Rhino 7 Service Release Candidate Available

Rhino 7 SR6 Release Candidate 3 for Windows and Mac (7.6.21117) is now available
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Bugs Fixed:

  • MeshTrim: MeshSplit: Does not complete (RH-63887)
  • SubD Symmetry: Fixed Radiate failure example (RH-63888)

Crashes Fixed:

  • PointCloud: Transforming a large point cloud several times caused memory leak and crashed Rhino (RH-62530)
  • SubD: nfriend Command: opennurbs!ON_NurbsCurve::SubDFriendlyTag – Access Denied (RH-63928)

Mac-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

  • Grasshopper: Right-click did not bring up context menu on secondary monitor (RH-63853)

Windows-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

  • Display: OptionsImport: Display modes lag when imported (RH-63242)
  • Installer: Installer reboots during install (RH-63974)

Rhino 7 SR6 Release Candidate 4 for Windows and Mac (7.6.21124) is now available
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Bugs Fixed:

  • Display:
    • Symmetry settings controlled appearance of Radiate parent, but Reflect child (RH-64019)
    • Colors of Reflect and Radiate objects were slightly different (RH-64021)
  • File IO: Scripted .PLY export fails (RH-64061)

Regressions Fixed:

  • Display: Reflect preview loses render mesh on faces during edit (RH-63079)

Mac-Only Changes

Crashes Fixed:

  • Mesh: Meshing causes Rhino to crash (RH-56932)

Rhino 7 SR7 Release Candidate 1 for Windows and Mac (7.7.21131) is now available
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Bugs Fixed:

  • Annotation: Redundant missing font warnings for each imported layout (RH-59598)
  • Annotation: DimLinear: History update did not rotate dimensions with parent objects (RH-63861)
  • Arc: Mouse pick did not apply distance constraint as pressing Enter (RH-63830)
  • ArrayCrv: Objects were not consistently spaced (RH-64062)
  • BoundingBox: Cumulative=No hanged Rhino (RH-64110)
  • BoxEdit: Lagged with a lot of objects (RH-63807)
  • Display:
    • Block display was slow (RH-62371)
    • Transparency from texture doesn’t show base color correctly in Rendered mode (RH-62424)
    • Shade command: toggle the SubD wires as well (RH-62792)
    • Block attribute calculation made Rhino unresponsive (RH-63264)
    • Dragging SubD vertices reverted smooth/flat modes (RH-63832)
    • Shadows lost for transparency mapped materials (RH-64116)
  • Drag: Alt-copy a single group member created a one-object group (RH-63960)
  • EndBulge: End bulge - control opposite edges at the same time (RH-59953)
  • Export:
  • File IO:
    • Export PDF: Preview issues (RH-62125)
    • SVG Export - Text colors were not exported correctly (RH-63352)
    • Prompts should be removed when importing files into a headless document (RH-63814)
    • DWG Export/Import - Hatch patterns shifted when they round-tripped back into Rhino (RH-63819)
    • DWG Export/Import - Leader text size did not round-trip (RH-63924)
    • OBJ Export - “UseRenderMeshes” option was missing in scriptable version (RH-63962)
    • DWG/DXF Import - Dimensions might be viewed from behind (RH-63990)
  • FindText: Did not remember "Match case" and "Whole word" settings (RH-62011)
  • GrasshopperPlayer:
    • No output contextual components in definition (RH-59105)
    • Polysurface faces could not be selected when GetGeometry component only accepts surfaces (RH-63914)
  • History: Render meshes of Edge Softening did not update (RH-63716)
  • Make2D: Leaves clipping plane selected (RH-63363)
  • Mesh: extreme density on extrusion objects (RH-64087)
  • NamedSelections:
    • NamedSelection: Multiply with BlockEdit (RH-63834)
    • Named Selections: Fails on points from multiple objects (RH-64126)
  • NamedView: List view scrolled to top when a named view was restored (RH-63742)
  • OSnap:Mid: Mid Osnap behavior has changed between V5 and V6 (RH-47066)
  • OpenNURBS: ONX_Model::AddDefaultDimensionStyle threw exception (RH-64090)
  • PackageManager: Had a huge dialog box (RH-63826)
  • Patch: Behaved differently when same edges were selected differently (RH-61810)
  • PerFaceDisplayColor: Typo in RemovePerFaceColors command's feedback message (RH-63947)
  • Print:
    • Detail views using Rendered mode did not print (RH-63402)
    • Arctic mode printed horizon (RH-63860)
    • Tiled with 300 PDI Raster & Artic display modes (RH-63903)
  • QuadRemesh: Quadremesh: worksession ouput remains in the inactive file (RH-61040)
  • RDK:
    • EXR texture rotated (RH-51581)
    • Raytraced mode required a viewport wiggle to show changes of baked textures (RH-58954)
    • Constant material updates from ChangeQueue prevented Raytraced mode from rendering (RH-63792)
    • Constant material updates from ChangeQueue prevented ProRender from rendering (RH-63915)
    • Assigning material changed material base color (RH-64053)
  • Rendering: RenderOpenRenderImage command did not open window with correct size (RH-61873)
  • Rendering: Cycles:
    • Multi-device broken (RH-57576)
    • Color mask for Picture material did not work with Cycles (RH-61836)
    • Basic environment using background color did not work correctly with Skylight (RH-61842)
    • Sun size was different between sessions (RH-64003)
  • Rendering: Materials:
    • Objects were not selected/deselected properly after dropping a material (RH-56570)
    • Metal bump textures did not show up in Rendered mode (RH-63413)
    • Sphere preview thumbnail gave wrong info (RH-63520)
    • PBR normal map and environment were mixed (RH-64007)
    • Filename did not stick with an unhandled exception (RH-64057)
  • Rendering: Realtime SDK: Restoring snapshot did not trigger skylight change event in ChangeQueue (RH-63734)
  • Rendering: Texture Mapping:
    • Object properties showed incorrect mapping type (RH-60653)
    • Repeat of Grit texture did not display properly in Rendered mode with “Advanced texture preview” enabled (RH-63778)
  • Rendering: Textures:
    • Advanced texture preview caused progressive baking in Raytraced mode (RH-63865)
    • Base color channel was baked unexpectedly (RH-63868)
    • Models with lots of baked textures took a long time for second load (RH-63879)
    • Stock bump textures did not update properly (RH-63970)
    • Baking high resolution textures used up a huge amount of disk space (RH-64037)
  • SDK: RhinoOffsetCurveOnSrf did not work across seam of closed surface (RH-63132)
  • SDK: GhPython: Intersect caused memory leak in Grasshopper (RH-63426)
  • SDK: RhinoCommon:
    • RhinoWindows.Controls.RenderContentUserControlCollapsibleSection did not work in Visual Studio Design mode (RH-50717)
    • Expose RhinoGetDibAsTextureFileReference to RhinoCommon (RH-59674)
    • RhinoObject.CommitChanges() returning false in headless Rhino Document (RH-63577)
    • GumballAppearanceSettings CreatePointer() caused memory leak (RH-64076)
  • Selection: Selecting sub-objects in blocks caused out of memory (RH-63919)
  • SubD: SubD shared pointer use leaking memory (RH-63281)
  • SubD Symmetry:
    • SubD Symmetry won’t update after Bridge (RH-62915)
    • Radiate extrude error example (RH-63939)
    • Radiate with motif count 2 doesn’t work right (RH-64081)
  • Subobject Selection: Deleting SubD sub-objects worked differently between Shaded and Wireframe modes (RH-64035)
  • Sweep1: Failed in a specific case (RH-62112)
  • UVEditor: Did not work well with Advanced texture preview in Rendered mode (RH-63468)
  • Undo: Did not update perface material display when Displacement plug-in was loaded (RH-50584)
  • UnrollSrf: UnrollSrfUV - Prompt did not include text dots and points (RH-62551)
  • ViewCaptureToClipboard: ViewCapture: Shadows missed if the image is tiled (RH-60041)

