Check out what’s new in Visual Components 4.1.1

We’ve made a lot of improvements to the usability, stability, and performance of our products in this release. Here’s an overview of the major updates:

Improvements and Optimization

• Connectivity: Variable pair value locking in Connectivity
• eCatalog: Added C# events to indicate when eCatalog source indexing has started and finished
• Export/Import: Supported exporting/importing frames (DBPoint in dwg)
• Import: OBJ texture data size optimization
• Installer: Added Privacy Policy tab next to EULA
• Licensing: Disabled renewal notification in lease licensing scenarios
• API:
  • Added support for reading reference and material-type component property StepValues
  • Python Unicode improvements
• Robotics:
  • Support for showing robot frames of all or just the selected robot
  • Allowed toggling the visibility of points in a path statement
• Robotics/API:
  • Control robot path schema frame name, colour and size
  • Added small robotics support, e.g. statement double click and snap mouse up events
• Settings:
  • Disable user settings saving to configuration files
  • Allowed customization of the backstage Info screens
  • Added an event to indicate when backstage page is opened or closed

Overall bug fixes

• API:
  • Fixed “Support for this scheme not found” error when using the pack folder feature
  • Fixed an internal exception raised when changing the render mode in left toolbar
• Application:
  • Fixed memory leaks
• Connectivity:
  • Fixed a OPC UA connection failure when server reports unreachable endpoint address
• Drawing:
  • Fixed fill view on selected command for drawing templates
  • Fixed 3D render mode change having an effect on the 2D drawing view visibility
  • Fixed slowness when generating an isometric view with a specific component
  • Fixed drawing vertical dimension text being printed horizontal when using Area selection
• eCatalog:
  • eCatalog source lists are now downloaded in the order that they are listed in the configuration file
  • Fixed a crash when setting tags for eCatalog smart collections
  • Fixed eCatalog becoming non-functional after cancelling the main application confirm close dialog
  • Fixed eCatalog panel not displaying files when just the “Files” filter is used
  • Fixed eCatalog not being able to process components packaged in layouts in non-english (virtual) machines
• Export:
  • Fixed crashes when generating a 3D PDF from public layouts that use the Bob component
• Import:
  • Fixed Hoops CAD Import when Catia files reference external files
• Installer:
  • Changed fonts in the installer to better match those in the Launcher
• Layout:
  • Fixed loading layouts with component properties saved using comma separators
  • Fixed a crash when loading a layout with corrupted Groups
  • Fixed resolving node references when loading layout items
  • Components are now uniquely named when importing a layout on top of an existing layout
  • Made it possible to zoom the 3D World when Signal and Interface nodes in the Network Map are shown
• Licensing:
  • Fixed a license renewal and deactivation issue
• Modeling:
  • Fixed component selection by double-clicking a feature on modeling tab
  • Fixed ‘Expression needs recompilation:’ error when creating a property
  • Improved error handling when loading layouts
  • Fixed incorrect PnP sliding path after changing the rotation of a child’s frame
  • Enabled editing an interface when that interface is not connected
  • Fixed interacting with Orthographic view
  • Fixed vcHelpers.Selection.py node geoset selection issue
  • Prevent deleting locked components
  • Fixed copied links moving when the original link is moved
  • Fixed an issue when saving components
• Rendering:
  • Added two-sided lighting and updated light rendering
• Robotics:
  • Fixed a crash while interacting with components during collision detection
  • Fixed robot position values not updating on the UI when snapping in Object Mode
  • Enabled cascaded robot routine calls from the Python API
  • Fixed vcTopologyPickCommand TargetCurves property returning an empty list
  • Fixed robot target configuration being different between versions
  • Fixed robot redundant axis interpolation
  • Fixed jog and interact being inverted and sluggish
  • Fixed robot path curve picking almost hanging the GUI
• Statistics:
  • Fixed inconsistent colours Statistics charts
• UI:
  • Fix related to progress bar
  • Fixed slowdown due to constantly appearing and disappearing scrollbar
  • Improved selection of Signal and Interface nodes in the 3D World
  • Fixed colour theming for drop-down text boxes
  • Improved window management in case of multiple applications when loading layouts
  • Fixed wait cursor being shown only when the mouse was over the progress dialog