What's new in Eyeshot 2.0
Created May 26, 2008 / Updated
August 1, 2008
Eyeshot developers have worked round the clock to bring you the following updates:
The most important:
- ZPR rotation around a point
The most sexy:
- Full design time support in Visual Studio
Purpose of this Beta version
The ZPR rotation around a point feature required a deep infrastructure modification. We invite all customers to test if everything was possible with Eyeshot 1.3 is also possible with Eyeshot 2.0 and to compare graphics performance.
What is completely new
- Transformation class (pay much attention here)
- All angles are requested/returned in radians
- Plane class
- PlanarEntity and all entities derived by it (Circle, Arc, Ellipse, EllipticalArc, RichArc)
Known bugs and limitations
- The AlingnedDim is not imported/exported via IGES
Detailed list of changes
- ZPR rotation around a point
- Zoom at cursor position
- Full design time support in Visual Studio
- Quaternion based Camera object (includes two very useful methods: ProjectToCameraPlane() and ProjectToScreen())
- Viewport orientation mode (Z-axis up or Y-axis up)
- Fully customizable Grid object
- Light object (includes support for Sun-like lights)
- Up to four independent lights
- Up to four independent clipping planes
- Custom keys/modifiers definition for Zoom, Pan and Rotate
- Fully customizable origin symbol (shape, always on top)
- New shadow algorithm, more fast and available in both Orthographic and Perspective projection
- Automatic entity regen and compile
- A completely new and more powerful Transformation class
- PointCloud and MulticolorPointCloud entities
- AlignedDim entity
- Point entity size
- ShadedAndWireframe display mode
- SetCameraView() method supporting Bottom, Front, Right, Rear, Left, Top, Isometric, Dimetric, Trimetric views
- New ICurve, IFace and IText interfaces
- International character support
- Entity copy and paste through Windows clipboard
- Resolution control for default printing
- Automatic installation inside the Visual Studio toolbox (not in Express editions)
- Automatic integration of Eyeshot documentation inside the Visual Studio help system
Migration Guide
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