature in Sketch
Export to STL format

New possibilities to:

Show/hide sketch plane;
Customize a text color of features in Object Browser;
Put unicode characters in the Object Browser;
Rename items in the Object Browser with shortcut (F2);
Generalize the Extrusions and Revolutions to shapes of dimension 1, 2 and 3;
Read Python dump.

Version 1.1.0

July 29, 2020

CAD Builder 1.1.0. is transferred to the latest version of Open CASCADE Technology — 7.4.0. New features and improvements were implemented for making the solution more performant and stable in terms of algorithms:

Newly-introduced features:

Chamfer feature
Export of model parts to a file and import parts
Copy feature for results duplication
3D model defeaturing
Importing operations results from other parts

Existing features improvements:

Implemented “Through all” mode for ExtrusionFuse, ExtrusionCut, RevolutionFuse, RevolutionCut
Building vertices, edges, wires, faces, shells for the whole sketch selected
Keeping compounds structure in result of operation

Improvements for Sketch:

Moving Angle dimension to any quarter
Support of B-spline curves

GUI improvements:

Ability to change the mouse cursor in sketch
Sketch panel improvements in case of over-constraint
Tooltips on sketch start were added
Keyboard shortcut to add parameter in parameters manager panel
Inspection panel to show parameters of a feature in read-only mode
New mode for sketch entities drawing (by left-pressed and moved mouse)
Ability to show/hide isolines in the viewer

Other minor improvements:

Fuse and Union features merge
Adding a button for continuing Point creation without closing the property panel
Ability to set zero value for Distance constraint

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