Rhino 7 Service Release Candidate Available

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Rhino 7 SR8 Release Candidate 1 for Windows and Mac (7.8.21160) is now available
To get it, subscribe to the Release Candidate update stream on Windows or on Mac.

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)