Crashes Fixed:

  • RDK:
    • Repeated renderings ran out of memory and crashed Rhino (RH-64004)
    • Color button caused a crash (RH-64119)

Enhancements:

  • Annotation:
    • Frame around text pays attention to print width settings (RH-62036)
    • SelDimOverride command now selects any annotation, not only dimension, that has a style override (RH-63693)
  • Color Picker: Added RGB sliders to HSV, HSL, CMYK wheel modes (RH-62785)
  • Connect: ExtendOtherCurvesBy=Smooth is made not to add control points (RH-63393)
  • DocumentProperties:
    • Document User Text now hides keys added by Guides of modeling aids (RH-63781)
    • Document User Text now hides keys added by BoxEdit (RH-63782)
  • File IO:
    • STEP Import - Reports unit and tolerance in command history (RH-50775)
    • PDF Export - Lines are printed with rounded end caps (RH-50899)
    • OBJ Export - New “Export as triangles” option (RH-62328)
    • AI Import - Uses PDF import options for PDF-based .ai files (RH-62392)
    • SKP Import/Export: Added support for SketchUp 2021 files (RH-62766)
    • SVG Export: Saves files without UTF-8 BOM to improve readability for other apps (RH-63372)
  • Inset: Added Group mode for multiple selected SubD faces (RH-52735)
  • Layout: In the overlapped region of detail views, double-click close to the center of a detail view to activate it (RH-63408)
  • Lights: Shadow intensity of Spot, Point and Directional lights now changes shadow softness (RH-63856)
  • MatchProperties: Added "Texture mapping" option (RH-54829)
  • Modeling Aids: Elevator mode now instantly updates preview when typing a distance (RH-62447)
  • Options: Added ExportDocumentUserText advanced setting that decides if Document User Text will be exported or copied to Clipboard (RH-63589)
  • Panels: NamedCPlane, NamedView, NamedPosition, Snapshot items can be sorted by ascending, descending, or custom orders (RH-60323)
  • Picture: Texture display will not change when Picture plane is split and shrunk (RH-62508)
  • Properties: Column width in Attribute User Text can be remembered in a Rhino session (RH-60074)
  • Reflect: Control points across the reflection plane can be edited (RH-63636)
  • Rendering: Stops testing tangents when edge display is turned off to speed up startup time (RH-63522)
  • Rendering: Materials:
    • Added “Yes to All” button for assigning a material to objects inside a block (RH-60150)
    • “Assign to object” prompts to keep or override sub-object materials (RH-62543)
  • UntrimAll: UnTrimAll: Supports removing holes in hatches (RH-62914)
  • UserText: "Paste key and value to all layouts" now skips existing keys (RH-56774)
  • WireCut: Supports multi-cutting curves (RH-39776)

Features Added:

  • Rendering: Textures: New RenderReportImageFiles command (RH-62387)
  • Selection: New SelFontUse command (RH-63724)

Regressions Fixed:

  • Annotation: DimCurveLength and DimArea did not allow selecting curves in non-active detail views (RH-63149)
  • FindText: Did not find text strings in dots (RH-63047)
  • SelBrush: RealTimeSelection did not work with points, curves, and meshes (RH-63842)

SDK Enhancement:

  • Developer Tools: Added dotnet new templates (RH-63812)
  • SDK:
    • Allows adding objects to inactive layouts (RH-49373)
    • Added change event watcher for document user text (RH-64028)
  • SDK: RhinoCommon:
    • Expanded enum for GripType now includes EditPoints (RH-56945)
    • Added .NET SDK access to get the C++ SubD vertex faces (RH-63232)
    • ON_BrepFace::m_face_uuid is exposed (RH-63902)

Tasks Completed:

  • ApplyDisplacement: Is changed to a hidden command (RH-63502)

UI Change:

  • Reflect: Option RemoveExistingSymmetry is renamed to RemoveExistingReflectSymmetry (RH-62436)
  • SubD: add split by subd edge loop to the edit menu in the subd menu - (RH-64042)

Usability Problems Fixed:

  • Eto: Named item panels were not selected until mouse button was released (RH-63748)

Mac-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

  • Block: Annotation style doesn't survive paste into new file (RH-62979)
  • Display: Shaded controls missing from a new display mode. (RH-58120)
  • Groundplane: Setting a negative height crashed Rhino (RH-63708)
  • ImportOptions: ImportPreferences fails (RH-63979)
  • Menu: Capture commands missing from the Viewport menu (RH-57629)
  • PropertiesPage: Light properties did not allow values grater than 100 (RH-54373)
  • Rendering: Textures: Missing textures made model not open (RH-63925)

Crashes Fixed:

  • Eto: Opening a model caused instant crash on Mac (RH-63976)

Enhancements:

  • File IO:
    • Allows a damaged 3DM to open on Mac so it can be reverted to a valid version (RH-61095)
    • 3DM - Added “Do not show this again” checkbox to “Auto Save disabled” warning when opening an old version 3DM (RH-62544)
  • Templates: Annotation styles are updated to use Arial font to avoid font missing on Windows (RH-58931)

Incomplete Port:

  • ExtractIsocurve: Added History support on Mac (RH-62623)

Windows-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

  • Display: OpenGL Cap - Transparent layer (RH-63537)
  • DocumentProperties: Some render settings were not scriptable (RH-62269)
  • Eto:
    • Several dialogs were a lot larger than necessary (RH-63828)
    • ComboBoxCell did not function correctly (RH-63922)
  • Gumball: Gumball not working in this model (RH-63917)
  • Print: Some views were partially clipped (RH-58678)
  • Rendering: Texture Bake Quality was not set correctly in Render options (RH-63867)
  • SDK: Dialog with warning blocks python script (RH-51402)
  • SDK: RhinoScript: Rhino.idl and RhinoScript.idl reported 6.0 instead of 7.0 (RH-63874)
  • SpaceMouse: 3D Connexion did not work properly on Rhino.Inside Revit (RH-62038)

Enhancements:

  • BlockManager: Special characters in block names are exported as underscores (RH-62906)
  • Display: OpenGL Cap - SystemInfo (RH-64069)
  • Fullscreen: Fullscreen - sticky between sessions (RH-53683)
  • Interface: Added InactiveTabBackground advanced setting for changing color of inactive tabs (RH-62579)
  • Layer: Allows deleting layers with the keyboard delete key (RH-63265)
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Rhino 7 SR7 Release Candidate 2 for Windows and Mac (7.7.21138) is now available
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Bugs Fixed:

  • RDK: Need more precision in displacement amount control (PBR) (RH-64214)
  • Rendering: Post Effect: Gaussian Blur causes overexposure effect (RH-64172)

Mac-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

  • Grasshopper: Grasshopper Preferences crashes (RH-64179)

Rhino 7 SR7 Release Candidate 3 for Windows and Mac (7.7.21145) is now available
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Bugs Fixed:

  • Rendering: Cycles: HDRi with high dynamic EV were underpowered (RH-61976)
  • Rendering: Textures: Progressive baking did not stop (RH-64238)

Regressions Fixed:

  • Rendering: Cycles: Texture mapping errors in Render versus Rendered mode (RH-64230)
  • Rendering: Textures: Texture baking froze Rhino while manipulating Rendered view (RH-64240)

Windows-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

  • Installer: Offline installation of Rhino 7/8 failed (RH-64041)

Rhino 7 SR7 Release Candidate 4 for Windows and Mac (7.7.21151) is now available
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Bugs Fixed:

  • Curve-curve intersection: Did not find intersection between duplicate lines (RH-50401)
  • UDT: Flow - Dimensions in groups caused the result skewed (RH-64413)

Regressions Fixed:

  • Rendering: Textures: Long lag when updating baked textures (RH-64302)

Rhino 7 SR8 Release Candidate 1 for Windows and Mac (7.8.21160) is now available
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Bugs Fixed:

