[LDPartEditor] First Alpha Version News

[Nils Schmidt]

Well, this list seems to be a very big spoiler, but anyway...
I just wanted to tell you what is "next-on-my-list" until the 0.8.0 beta release is finally there.
A lot of the tasks require one day or less to implement, so eastern should be a realistic release date.

I already did the really complex things like Realtime Parsing, Multiple files opened/viewed at the same time, CSG, BFC, Arbitrary Precision, Multithreading / Parallelisation, TEXMAP, SlicerPro, Material Shaders for LDConfig, Intersector, ...and many more.

I will "start" with (1) and end with (34).

1. Text editor: Search and replace
   
2. Text editor: Sort selection
   
3. Text editor: Change colour
   
4. Text editor / 3D editor: Split quad into triangles
   
5. Lines2Pattern-Tool (will be very cool!)
   
6. Updater-Application
   
7. PathTruder
   
8. Unrectifier
   
9. SymSplitter
   
10. Unificator
    
11. Flipper
    
12. Select same colour
    
13. Select connected
    
14. Select touching
    
15. Select faces with the same orientation
    
16. Create file
    
17. Save project
    
18. Save file
    
19. Open project
    
20. Open file
    
21. Subdivision
    
22. Split
    
23. Merge (to center / last selected / nearest line, face, vertex, primitive)
    
24. Mirror
    
25. Set x/y/z for a group of vertices (e.g. X=0)
    
26. Transformation by value
    
27. • Translate x/y/z
    
28. • Rotate x/y/z (in degrees), with pivot point
    
29. • Scale x/y/z, with pivot point
    
30. Primitive gallery (with drag and drop)
    
31. Undo + Redo
    
32. Full LDConfig support
    

---For releases beyond 0.8.0 beta---

1. User Manual (will be created as soon as possible)
   
2. Import files from parts tracker
   
3. Feature to send your log files to me, so that I can fix unknown bugs.
   
4. Option menu for custom settings, colours and shortkeys [~0.9.0 beta, high priority]
   
5. Millimeters and Inches + LDU [~0.9.5 beta, low priority]
   
6. More professional file header validation (like DatHeader). At the moment the validation is not bad, but very basic. [low priority]
   
7. Template support [low priority]
   
8. "2D to 3D" projection feature (as you know it from LDPatternCreator) [low priority, since we have already SlicerPro2+Lines2Pattern]
   
9. GUI Interface: Translation to other languages (I did already preparations for this, 575 little tasks remain before its done) [~1.0.0, high priority]
   
10. Plug-in support with a nice interface (I did already preparations for this task)
    
11. Webcam (+ Head-Mounted Display) Support to do the reverse engineering in VR [~1.1.0, high priority]
    
12. Tools for measurements in 2D and 3D space.
    
13. Upload files to the parts tracker
    
14. And more continuous improvements...
    

..and in the future far from this day: Switching to Java 8 and transformation from SWT to JavaFX to overcome any platform restrictions.