Rhino 6 SR2 Available

Rhino 6 Service Release 2 is now available. Rhino 6 will automatically update to SR2 over the next several days.

New in SR2 RC1:

Bug Fixes:

  • ApplyEdgeSoftening: Edge softening doesn’t keep up with geometry changes (RH-43781)
  • Cycles: Multiple importance sampling control together with caustics control (RH-40088)
  • Displacement: Doesn’t work with plastic bump textures (RH-38635)
  • Display: Automatic ground plane elevation ignores objects with custom render meshes (RH-43695)
  • Display: OpenGL 3.3: OpenGL error when drag&drop material onto scene when ClippingPlane exists. (RH-39173)
  • ExtractIsocurve: Not scriptable (RH-43868)
  • File IO:
  • NamedView: Problem renaming Named Views (RH-43853)
  • Offset: Fails in V6 (RH-43809)
  • RDK:
    • Can’t type into Bitmap Texture combo box (RH-43845)
    • Float field does not respect limits in the Content Automatic UI (RH-43796)
    • ImageFile Datasource (Bitmap texture & HDR texture) (RH-43823)
  • Rendering: Materials: Resample texture does not work with simple bumps in child slot (RH-43830)
  • SDK: RhinoCommon:
    • Add function to fit circle from points (RH-43626)
    • Mesh.CreatePatch incorrectly requires points (RH-43531)
    • RenderContent Icon functions leak memory (RH-43957)
  • SDK: RhinoScript: External Access via COM Broken (RH-43783)
  • Silhouette: Draft Angle misses nurbs surfaces (RH-41972)
  • Subobject Selection: First move creates bad mesh (RH-43827)
  • UDT: ConstrainNormal & direction (RH-43944)

Enhancement:

  • SDK: RhinoCommon: Custom offset vector for Mesh.Offset (RH-43825)

Please report any problems in this forum. Thanks!

Service Release 2 Release Candidate 2 (6.2.18043.22301) was just released

Crashes fixed:

  • New: Crashing after New file if render plugin has been changed (RH-43560)

Bugs fixed:

  • ApplyEdgeSoftening: Dragging edge softened objects is generating new meshes and is slow (RH-37154)
  • BlendEdge: Ugly rails (RH-24660)
  • BlockEdit: OK Cancel should be on the frame (RH-44038)
  • BoundingBox: Sub-object bounding box (RH-43945)
  • Display:
    • Instanced textures don’t update in Rendered until material is adjusted (RH-42889)
    • Very slow when rendering many mapping meshes (e.g. 100 spheres) (RH-37548)
  • File IO:
    • Text in this model does not export to DWG properly (RH-43467)
    • Text is offset after save to dwg and import of this file (RH-43466)
  • FilletEdge:
    • Almost makes a clean fillet (RH-23606)
    • Distance between rails filletedge doesn’t extend,trim and join (RH-28599)
    • Gappy - 4 Edge Tan (RH-5780)
  • Localization: Add lights from light panel fails in localized Rhino (RH-43882)
  • Move: Vertical - from point to Origin (RH-36070)
  • PointDeviation: Broken in 6.1 (RH-43262)
  • RDK:
    • Dragging material from material library over viewport causes OpenGL error in Core Profile (RH-39087)
    • SetViewFocusDistance unknown command in German version (RH-44000)
  • Rendering:
    • Ground plane material isn’t used in Rendered display (RH-43152)
    • Render Window channel toggles do not stick (RH-4320)
  • Rendering: Materials:
    • Bump texture preview is all black when converting material from Plastic to Custom (RH-37132)
    • File dialog for selecting textures is “old” (RH-22156)
    • Library thumbnails don’t match what is rendered in Material thumbnail (RH-39000)
  • SDK: RhinoCommon:
    • DrawSprite Bug (RH-43751)
    • Wrap ON_ModelComponent::DeletedName in RhinoCommon (RH-43947)
  • Toolbar: Add raytraced to New in V6 (RH-43655)
  • UDT: Flow messy to vertical curves example (RH-32184)

Service Release 2 Release Candidate 3 (6.2.18051.09541) is now available.

Bugs fixed:

  • Annotation: Text: Type in the font list (RH-43924)
  • BackgroundBitmap: BackgroundBitmap is back! (RH-43797)
  • BoxEdit: Units precision is ignored (RH-43024)
  • Cycles: Flaked Car Paint (DEV) material doesn’t toggle off (RH-44053)
  • ExtrudeCrv: Hide SplitAtTangents when UseExtrusions is set Extrusion (RH-43666)
  • File IO:
    • 3DS files from Rhino won’t open in ArchICAD (RH-30451)
    • 3DS not imported correctly (RH-30668)
    • HookUp DataKit SW import lib 2018.1 (RH-43442)
  • FilletEdge: Misses - example (RH-1345)
  • Join: Curve join results in invalid polycurve. (RH-43661)
  • Layer: Sorting unlike V5 (RH-41224)
  • RDK: Popped-out thumbnail list is borked (RH-44092)
  • SDK: 6.1 SDK installer breaks Visual Studio plug-in wizard (RH-44063)

Cosmetic bugs fixed:

  • Toolbar: Icon for Raytraced mode in toolbar (RH-42953)

Service Release 2 Release Candidate 4 (6.2.18054.19571) is now available

Crashes fixed:

Bugs fixed:

  • Cycles: Early view rotate issue (RH-44081)
  • Displacement: Causes assert on adding material (RH-43989)
  • File IO:
    • STEP import misplaces block instance (RH-44280)
    • STEP import takes a long time on file with large number of blocks (RH-42682)
  • Help: Command names can’t be sorted alphabetically in command_list.htm (RH-43180)
  • Offset: OffsetMultiple - Crvs Ignored (RH-43705)
  • Panels: Tearing off a panel creates a second key/value in the m_instance_dictionary of PanelContainers. (RH-43343)
  • Rhino Installer Engine: rhiexec fails to recognize 6.2 as valid RhinoVersion value (RH-44217)

Regressions Fixed:

  • NamedView: Names echos unknown command in command line (RH-44161)