  • Display:
    • Visibility checkbox of “Show clipping planes” was missing in Technical/Artistic/Pen mode options (RH-62708)
    • Background of Pen display mode displayed brighter in inactive detail views (RH-63140)
    • SubD shaded display did not persist through Tab key smooth/flat toggle (RH-64276)
    • Feedback was updating slowly when SubD and clipping plane coexisting in shaded viewport (RH-64281)
  • DraftAngleAnalysis: DraftAngleAnalysis panel on mac loses document focus (RH-64308)
  • DupEdge: SubD edges and grouping (RH-64444)
  • File IO: STEP Import - Failed to read many surfaces in a STEP file from Solidworks (RH-62368)
  • Grasshopper:
    • IGH_Param.ReplaceSource bug. (RH-51591)
    • Unnamed objects are found when converting empty strings to shapes. (RH-54605)
    • Offset Curve requires Plane input on RH7, not RH6 (RH-62293)
    • ‘Simplify’ error: “An entry with the same key already exists.” (RH-62584)
    • Mesh Surface Equalize=True bug (RH-63496)
    • Volume on open brep doesn’t work any more in Rhino7 (RH-63510)
    • Selected components are not showing wire preview (RH-63627)
  • Grasshopper: Components: Object Details doesn't work for points (RH-63519)
  • Gumball: gumball not centered on sub object selected edges- (RH-64551)
  • History: urge: Tell the user about hidden objects (RH-27956)
  • MatchProperties: Inconsistent (RH-64135)
  • MeshSplit: Make MeshSplit work with Infinite Planes (RH-53735)
  • Picture: Texture mapping incorrect in Raytraced mode when picture plane was trimmed (RH-64309)
  • Print: Vector output had extra lines in preview (RH-62636)
  • Rebuild: "Preserve end tangent directions" did not work when rebuilding with a master curve (RH-64357)
  • Reflect: Radiate: Segment count should be session sticky (RH-64459)
  • Rendering: Gamma post effect should be disabled when renderer doesn't support Linear Workflow (RH-64381)
  • Rendering: Post Effect: Problem with 'distance from camera' channel (RH-54546)
  • Rendering: Textures:
    • Proxies appeared in UI after instancing Render Content (RH-63533)
    • Baking of gradient textures caused high memory consumption and crash (RH-64194)
    • Rendering Texture: Modal editor failed to render preview (RH-64296)
    • Raytraced mode required view rotation to update baked textures (RH-64420)
  • SDK:
    • RhinoSmoothMesh ignoring the bFixBoundaries parameter (RH-64487)
    • Brep.CreateFromOffsetFace with loose tolerance slow (RH-64535)
  • SDK: RhinoCommon:
    • Unable to set InstanceDefinition.SkipNestedLinkedDefinitions property (RH-51646)
    • Block name conflict detection (RH-57128)
    • RhinoCommon: create example how to pull SubD edit points (RH-60373)
    • Item templates were in the wrong category (RH-64123)
    • No way to assign a Material to an object’s attributes directly (RH-64331)
    • Expose CRhinoZebraAnalysisSettings to RhinoCommon (RH-64442)
  • Snapshot: Snapshots - Import enables all clients (RH-58937)
  • SubD Symmetry:
    • radiate issue (RH-64084)
    • Bug in finding Radial symmetry radial count in segment count 2 cases (RH-64493)
    • Added SubD SDK tool to automatically mark the primary motif in RadiateAdd (RH-64500)
    • Face arrangement could be better (RH-64504)
    • Change ON_Symmetry::Type::Rotate to use new radial symmetry code. (RH-64550)
  • Sweep2: History update twisted the surface (RH-64405)
  • Text: Text object duplicates the string when saved as v5 format 3dm (RH-64471)
  • Toolbar: Set dim macros to Continue=No (RH-64469)
  • ViewCaptureToFile: Failed with 4-color gradient background (RH-64000)

Cosmetics:

  • ToolPalettes: HatchScale Toggle toolbar button macro incorrect (RH-63641)

Enhancements:

  • InsertControlPoint: Keeps SubDFriendly state (RH-63329)
  • Rendering: Cycles Viewport: Updating sample count in Rendering panel did not update sample count on HUD (RH-61138)
  • Rendering: Textures: Texture baking supports multi-thread processing (RH-63864)
  • SelMaterialName: Select subobjects (RH-61222)
  • Split: Added EdgeLoop option for splitting SubD (RH-59074)

Features Added:

  • SubD Symmetry: New Radiate command (RH-55857)

SDK Enhancement:

  • RDK: Added option to show only certain categories/types in ShowContentChooser (RH-58381)
  • SDK: RhinoCommon: Exposed ON_InstanceDefinition::SetLinkedComponentAppearance (RH-55139)

UI Change:

  • Menu: Added "Split at Edge Loop" to SubD -> Edit Tools menu (RH-64042)

Mac-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

  • Eto: Toolbar buttons not properly displayed when expanded (RH-58048)
  • File IO: PDF: Windows vs Mac Output Difference (RH-62671)
  • Grasshopper:
    • Dark Mode: Some text labels are illegible when they white on grey background (RH-57263)
    • Some visual and layout issues on Mac (RH-64233)
  • Rendering: Cycles: Could not type more than one digit in Rhino render advanced settings in Rendering panel (RH-64400)
  • Rendering: Materials: Name change did not stick (RH-64463)
  • SVG: ViewCapture.CaptureToSvg() adds Rectangle on Rhino for Mac 6 and 7 (RH-64191)
  • Tutorials: File list in Tutorials panel was not expandable on OS X Mojave (RH-63810)

Crashes Fixed:

  • Rendering: Materials: Materials: Changing name caused crash (RH-64466)

Windows-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

  • Alerter: Help button does not open the topic (RH-64485)
  • Grasshopper: Geometry Pipeline locked filter broken. (RH-49901)
  • SelMaterialName:
    • SelMaterialName does not see per-face materials (RH-42471)
    • SelMaterialName should work on Sub-object assigned materials (RH-42474)
  • ZoomExtents: ZoomExtends: Failed in detail views after an object was selected and deselected (RH-64202)

Rhino 7 SR8 Release Candidate 2 for Windows and Mac (7.8.21168) is now available
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Bugs Fixed:

  • Block: Inserted Block turns into display haywire (RH-61930)
  • Display:
    • Objects with color transparency disappeared when they were made into a block (RH-62634)
    • Curves with color transparency were invisible in blocks (RH-64224)
  • Grasshopper:
    • Offset Curve component required Plane input on RH7, not RH6 (RH-62293)
    • Object Details component did not work for points (RH-63519)
  • MeshRepair: Reported increasing total naked edges for multiple selection (RH-64549)
  • RecordAnimation: RecordAnimation needs to learn about RealtimeDisplayMode integrations (RH-57154)
  • Snapshot: Import enabled all clients (RH-58937)
  • Trim: Trimming Surfaces -> Rhino Closes, No Error (RH-64587)

