RapCAD version 1.0.2

1.0.2

• Implement multithread support using QtConcurrent
• Lexer usage is now reentrant
• Parser usage is now pure parser
• Seperate messages from output and add commandline param to redirect output to file
• Implement dark theme preference
• Faster STL output using generator for generateTriangles
• Use boost mp for number types
• Make indents configurable
• Implement datum$ module
• Add circumcenter function to find the center of three points
• Add passive color module
• Implement is_undef function
• Implemented translate output in export
• Faster group implementation
• Fix self-intersecting polylines
• Add warning when invalid rotation axis given
• Added basic assert function and module
• Implement an ord function to get unicode ordinals.

RapCAD version 1.0.1

1.0.1

• Windows installer is now 64bit
• Official builds deployed by continuous integration
• Fix several minor memory leaks
• Fix crash for cube with undefined size
• Fix crash under macosx for degenerate polyhedron test
• Fix for sqrt with negative values
• Fix crash for asin(2)
• Fix crash for isolated points, move sanitize operations to class
• Fix crash for empty polyhedron
• Fix crash for num with no argument
• Fix crash in hull with duplicate points
• Modernize the code to use C++14
• Add external CAM launching operation

RapCAD version 1.0.0

1.0.0

• Handle byte order marks by ignoring them in the parser
• Implemented search/replace widget
• Add selected text indent/unindent
• Bounds module now also outputs size info
• Implement scientific output format preference
• Make print bed transparent when viewed from below
• Implemented cbrt function
• Implement history in console window
• Implement highlight current line in code editor
• Show tooltips when hovering over builtin module names
• Built in modules are now highlighted
• Allow configuration of the editor font
• Fix for syntax highlighting of illegal unicode charaters
• Improve configuration of rounding and precision preferences
• Implement exponent notation
• Add the ability to specify units on numbers (mm,cm,in,ft)
• Basic implementation of concave hull using alpha shapes
• Implement nef import
• Added is_vec2 and is_vec3 functions
• 'boundary' is now an alias for the old 'outline' module
• Implemented Text Module using QPainerPath
• A crude AMF import implementation
• Basic SVG export support.
• A crude 3MF import implementation
• Add print bed configuration to preferences dialog
• Added sweep angle parameter to rotate_extrude.
• Modernize the code to use C++11
• Allow print origin to be configured
• New print area and base in the style of Mk42 heatbed

RapCAD version 0.9.9

0.9.9

• Support compilation with new QT versions
• Added documentation generator and updated docs.
• Output module description in show builtins.
• Embed documentation in all builtin modules that have parameters.
• Remove center parameter from sphere.
• Added is_mat4x4 function.
• Added indexes to children module.
• Save line some numbers into syntax tree, which will be used in future.
• Allow iteration over text values with for.
• Implemented chr function.
• Implemented type test functions.
• Restore logical and/or operations.
• Improve tests for Logical operators.
• Added tests for chain_hull() module.
• Better memory handling and exception handling.
• Add some additional memory cleanup.
• Implemented chain_hull() module.
• Fix to offset module and added two simple tests.
• Fix to tests for range length.
• Fix to len() function for range.

RapCAD version 0.9.8

0.9.8

• Support for 3mf file format in export.
• Choose a sensible location when exporting files.
• Fix zero-length edges and zero-area triangles in input STL or polyhedron.
• Added $fe variable which calculates fragments based on tolerance.
• Correct parameter name for polyhedron "surfaces" -> "faces".
• Basic implementation of mesh simplification.
• Added more tests for polygon and fix for empty polygon.
• Implemented normal$() module to show orthogonals to facets.
• Better detection of binary STL.
• Basic implementation of children() module.
• Let the align function can take a vector.
• Allow norm function to be applied to numbers and complex values.
• Fix inverse trig functions.
• Ang function can now return the axis and angle between two vectors.
• Implemented cross function and operator.
• Result of undefined binary operation should be undef.
• Allow relative positioning by letting primitives have children.
• Fix GL viewer, calculate normals with double.
• Allow concatentation with undef to yield a result.
  e.g. a=[]; no longer needed before to make a~=[1,2,3]; work.
• Implemented export to nef.
• Basic caching of primitives.
• Hook the view menu actions up to appropriate views.
• Fix weird crash on shutdown.

