v6.0.0. Release (January 17, 2024)
New Features
- Introduced animation for all Object List items. Use cases include, but are not limited to, CAD animations, turntable animations, etc.
- Introduced cameras as Object List items
- Added multiple camera support
- Added target tracking for cameras
- Introduced cross-section planes as Object List items
- Added support for glTF animations
- Added support for image sequence rendering with a transparent background
- Added no tiling option for video rendering
- Added customizable animation range
- Added support for copy&paste keyframes
- Introduced the option to add your logo to the viewport, videos, and screenshots
- Added new default color scales
New Supported Formats
- Added MP4 support for video export
- Added glTF & GLB support for importing 3D models, animations, and entire scenes
Optimizations
- Introduced a new generation of octree, reducing file sizes by up to 40 percent
- Improved octree-generation times
- Improved render times and quality
GUI & UX
- Redesigned animation window
- Introduced animation range
- Added options to show, hide, and update motion paths
- Added preferences to customize the colors of the animation tool
- Replaced the inspect mode of the camera with object motion paths
- Added selection for all keyframes to the right or the left of a keyframe
- Redesigned heads-up display
- Added heads-up display for the latest console message, the name and focal length of the active camera, and more
- Added preferences to customize the heads-up display
- Introduced the option to add a logo for branded content
- Completely redesigned cross-section window and tool
- Added the option to change the Euler rotation order to the Transform Attributes
- Added new item visibility and selection options to the Object List context menu
- Upgraded and expanded undo-redo capability
Changes
- Moved camera settings to the Object Inspector
- Moved the perspective/orthographic switch of a camera to the Object Inspector
- Moved grid and axis checkboxes to the View menu
- Temporarily removed the record option from the animation window
Fixes
- Added support for files with non-ASCII characters
- Fixed a major bug that prevented importing of DWG&DXF files with above-specification vertex counts
- Fixed a bug which caused the annotations to disappear in full-screen mode