Enhancements:

  • Rendering: Cycles Viewport: Relaunch raytrace (RH-61673)

Windows-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

  • SDK: RhinoSmoothMesh ignoring the bFixBoundaries parameter (RH-64487)
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Rhino 7 SR8 Release Candidate 3 for Windows and Mac (7.8.21174) is now available
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Bugs Fixed:

  • Align: Align broken for control points (RH-64665)
  • File IO: Layouts to PDF - Missing Text (RH-62446)
  • Grasshopper: ‘Simplify’ error: “An entry with the same key already exists.” (RH-62584)
  • Rendering: Cycles: Material thumbnails and Raytraced viewport flipped upside down (RH-64674)

Rhino 7 SR8 Release Candidate 4 for Windows and Mac (7.8.21180) is now available
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Bugs Fixed:

  • Rendering: Cycles Viewport: Gradient env flipped in Raytraced mode and Render (RH-64773)

Rhino 7 SR9 Release Candidate 1 for Windows and Mac (7.9.21196) is now available
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Bugs Fixed:

  • Hatch rotation and scale disabled on hatch creation dialog (RH-64972)
  • Align: Broke SubD display (RH-64820)
  • Annotation: Text wrapping caused a problem with stacked fractions from text fields (RH-64720)
  • Annotation: Hatch:
    • Gradient hatches in layouts were at wrong scale in viewport and print (RH-63143)
    • Command dialog was closed before applying rotation value (RH-64688)
  • Annotation: Styles: Setting font printed a debug message to command-line (RH-64624)
  • Display: Blocks did not pay attention to draw order (RH-63737)
  • ExtendSrf: Surface extended in wrong direction (RH-45207)
  • File IO:
    • PDF Export - File size issue (RH-64176)
    • DWG/DXF Export - Some dimensions had wrong length factors (RH-64579)
    • PDF Export - Layout did not preview correctly (RH-64713)
    • PDF Export - “Match viewport aspect ration” did not display viewport boundaries in preview (RH-64795)
  • FilletEdge: Entering a number, while adding handles, did not set radius and ended the step (RH-64586)
  • Grasshopper: "Import 3DM" component locked 3DM opened by another Rhino (RH-63580)
  • Group: RemoveFromGroup command - Copy=Yes did not work with lights (RH-64799)
  • Gumball: "Align to object" might not work for multiple selected SubD faces (RH-62520)
  • Layout: View manipulation lagged when Layouts panel was visible (RH-64547)
  • Libraries: Icons on options page looked grayed out (RH-64774)
  • Loft: History update twisted the surface (RH-29105)
  • Make2D: Did not respect dimension formatting (RH-64355)
  • NamedView: Clicking thumbnail label to rename did not always work (RH-64764)
  • OpenNURBS: An error in opennurbs_point.cpp (RH-64969)
  • PackageManager: Installed package did not show custom icon (RH-64735)
  • Panels:
    • New named item did not get selected and focused (RH-58689)
    • Selecting thumbnails with Shift key worked unexpectedly (RH-64650)
  • Print:
    • Linetypes in blocks did not display in detail views (RH-62148)
    • Vector output did not work properly for hatches with color transparency (RH-63635)
    • Transparency was pixelated, not smooth (RH-63720)
    • Copied layout was printed more than once (RH-63929)
  • RDK: Eto UI - Dialog was super-wide if the dialog size was not found in the settings (RH-64711)
  • Reflect: Extra faces were added at reflection plane while editing (RH-60197)
  • Rendering: Cycles:
    • Environment mapping on objects was wrong in Raytraced mode (RH-41422)
    • Ground plane underside was always visible (RH-53396)
  • Rendering: Materials:
    • PBR displacement did not use PNG images with alpha correctly (RH-64390)
    • The environment of material thumbnails was not updated to use more HDRI range (RH-64495)
    • Colors in PBR materials did not update when restoring snapshots (RH-64763)
    • PBR base color texture set to no repeat did not work properly in Rendered mode (RH-64839)
  • SDK:
    • NurbsCurveKnotList.RemoveMultipleKnots returning value bug (RH-64488)
    • Fixed some issues in ON_Squisher::GetMesh2d and ON_Squisher::GetMesh3d (RH-64753)
  • SDK: RhinoCommon:
    • Add PointCloudUnsafeLock (RH-64318)
    • Layer.PlotColor returned incorrect value (RH-64633)
    • PointCloud.ClearColors() did not work (RH-64645)
    • CPlane ThinLineColor was not used (RH-64868)
  • Smooth: Right-clicking on an axis checkbox did not clear the other two axes (RH-64821)
  • Snapshot:
    • Settings were hard to read in dark mode (RH-64255)
    • Import from 3dm ignored object properties (RH-64585)
    • Dragging to make the panel floating caused a crash (RH-64765)
    • Material assignment did not restore correctly (RH-64792)
  • SoftEditSrf: FixEdges=No did not preview correctly (RH-52065)
  • SubD Symmetry:
    • Radiate command ripped apart SubD (RH-63694)
    • Deleting an edge changed what faces were in primary region of a Radial symmetry SubD (RH-64494)
  • Subobject Selection: Did not work correctly with PointCloud including hidden points (RH-64782)
  • Toolbar: "Rotated dimension" button missing the left macro (RH-64766)
  • TweenCurves: Initial preview was missing (RH-64410)
  • ViewCaptureToFile: Transparent background capture for gradient hatches (RH-51559)
  • WireCut: Created bad objects with multi-cutting curves (RH-63043)
  • ZoomSelected: Failed in detail views (RH-64108)

