Rhino v4.0 SR6 RC1 2009.05.28

New Features:
Properties - Texture Mapping: The mapping widget color can now be specified.
Save:DWG/DXF: Export schemes for CAM applications added: CAM Imperial and CAM Metric. These schemes have settings that make it easier to save files that are compatible with laser cutters, routers, and other 2-D CAM equipment.
Enhanced Features:
Layer: New layers are inserted into the list just below the currently selected layer. If no layer is selected, a new layer is inserted and the end of the list.
Smooth: Right-click one coordinate direction to set it and clear the others.
SnapToLocked: Now can run transparently (inside another command).
Bug Fixes:
.NET SDK: Fixed a C# const exception in CGetGripPoint::CalculateTransform
.NET SDK: Fixed a crash in MRhinoPolyEdge destructor.
Angle: A different answer resulted from pre-picking and post-picking lines. This is fixed.
ArrayPolar: When display units was set to feet and inches, the Angle to fill prompt incorrectly displayed feet and inches instead of degrees. This is fixed.
BlendCrv: Blending between surface edges deleted surfaces. This is fixed.
BlendSrf: Problems with the PlanarSections options have been fixed.
CageEdit: Bugs fixed:

Relationship between cage and captive object could break.
Captive objects incorrectly released during transform commands.
Mesh vertex normals were incorrectly changed.
Captive object incorrectly edited.
ClippingPlane: If a clipping plane was active in a detail, it incrorrectly clipped the page geometry. This is fixed.
Crash fixed in FilletCorners command.
Dimensions: Values close to 0 did not honor the precision setting. This is fixed.
DupBorder: Set curves the wrong direction. This is fixed.
FilletCorners: Failure bug fixed.
Hatch: The hatch preview is now the current layer color, not black.
Import SKP: SketchUP SKP import now uses the newest file reading libraries from Google.
Intersect: Failed on fully-multiple knots. This is fixed.
Join: Cancel bug is fixed.
Layout: The grid incorrectly displayed in new page layouts. This is fixed.
Leader: Scripting option now implemented.
Loft: Creating a loft between one curve and a point failed. This is fixed.
Maelstrom: The select objects prompt has been changed.
MakeHole: Bugs fixed:

New surfaces made with the Through option were not properly sized.
Failure bug.
Match: Failure bug fixed.
MatchSrf: Object highlighting did not work properly in some cases. This is fixed.
MeshBox: Incorrectly created open boxes in some cases. This is fixed.
MoveHole: A crash occurred when dragging a hole out of its surface boundary. This is fixed.
NamedCPlane: Failed to properly restore. This is fixed.
NetworkSrf: Canceling caused a crash. This is fixed.
NetworkSrf: Scripting version (-NetworkSrf) did not correctly set the tolerance variables. This is fixed.
Offset: Did not correctly handle stacked control points. This is fixed.
OffsetSrf: Offsetting a closed periodic surface resulted in an open surface. This is fixed.
Open 3DM files: Rhino 4.0 cannot read Rhino 5.0 files, but could leave Rhino in a state where it was easy to overwrite the Rhino 5.0 file with an empty model if you try. This is now fixed.
OrientOnSrf: The preview is flipped compared to the final result. This is fixed.
Patch: You can now use a selected surface for both an edge and a starting surface.
PluginManager: Dialog box column width problem fixed.
Print: Bugs fixed:

Margin unit scale settings saved.
Selected blocks did not print.
Moving print window did not work correctly.
Control polygon dots too close together.
Preview window display incorrect.
Print: Certain fonts did not display at the same size in Windows GDI and OpenGL display. This is fixed.
PrintDisplay: A problem with highlighting objects has been fixed.
Properties - Material: The dialog box incorrectly reset the materials on meshes. This is fixed.
Properties - Texture Mapping: Texture stretched when mapping widget close to 90 degrees. This is fixed.
Properties: The Match option did not work properly when matching materials. This is fixed.
Render: A problem with transparency has been fixed.
RoundHole: Bugs fixed:

SmartTrack did not work properly with RoundHole.
New surfaces made with the Through option were not properly sized.
Save:AI: An error occurred in Adobe Illustrator when importing a Rhino model with no surfaces. This is fixed.
Save:DWG/DXF: If the normal of a 2-D polylines points in the negative coordinate direction, some CAM software incorrectly mirrored the polylines around the origin. This is fixed.
Save:GHS: Part Maker Export acceptable line length has been increased.
SaveAs: Did not work properly in Vista OS. This is fixed.
SelChain: Ctrl+Click incorrectly did not allow selecting the last edge segment on a surface. This is fixed.
SmartTrack: Using distance constraint snap to something; the distance constrained point was incorrectly tagged as a smart point. This is fixed.
Smooth: Incorrectly removed trim curves. This is fixed.
Split: The Isocurve option failed when there were stacked control points in the surface. This is fixed.
Tab constraint: The distance constraint and the Tab direction constraint did not work properly together. This is fixed.
Tab constraint: The Tab direction constraint and object snaps did not work properly together. This is fixed.
Toolbar buttons: Several bugs fixed.
Trim: Several bugs fixed.
Trim: The ApparentIntersections option affected the results in an unexpected way. This is fixed.
Zebra: A crash occurred when a mesh had no texture coordinates and an analysis mesh command was used. This is fixed.
ZoomTarget: Did not work properly when a transparent grid was used. This is fixed.

Bug Fixes:
Fixed a crash when reading some 3DM files written by previous versions of Rhino.

New Features:
Angle input added: Angle formats for rotate-related commands (Rotate, Rotate3D, ArrayPolar, RotateEdge, etc.) now can accept decimal degrees; degrees, minutes, seconds, gradians, and radians.
ToolbarLock: New command. Locks docked toolbars into place.
Enhanced Features:
Layout: PageLayout is now a built-in alias for the Layout command
Purge: Now deletes bitmaps saved as Wallpaper.
Sweep2: The rebuild curves option now allows the number of control points to be reduced to 2.
Bug Fixes:
3DFace: now supports ortho from the previous point, and it is now possible to snap to all previous points with the Point osnap
Alt+Drag did not properly copy selected control points. This is fixed.
BlendCrv: Input curves were sometimes not properly deleted. This is fixed.
BlendCrv: When using Trim=Yes and Join=Yes, the input curves are left behind. Result is that you have the two curves joined with the blend and the original two curves left. This is fixed.

Booleans: Several failure bugs fixed.
Crash bugs fixed: Dozens of crashes have been fixed throughout Rhino: Display, Meshing, Pullback curves to surfaces, Toolbars, Object Sorting, File I/O, STEP, Cancelling of time-consuming tasks, Drag & Drop Files, NetworkSrf, Curve-Surface intersection, Worksessions, Hatch UI, ArrayOnSrf, Dialog Localization.
Dimensions: Dimensions inside blocks did not display correctly when the view was rotated. This is fixed.
Dual monitor: Resizing the main Rhino window so it stretched across two monitors then closed and re-opened Rhino, the main window was incorrectly sized to fit the main monitor or the monitor that contains most of the window rectangle.
Now Rhino will let the window span multiple monitors and will only move or resize the window if one or more edges is off all the monitors.

