2019- List of New Features or Fixes
- Thread starter ynnek
- Start date
The alpha will probably start within 7 days. I don't think we're going to make the alpha publicly available to everyone - there's some very specific testing we need some user feedback with. The alpha will last approximately 2 weeks. Then we'll take another week or two to circle the wagons, and then release a public beta.
oldfox
Alibre Super User
https://www.alibre.com/2019-whats-new/ Great! Is this using Hoops Visualize?
Lew_Merrick
Guest
But what about Feature upgrade and polishing?
NateLiquidGravity
Alibre Super User
I beat you to posting.
Just barely. https://www.alibreforum.com/forum/i...2019-new-graphics-pipeline.20826/#post-133134
View attachment 27162 I see you
Ha, that little guy won't be in 2019.0. He isn't finished cooking yet. Good eye though.
Yes
A few things here. DirectX 9, on which our previous pipeline was built, will end of life shortly. Our option was to custom write a new pipeline again (bad) or use a component.
We choose a component for a few reasons :
- They write graphics pipelines for a living
- They handle the (non trivial) video card testing
- Much better large assembly graphics performance. Going from 5 FPS to 25 for example is a huge feature to those that need it.
- It looks much nicer. You can argue this is not important but once you use it I bet you wouldn't go back.
- Some nifty things like fancy view styles. Many won't care about these, but they are basically "free" from a dev perspective so we will put them in
- Texturing, for whole parts but also for things like showing threads with images, a highly requested feature
- Bringing in an image onto a plane to trace over
- Arbitrary face coloring
- Draggable section views
- The list goes on
Ydl
Member
....also sets us up to be able to do lots of things :
So we didn't implement this to just "look pretty", though that is a nice side effect that you will enjoy
- Texturing, for whole parts but also for things like showing threads with images, a highly requested feature
- Bringing in an image onto a plane to trace over
- Arbitrary face coloring
- Draggable section views
- The list goes on
Yes please!
Split face?
I said arbitrary not crazy! Email me your split face use case though max @ alibre.com .
No, that is a much more involved thing to tinker with. Question - what if the property of "make this feature its own set of faces" was at a feature level, such as a checkbox during feature creation, and not an inherent behavior. I can see lots of times where this would not be desired. Would that work? Still would have to do it, and wouldn't be for 2019.0, but perhaps would be easier (no promises).
