V.5.5.0. Release (October 6, 2022)
New Features
- Added multi-media annotation tool
- Added measurement tool
- Added multiple bookmark support
- Added silhouette mode for x-ray display
- Added inverted x-ray display
- Added custom background color options
- Added support for all popular 2D&3D DWG/DXF entities
- Added categorized object clipping
- Added new plane definition modes for cross-sectioning
- Added new fly navigation mode for moving in the look-at direction of the camera
- Added guided navigation as part of the new annotation tool
- Added CAD drawing on horizontal, vertical, and custom planes
- Added drawing constraints, including edge extension and orthogonality
- Added vertical camera alignment
New Supported Formats
- Added LAS 1.4 and LAZ support
- Added DWG support
- Added measurement export as CSV
- Added support for WAV files for audio annotations
Optimizations
- Optimized display of meshes and x-ray point clouds in the same scene
- Overhauled import CAD&OBJ workflows: added unit conversion and offset-to-origin options
- Size of overlays (e.g., curves, annotations) preserved in orthophotos and screenshots
GUI & UX
- Redesigned toolbar
- Redesigned sidebar and its contents
- Expanded UI customization with the new Preferences window (icon added to toolbar)
- Added customization options with the new Settings window (icon added to toolbar)
- Various configurations and preferences are now saved when exiting NUBIGON and restored upon re-launch. Reset to default settings is also available
- Added direct tool/feature-specific links to the new Support Portal
- Added show/hide by object category
- Added new Object List icons for object categories
- Improved handling of Object List items by adding new context menu options; isolate selected objects, reveal items of selected objects, collapse&expand all items
- Added visual feedback to manipulator actions
- Added optional step increments for translation, rotation, and scaling manipulators
- Curve fitting now supports multiple curve selection
Changes
- Added new CAD import options for fast rendering (old “import as reference”) or editing
- Removed support for compound curves
- Removed support for the manual surface modeling
- Removed support for assigning materials by drag-and-drop from the Material Attribute to the Object List
- Removed default scene items (flashlight, perspective, and orthographic camera) from the Object List
- Camera settings can now be adjusted from the new Settings window
- Flashlight can be configured from the Lighting tool in the sidebar
- Removed Lighting Editor. Moved basic lighting options to the lighting tool in the sidebar
- Moved translate/rotate/scale manipulator settings to the new Settings window
- Removed background color options from the screenshot and orthophoto tools. These tools now use the viewport background color, which can be set from the Settings window
- Save and Load Scene now supports color scales. Previously, they were stored in projects
- Navigation in fullscreen mode is the same as in regular mode
- Adjusted default values and ranges of numerous parameters
- Removed the highlight color feedback when clip animation is activated
Bug Fixes
- Fixed visibility issues when showing meshes and x-ray point clouds in the same scene
- Fixed the issue when clip animation was activated after inserting keyframes. Clip animation can be activated anytime during the path generation process
- Resolved section export issues. Sections of any size can now be exported and opened in AutoCAD
- Fixed numerous issues related to saving scenes
- Fixed non-uniform scaling issues
- Resolved an issue where scrolling in a parameter box caused unintended scroll of its enclosing window
- Fixed miscellaneous issues when cleaning large point clouds
- Fixed an issue where relative file paths in MTL files were not recognized
- Fixed an issue where unused materials were not saved
- Fixed an issue where clip animations caused frequent brightness changes on x-ray point clouds
- Miscellaneous bug fixes