Edit Toolbar button dialog box now supports Ctrl+A to select all of the text in an edit box.
Fair: The command did not stick closely enough to the tolerance. This has been improved.
FilletCorners: A failure bug has been fixed.
FilletEdge: Failed in some instances using a bad surface as input.
FilletEdge: Handles placed at surface seams could be incorrectly oriented. This is fixed.
HideInDetail: Objects hidden with the HideInDetail command incorrectly responded to object snaps in active views. This is fixed.
Intersect: Failed on some closed polysurfaces. This is fixed.
Intersect: Several failure bugs have been fixed.
Layer: Dragging layers with parents and children did not work correctly. This is fixed.
MergeFace did not use the default angle tolerance. This is fixed.
Mesh: One problem with slow meshing has been fixed.
OffsetNormal: A curve resulting from offsetting the edge of a sphere incorrectly contained a kink at the equator. This is fixed.
Open:DWG/DXF: Inserting or Importing dwg or dxf files incorrectly set the linetype scale in rhino to whatever it is in the AutoCAD file. This is fixed.
Open:DWG/DXF: Now only lightweight polylines with straight segments are read as polycurves.
Open: A crash opening earlier Rhino files with GHS data has been fixed with the HOT FIX release.
Osnap:Int: When zoomed out, too many objects could be in the pickbox causing a slowdown. This is fixed.
Pipe: When the Thick and Global options were used, the command incorrectly did not make the pipe correctly. This is fixed.
Properties: Leader properties for multiline text incorrectly displayed only one line. This is fixed.
Render: Alpha channel incorrectly contained transparency information when \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"transparent background\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\" was not selected. This is fixed.
Render: When Rhino did not have focus, the render calculated was wrong. This is fixed.
Save:GHS: A crash bug has been fixed.
Save:STL: A crash has been fixed.
Save:STL: A problem with some objects not meshing properly has been fixed.
Split: Several failure bugs have been fixed.
Splop: A crash when the surface is a block insert has been fixed.
Sweep2: Weighted points are respected in any combination if the curves are otherwise also set up for Simple sweeps. Simple Sweeps to rational rails also accurately follow the rails now.
SynchronizeViews: The viewport display as set with SynchronizeViews was not saved. This is fixed.
Text: Text in a block object did not display properly if the block was rotated to another plane. This is fixed.
Toolbars: Rhino flyout toolbars did not work properly with Wacom Intuos tablets. This is fixed.
Trim: Several failure bugs have been fixed.
Trim: Several failure bugs have been fixed.
UnrollSrf: A failure bug with trimmed and flipped surfaces has been fixed.
UnrollSrf: Curves could be incorrectly split. This is fixed.
ViewportProperties: The wallpaper bitmap was not updating properly after a change to the bitmap file. This is fixed.
What: New information added - edge and vertex tolerance.
Worksession: The state of child layers was not correctly restored with the worksession file. This is fixed.

CurveThroughPt: Control points and edit points can now be selected as input.
SelMappingWidget: New command - Selects the texture mapping widget.
Enhanced Features:
Sweep1: Road-like Top is now \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"session sticky\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\" and reverts back to Freeform between sessions.
Bug Fixes:
Area: When the command cannot calculate the area, instead of ignoring the surface, now it now reports \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"Unable to calculate area.\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"
Blocks: Empty block defintions and references to empty block definitions are now read by Rhino. References to empty block definitions can be selected by the SelAll, SelBlock, and SelBlockNamed commands. BlockManager can be used to destroy empty block definitions.
Command Prompt: The command repeat and recently-used list was not working properly. This is fixed.
CommandHelp: Context-sensitive help now works with scripts that pause for interactive input.
Context menus are now enabled by default so they can be discovered by users.

Crash fixed:
Advanced display: A crash when creating or deleting a new named display mode or renaming a new display mode has been fixed.
BackgroundBitmap: When a background bitmap file was deleted, Rhino could crash on startup.
CPlane
Export
ExtractControlPolygon
Join: An intermittant crash in the code that joins curves has been fixed.
License manager
Open/Close/Save: Crashes opening and closing Rhino.
Open:LWO: Crash opening Lightwave files.
Options
Open:DXF
Paste: Holding Ctrl+V to paste objects caused Rhino to close.
Print
SaveSmall
Toolbar command crashed Rhino on Vista Home Basic OS.
Ungroup
WireCut
CreateUVCrv: Accuracy has been improved.
CrvSeam: A problem flipping the direction with a mouse click has been fixed.
CurvatureAnalysis: The false-color analysis failed on spheres. This is fixed.
Curve/Surface intersection: Several bugs have been fixed. Affects commands such as Intersect, Split, Trim, Project, etc.
CurveBoolean: Point objects that are in the group of curves are incorrectly selected at the end of the command along with the curve output. This is fixed.
Detail: TiltView did not work properly in detail views. This is fixed.
Dialog boxes: A problem with dragging the undocked Layer dialog box leaving screen artifacts behind has been fixed.
Dim: A problem with including dimension text in the model extents has been fixed.
DimHorizontal: A problem with placing the dimension line has been fixed.
Display: Using GDI drawing feedback, the preview for an extruded planar curve was a solid, flat, unshaded layer color. This is fixed.
Drape: Failed with autospacing set to No. This is fixed.
Error Reporting: The crash reporting mechanism has been improved.
Extend: When boundary objects are both surface edges, the Arc option only worked on the first curve end. This is fixed.
ExtrudeCrv: Direction option feedback color was incorrectly hard-coded to black. This is fixed.
FilletEdge: Many special case failures have been fixed.
FullScreen: Incorrectly caused menus to disappear. This is fixed.
Installer: Patch installs did not work silently. This is fixed.
Intersect: Several failure bugs have been fixed.