Crashes Fixed:

  • AutoSave: A model made Rhino for Mac stop responding (RH-64584)
  • File IO: DWG Export - ExportAll command crashed Rhino (RH-64567)
  • Rendering: RenderWindow, RenderPreview related commands crashed (RH-63526)

Enhancements:

  • Annotation: Styles:
    • “Fixed length extension” works with angle dimensions (RH-59587)
    • “Extension line extension” works with angle dimensions (RH-64692)
  • BoxEdit: Performance of editing a large amount of objects is improved (RH-60629)
  • Display: Emission material type - keep the color (RH-64570)
  • File IO:
    • PDF Export - Improved hatch/annotation/geometry draw order (RH-64173)
    • CSV (Object Properties) Export - x, y, z values of point coordinates can be separated by spaces (RH-64505)
    • DGN Import did not use units from file (RH-64851)
  • Grasshopper: Added "Caps" option to the MultiPipe component (RH-62301)
  • History: Works with curves in blocks as Sweep1/2 input (RH-11044)
  • Picture: Shrinking control points of trimmed Picture plane keeps texture mapping unchanged (RH-48022)
  • Reflect: SubD Symmetry: Reflect command displays reflection plane when picking manually (RH-64611)
  • Rendering: Cycles: GPUs no longer initialize in Rhino safe mode (RH-64747)
  • VariableOffsetSrf: Applies trims/holes from input, allows to add a series of handles and move added handles (RH-2888)

Features Added:

  • Explode: Converts value of BlockAttributeText text field to text (RH-63513)
  • Rendering: New BatchRenderNamedViews command (RH-64680)
  • Rendering: Post Effect: Glare is replaced by Bloom (RH-56381)
  • SubD Symmetry:
    • Radiate command allows Reflect object as input (RH-64640)
    • Reflect command supports two-direction reflection (RH-64669)

Performance Improvements:

  • Panels: Deleting many named items at once was very slow (RH-64597)

Regressions Fixed:

  • Annotation: Styles: Did not update existing Radial dimensions (RH-64519)
  • BoxEdit: Uniform size did not work correctly (RH-62583)
  • Join: Join and polyline output (RH-64804)

SDK Enhancement:

  • RDK: RenderContent.Filename does not work for existing RenderContent (RH-64601)
  • SDK:
    • Added Squish functions (RH-29249)
    • RhinoDivideCurveEquidistant is made to select planar curves faster (RH-64609)
  • SDK: RhinoCommon:
    • Added an ArchiveVersion property to File3dm (RH-64593)
    • ObjectTable.Replace override that accepts “ignoreModes” flag (RH-64703)
    • Wrapped IsSafeModeEnabled (RH-64746)

Tasks Completed:

  • RDK: Clarifications about hidden render contents (RH-64778)

UI Change:

  • SubD Symmetry: Gumball extrude handles are disabled on SubD edges and faces in non-primary regions (RH-64702)

Mac-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

  • BlockEdit: Objects might disappear (RH-64812)
  • Display:
    • Importing preferences did not trigger viewport display to update (RH-63980)
    • Baked meshes from Grasshopper broke display on M1 Macbook Pro (RH-64777)
  • Eto: Buttons with colors did not show correctly on non-retina screens (RH-61544)
  • File IO:
    • PDF Export - ExportAll command using vector output failed to print text (RH-61989)
    • PDF Export - Text location shifted in preview of vector output (RH-62622)
    • PDF Export - Missing dimension text (RH-64412)
  • Grasshopper:
    • Selected components did not show wire preview (RH-64643)
    • Disabled panels made canvas very slow (RH-64651)
  • Layer: Color swatches in Layers panel did not indicate color transparency (RH-63196)
  • Layout:
    • Layouts panel could not be shown by -Layouts command (RH-59525)
    • Layout selection behavior in Layouts panel (RH-63843)
  • PackageManager: Clicking the "X" button did not clear the search box (RH-61612)
  • Rendering: Render content updates failed to update to new file (RH-64569)
  • Rendering: Cycles: "No Repeat" of bitmap texture in PBR materials did not work (RH-64730)
  • Repeat: Only current curve was visible when some curve commands were repeating (RH-64514)
  • SDK: Dialogs with warning blocked python script (RH-64168)
  • SelMaterialName: Dialog did not display text correct in dark mode (RH-64590)
  • SetPt: Right-clicking an axis checkbox did not clear the other axes (RH-64918)
  • Undo: Did not work correctly for matching materials on Mac (RH-64534)

Crashes Fixed:

  • Eto: Render window crashed after moving up the splitter (RH-64568)
  • File IO:
    • Headless import of a GDF file crashed on Mac (RH-63969)
    • PDF Export - Crashed on printing layouts (RH-64712)
  • UserText: Aborting key name change crashed Rhino (RH-64408)

Enhancements:

  • Layer: Visibility changes did not take effect while a command was running (RH-61500)
  • Rendering: Textures: Unloads low resolution texture backing when higher resolution one is loaded (RH-64289)

Performance Improvements:

  • BoxEdit: Continuous editing was not smooth (RH-51524)

Windows-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

  • Display: Per face color slowed down performance in shaded display modes (RH-59196)
  • RDK: Renaming viewport title did not update "Specific Viewport" list (RH-64557)
  • SDK: Header messages were not updated for v7 (RH-64800)
  • SDK: GhPython: Some component parameters are converted to strings instead of objects (RH-48617)
  • SmartTrack: Tapping Ctrl key did not add/remove smart points while Alt key was down (RH-64621)
  • Snapshot: : Used 10,000 GDI objects that locked up Rhino (RH-64666)
  • WalkAbout: Viewport title was changed (RH-27274)

