Breaking Changes in Eyeshot version 2021 – Help Center

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-155	Removed Brep.ConvertToFemMesh() method	Brep.ConvertToFemMesh() has been removed.

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

Comments

4 comments

Martin Walter
March 11, 2021 11:20

Hi,

I was using Brep.ConvertToFemMeshTria in earlier Versions. Where did that conversion method go?

Was this removed earlier and if not, why is this not in you list of breaking changes?

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Giulia Martini
March 12, 2021 07:53

Hi Martin,

this list contains the breaking changes between Eyeshot 2020 and Eyeshot 2021. The method Brep.ConvertToFemMeshTria() was available in the beta version of Eyeshot 2021, but it was not included in the official release.
As discussed via ticket, you can replace it by calling Regen() with a fixed maxLength followed by ConvertToMesh().

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Martin Walter
March 15, 2021 11:32

Don't wanna start a bit discussion, here. This must have been a simple oversight, and that can happen even though maybe it shouldn't.
Your support guys gave me a workaround, I can use for now so I don't have to stop on my current development task. Although I cannot really control precision using that workaround, but at least I can continue until your new meshing algo is finished.

But before posting, please check your own documentation: http://documentation.devdept.com/2020/topic_0000000000001B4F.html

I think I did not imagine using this with EyeShot 2020, already ;)

Best regards
Martin

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Giulia Martini
March 16, 2021 08:10 (Edited March 16, 2021 08:11)

Hi Martin,

Brep.ConvertToFemMeshTria() was indeed available only in the beta version of Eyeshot 2021.
As for Brep.ConvertToFemMesh(), you are right. It was public in Eyeshot 2020 and it's no longer available in Eyeshot 2021, sorry. We added a breaking change for this, thank you for reporting it.

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