CAD Builder
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.
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