Rhino 8 WIP Available Now!

brian · July 6, 2022, 10:32pm

Rhino 8 WIP (8.0.22187) is now available for Windows and Mac

Bugs Fixed:

Analysis: EdgeContinuity: Missing the Help button (RH-69198)
Constraints: example messy when a fillet is added (RH-67911)
Contour: Made a partial result with a small contour spacing value (RH-69042)
CurvatureAnalysis: Missing the Help button (RH-69197)
CurvatureGraph: Missing the Help button (RH-69202)
DraftAngleAnalysis: Missing the Help button (RH-69203)
EdgeSoftening: Broke texture mapping (RH-69158)
Emap: Missing the Help button (RH-69199)
ExtractRenderMesh: Did not copy decals to extracted meshes (RH-69029)
File IO: Scripting IGES Save/SaveAs/Export should not show the scaling dialog box (RH-69149)
Gumball: Wrong face was selected after extruding if the side got split into multiple pieces (RH-68927)
MergeFaces: Failed on the center vertex of a mesh cylinder cap (RH-54048)
Offset: Failure depending on picked point (RH-69030)
PointDeviation: Missing the Help button (RH-69200)
Rebuild: Deviation incorrect for surface (RH-69134)
Rendering: Environments created in Rhino 7 had inconsistent preview angle in Rhino 8 (RH-69207)
Rendering: Content Panels: Creating a Basic Environment caused a crash (RH-69147)
Rendering: Materials:
- SubD with normal map was rendered all black (RH-69230)
- Preview black (RH-68686)
- Slider text was cropped (RH-69020)
Rendering: Texture Mapping:
- Edge softening did not take into account UVW transform of texture mapping (RH-69186)
- Sub-object material assignment broke multiple mapping channels (RH-43249)
Rendering: Textures: Preview did not update (RH-69238)
RhinoCode:
- System error in RhinoCode editor when creating geometry (RH-66555)
- Play cannot be undone (RH-68029)
ShowEdges: Missing the Help button (RH-69201)
StatusBar: Bold text display glitch on the panes (RH-69150)
SystemInfo: Wrong section for plug-ins that ship with Rhino (RH-66544)
UVEditor: Object aligned Gumball was located wrong (RH-68866)
Zebra: Missing the Help button (RH-69196)

Cosmetics:

Constraints: Updated icons in panel and added icons for viewport (RH-69153)

Crashes Fixed:

Shell: Crashed v8 in a simple case (RH-69189)
UVEditor: Hung or crashed when moving meshes in UVEditor (RH-69159)

Enhancements:

CPlane: Direction was flipped when setting on a ClippingPlane (RH-68999)
ClippingPlane: Custom Section Style (in layer and object properties) allows filling the closed section on an open object (RH-69078)
Constraints:
- When the explode or join command is run update constraints to reference the joined or exploded objects (RH-67788)
- Show parameters next to dimension constraints in the panel (RH-68452)
File IO: Allows exporting bad curves to DWG/DXF and displays data errors in command-line (RH-69019)
Layer: Removed "Layer name" from column header list to avoid all columns being turned off (RH-55637)
MatchProperties:
- Right-clicking a checkbox enables only the option in the same group (RH-53850)
- Added Attribute User Text (RH-45604)
RefitTrim: Added CreateBeziers and EditKnots options (RH-69074)
Rendering: Materials: Preview thumbnail can be viewed from underside (RH-69178)
SelName: Hides <No name> in the list when every object in viewports has a name (RH-69167)
Selection: Ctrl(CMD) + window/crossing selection deselects sub-objects in command session (RH-69256)

Features Added:

Constraints: Added Aligned length type (RH-68138)
MatchProperties: Add clipping and sectioning properties (RH-67318)
Rendering: Texture Mapping: Fits mapping size individually when multiple objects are selected (RH-61516)
Selection: Ctrl(CMD) + window/crossing selection deselects sub-objects in pre-selection (RH-68023)

Regressions Fixed:

Displacement: Showed in object properties when only vertices or edges were selected (RH-68898)
Properties: Mesh 'modifiers' missing for SubD objects (RH-68778)

UI Change:

Layer: Removed "By Clipping Plane" from Section Styles attribute (RH-69018)

Mac-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

Protocol Handler: Supports opening files from URL of rhino: protocol (RH-58700)
Toolbar: : RUI files can be unlinked from Workspace (RH-67777)

Features Added:

File IO:
- Imports Universal Scene Description file formats (.usd, .usda, .usdc, .usdz) (RH-68991)
- Ported E57 file import plug-in to Rhino for Mac (RH-40154)

Windows-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

Display: OpenGL stopped working correctly after calling AMD driver function to get total memory on GPU (RH-67184)
RhinoCode: Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V did not work on Windows (RH-66309)

brian · July 20, 2022, 12:14am

Rhino 8 WIP (8.0.22200) is now available for Windows and Mac

Bugs Fixed:

Constraints:
- Length fails in one step (RH-68291)
- Docking tab caused icons to disappear or scale (RH-69390)
- Name was not added on creation when an existing constraint was selected (RH-68760)
Display: PointDeviation: Hairs are clipped (RH-68110)
Docking Tabs: Edge Continuity panel could not be docked like most panels (RH-67549)
Layer: Adding and renaming is clicky (RH-69434)
MatchProperties: Match "Clip" property (RH-69450)
Rendering: Materials: RDK Layer Material dialog does not show changes in the viewport if the Default Material is edited (RH-67432)
Unwrap: Unwrap - Option to use ARAP (RH-62585)

