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Mitcad 0.8.0: the BUILD tab for slot-profile assemblies, one parts library, more .rvt shapes, textures rendered in their true colours

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@mitcad mitcad released this 17 Oct 07:12
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v0.8.0
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BUILD

  • A new BUILD tab assembles frames from slot profiles: Profile, Panel,
    Linear Part, Connector and Fasteners place parts from the library on the
    design, with lengths bound to the frame, end machining (Ends), Flip and
    Rotate 90 deg. Connectors are previewed in place with their pictures,
    junctions show on the hover and the length follows the cursor. Cut List
    and Parts List (also as PDF) list the stock and the parts.
  • The profile library has slot profiles of six systems with their nuts,
    end caps, connectors and panels, and guide rails, carriages, bearings,
    housings, shaft supports, lead screws, belts, pulleys, gears and racks.
    Library entries carry supplier fields; mitcad-cli library searches
    BUILD candidates.

Libraries

  • One parts library (mitcad-parts 2.0.0) replaces the fastener library and
    holds the fasteners and the BUILD parts; parts recorded under the old
    library still resolve.

Import

  • .rvt projects: walls attached to a roof, floor or reference plane follow
    its surface; every door, window and opening cuts its wall (or the report
    says why); wall sweeps, slab edges and rails are swept from their profile
    types' own loops, with returns and mitres; V mullions, trimmed mullions,
    spiral stair runs and spiral rails along helical paths.
  • .ipt parts: outlines of profiles in sketches of construction geometry
    only, flagged lines bounding short profile parts, helix sweeps with exact
    cylindrical sides.
  • Imports leave out empty bodies with a warning.

Modelling

  • More fillets and chamfers build: roundings rolling on a narrow face's far
    edge, meeting in a crease, ending tangentially in the face at their end,
    over ribs up to flush blocks, running into an earlier rounding; chamfers
    wider than a face of their edges.
  • Sketch fixes: Trim, Extend, Offset, Mirror on ellipses, region holes,
    snapping in Arc, Slot, Ellipse, Spline and Polygon, the origin as one
    fixed point, and Esc and dimension editing.

Interface

  • Find in Design finds components and bodies by name.
  • Section Analysis caps take the component's colour with a visible hatch.
  • The view's context menu has a Hide submenu; Edit Appearances assigns to
    all bodies of the selected faces; New Project accepts a pasted git
    address.
  • The Docked ribbon fits its toolbar instead of moving groups into the
    overflow.

Rendering

  • Base-colour textures render in their true colours (they were washed out).
  • MCP: appearance and render-settings calls that read no file run as model
    commands.
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