Rhinoceros 4 SR5b

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What's New, SR5b (26-Feb-2009)Bug Fixes:

  • AlignMeshVertices: Pressing Esc incorrectly completed the command instead of exiting. This is fixed.
  • Circle: Crash with SmartTrack fixed.
  • Extend: Crash fixed.
  • Import:STEP: Crash when file contains extra periods has been fixed.
  • Installer: Crash on startup fixed.
  • Offset: Crash fixed.
  • Open:DWG/DXF: A problem importing regions has been fixed.
  • Open crash fixed.
  • PlayAnimation: Crash fixed.
  • Project crash fixed.
  • RemoveEdge: Crash fixed.
  • SaveAs crash fixed.
  • Split crash fixed.
  • Trim crash fixed.

What's New, SR5 (26-Jan-2009)Enhanced Features:

  • Cap: The Cap command now provides more useful information when it fails to cap a hole.
  • RecordAnimation: RenderFull method can now be canceled with the Esc key.
  • RoundHole: The Radius option now gets the keyboard input by default.

Bug Fixes:

  • 4View crash fixed.
  • Align crash fixed.
  • ArrayPolar: Input angle sometimes overshot. This is fixed.
  • BackgroundBitmap crash fixed.
  • Block: When a block with surfaces is mirrored and exploded, the surfaces had their normals incorrectly flipped. This is fixed.
  • Circle crash fixed.
  • Context menu: The Repeat menu item did not work. This is fixed.
  • Crashes fixed:
    • Close without saving
    • CurveThroughPt
    • Import
    • FilletEdge
    • New
    • Open
    • Open:OBJ
    • Rebuild
    • Reparameterize
    • SplitMeshWithCurve
    • Trim
    • Sweep 1
    • Zoom
  • Curve crash fixed.
  • DocumentProperties: Importing default dimension styles did not work properly. This is fixed.
  • DWG import crash fixed.
  • DWG Import now correctly reads files with text and
    annotations containing special characters such as %%d (degree symbol),
    %%p (plus/minus symbol), etc.
  • ExtractPt crash fixed.
  • ExtrudeSrfTapered: Surfaces made by the PlanarSrf
    command may not work properly when they are used as the input surface
    for this command. This is fixed.
  • Join crash fixed.
  • MacroEditor command now has a scroll bar to make it easier to edit macros that are longer than the window can display.
  • MoveCrv: History did not workproperly with the MoveCrv command. This is fixed.
  • MoveUVN - Interface change: The way it used
    to work was you had to turn all the surface control points off and back
    on and then select them to get MoveUVN to recalculate the vector
    directions. Now, you only have to deselect the control poinsts and
    reselect them to get a new vector direction calculation.
  • Offset: Inputting the wrong geometry type (polysurface face) locked Rhino. This is fixed.
  • Open:DWG crash fixed.
  • Open:OBJ: Texture controls were incorrectly disabled. This is fixed.
  • Open:SolidWorks: Several problems reading SolidWorks files have been fixed.
  • Open crash fixed.
  • Open crash fixed.
  • Options crash fixed.
  • Pipe command incorrectly created pipes twice the
    diameter expected when using Diameter mode and picking the diameter
    point with object snaps enabled.
  • PointCloud: When points were deleted from the pointcloud, the pointcloud's bounding box did not update. This is fixed.
  • Polyline crash fixed.
  • Print: A problem printing to Adobe PDF files has been fixed.
  • Project: Projecting a line to a planar surface
    incorrectly created a cubic line instead of a line. It now creates
    either a line or a degree 2 single span NURBS curve.
  • Rectangle crash fixed.
  • Render crash closing render window fixed.
  • Render crash on cancel fixed.
  • RenderPreview crash fixed.
  • Reparameterize crash fixed.
  • Revolve crash revolving a closed curve fixed.
  • Revolve: A failure bug when revolving closed polylines has been fixed.
  • RhinoScript: Cancelling a script could leave objects highlighted even though they were no longer selected. This is fixed.
  • Save:DWG/DXF: Multi-line text exported with wrong vertical position. This is fixed.
  • Save:DWG: Exporting a file with layouts did not work properly with "2004 Natural" export. This is fixed.
  • Save:DWG: Leader lines did not export properly to DWG. This is fixed.
  • Save:STEP: A problem exporting planar surfaces has been fixed.
  • Save:STEP: A failure bug exporting to UG and SolidWorks has been fixed.
  • SetPt no longer transforms text objects that have their control points turned off.
  • SketchUP Import: fixed a crash opening SketchUP Version 7 files.
  • SmartTrack: Did not always snap to all ortho directions from the smart point. This is fixed.
  • Smash crash fixed.
  • Solidworks import crash fixed.
  • Sweep2: Canceling an AddSlash operation caused the rails to become unslectable for another AddSlash operation. This is fixed.
  • Toolbars crash fixed.
  • UnrollSrf: A failure bug was fixed.
  • UnrollSrf: The border of an unrolled surface could not be joined. This is fixed.
  • Volume crash fixed.
  • VRML import crash fixed.
  • WebBrowser: The command makes an attempt to open the desired page in a new tab or window.
  • Zoom crash fixed.