Crashes Fixed:

Print: Printing (PDF) a layout crashes Rhino (RH-68848)

Enhancements:

Annotation: Hatch: Boundary color and width can be controlled by curve settings of display modes (RH-69043)
SDK: RhinoCommon: Add RenderMaterials table to Rhino.FileIO.File3dm (RH-60209)

Features Added:

Layer:
- : Highlight layers of selected objects (RH-61270)
- Layer wish - logical or natural sorting (RH-24829)

Mac-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

Display Metal: Dotted control polygon of surfaces (RH-67561)

Windows-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

Rendering: Post Effect: Only one glow color was listed (RH-69442)

Enhancements:

Constraints: Added a creation menu to Object Context Menu in viewports (RH-68034)

brian · July 26, 2022, 9:19pm

Rhino 8 WIP (8.0.22207) is now available for Windows and Mac

Bugs Fixed:

Cancelling the Render Content Name Conflict dialog doesn't cancel the command (RH-66773)
Annotation: Hatch: Boundary thickness was changed by draw order (RH-69044)
ClippingPlane: Was ignored on resetting views (RH-59870)
Containers: Merge 'Containers' and 'ShowContainers' (RH-69432)
Grasshopper: Create Area and Volume components without centroid output (RH-64836)
Layer: Nested layers did not collapse (RH-69484)
Libraries: Search box was not cleared properly (RH-69356)

SDK Enhancement:

SDK: RhinoCommon: Added RenderMaterials table to Rhino.FileIO.File3dm (RH-60209)

Usability Problems Fixed:

Layer: Turned the "Column Sort" option back on by default (RH-69401)

Mac-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

CommandHistory: Area command feedback broken (RH-69473)
Display Metal:
- Did not display hatch background colors (RH-67898)
- Crossing window (dashed rectangle) was clipped by clipping plane (RH-69495)
- Maximizing viewport caused black viewport (RH-67838)
- Textures did not display (RH-68847)
- Pictures were blank (RH-67697)
Rendering: Post Effect: Only one glow color was listed (RH-69471)
StatusBar: Status bar info pane on Mac (RH-67389)

Cosmetics:

StatusBar: Too short on Mac (RH-69393)

brian · August 2, 2022, 11:16pm

Rhino 8 WIP (8.0.22214) is now available for Windows and Mac

Bugs Fixed:

Picture and Wallpaper option grayed out when dragging a picture on to Rhino (RH-67562)
Annotation: "Mask margins" label in properties panel was not turning blue (to indicate override) when value was changed (RH-69599)
Clip:
- Object temporarily showed layer’s clip setting (RH-69596)
- An object’s clip setting caused wireframe of another object not clipped (RH-69601)
- Object’s Clip setting was changed by Layer’s Clip setting (RH-69580)
ClippingPlane:
- Isocurves and edges were clipping on visible side (RH-69233)
- Only one object showed clipping edges (RH-69559)
- Clipping fill color was wrong (RH-69581)
- ClippingPlane command can not work on the object away from the origin (RH-30121)
Display:
- No preview for hatches (RH-69215)
- Dots did not appear in front of clipping fills (RH-68969)
- PointDeviation hairs were drawn on layout (RH-69605)
- Clipping plane fill (RH-67081)
Grasshopper:
- Rectangle conversion breaks files (RH-46358)
- Contour homonyms in Grasshopper cause ghpythonlib problem (RH-50604)
Grasshopper: Components: curve curve intersection taskaware not working. (RH-46361)
Layout: Size column does not update when layout size is changed (RH-69623)
RhinoCode: Exceptions when starting Grasshopper (RH-69460)
SDK: RhinoCommon: mesh.NormalAt() sometimes not returning a unit vector (RH-48292)
Section: Did not create hatches from closed sections of an open object (RH-68977)
Section Style: Solid pattern looked like overlapped faces (RH-69563)
StatusBar: Open object type names showed "%s" in Info menu (RH-69618)

Crashes Fixed:

MeshIntersect: Crash in ON_Mesh::IntersectArray (RH-69535)

Enhancements:

ClippingPlane: ClippingPlane to also cap open objects when intersection with CP is closed curve (RH-46092)
Print: Vector output is able to print Picture planes with internal holes (RH-63987)

Performance Improvements:

Rendering: Textures: Texture display: slow to regenerate in the UI (RH-65069)

Regressions Fixed:

BlockManager: Missing from autocomplete list when typing command name (RH-69602)

UI Change:

BlockManager: Rename "Blocks" to "Block Definitions" (RH-69566)
ClippingPlane: "By parent" section style is removed from clipping plane properties (RH-69561)
Containers: Container: Hide Gear icon when container is collapsed (unpinned) (RH-69523)
Grasshopper: Box Corners - H Tooltip was wrong (RH-68051)
Libraries: When computer is offline, materials, textures, and environments using online files cannot be used (RH-62694)
Section: Made not to create hatches when object's Section Style is set to By Clipping Plane (RH-69603)
Section Style: Enable "Section open objects" setting by default (RH-69577)

Usability Problems Fixed:

CurvatureGraph: Curvature graph - finer for surfaces (RH-69299)

Mac-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

Clip: Per object clipping was broken (RH-69057)
Display Metal:
- Section styles did not display (RH-69164)
- Display problem with multiple clippings (RH-69492)

Windows-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

Display: Objects were partially clipped by two clipping planes (RH-67290)
Docking Tabs: Floating command-line locked the whole Rhino UI (RH-69517)

Regressions Fixed:

Rendering: Materials: Missing color action menu (RH-69435)

brian · August 9, 2022, 11:34pm

Rhino 8 WIP (8.0.22221) is now available for Windows and Mac

Bugs Fixed:

Containers: Panels or toolbars could not be added to an empty container (RH-69685)
MatchSrf:
- History not working right (RH-30995)
- History used wrong target edge when target surface was trimmed (RH-34257)
Rendering: Post Effect: Color menu missing icons (RH-69436)
Section:
- GroupObjectsBySectionPlane did not group hatches (RH-69582)
- “Section open objects” of layer was ignored when object had Section Style=By Layer (RH-69616)
StatusBar: New status bar layer pane not showing selected object layers (RH-69704)
Trim: Failed when using Line option with ExtendCuttingLines=Yes (RH-67974)

Crashes Fixed:

Toolbar: Crash when adding new toolbar (RH-69681)

SDK Enhancement:

SDK: RhinoCommon: Added HatchPatternTable.Modify method for modifying existing hatch patterns (RH-69705)

Mac-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

Display: Enabling GPU Tessellation with AMD card crashed on Mac (RH-68761)
Libraries:
- Blinking cursor and “Search” were not aligned in search box (RH-69500)
- Show materials, environments, and textures could not be enabled at the same time on Mac (RH-69340)

UI Change:

Preferences: Windows Keyboard options page has been ported to Mac (RH-69285)

Windows-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

DotNET: Rhino Plug-In Errors when launching latest WIP (RH-69682)
Rendering: Materials: Materials: Substance file settings in dark mode (RH-69071)

dan · August 16, 2022, 10:32pm

Rhino 8 WIP (8.0.22228) is now available for Windows and Mac

Bugs Fixed:

Add a list option to Libraries dialog (RH-68838)
BlockManager: Many items were selected by simple clicks (RH-69677)
Constraints:
- Change curve display if they are constrained (RH-67962)
- Add Constraints to the viewport RMB context menu (RH-69723)
- Changing icon size did not preview in viewports (RH-69750)
- Radius constraint did not have properties (RH-69753)
- “Horizontal to view” changed icon orientation (RH-69748)
Contour: Changing "Section open objects" did not affect history output (RH-69718)
Display:
- Selection needs viewport redraws (RH-69734)
- Slow viewports with geometry from PDF (RH-69680)
Properties:
- Can’t set custom object Clip attribute (RH-69760)
- Multiple objects with same custom clip settings showed Clip=(varies) (RH-69781)
- Clip=All for multiple objects changed to Clip=(varies) (RH-69565)
Rendering: Environments: Start from existing caused a crash (RH-69780)
SDK: RhinoCommon: Viewport.ZoomExtends doesn't on details (RH-69786)
Section: Changing "Section open objects" did not trigger updating history (RH-69717)
ShutLining: Properties: Can't toggle Shutlining on the command line (RH-62167)

Crashes Fixed:

Crash: Annotation: Text: Clicking style crashes Rhino (RH-69764)

Enhancements:

Clip: Custom clip settings of layers and object properties now list hidden clipping planes (RH-69692)
Constraints: Draw constraint icons next to geometry (RH-67791)
Properties: Added ByMaterial to Display Color setting (RH-45462)
SDK: ON_PolylineCurve constructor should apply arc length parameterization (RH-69790)

Regressions Fixed:

StatusBar: Right-click units to change settings (RH-69784)

UI Change:

Major User Interface Updates
Panels: ICO images in named panels are replaced by SVG images (RH-68888)

Mac-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

Display: ViewCapture with transparent background made shadows look wrong on Mac (RH-59462)

Windows-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

Layer: Dynamic viewport redraw on change of the Clip attribute (RH-69759)
Options: No scroll bar on tall pages (RH-69716)

brian · August 23, 2022, 10:51pm

Rhino 8 WIP (8.0.22235) is now available for Windows and Mac

Bugs Fixed:

Annotation: Mask color did not fill Capsule mask frame (RH-67055)
Constraints: Coincident constraint did not have an icon in viewports (RH-69758)
Display:
- Clipping plane fills disappear on selection (RH-58272)
- Control polygons/points did not pay attention to layer detail display color (RH-65384)
DocumentProperties: ShowGrid option in command-line failed to toggle (RH-69824)
Explode: Converting text field to static text was inconsistent (RH-69326)
File IO: PDF Export - Vector output did not print materials (RH-65477)
Rendering: Texture Mapping: Mapping UVW transform wrong on polysurfaces with packed textures (RH-69752)
Section Style: Changing Custom to By Layer in object properties did not affect (RH-69627)
Select: Clicking on the clipping fill of an open object did not select it (RH-69628)
UDT: CageEdit: Control object created from BoundingBox of 2D object could be oversized (RH-69857)
UVEditor: Packed surface mapping was wrong (RH-69853)

Crashes Fixed:

Containers: An empty ghost container crashed Rhino (RH-69720)

Enhancements:

UDT: CageEdit command - Made BoundingBox option possible to create 1D (line) or 2D (plane) control cages (RH-69886)

Features Added:

Layer: Need Eto based layer control for the status bar (RH-68997)

SDK Enhancement:

OpenNURBS: Created ON_ArchivableDictionary (RH-67970)
SDK: RhinoCommon: Added HatchLine class and methods to HatchPattern for scripting hatch creation (RH-69706)

UI Change:

Containers: Changing "Lock Docked Windows" to "Lock Docked Containers" (RH-69858)

Mac-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

BlockManager: Rename did not work on Mac (RH-69820)
Layer: Material name did not align with other columns (RH-69822)
OSnap: "SmartTrack" was incorrectly added to OSnap bar (RH-69841)

UI Change:

SelectionFilter: Windows UI has been implemented on Mac (RH-69827)

brian · August 30, 2022, 10:16pm

Rhino 8 WIP (8.0.22242) is now available for Windows and Mac

Bugs Fixed:

ExtractMeshFaces: Failure example (RH-69894)
Gumball: Relocating not working with typed coordinates (RH-69279)
History: Linear dimension created by selecting a polycurve segment did not update properly (RH-69917)
LineTypeDisplay: The command was missing in v8 (RH-70020)
PointCloudSection: PointCloudContour command ignored contour distance setting (RH-69906)
Properties: Display Color set to By Material did not work properly (RH-69844)
RhinoCode: no action from Copy/Cut/Paste (RH-69744)
Section Style: When Pattern=None, "Section open objects" of a layer could not be turned on (RH-70016)
Toolbar: Command restores Rhinoceros Sidebar > Main (RH-69851)
What: What and text height (RH-69979)

Crashes Fixed:

Rendering: Materials: Setting PBR Roughness value over 1.0 crashed (RH-69970)

Enhancements:

UDT: Cage command - Made BoundingBox option possible to create 1D (line) or 2D (plane) control cages (RH-69915)

UI Change:

Options: Toolbars -> reword "lock docked windows" (RH-69961)

Mac-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

Clip: When no clipping planes in the model, selecting "Custom" did not revert to previous setting (RH-69909)
Display Metal: Glitch when rotating view with taclight.3dm model (RH-69957)
DocumentProperties: Hatch pattern preview section was not tall enough to show more than one pattern (RH-69835)

Crashes Fixed:

Display Metal: Crashed when using Shaded display mode (RH-69470)

brian · September 6, 2022, 10:21pm

Rhino 8 WIP (8.0.22249) is now available for Windows and Mac

Bugs Fixed:

ClippingPlane:
- Objects in Blocks did not show clipping edges and clipping fills (RH-67277)
- Section styles: by parent (RH-68813)
Constraints:
- Driving dimensions cannot be created on polylines (RH-69359)
- Driving dimensions did not remain attached to geometry (RH-68526)
Display:
- Wireframe disappears (RH-64917)
- modes: Lights on layers that are off (RH-67161)
- Clipping edges inconsistently drew on top or object edges (RH-69626)
- Section hatches were not visible in display modes with shadows (RH-69608)
- Objects using Ghosted mode in blocks invisible in selection (RH-70081)
Docking: Filters: arrangement wrong on open (RH-70087)
History: Replay extruding "wrong" edges when both edges and faces were extruded at the same time (RH-70026)
OSnap:Dialog:
- OSnap: Dialog: Switch to Eto version (RH-70132)
- No chevrons on narrow panel (RH-69661)
Properties: Assigning sub-object display color resetting to "By Layer" (RH-70057)
Rendering: Materials: Material names tough to read in dark mode (RH-64443)
SDK: Python: ghpython and rhinoscriptsyntax threw exceptions when headless (RH-69898)
SrfSeam: Seam moved to a quad point of an open cylinder surface could not be moved again (RH-69916)
Toolbar: ToolbarLock command did not work (RH-70094)
Tutorials: Files did not list in Tutorials panel (RH-69688)

Enhancements:

RDK: Lights panel improvements (RH-66907)
RhinoCode: Wish: add option to scriptable version to open specified file in editor (RH-69369)

Features Added:

Docking Tabs: Provide an option to display container tabs at the top when docked on the left or right side (RH-69840)
Grasshopper: Added new base class, constructor, deconstructor, and query components for Fonts. (RH-70062)

Performance Improvements:

ShowRenderMesh: Slow display (RH-70110)

Tasks Completed:

Toolbar: Added Toolbar command to Mac (RH-70084)

Mac-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

Containers: Floating containers did not have the close button on Mac (RH-70078)
Properties: Canceling in custom section style dialog made blank setting (RH-69985)

Windows-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

PackageManager: Update prompt locked Rhino window when a context menu is on screen (RH-69968)
RhinoCode: RhinoCode- examples open blank (RH-70005)

Tasks Completed:

Rendering: Cycles: Automatically create Visual Studio project files (RH-67465)

brian · September 21, 2022, 2:03am

Rhino 8 WIP (8.0.22263) is now available for Windows and Mac

Bugs Fixed:

ClippingPlane:
- Objects with Clip=None set in properties could not be selected on clipped side (RH-67336)
- Selectively clipping block instances did not work as expected (RH-67335)
Constraints:
- Highlight of constrained curves looks bad on Mac (RH-69797)
- Gumball was detached from constrained object being transformed (RH-69643)
- Driving dimensions could not be created on polylines (RH-69359)
Containers: Dragging a tab in a container docked on the side with the tab style set to horizontal did not track correctly (RH-70177)
Display:
- Curve is gappy in V8 (RH-66088)
- Hatch patterns did not draw or print in their print width (RH-69997)
- Locked block instance layers displayed incorrectly (RH-69188)
Display Metal:
- Display: Rhino with Metal at ~40% CPU and GPU utilization when idle (RH-68250)
- Zebra did not display (RH-68815)
- X-Ray display mode did not see through objects (RH-69994)
Docking Tabs: Messy when docking to the left (RH-67533)
History: A "passive" dimension became semi-detached (RH-69996)
Layer:
- Layer does not Refresh… (RH-70284)
- Undoing layer deletion in script hid next layer (RH-70096)
Offset: History did not update subcurve offset correctly (RH-70185)
Properties: Display Mode dropdown menu did not list custom modes added in current Rhino session (RH-70155)
RhinoCode: Sphere.ClosestParameter() signature was wrong - extra out parameters (RH-66031)
Selection: Selection within a nested block is confused (RH-70261)
Toolbar: "Number of Maximum recent buttons" was not clamped properly when entering a number larger than 50 (RH-70104)
UndoView: Did not work after DollyZoom (RH-70129)
WindowLayout: Workspaces: Unexpected behavior (RH-68483)

Crashes Fixed:

Rendering: Cycles Viewport: Crash when switching to other display mode (RH-70028)
Shell: Crashed on cylinder cap (RH-70136)

Enhancements:

File IO: Added "Show missing fonts dialog" checkbox to PDF import dialog (RH-70107)
Layer:
- Made random color default behavior (RH-70083)
- Avoids generating random colors of new layers similar to UI colors (RH-70082)
Offset: Connected curve/edge segments can be offset as one polycurve by pre-selection (RH-69799)
Pull: Pull > Loose to a mesh creates a polyline (RH-70263)
SelChain:
- Double-clicking a curve chain-selects tangent curves (RH-69294)
- Ctrl (CMD)+ Double-clicking a selected curve chain-deselects tangent curves (RH-70233)

Features Added:

Display: NPR: Added SetPostEffect command (RH-70168)
Grasshopper:
- Added Object Display Mode component (RH-70330)
- Get Geometry component supports output PointCloud data (RH-70207)
- Added GH_PointCloud and Param_PointCloud types (RH-69929)

UI Change:

Containers: Trim tab names when tabs are not wide or tall enough to display full names (RH-70066)
Options: "Cycles" page is renamed to "Rhino Render" (RH-70071)

Mac-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

Block: "Block Definitions to Update" dialog incorrect in dark mode (RH-66821)
Dark Mode: Notes are black on black (RH-70323)
Display Metal:
- Wires are clipped (RH-67890)
- Messed up Rendered display (RH-69995)
- Nasty crash in latest WIP on Mac (RH-70180)
Zoom: Zoom Target broken (RH-69059)

Crashes Fixed:

Display Metal: Crash when opening 3dm file (RH-70162)

Windows-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

Containers: Opening Rendering panel closed all containers (RH-70153)
Toolbar: Toobar: Popped up in wrong location (RH-69454)

dan · September 28, 2022, 12:06am

Rhino 8 WIP (8.0.22270) is now available for Windows and Mac

Bugs Fixed:

Constraints:
- Menu icons did not turn light in dark mode (RH-67331)
- Failed to update radius (RH-70274)
Curvature: Did not finding inflection point (RH-70345)
LayerStateManager: States are lost when saved in earlier file format (RH-70109)
Offset: Failed at a specific distance (RH-40064)
Toolbar: Missing all toolbar flyouts (RH-70340)

Enhancements:

SDK: RhinoCommon: Expose CRhinoDisplayPipeline::SetupDisplayMaterial to RhinoCommon (RH-70347)

Features Added:

Distribute: Allow control points / vertices as input (RH-70352)

Mac-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

File IO: SaveACopy command included file path in the default file name (RH-70362)
Layout: Creating new layout crashed on Mac (RH-70383)
Preferences: Unchanged custom display mode lost when Rhino app restarted (RH-70189)

Crashes Fixed:

Panels: Crash when resizing Layer Panel columns (RH-70394)

Windows-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

Annotation: Text: Extra space behind text string is selected that caused failure of removing stacking brackets (RH-70339)

Cosmetics:

Layer: Columns at minimum width still showed labels (RH-69547)

dan · October 4, 2022, 10:57pm

Rhino 8 WIP (8.0.22277) is now available for Windows and Mac

Bugs Fixed:

Constraints:
- Connections: TangentArc needed more constraint or feedback (RH-66902)
- Tangent arcs could not be chained (RH-66919)
Display: NPR: Added "Flair:<Mode>" to View menu and Viewport title menu (RH-70114)
Layout: "Rename" on right-click menu in Layouts panel did not work (RH-70580)
Menu: Tools->Object Snap->Persistent OSnap Dialog did not work (RH-70551)
Toolbar: Added RemovePerFaceColor to RMB of SetPerFaceColorByFacePack on SubD Tools toolbar (RH-68669)

Features Added:

Constraints: Added MidPointConstraint command (RH-70516)

UI Change:

Menu: Added "OSnap" to the end of Window->Panels menu (RH-70511)

Mac-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

Display: Track pad zoom doesn't use dynamic skylight shadow setting (RH-54246)
Display Metal: Meshes caused display issue (RH-70557)
Layer: Column width did not stick when Rhino was restarted (RH-70377)

UI Change:

Viewports: User-Interface: Make viewport dropdown and context popup menus more consistent with Windows (RH-70566)

Windows-Only Changes

UI Change:

OSnap: Docks on the left by default on Windows (RH-70270)

dan · October 18, 2022, 11:21pm

Rhino 8 WIP (8.0.22291) is now available for Windows and Mac

Bugs Fixed:

Constraints: Did not update their references when Split command was run (RH-70642)
Containers: New container is made visible and floating (RH-67508)
Display:
- Fuzzyness at Polyline Corner with Miter and Round Linetype Join Style (RH-67042)
- Curves and isocurves might be drawn with gaps (RH-66088)
DotNET: GH Script Components not working (RH-70150)
File IO:
- Messy edges on STEP import (RH-70639)
- PDF export of blocks was By Parent (RH-70527)
Join: Join makes a bad curve (RH-59346)
Layer:
- Layer names were not aligned properly (RH-70676)
- “Rename layer” on right-click context menu did not work (RH-70568)
- Rename did not work (RH-70657)
Offset: Incomplete offset (RH-1031)
OffsetCrvOnSrf: shrink the input (RH-69532)
OpenNURBS: Mistake in ON_BrepFace::SurfaceIndexOf() (RH-70623)
PackageManager: Pressing Enter in search box incorrectly closed the dialog (RH-62648)
Properties: Panel color swatches and transparency (RH-64436)
RDK:
- Wood texture had strange colours in rendered display mode and in quick rendered previews (RH-70549)
- HDR preview was broken (RH-70095)
RebuildEdges: Did not rebuild vertices when using postpick (RH-70615)
Rendering: Realtime SDK: Group/Mesh ID behaviour changed from Rhino 7 (RH-70636)
Rendering: Texture Mapping: Icons became unclear (RH-70182)
SDK: Python: RhinoscriptSyntax: help glitch (RH-63099)
SetDimensionLayer: Leaders did not create on dimension layer (RH-64977)
Toolbar:
- Add UntrimAll to the Surface Tools toolbar. (RH-69885)
- Holding CMD did not allow copying toolbar buttons (RH-69193)
- Not sizing properly when a toolbar was made floating (RH-68823)
- ESC key did not hide toolbar flyout (RH-70019)
- “Size to Content” did not work (RH-70390)
UI Appearance: Blurry tab icons (RH-69823)

Cosmetics:

RhinoCode: Tabs of active and inactive documents are made more distinguishable (RH-70101)

Enhancements:

OffsetCrvOnSrf: Allows clicking left mouse button at anywhere to flip offset direction (RH-53692)
OffsetSrf: Added ThroughPoint option (RH-61497)
Rebuild: Accepts sub-object selected polycurve segments (RH-67884)
RhinoCode: Enable Search and Replace (RH-66353)
Toolbar: Default toolbars can be updated by installing new versions (RH-54125)

Features Added:

Offset: Added Loose option to OffsetMultiple command (RH-63417)
SDK: RhinoCommon: Added Brep.CutUpSurface static function (RH-70599)
WindowLayout: New SaveWindowLayout command (RH-70641)

Performance Improvements:

Display: Displacement: Caused low frame rate on view manipulation (RH-62016)

Regressions Fixed:

Core bugs: Empty print preview image (RH-70656)
Layer: Changing on/off state of a layer incorrectly set the layer current (RH-70659)

UI Change:

Mesh: Removed unused SubD meshing parameters from surface analysis commands (RH-70616)
Toolbar: Redesigned the Smash icon (RH-70547)

Usability Problems Fixed:

PackageManager: Package Manager: Search bar did not get focus when dialog appeared (RH-70597)

Mac-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

Code Editor Control: Pasting into C# editor in Grasshopper broken (RH-68242)
Display: Display modes- copy of rendered is not fully editable (RH-69505)
Display Metal: Render mesh madness in v8 on Mac after Shrinkwrap (RH-70343)
Interface: UI Review: Toolbar floating containers should be sized appropriately (RH-68665)
Keyboard Shortcuts: CMD+C, X, V did not work on text strings on Mac (RH-68599)
Menu: Edit menu missing keyboard shortcuts (RH-67342)
Paste: CMD+V did not work in floating panels (RH-69893)
Print: Added extra lines to dimensions on Mac (RH-70683)

Windows-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

Display:
- Curves with multi-knots did not display continuously (RH-65203)
- Shaded mode did not show objects (RH-70688)
DotNET:
- System.Uri not usable with python in .NET 6 (RH-70626)
- Localization with dev tools in Rhino (RH-70619)
SelectionFilter: Holding Ctrl did not toggle checkboxes for one shot (RH-70543)
Toolbar: remove extra containers (RH-69947)

brian · October 25, 2022, 10:02pm

Rhino 8 WIP (8.0.22298) is now available for Windows and Mac

Bugs Fixed:

Annotation: Hatch: Triggered continuous remeshing while dragging objects (RH-70899)
BooleanDifference: Added KeepCutters=Yes/No when DeleteInput=Yes (RH-70902)
Display:
- Parallel Reflected projection makes objects transparent (RH-67048)
- Antialiasing was not as smooth as in v7 (RH-68900)
OSnap: Shift+click did not enable one-shot object snap (RH-70829)
StatusBar: Status bar: record history glitch (RH-70121)

Enhancements:

RhinoCode: CodeEditor: Open to last used workspace (RH-70868)

Regressions Fixed:

DotNET: Error printing to PDF from WIP (RH-70786)

Mac-Only Changes

Enhancements:

Display Metal: Tuned up Pointcloud shader (RH-70598)

Windows-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

Containers: Reacting to mouse drag delayed (RH-69986)
RhinoCode: CPython pywin32 package fails to install sometimes (RH-70145)
Toolbar: Tooltips over icons are too fast (RH-70586)

dan · November 1, 2022, 10:32pm

Rhino 8 WIP (8.0.22305) is now available for Windows and Mac

Bugs Fixed:

BlockManager: Block Definition preview broken (RH-70947)
FilletEdge: FE command overrides aliases (RH-71052)
MacroLibrary: Crash when importing SVG (RH-70671)
PackageManager: Dialog did not follow Dark Mode (RH-70916)
Panels: Panels - make the Mac Display panel guid match Windows (RH-71017)
Rendering: Realtime SDK: Raytraced results did not draw in Metal viewport (RH-70835)
RhinoCode:
- Could not change input names (RH-70951)
- Could not enter text in the Grasshopper component (RH-70971)
Shrinkwrap: ShrinkWrap: Offset mesh was not smooth (RH-70984)
StatusBar: Filter control is "on" when no filter is active (RH-70862)

Enhancements:

RhinoCode: Add "Go To Line" command (RH-66361)

Mac-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

Rendering: Materials: Dropdown list went off screen (RH-70925)
Toolbar: Some UI colors did not update when switching between dark and light mode (RH-70939)

Crashes Fixed:

Grasshopper: Crash on resizing GH panel (RH-71025)

Features Added:

Layer: "Layer On in this Detail Only" in layer context menu is available on Mac (RH-58538)

Windows-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

RhinoCode: Using rs caused Server Busy error (RH-70229)
UI Appearance: Border colors of edit and dropdown boxes were inconsistent (RH-67412)

Enhancements:

Layer: TreeGridView should select rows on alternate mouse down (RH-68492)

brian · November 15, 2022, 11:33pm

Rhino 8 WIP (8.0.22319) is now available for Windows and Mac

Bugs Fixed:

CPlane: Auto-aligned CPlane did not return after SpitFace with drawn curve (RH-71152)
Containers: Rhino Window disappeared on removing sidebar reference (RH-71266)
Join: JoinCopy command and postpick (RH-71289)
Layer: Added clear button to search box (RH-68895)
RDK:
- Decal widget did not show (RH-71071)
- CRhinoWidget::PickFilter always returned true (RH-70988)
RefitTrim:
- RefitTrim - example -could be closer (RH-70065)
- Stacked control points (RH-64149)
Rendering: Displaying mapping in viewport caused a crash (RH-70190)
RhinoCode: more complete info for variables (RH-70007)

Crashes Fixed:

BlockManager: Crash when inserting block instance (RH-71079)

Enhancements:

Eto: Layers panel - Added tooltips to column headers (RH-67004)
SDK: Added new constructor for Radial Dimension (RH-71324)
SDK: RhinoCommon: Added new constructor for Ordinate Dimension (RH-71270)
UDT: CageEdit command works with point objects and point clouds (RH-9080)

Features Added:

CPlane: Auto-align CPlane to planar curves (RH-71150)

Regressions Fixed:

Annotation: Text: Mask setting was incorrectly disabled when "Mask frame" was set to "No frame" (RH-70875)

UI Change:

Annotation: Text: "Mask Frame" is renamed to "Frame around text" (RH-71231)
OSnap: Made clicking Osnap pane on status bar toggles "Disable" checkbox or visibility of OSnap panel (RH-71049)
UVEditor: Made to only show mapping channel and FitLargeUVs options in scriptable command (RH-70931)

Usability Problems Fixed:

Layer: "Layer On in this Detail Only" is made available on context menu of every column when a detail view is active (RH-71217)

Mac-Only Changes

Crashes Fixed:

Rendering: Post Effect: Crashed in Raytraced viewport on Mac (RH-69655)

Windows-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

Dark Mode: New layer name in dark mode (RH-69712)

Regressions Fixed:

Display: Impossible to maximize a viewport (RH-71172)

brian · November 23, 2022, 1:06am

Rhino 8 WIP (8.0.22326) is now available for Windows and Mac

Bugs Fixed:

Change Queue issue (RH-70565)
CPlane: AutoAlign:
- Rhino.Runtime.DocumentCollectedException when selecting mesh with Auto Align CPlane on (RH-71410)
- AutoAlignCPlane command did not toggle status bar pane (RH-71447)
- Did not align to object selected before Auto Align CPlane is enabled (RH-71386)
Core bugs: 8-bit grayscale images don't load correctly (RH-71405)
Display: Display Panel settings override selection highlighting (RH-48832)
Gumball: Extruding Picture did not clear Picture frame UserData in output object (RH-71364)
History: Trim = No setting forgotten in history update (RH-71430)
Properties: Changing object layers in WIP (RH-71425)
RDK: Eto UI - Ground Plane UI did not update on undo / redo (RH-71340)
RefitTrim: The trim on the opposite side is untrimmed (RH-59087)
Repeat: Repeat command inconsistency (RH-71490)
SDK: Python: Please fix rs.JoinSurfaces for V8 (RH-71161)
SDK: RhinoCommon: Layer.ModelIsVisible not triggering layer table event (RH-71479)
Toolbar: UnweldVertex (RH-66785)
UVEditor: Not working well with named views (RH-71174)
Volume: Failed on post-select (RH-71241)

Crashes Fixed:

RDK: Legacy Rhino Render crashed Rhino on open (RH-71396)

Enhancements:

SDK: RhinoCommon: Create new constructor for Angular Dimension (RH-71388)

Features Added:

CPlane: AutoAlign: New AutoAlignCPlan command (RH-71444)

Regressions Fixed:

OneLayerOn: The layer is turned on but no objects are shown (RH-71463)
Rendering: Decals: Lost after unchecking and unselecting object (RH-71406)

SDK Enhancement:

Display: NPR: Wrapped Flair C++ functions for use in RhinoCommon (RH-70788)

Mac-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

UI Appearance: Changing between Light/Dark mode doesn't update icons (RH-71442)

Cosmetics:

Dark Mode: Background Colors are wrong (even in Light Mode) (RH-71437)

Windows-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

UI Appearance: Switch between dark and light mode (RH-71453)

UI Change:

Dark Mode: Rhino UI color scheme switches between light and dark modes based on Windows color settings (RH-71399)

brian · November 29, 2022, 11:42pm

Rhino 8 WIP (8.0.22333) is now available for Windows and Mac

Bugs Fixed:

Annotation: Fractional dimensions have too spacious kerning (RH-71619)
Color Picker: Select Color dialog flashed in upper left of screen on open (RH-71209)
Containers: Container: Toolbar flyout could not drag off at first time visible (RH-71082)
Core bugs: 8-bit grayscale images did not load correctly (RH-71405)
Display: Technical mode highlighted unselected objects with dotted lines (RH-71501)
Display Metal: Drew Raytraced viewport upside down (RH-71575)
Libraries: Allow for different views of the content (RH-66275)
NamedPosition: Deleting part of the name deletes the item (RH-70393)
NamedView: Named View panel - no restore button (RH-71192)
Properties:
- Print line width cannot be set to dimensions other than listed in the dropdown (RH-71459)
- Layer color dropdown showed wrong color next to layer names (RH-71401)
Rendering: Reset to defaults button on Render panel crashed Rhino WIP (RH-71533)
UVEditor: Always using material texture even when Grid texture was used (RH-70932)

Enhancements:

acad import: Variant type parameters of a dynamic block import as block definition names (RH-71325)

Regressions Fixed:

Annotation: Hatch: Dotted hatches are not displayed (RH-71352)
StatusBar: No relative coordinates in info pane (RH-71467)

Windows-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

DotNET: Python scripts on Windows did not allow System.Drawing apis by default (RH-71392)
SelLayer: Pre-picked object ignored in SelLayer (RH-30433)
Sun: Sun controls - cancel resets (RH-68680)

brian · December 6, 2022, 11:21pm

Rhino 8 WIP (8.0.22340) is now available for Windows and Mac

Bugs Fixed:

Display Metal: Drew Raytraced viewport upside down (RH-71575)
DotNET: Latest V8 WIP printed a series of Dot Net messages to the command line on startup (RH-71692)
Rendering: Crashed on render when Intel Denoiser was installed (RH-70966)
Toolbar:
- Cascade delay setting was broken (RH-71681)
- Missing SVG (RH-66707)

Enhancements:

Gumball: When typing distance on an arrow, pressing Shift+RMB/Enter/Space/Tab moves object in opposite direction (RH-62864)

Features Added:

Display: Dynamically draws layer linetype while creating curves (RH-71784)

Regressions Fixed:

OneLayerOn: Objects on the selected layer were invisible (RH-71463)
StatusBar: No relative coordinates in info pane (RH-71467)

Windows-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

BlockManager: Loading preview popup caused a crash (RH-71630)
Gumball: Gumball menu offset too far on Windows (RH-71618)
Toolbar: Editing button on flyout toolbar locked up Rhino (RH-71510)

Enhancements:

SpaceMouse: Made not to move Turntable axis (RH-71438)

brian · December 14, 2022, 12:47am

Rhino 8 WIP (8.0.22347) is now available for Windows and Mac

Bugs Fixed:

Import: Custom arrows of Leaders in DWG/DXF were not correctly assigned (RH-71783)
Rendering: Materials: Tile texture rendered wrong/different in all rendered modes (RH-71856)

Enhancements:

File IO: Unused variants of a dynamic block definition in DWG/DXF are also imported (RH-71683)

Features Added:

Layer: Wish: turn detail layers on even if layer is off globally (RH-19685)

Mac-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

SelLayer: Did not highlight layers of pre-picked objects on Mac (RH-71675)

Windows-Only Changes

Bugs Fixed:

Join: Reference Layers and Joining Objects (RH-71906)