Breaking Changes in Eyeshot version 2021

This page lists the important behavior and API changes that were introduced in this version. If you already have projects using devDept products, you will need to peruse this list in order to understand the changes you might need to make to your source code to support this new release.

What's New

To learn about what's new in this version, please refer to the following page: What's New

• Hatch entity 
• BOM and Balloons
• Improved VectorView selection
• ArcDimension import from DWG/DXF
• Multi-file read/write
• Lazy loading
• Updated the Eyeshot proprietary file format to version 8
• Manufacture environment with classes for defining milling setups, tools, 2x and 3x milling strategies, leads & ramps, and stocks.
• SimulationStock entity and material removal simulation
• Accurate collision detection went under a complete refactoring and now is much faster (up to 40x)
• ReadPDF class to import vector drawings from PDF documents
• Redesigned Eyeshot control resize
• ObjectManipulator label
• WorkManager, an asynchronous WorkUnit queue manager.
• NVidia Grid support
• Improved small text rendering

Breaking Changes

BC-137	Removed the RadialDim.ShowCenterMark property	Now we show the center mark only if CenterMarkSize is greater than 0.
BC-138	Hatch entity	Removed ReadAutodesk.SkipHatches and ReadAutodesk.HatchImportMode properties. Changed ReadAutodesk constructors signature, removed the skipHatches and hatchImportMode parameters. Removed HatchRegion class. Changed UtilityEx.GetEntitiesStats() signature, added the hatchPatterns parameter.
BC-139	Black layers in Autodesk export	Black layers are now exported according to the WriteAutodeskParams.Foreground property, therefore as black by default. Previously they were always saved as foreground color (AutoCAD color index 7).
BC-140	Removed the "virtual" keyword from the Entity.Selected property	Entity.Selected is no longer virtual.
BC-141	Removed ReadFile.FileHeaderInfo property	Removed ReadFile.FileHeaderInfo property. Use the GetFileInfo() method instead.
BC-142	AddToScene / AddToSceneAsSingleObject	Removed all AddToSceneAsSingleObject methods. Removed overloading method AddToScene that accepts layer and color as parameters. Removed optional parameters removeJittering and blockName from AddToScene method.
BC-143	Removed Entity.IsSmall() method	Entity.IsSmall() has been removed.
BC-144	Renamed BoundingBox class to BoundingBoxSettings	BoundingBox class has been renamed as BoundingBoxSettings.
BC-145	Removed queue handling from ViewBuilder class in favor of the new class WorkManager	Removed ViewBuilder.operatingType enum.
BC-146	Renamed Sheet.IsDirty property to HasChanged.	Sheet.IsDirty has been renamed as HasChanged.
BC-147	Renamed LinePattern class to LineType	Renamed LinePattern to LineType Renamed LinePatternSurrogate to LineTypeSurrogate Renamed LinePatternEx to LineTypeEx Renamed LinePatternExSurrogate to LineTypeExSurrogate
BC-148	Removed ReadAutodesk.Layouts property	ReadAutodesk.Layouts property has been removed.
BC-149	Line entity is now compiled	Line entity, like the other wire entities, is now compiled and not drawn on the fly. If you change the coordinates of its vertices, you have to regenerate the line to see the update.
BC-150	Removed CollisionDetection2D.GetCollisionVolumes property	Now, to get the collision volume, you can call the method CollisionDetection2D.ComputeIntersectionVolume() at the end of the CollisionDetection2D.DoWork().
BC-151	Renamed WritePDF to Write3DPDF and WritePdfParams to Write3DPdfParams	WritePDF has been renamed as Write3DPDF and WritePdfParams has been renamed as Write3DPdfParams.
BC-152	Removed active viewport's properties from Model	Since they were only a shortcut for the active viewport's ones, we removed the following public properties from Model: Rotate, Zoom, Pan, DisplayMode, InitialView, Camera, ShowVertices, ShowVertexIndices, VertexSize, AutoHideLabels, Labels, ShowLabels.
BC-154	Protobuf	Serializer.SetProtobufModel() method is now protected instead of public.
BC-155	Removed Brep.ConvertToFemMesh() method	Brep.ConvertToFemMesh() has been removed.
BC-157	OriginSymbol labels	Replaced OriginSymbol.LabelColor property with LabelColorName, LabelColorX, LabelColorY and LabelColorZ.
BC-158	IFC properties	IfcMeasureValue and ifcPhysicalQuantity properties are now loaded as Tuple<string, double> with the unit type as the first item.
BC-159	GetPointsForBb()	The Region.GetPointsForBb() method was renamed to Region.GetPointsForConvexHull()
BC-160	Manufacture simulation speed	The property Manufacture.SimulationSpeed now refers to the real speed of the end mill during the simulation, measured in world units per second.

Eyeshot version 2021 is based on .NET Framework 4.8

Previous versions of this article: Eyeshot 2020, Eyeshot 12, Eyeshot 11, Eyeshot 10, Eyeshot 9