What's New, SR4b (27-Aug-2008)Bug Fixes:

  • Crash when closing the Options dialog box has been fixed.
  • Divide: The DivideByLength option did not work properly on closed curves. This is fixed.
  • Export SAT: the correct unit system is now saved in
    SAT files. This makes it possible to read Rhino's SAT files into other
    applications and have them maintain the correct size.
  • Installer: deploying Rhino 4.0 SR4 with Ative
    Directory or SMS resulted in "Error 1606. Could not access network
    location empty." This is fixed in the SR4b installer.
  • Open:DWG/DXF: Display of very large polyline on import did not work correctly. This is fixed.
  • Open:zpr: A problem opening zpr files has been fixed.
  • Recently used commands: Commands repeated from the
    recently used list, then repeated again with Enter, started the command
    previous to the current one. This is fixed.
  • ShadedViewport: In a shaded viewport, objects behind another object that is set to Wireframe mode are not pickable.
  • SmartTrack now pays attention to Project setting in the Osnap toolbar. That should help in this case when Project setting is enabled.
  • Zoom Window/Dynamic: Were not completely canceled by ESC. This is fixed.

What's New, SR4 (7-Aug-2008)New Features:

  • CurveThroughPt: Control points and edit points can now be selected as input.
  • SelMappingWidget: New command - Selects the texture mapping widget.

Enhanced Features:

  • Sweep1: Road-like Top is now "session sticky" and reverts back to Freeform between sessions.

Bug Fixes:

  • Area: When the command cannot calculate the area, instead of ignoring the surface, now it now reports "Unable to calculate area."
  • Blocks: Empty block defintions and references to empty
    block definitions are now read by Rhino. References to empty block
    definitions can be selected by the SelAll, SelBlock, and SelBlockNamed
    commands. BlockManager can be used to destroy empty block definitions.
  • Command Prompt: The command repeat and recently-used list was not working properly. This is fixed.
  • CommandHelp: Context-sensitive help now works with scripts that pause for interactive input.
  • Context menus are now enabled by default so they can be discovered by users.
  • Crash fixed:
    • Advanced display: A crash when creating or deleting a new named display mode or renaming a new display mode has been fixed.
    • BackgroundBitmap: When a background bitmap file was deleted, Rhino could crash on startup.
    • CPlane
    • Export
    • ExtractControlPolygon
    • Join: An intermittant crash in the code that joins curves has been fixed.
    • License manager
    • Open/Close/Save: Crashes opening and closing Rhino.
    • Open:LWO: Crash opening Lightwave files.
    • Options
    • Open:DXF
    • Paste: Holding Ctrl+V to paste objects caused Rhino to close.
    • Print
    • SaveSmall
    • Sweep1
    • Toolbar command crashed Rhino on Vista Home Basic OS.
    • Ungroup
    • WireCut
  • CreateUVCrv: Accuracy has been improved.
  • CrvSeam: A problem flipping the direction with a mouse click has been fixed.
  • CurvatureAnalysis: The false-color analysis failed on spheres. This is fixed.
  • Curve/Surface intersection: Several bugs have been fixed. Affects commands such as Intersect, Split, Trim, Project, etc.
  • CurveBoolean: Point objects that are in the group of
    curves are incorrectly selected at the end of the command along with
    the curve output. This is fixed.
  • Detail: TiltView did not work properly in detail views. This is fixed.
  • Dialog boxes: A problem with dragging the undocked Layer dialog box leaving screen artifacts behind has been fixed.
  • Dim: A problem with including dimension text in the model extents has been fixed.
  • DimHorizontal: A problem with placing the dimension line has been fixed.
  • Display: Using GDI drawing feedback, the preview for an extruded planar curve was a solid, flat, unshaded layer color. This is fixed.
  • Drape: Failed with autospacing set to No. This is fixed.
  • Error Reporting: The crash reporting mechanism has been improved.
  • Extend: When boundary objects are both surface edges, the Arc option only worked on the first curve end. This is fixed.
  • ExtrudeCrv: Direction option feedback color was incorrectly hard-coded to black. This is fixed.
  • FilletEdge: Many special case failures have been fixed.
  • FullScreen: Incorrectly caused menus to disappear. This is fixed.
  • Installer: Patch installs did not work silently. This is fixed.
  • Intersect: Several failure bugs have been fixed.
  • Join:
    • A problem joining the ends of an open arc to form a circle that caused the change in the radius to be greater than the model tolerance has been fixed.
    • A problem with joining chained edges has been fixed.
  • LayerStateManager: The scripted version failed to rename saved layer states. This is fixed.
  • MappingOn: The mapping widget appearance has been revised to make it easier to see.
  • MatchSrf: A problem with incorrect object highlighting has been fixed.
  • Mesh: A problem with unsafe cancel while processing the mesh has been fixed.
  • Most recently-used commands: Command names were incorrectly being added to the MRU list. This is fixed.
  • MoveUVN: Running another command that changes objects
    while the MoveUVN dialog box was open caused a crash. To fix this,
    MoveUVN will no longer allow object changes while another command is
    running.
  • NextViewport: Cycling through floating viewports did not work properly. This is fixed.
  • Open:3DM: Models could open with the viewports incorrectly displayed. This is fixed.
  • Open:DWG/DXF: A problem with opening AutoCAD files has been fixed.
  • Open:DWG/DXF:
    • A problem with title block text shifting when importing to Rhino has been fixed.
    • A problem reading splinefit splines created from non-AutoCAD files has been fixed.
    • Blocks with names beginning with * did not import. This is fixed.
    • Trim curves on AutoCAD solids were improperly treated on import. This is fixed.
  • Open:DXF: Polylines could be skipped on import. This is fixed.
  • Open:FBX: A crash when opening files created from Max 2009 has been fixed.
  • Open:SolidWorks:
    • Drag and drop operation to import SW file seemed to hang. This is fixed.