Join:
A problem joining the ends of an open arc to form a circle that caused the change in the radius to be greater than the model tolerance has been fixed.
A problem with joining chained edges has been fixed.
LayerStateManager: The scripted version failed to rename saved layer states. This is fixed.
MappingOn: The mapping widget appearance has been revised to make it easier to see.
MatchSrf: A problem with incorrect object highlighting has been fixed.
Mesh: A problem with unsafe cancel while processing the mesh has been fixed.
Most recently-used commands: Command names were incorrectly being added to the MRU list. This is fixed.
MoveUVN: Running another command that changes objects while the MoveUVN dialog box was open caused a crash. To fix this, MoveUVN will no longer allow object changes while another command is running.
NextViewport: Cycling through floating viewports did not work properly. This is fixed.
Open:3DM: Models could open with the viewports incorrectly displayed. This is fixed.
Open:DWG/DXF: A problem with opening AutoCAD files has been fixed.

Open:DWG/DXF:
A problem with title block text shifting when importing to Rhino has been fixed.
A problem reading splinefit splines created from non-AutoCAD files has been fixed.
Blocks with names beginning with * did not import. This is fixed.
Trim curves on AutoCAD solids were improperly treated on import. This is fixed.
Open:DXF: Polylines could be skipped on import. This is fixed.
Open:FBX: A crash when opening files created from Max 2009 has been fixed.

Open:SolidWorks:
Drag and drop operation to import SW file seemed to hang. This is fixed.
Command line feedback when opening a file has been improved.
When opeining an SW assembly, all the parts are placed in a group. Subsequent assemblies were incorreclty placed in the same groups as the first ones. This is fixed. Now subsequent assemblies are grouped separately
Open:STP: When reading STEP files where not all objects have the same unit system, Rhino now converts all units to match the file unit system and scales objects appropriately.
Open:VRML: A crash opening a file created with AutoCAD has been fixed.
Osnap:Mid: In some cases, the Mid object snap did not work properly on surface edges. This is fixed.
Paste: When pasting from the Clipboard, a model's basepoint is now assigned to 0,0,0.
Pipe: In some cases, an extra cap was incorrectly created at the initial radius location. This is fixed.
PlanarSrf: Self-intersecting curves were incorrectly reported causing the command to fail. This is fixed.
Plug-ins: Plug-in based menu items do not display help strings on status bar. This is fixed.
PointDeviation: The maximum and median calulations could be wrong when there were points selected that were not included because of the proximity angle test.
Print: A problem with Dots with long text strings were not printing properly has been fixed.
Pull: Curves that were very close to the pulling surface could give an incorrect result. This is fixed.
Remove Point/RemoveControlPoint: It was not possible to remove the second to last control point or the first and last points. This is fixed.
Save:FBX: Nodes must have unique names regardless of what they are. If layer names are the same as object names, for example, nothing is exported. This is fixed.
Save:STEP: Some problems exporting STEP files to Altium, Inventor, and SolidWorks 2008 have been fixed.
Step can now be read by Altium Designer, Solidworks 2008, and Solid Edge.
Step objects are assigned the layer color when appropriate.
Open polysurfaces are assigned color correctly.
Block instances with non-rigid transformations are exploded in the step file. So now mirrored or scaled objects are exported correctly.
Saving text from dialog boxes: List command is an example. The text out dialog dialog did not save a unicode-encoded text file. This is fixed.
SelPolyline: Polycurves and single segment lines were incorrectly selected. This is fixed.
SetOneDaySunAnimation: A problem with shadow direction at noon has been fixed.
SetUserText: A problem with saving user text on light objects has been fixed.
ShrinkTrimmedSrf sometimes continued to claim that it is shrinking surfaces even after they have been shrunk and even after they have been untrimmed and shrunk. This is fixed.
SmartTrack: In floating viewports, the Ctrl key did not add SmartPoints. This is fixed.
SpaceBall: A problem with selected object highlighting has been fixed.
Split: An error splitting polycurves has been fixed.
Sweep2: Tangency and curvature options did not work properly. This is fixed.
Sweep2: The AddSlash feedback color was hardcoded to black. This is fixed.
TextObject: Right-to-left reading text did not work properly. This is fixed.
TextObject: The selected text was incorrectly not highlighted in the dialog box. This is fixed.

