[LDPartEditor] 0.8.16 Beta Released

[Nils Schmidt]

Hey :)

this month I am a little bit late, but anyway.... I found and fixed a lot more bugs!  0.8.16 has new features, too.


As always, you can download LDPE from this page:
http://nilsschmidt1337.github.io/ldparteditor/

Changelog:
(3 new features and 14 bug fixes)

With this release you will be able to...

• ...benefit from automatically deselection of a construction tool (create quad/line/triangle...), if you select a modification tool (select/move/rotate etc...)
  
• ....use a shortkey to move the manipulator to the selection center (the "A" key)
  
• ...use linear interpolation for a complete vertex selection with the "Move On Line" feature
  

The following critical issues were fixed:

1. Invalid parsing of 0 BFC INVERTNEXT (the parser implementation was wrong)
   
2. "Conditional Control Point Vertices" caused flickering on multiple views.
   
3. The behavior of automatically selecting as well the neighboring line when clicking in the line numbers bar was incorrect.
   
4. Flipping two triangles was only possible with a different triangle colour than colour 16.
   
5. While are able to select a surface by clicking on it, even if only a small portion is visible, you were able to select only lines/condlines if BOTH end vertices were visible.
   
6. Rounding issues (NullPointerException)
   
7. Helper function issues with vertices and their relationship to LDraw data (NullPointerException)
   
8. "Hide & Show" issues (NullPointerException)
   
9. Clipboard issues (NullPointerException)
   
10. Colour change issues (NullPointerException)
    
11. Cut and delete issues (NullPointerException)
    
12. The subfile compiler meta command (" 0 !LPE INLINE") created sometimes a new virtual part file, but it did not remove the old one!
    
13. There was a synchronisation bug regarding the 3D manipulator.
    
14. When you mirrored a selection, the winding of triangle/quads was correctly inverted. But primitives in selection were not BFC inverted!
    

Thanks Willy, for your bug report!

What will the next release 0.8.17 deliver? Usability improvements, maybe some new fancy features...

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The program was tested intensively with "real world" files.
However, it is still a beta version and something can go wrong in about 100.000 lines of code.

Make sure that you choose the right architecture for your OS and Java Virtual Machine (JVM) (64bit or 32bit).
A short guide how to check if a 64bit JVM is installed on your system is located at the bottom of this message.

1. Download the zip-Archive
   
2. Extract the archive content to the location of your choice
   
3. On windows, double-click "run.bat" to start LDPE.
   
4. On linux/mac, you have to excecute the shell script "run.sh" to start LDPE.
   

Please note that this software is in the beta stage. Although, LDPE 0.8.16 was tested, there are already known issues  for this release. There is a potential risk of data loss.

You can search for updates if you do the following steps:

1. On windows, double-click "update.bat" to search for updates.
   
2. On linux/mac, you have to excecute the shell script "update.sh".
   

I listen carefully to your requests and possible complaints. Please leave me a message, with your thoughts and wishes to further improve the software.

LDPE is a 3D CAD application: The overall system requirements are higher. While I recommend to use a powerful 64-bit multicore system, it could be possible, to run LDPE on older machines as well.

System Requirements:

Minimum System Requirements:

• Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.8
  
• OpenGL 2.1 compatible Graphics Card
  
• Operating System (32/64bit): Windows [XP; Vista; 7 or newer], Mac OS X [>=10.6], Linux [e.g. Ubuntu Linux >=10.4]
  
• CPU: Multicore-Processor e.g. Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD Athlon II (>2.0Ghz)
  
• RAM: 4GB
  
• Video-Memory: 512 MB
  
• Free Disk Space: 100 MB
  

Recommended Requirements:

• Operating System (64bit): Windows 7, Mac OS X [>=10.6], Linux [e.g. Ubuntu Linux >=10.4]
  
• CPU: Multicore-Processor with 4 cores (or more)
  
• RAM: >4 GB
  
• Video-Memory: >=1 GB
  
• Free Disk Space: 512 MB
  

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How to check your JVM version (32- or 64-bit):
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You can try on the command line:

Code:

java -d64 version

If it's not a 64-bit version, you'll get a message that looks like:

Code:

This Java instance does not support a 64-bit JVM. Please install the desired version.

In general, I recommend to install the 64-bit version of the JVM for Java 8.