Enhancements:

  • Grasshopper: Libraries installed by Yak should automatically take precedence during conflicts (RH-47489)
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Rhino 7 SR9 Release Candidate 2 for Windows and Mac (7.9.21201) is now available
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Bugs Fixed:

  • MeshRepair: Reported a mesh as good and invalid at the same time (RH-64846)
  • RDK: Render Content mistakenly allowed invalid field names (RH-64873)

Rhino 7 SR9 Release Candidate 3 for Windows and Mac (7.9.21215) is now available

Bugs Fixed:

  • Rendering: Textures: Initial texture preview did not respect "Preview local mapping" setting (RH-63773)
  • TextField: Units below "Miles" on the list were not set correctly for Volume, Area, and Curve Length (RH-65137)

SDK Enhancement:

  • SDK: RhinoCommon: Added PointCloudUnsafeLock (RH-64318)

Mac-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

  • Rendering: Materials: Preview thumbnails did not update on Mac (RH-65160)

Rhino 7 SR10 Release Candidate 1 for Windows and Mac (7.10.21223) is now available
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Bugs Fixed:

  • BoxEdit: Input was added to the existing size (RH-64916)
  • Display: Casting receiving shadows was ignored in linked blocks (RH-64860)
  • File IO:
    • Read-only warning popped up when scripting a file opening (RH-64932)
    • OBJ Import - Commas as decimal separators failed (RH-65090)
    • PDF Export - Scale values did not update properly (RH-65098)
    • DWG Export - Text object was saved with incorrect annotation style (RH-65115)
    • DWG Export - Text size was incorrect (RH-65155)
    • PDF import page 2 error (RH-65250)
  • FilletCorners: Kept the wrong side (RH-21609)
  • Grasshopper: Components: "Component ID conflict" dialog showed instead of "File Conflict" on multiple conflicts (RH-65096)
  • Gumball:
    • Missing scale handles when aligning to text object (RH-64901)
    • Activating the scale handle was harder in V7 (RH-64915)
  • History:
    • Link to dimensions was broken without a warning when editing converted an extrusion to a polysurface (RH-32233)
    • Locking children too agressive with annotation (RH-49644)
    • “All” option of HistoryUpdate command did not update history child that was locked, hidden, or on a locked layer (RH-65232)
  • Layer: Layers not turned off in layouts (RH-65079)
  • MergeAllCoplanarFaces:
  • NamedSelections: Drag and drop to reorder was broken (RH-64987)
  • Options: Options causes remeshing (RH-65017)
  • PointDeviation:
    • Hair left on screen when “Display hair” was turned off (RH-65167)
    • PointDeviation - numbers do not match colors (RH-65182)
  • Print: Preview drew text with wrong colors (RH-63128)
  • QuadRemesh: Display conduit stuck when remeshing multiple objects (RH-65023)
  • RDK: Child content was not instanced with instanced parent content (RH-65040)
  • Rendering: Single color texture using object color did not render (RH-64914)
  • Rendering: Materials:
    • Plastic was exported as PBR (RH-64756)
    • Hidden materials caused confusion in object properties (RH-65041)
  • Rendering: Textures: Rendered display: mesh objects use low res simulation of procedurals (RH-64754)
  • SDK:
    • Grasshopper template in v7 did not generate a new GUID (RH-64988)
    • RhinoBrepTrim failure (RH-65209)
  • SDK: RhinoCommon:
    • Project template did not ask about WinForms/WPF (RH-64575)
    • Bug in Rhino.Geometry.Transform.GetHashCode (RH-65150)
    • Crash in VolumeMasProperties (RH-65162)
  • ScriptCompiler: Compiled GH Script using cached values (RH-65097)
  • SetPt: Pressing x, y, z keys did not toggle the checkboxes (RH-65123)
  • SubD: SubDExpandEdges - Rhino 7.x test command. (RH-65157)

Crashes Fixed:

  • tl!TL_MeshBrepFace – Access Denied (RH-64946)

Enhancements:

  • File IO: CSV Export - Saves attribute user text of top level blocks (RH-65035)
  • NamedSelections: SubD faces and edges in selection set can be post input for commands (RH-64986)
  • RDK: Material type conversion is improved (RH-64750)
  • SDK: RhinoCommon:
    • BrepFaceList.ShrinkFaces() method was broken for certain multiface breps (RH-64138)
    • Added overload to volume massprop calc to include tolerance (RH-64317)
  • SubD Symmetry: Reflect command allows existing Reflect object as input (RH-60738)

SDK Enhancement:

  • SDK: RhinoCommon:

Usability Problems Fixed:

  • Rendering: Materials: Tree mode list kept collapsing (RH-65070)
  • Rendering: Texture Mapping: UVW mapping box text windows are too small- (RH-64980)

Mac-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

  • File IO: PDF Export - Vector output failed on Mac if custom size * dpi was too large (RH-65116)
  • SDK: Python: A script failed on Mac (RH-65056)
  • ToolPalettes: Preferences > Tool Palettes > Hide tool palettes when starting commands: should exclude some commands (RH-65131)

Features Added:

  • Preferences: Added advanced setting to suppress tool palettes reappearing after command completes (RH-57945)

Windows-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

  • SelFontUse: finds hidden text (RH-65077)

Enhancements:

  • Keyboard Shortcuts: Added Ctrl+Q to quit Rhino (Exit command) (RH-64974)
  • LoadScript: Supports Windows environment variables in file paths (RH-65034)
  • Options:
    • Updates and Statistics page now shows the current version (RH-50906)
    • Double-clicking on the name of an advanced setting copies it to clipboard (RH-65122)

SDK Enhancement:

  • SDK: RhinoScript: Enhancements about alpha value of colors (RH-65170)
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Rhino 7 SR10 Release Candidate 2 for Windows and Mac (7.10.21231) is now available
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Bugs Fixed:

  • Trim: Object cut remains selected after Trim is completed (RH-65316)

Regressions Fixed:

  • Rendering: Cycles Viewport: Raytracing repeatedly restarted in parallel views (RH-65147)
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Rhino 7 SR10 Release Candidate 3 for Windows and Mac (7.10.21236) is now available
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Enhancements:

  • Translation (localization) updates

Rhino 7 SR10 Release Candidate 4 for Windows and Mac (7.10.21243) is now available
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Bugs Fixed:

  • Trim: Object being cut remained selected (RH-65316)

Enhancements:

  • Keyboard: Arrow keys are able to select through items in named panels (RH-64824)

Rhino 7 SR11 Release Candidate 1 for Windows and Mac (7.11.21257) is now available
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Bugs Fixed:

  • Annotation: DimAngular:
    • Flipped between angle and reflex angle when moving the whole dimension (RH-65501)
    • Moving resulted in a different angle (RH-65502)
  • Display: Skylight shadow shading issues when selecting objects (RH-65518)
  • EditText: Non-native Windows fonts could not be set italic for text in groups (RH-58645)
  • ExtrudeSubD: Faces in child segment of a single reflect symmetry could be selected (RH-65470)
  • File IO:
    • PDF Export - Preview stretched (RH-65517)
    • SketchUp Import - Group materials were assigned to objects that did not have materials (RH-65531)
  • Match: Match - scripted mode option missing (RH-65530)
  • Panels: Bugs in named item thumbnail mode (RH-64631)
  • Rendering: Materials: Duplicate material acted as if the texture is instanced (RH-65449)
  • SDK: RhinoCommon:
    • Bug in the copying of SubD objects (RH-64960)
    • Convert quaternion to Euler angles and vice versa (RH-65317)

Crashes Fixed:

  • PackageManager: Null reference exception (RH-65550)

Enhancements:

  • Display: Caches analysis meshes for EMap (RH-65252)
  • File IO: CSV Export - Saves text fields as evaluated values instead of formula strings (RH-65483)
  • Gumball: Remembers mouse dragged distance/angle/scale values for next click input (RH-65480)
  • Match:
    • Keeps SubDFriendly+ properties (RH-52487)
    • Preview missing in scripted mode (RH-65561)
  • SubD Symmetry:
    • Radiate command - Added “pie slice” feedback display for Reflect+Radiate symmetry (RH-65233)
    • Added “Flip” option to Reflect, Reflect+Reflect, and Reflect+Radiate symmetries (RH-65421)
    • Radiate now uses a cleanup tolerance (based on document’s absolute tolerance) when creating child motifs (RH-65081)
    • Radiate command - Flips “cheese wedge” display when cursor moving across object bounding box center (RH-65498)
    • Reflect command - Automatically adjust reflection plane direction, while picking, towards SubD’s bounding box center (RH-65499)
    • InsertPoint command is allowed to modify only primary motif (RH-64634)
  • TextField: Exports evaluated values instead of formula strings (RH-63311)

Features Added:

  • SDK: RhinoCommon: Added ability to crease/smooth SubD edges to Rhino 7 grasshopper (RH-63863)

Regressions Fixed:

UI Change:

  • Toolbar: Added SubDRevolve command (RH-63941)

Mac-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

  • File IO: PDF Export - Failed when exporting some, but not all, layouts (RH-64221)
  • RDK: Renaming viewport title did not update "Specific Viewport" list (RH-64853)
  • Rendering: Content Panels: Quick preview was initialized slowly (RH-65469)
  • Rendering: Realtime SDK:
    • Issues with Raytrace Mode and Two Docs (RH-61046)
    • Raytraced in multiple documents fails (RH-65043)

Crashes Fixed:

  • Grasshopper: Frequent crashes (RH-65514)

Incomplete Port:

  • Grasshopper: CMD+A did not select all text in Scribble component (RH-60286)

Windows-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

  • File IO:
    • STEP Export - Failed with some folder names in Japanese/Korean (RH-63414)
    • PDF Export - Preview did not update when switching from “Window” to “Multiple Layouts” (RH-65529)
  • Undo: Did not work with material changes made by RhinoScript (RH-65476)

Tasks Completed:

  • Help: Added simplified Chinese V7 for Windows offline help (RH-65194)
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Rhino 7 SR11 Release Candidate 2 for Windows and Mac (7.11.21264) is now available
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Bugs Fixed:

  • Rendering: Textures: Texture baker freezes Rhino (RH-65628)
  • SmartTrack: Rotate does not place a smart point with no snap. (RH-65668)

SDK Enhancement:

  • SDK: Added support for manipulating per-face materials without having to know the details (RH-64719)
  • SDK: RhinoCommon: Added abilities to convert angles between quaternion and Euler angles (RH-65317)
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Rhino 7 SR11 Release Candidate 3 for Windows and Mac (7.11.21271) is now available
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Bugs Fixed:

  • Gumball: remembered value is used too agressively (RH-65751)
  • History: Showed false breaking warning when editing converted parent from Extrusion to polysurface (RH-65728)

Mac-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

  • Grasshopper: Some icons on context menus were not scaled properly (RH-65658)
  • Rendering: Realtime SDK: Raytraced mode failed with multiple documents (RH-65043)