Texture Mapping:
The mapping widget was incorrectly clipped or invisible in some views. This is fixed.
The Equalize and Size to objects buttons were dropped for V4. They have been restored.
Texture mapping: Several bugs in the dialog box UI have been fixed.
Texture Mapping: The Tab key allows cycling through the position/size/rotation fields in the mapping widget controls.
Texture mapping: With some renderers (for example, Brazil and VRay) did not get the correct repeat amounts. This is fixed.
This fixed some bugs in the scripted patch installation.
Toolbar: A problem with toolbar display in Windows Vista has been fixed.
Toolbar: Problems with redrawing the toolbars has been fixed.
Toolbars: In localized versions of Rhino, copying a button to other toolbar changed the tooltip to English. This is fixed.

Trim:
Several failure bugs have been fixed.
A problem with the interaction of curves near surface and closed curve seams has been fixed.
ViewCaptureToFile: If the z-axis was displayed and the DrawCPlaneAxes option was set to no, the z-axis was incorrectly shown in the capture. This is fixed.
Viewports: If the command prompt is not docked, Ctrl+Tab to cycle through viewports failed. This is fixed.
What: The printout of edge and vetex tolerances for surfaces and polysurfaces was incorrect. This is fixed.

Enhanced Features:
Block: A warning about blocks with no geometry as been added.
Open: A confirmation message now appears on the command line.
Save:STL - Interface change: The options and prompts for a scripted export of file formats that use the STL mesh setting have been changed to more closely resemble the settings of the Mesh command.
Bug Fixes:
BlockManager: Hidden blocks (with * prefix in the name) did not display correctly. This is fixed.
BoxEdit crash fixed.
Circle crash fixed.
Circle crash fixed.
Close Rhino crash has been fixed.
CopyViewportToDetail faieds after the first time the command is run. This is fixed.
Dim: The hyphen between feet and inches sometimes did not display. This is fixed.
DimAngle crash fixed.
DocumentProperties, Render: The Lock viewport aspect ration was incorrectly not maintained after closing the dialog box. This is fixed.
EditPtOn crash fixed.
Insert: A problem with creating layers after the insertion was canceled has been fixed.
Installer: A file required for ZPR export was not being installed. This is fixed.
InterpCrvOnSrf command crash fixed.
Intersect crash fixed.
Linetypes: The Document Properties Linetype scale incorrectly allowed 0 as a value. This disabled linetypes. This is fixed.
Loft crash fixed.
Loft crash fixed.
Loft crash fixed.
Loft: Several bugs that caused an incorrect surface have been fixed.
MacroEditor: A problem with focus to the command line has been fixed.
Offset crash fixed.
OffsetSrf crash fixed.
OffsetSrf crash fixed.
Open:DWG/DXF: A problem opening DXF files has been fixed.
Open:DWG: Splines did not read properly. This is fixed.
Open:OBJ: Files imported from topmod3D had some gaps. This is fixed.
Open:OBJ: OBJ data was not read correctly by Service Release 5b. This is fixed.
Open:SKP: An import error has been fixed.
Open:SolidWorks crash fixed.
Open:STEP crash fixed.
Open crash fixed.
Options, Appearance: The Full path in titlebar option did not work properly. This is fixed.
Options, Appearance, Advanced Settings: The Export button was incorrectly available even when no scheme is selected for export. This is fixed.
Panelling Tools: Crash fixed.
PointDeviation: The Apply button did not work correctly. This is fixed.
Polygon crash fixed.
Polygon crash fixed.
Polyline crash fixed.
Print crash fixed.
Properties: Text crash fixed.
Rectangle crash fixed.
Reparameterize crash fixed.
RhinoScript: The RhinoScript page of Options incorrectly allowed the same script file to be added more than once to the list of files to load at startup.
Save:3DS: A problem with importing and exporting has been fixed.
Save:DWG/DXF: Support for exporting ACIS solids has been added. Create or edit a named export scheme, and change the export option for Rhino surfaces to AutoCAD Solids.
SaveAs crash fixed.
Scale1D did not properly update CurvatureAnalysis colors. This is fixed.
ScaleEdge crash fixed.
SelBlockInstanceNamed crash fixed.
ShortCurves plugin crash fixed.
Toolbar: Graphic images were garbled when toolbar was imported. This is fixed.
TriangulateNonPlanarQuads: A problem with the selection calculation has been fixed.

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