    • Command line feedback when opening a file has been improved.
    • When opeining an SW assembly, all the parts are placed in a
      group. Subsequent assemblies were incorreclty placed in the same groups
      as the first ones. This is fixed. Now subsequent assemblies are grouped separately
  • Open:STP: When reading STEP files where not all
    objects have the same unit system, Rhino now converts all units to
    match the file unit system and scales objects appropriately.
  • Open:VRML: A crash opening a file created with AutoCAD has been fixed.
  • Osnap:Mid: In some cases, the Mid object snap did not work properly on surface edges. This is fixed.
  • Paste: When pasting from the Clipboard, a model's basepoint is now assigned to 0,0,0.
  • Pipe: In some cases, an extra cap was incorrectly created at the initial radius location. This is fixed.
  • PlanarSrf: Self-intersecting curves were incorrectly reported causing the command to fail. This is fixed.
  • Plug-ins: Plug-in based menu items do not display help strings on status bar. This is fixed.
  • PointDeviation: The maximum and median calulations
    could be wrong when there were points selected that were not included
    because of the proximity angle test.
  • Print: A problem with Dots with long text strings were not printing properly has been fixed.
  • Pull: Curves that were very close to the pulling surface could give an incorrect result. This is fixed.
  • Remove Point/RemoveControlPoint: It was not possible to remove the second to last control point or the first and last points. This is fixed.
  • Save:FBX: Nodes must have unique names regardless of
    what they are. If layer names are the same as object names, for
    example, nothing is exported. This is fixed.
  • Save:STEP: Some problems exporting STEP files to Altium, Inventor, and SolidWorks 2008 have been fixed.
    • Step can now be read by Altium Designer, Solidworks 2008, and Solid Edge.
    • Step objects are assigned the layer color when appropriate.
    • Open polysurfaces are assigned color correctly.
    • Block instances with non-rigid transformations are exploded in the
      step file. So now mirrored or scaled objects are exported correctly.
  • Saving text from dialog boxes: List command is an
    example. The text out dialog dialog did not save a unicode-encoded text
    file. This is fixed.
  • SelPolyline: Polycurves and single segment lines were incorrectly selected. This is fixed.
  • SetOneDaySunAnimation: A problem with shadow direction at noon has been fixed.
  • SetUserText: A problem with saving user text on light objects has been fixed.
  • ShrinkTrimmedSrf sometimes continued to claim that it
    is shrinking surfaces even after they have been shrunk and even after
    they have been untrimmed and shrunk. This is fixed.
  • SmartTrack: In floating viewports, the Ctrl key did not add SmartPoints. This is fixed.
  • SpaceBall: A problem with selected object highlighting has been fixed.
  • Split: An error splitting polycurves has been fixed.
  • Sweep2: Tangency and curvature options did not work properly. This is fixed.
  • Sweep2: The AddSlash feedback color was hardcoded to black. This is fixed.
  • TextObject: Right-to-left reading text did not work properly. This is fixed.
  • TextObject: The selected text was incorrectly not highlighted in the dialog box. This is fixed.
  • Texture Mapping:
    • The mapping widget was incorrectly clipped or invisible in some views. This is fixed.
    • The Equalize and Size to objects buttons were dropped for V4. They have been restored.
  • Texture mapping: Several bugs in the dialog box UI have been fixed.
  • Texture Mapping: The Tab key allows cycling through the position/size/rotation fields in the mapping widget controls.
  • Texture mapping: With some renderers (for example, Brazil and VRay) did not get the correct repeat amounts. This is fixed.
  • This fixed some bugs in the scripted patch installation.
  • Toolbar: A problem with toolbar display in Windows Vista has been fixed.
  • Toolbar: Problems with redrawing the toolbars has been fixed.
  • Toolbars: In localized versions of Rhino, copying a button to other toolbar changed the tooltip to English. This is fixed.
  • Trim:
    • Several failure bugs have been fixed.
    • A problem with the interaction of curves near surface and closed curve seams has been fixed.
  • ViewCaptureToFile: If the z-axis was displayed and the
    DrawCPlaneAxes option was set to no, the z-axis was incorrectly shown
    in the capture. This is fixed.
  • Viewports: If the command prompt is not docked, Ctrl+Tab to cycle through viewports failed. This is fixed.
  • What: The printout of edge and vetex tolerances for surfaces and polysurfaces was incorrect. This is fixed.