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!
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
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