RapCAD version 0.9.7

0.9.7

• Use arbitary precision arithmetic for all calculations.
• Prevent toolbar being hidden show actions menu on right click.
• Greyscale the rendering window while compilation is taking place.
• Use new QOpenGLWidget when Qt5.4 or above is available. (except on windows)
• Added discrete module for quantising vertices to the nearest n decimal places.
• Added a simple renderer, to render wireframes without cgal.
• Experimental multi material support.
• Provide backwards compatibility in rotate extrude.
• Rotate module now accepts unit quaternion (versor).
• Implemented quaternions, multiplication, and ang() function.
• Allow nesting of auxilirary modules, and display nested to be displayed.
• Implemented exponent operator for vectors.
• Implemented length (magnitude) operator.
• Implemented vector multiplication and norm() function.
• Ranges now support basic interval arithmetic.
• Update to Qt5.5.1 on windows build.
• Allow diameter parameter on circle.
• Removed extraneous new lines in console output.
• Added places parameter to round function.
• Added a triangulate module.
• Fixed a crash in linear_extrude when there are no perimeters.
• Preferences default to "Safety orange" theme.
• Ensure only modified files are saved and allow do not save for new tabs when closed.
• Updated windows build environment.

RapCAD version 0.9.6

0.9.6

• All trig functions now take value in degrees.
• Ensure cone, prism, cylinder etc use exact centering along vertical axis.
• Add option to use rounding within trig, and other functions.
• Make output precision configurable in preferences.
• Higher output precision in AMF format.
• Fix to rotate_extrude bug where r=0.
• Added test for bezier surface, solid linear extrude, and slice.
• All primitives are now constructed as a list of points and indices to those points.
• Corrections to docs where bounds() should be bound$().
• Use exact centering for sphere and default to point when no radius given.
• Improve compilation time output in gui.
• Fix crash when version() is called more than once.
• Added feature matrix to docs.
• Functions min() and max() now work for any number of arguments.
• Added some i18n support code.

RapCAD version 0.9.5

0.9.5

• Implemented importing scripts with the 'use' directive.
• Fix some hard crashes in Polygon, Polyhedron and Polyline modules.
• Fixed a bug so that the result of the expression !undef now yields true.
• Implemented a num() function for converting values to number.
• Interactive mode can now handle statements as well as expressions.
• Implemented a volume$ module for calculating required print material, and optionally center of mass.
• Implemented a radial$ module for measuring diameters and radii.
• Bounds module is now named "bound$" since it is an auxiliary geometry module.
• Index over ranges and vectors using Iterator, which improves performance for huge ranges.
• Polygon can now take a single list of vectors for the outline.
• Added a few simple tests for intersection, difference and union modules.
• Fixed problem with undef occasionally being initialized to the wrong type.
• Functions now always return undef when the evaluation give no result.
• Fixed nested functions. Test moved from non-working and added additional test.
• Fixed incorrect clearing of arguments and parameters.
• Distribute documentation as part of RapCAD. Available from Help menu.
• Allow polygon module to have multiple line vectors.
• Added some more tests for polygon, cone, square and circle modules.
• Test suite is now integrated with TravisCI continuous integration.
• Implemented a complement module.
• Added more tests for rad deg sin cos and tan functions.

RapCAD version 0.9.4

• Implemented simple align module.
• Fix bug where updating the view gets called twice.
• Added interactive mode, for evaluating expressions.
• Implemented simple text for displaying numbers in auxilary geometry.
• Allow print to be used with no output model. Correct precision in print output.
• Added thickness parameter to Slice module.
• Added decompose module. Decomposition can be seen with view→show edges.
• Initial implementation of auxilary geometry for the bounds module.
• Group module now does fast unions on non-intersecting primitives.
• Performance improvement for unions.
• Correct first parameter name in rotate module "vector"→"angle".
• Added a concat() function.
• Added export for vrml 2.0 and obj file format.
• Polyline Module can now optionally do multiple lines.
• Outline now works with holes.
• Allow multiple files to be loaded from the commandline.

RapCAD version 0.9.3

• Moving forward only Qt5 and above will be supported.
• Now using Qt 5.2.0 for windows builds.
• Updated to use latest versions of CGAL Boost and dxflib for windows builds.
• Updates to documentation for building latest version of boost and CGAL on windows.
• Restored icon theme in windows build.
• Changes to make rotate_extrude work with radius of 0, and consider size of rotation object when calculating fragments.
• Resize module is more accurate, Added test for resize module.