Eyeshot 2021 Released 🍾

Alberto Bencivenni

Updated February 26, 2021 09:35

Bologna, Italy — February 5, 2021. devDept Software S.r.l., leading provider of software development tools to the engineering industry, today announces the release of Eyeshot 2021, the native CAD control for .NET Framework.

What's new in Eyeshot 2021

Drafting

Hatch entity (Video, can be tested in DraftingDemo code sample)
BOM and Balloons (Video, can be tested in PaperDemo code sample)
Improved VectorView selection, you can now change curve properties without setting the View current (Video, can be tested in PaperDemo code sample)
ArcDimension import (as angular) from DWG/DXF

Proprietary File Format

Multi-file read/write. The ability to read/write assemblies from/to disk as one file per block. (Video and Article, can be tested in AssemblyDemo code sample)
Lazy loading. Allows Table of Context only loading of a complex assembly, leaving to the user the ability to load a single assembly component at time. (Video, can be tested in AssemblyDemo code sample)

CAM

Manufacture environment with classes for defining milling setups, tools, 2x and 3x milling strategies, leads & ramps and stocks. Manufacture environment includes the material removal simulation with true sweeps for ball, bull nose and flat end mills. (Video, can be tested in CamDemo code sample)

Collision Detection

Accurate collision detection went under a complete refactoring and now is much faster (up to 40x) (Video and Article)

General

ReadPDF class to import vector drawings from PDF documents (Video)
Redesigned Eyeshot control resize (Video, can be tested in AssemblyDemo code sample)
ObjectManipulator label (Video)
WorkManager, an asynchronous WorkUnit queue manager. (Article)
NVidia Grid support
Improved small text rendering

Entities

Stock & SimulationStock
MachiningPlane & MachiningBoundary
Hatch (Video)
Balloon (Video)
FastMesh entity, a Vertex Buffer Object based mesh (can be tested in FunctionPlot sample)

Samples

CamDemo (new)
CabinetDesigner (new)
CollisionDetection (revamped)
PipeBending (revamped)
FunctionPlot (revamped)
PaperDemo (improved)
SelectTriangles (improved)

Eyeshot 2021 is based on Visual Studio 2015 and .NET Framework 4.8

YouTube playlist for Eyeshot 2021 Preview.

CAM Features Overview

2D Milling Strategies

Clearing2D
Pocket2D
Contour2D
Face2D

3D Milling Strategies

Clearing3D
Pocket3D
Contour3D
Parallel3D

Features

Support for flat, bull nose and ball end mills
Support for any kind of geometry (flipped, cracked and faulty included)
2D and 3D toolpath generation
2D and 3D toolpath simulation
Toolpath generation limited to a boundary region
Axial and radial stock to leave
Clearance, retract, top and bottom machining planes
Climb, conventional and mixed cut directions
Flat area detection
Straight and circular leads
Plunge and helix ramps
Order by depth
Stay down distance

Comments

8 comments

Francis Rouleau
February 08, 2021 16:35

Any list of breaking changes ?

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Alberto Bencivenni
February 08, 2021 17:34 (Edited February 08, 2021 17:35)

Hi Francis,

The list of breaking changes can be found here.

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Chris Hackney
February 17, 2021 16:56

Does the Hatch entity work similar to a Region entity? Can I convert a Region into a Hatch?

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Simone Maccaferri
February 18, 2021 07:42
Yes, Solid Hatch is similar to a Region. It supports disjoint or self-intersecting contours and is drawn filled even in wireframe display mode. You can create a Hatch from the Region contour list:
```
Hatch hatch = new Hatch(Hatch.SolidPatternName, region.ContourList, region.Plane);
```
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Matteo Aldera
March 23, 2021 16:54

Hi, any news about .Net 5 support? Is a beta scheduled soon? I'm working on a brand new project I would really love to use the latest technology available.

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Francis Rouleau
March 24, 2021 12:03

Giacomo, They were looking into the feasibility to go with .NET core with 2021. That goal wasn't complete so it is certainly pushed to the 2022 version but the roadmap is not up yet. So I wouldn't bet on getting .NET 5 feasibility before at least 2022. At that doesn't mean it can be done.

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Matteo Aldera
March 24, 2021 12:50

It would be a major problem if they cannot support the latest .Net releases, but I'm confident that will not be the case even if it is clearly a challenging task.

Anyway, without a clear schedule I have to switch back to .Net 4.8, but it's my fault, I should have checked beforehand.

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Francis Rouleau
March 24, 2021 15:10

Don't forget .NET 5.0 is also a completely different framework than .NET Framework 4.8. For example Winforms has a completly new backend code and it's not anymore the old GDI+ that has been carried out since .NET 1.0. Most controls visual is now run of a mix of DirectX and GDI+. All the old namespace you are used to are either gone or replace with a brand new version.

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