Geometric Operations

• FindClosestVertex(): retrieve a vertex inside a Brep or Solid entity
• Fast intersection between Line and Mesh 🗲
• 3D Printer slicer
• Intersection points between Line and Mesh
• Closest point on a Solid3D object
• Align in 3D

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Drawing

• Curvature mapping for curves and surfaces
• How to draw a text on a cylindrical surface
• CAD practice drawing
• Extruding DWG/DXF profiles 💪
• Using SHX fonts
• Revision Cloud ☁️

Solid Modeling

• Mounting Bracket
• Compression spring
• Heat Sink 2
• Heat Sink
• Engine Cylinder
• Spur Gear

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Surface Modeling

• Sink
• Gym frame
• Sapientino

Polyhedral Modeling

• House
• Medal

General

• Rendered mesh in Wireframe DisplayMode
• Entities far from the origin: view shaking and bad precision
• Performance Tips
• ObjectManipulator customization
• Create points with a different shape
• Zoom invariant / Position Invariant entity

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Colors & Textures

• Create streamline-like curve
• Changing edge color for a single entity
• Colormap Mesh using Texture1D 🎨
• Mesh Custom Texture Mapping
• Textured Line or Curve
• Applying a Sticker-like texture

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Transparency

• Transparency explained
• Better Transparency
• Multicolored Mesh with transparency
• FemMesh transparency
• Semitransparent Texture

Selection

• AutoCAD like selection style
• Highlighting the edge closest to the mouse
• Select triangles inside a mesh
• Once upon a time the Entity.Selected property

General

• Version-Specific assembly references
• WebGL Html template customization
• Synchronous ProgressBar
• Resetting Toolbox and Clearing the Toolbox Cache
• Object snap on BlockReference entity
• How do I intercept the Delete key and show a confirmation message?

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Import/Export

• Geometry Import/Export
• Bitness agnostic ReadDWG 🧙
• Eyeshot file format thumbnail handler
• Eyeshot Proprietary File Format
• Entity.XData
• Reading DWG/DXF (WinForms)

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Third Party Libraries

• Eyeshot issues with Telerik controls
• Toolbox issue with Visual Studio Express Editions
• How to publish an Eyeshot application with ClickOnce
• Eyeshot issues with DevExpress controls

WPF

• Native vs NativeExperimental rendering in WPF
• Enable multitouch on Eyeshot WPF control when added programmatically
• Immediate mode rendering in WPF 🚀
• Enable multitouch on WPF controls
• Eyeshot WPF hanging on startup with .Net 4.5.2

Printing

• Printing in raster with a given scale
• Vector printing with custom scaling

FEM

• Custom element Stiffness Matrix
• Custom material Property Matrix

Current version

• Migrating from version 11
• Breaking Changes in Eyeshot version 12

Older versions

• Migrating from Eyeshot 4 to Eyeshot 10
• 11.0.796
• 11.0.713
• 11.0.686
• 11.0.545
• 11.0.433

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Eyeshot FAQ

• How do I change the appearance of the internal wires of a FemMesh?
• How can I remove or change the Environment Mapping Image?
• How can I use ClippingPlane to cut the geometry or get the intersection curves?
• How can I clone a custom entity?
• How do I extract the edge curves from a surface?
• Can I force entity regeneration?

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Older versions of articles

• Performance Tips (v10)
• AutoCAD like selection style (v10)
• FindClosestVertex: retrieve vertex inside a Solid3D or Solid entity (V9)
• Curvature mapping for curves and surfaces (v8)
• Highlighting the edge closest to the mouse (v7)
• Zoom-independent curve pattern (v5)

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