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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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
Comments
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?
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().
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
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.
Hello,
Is there the NDepend breaking change reports like with the previous versions?
Alex
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