Changes in 23.2.7 (compared to 23.2.2)

Key known issues

• [CEV-3291] When applying the parallel offset on closed curves, the orientation of the master curve and the slave curves might be in opposite directions. To overcome this issue, simply select the master curve and reverse it.
• [CEV-3769] The newly introduced angle suggestions can cause an incorrect update of an angle if the respective patch type is already assigned to a patch.

Patch Artist changes

• [CEV-3355] Modify patch type per patch
• [CEV-3733] Add "Optimize angles" feature description to Artist Studio documentation
• [CEV-3663] Patch geometry refactoring, leading to faster opening/saving (-25% for one of measured examples), much faster redrawing (-94% (!)), less memory usage (-16%) and smaller fpp file-size (-14%). This change breaks compatibility with Artist Studio 1.1 and earlier.
• [CEV-3408] Add angle suggestions for trapezoid patch types based on existing types
• [CEV-3666] Enable even patch overlap distribution also for open curves
• [CEV-3689] Split curve extension and patch creation overlap strategy into two independent settings Also: JS API was changed
• [CEV-3744] Saving choice: faster saving or smaller fpp file

Patch Artist fixes

• [CEV-2324] "Systems" item visibility state not correctly restored after loading
• [CEV-3638] Number of curves shown after loading file is always zero
• [CEV-3363] Exported patch shapes should be on surface / no tape thickness offset applied
• [CEV-2499] Simulation export does no longer use offset patches
• [CEV-3475] Right click deselect doesn't work (at least for extractions)
• [CEV-3484] Patches on edge move after draping
• [CEV-3745] Patches disappearing below surface
• [CEV-3253] Moving multiple trapezoid patches only moves one of them
• [CEV-3473] Previously selected faces still visible (in brown) after removing all extracted faces manually
• [CEV-3684] After editing extraction manually what is displayed as green does not change
• [CEV-3701] Visualization of rolling motion gripper not solid after loading a file with rolling motion
• [CEV-3702] Rolling motion movements not generated correctly
• [CEV-3707] Layer boundary not respected
• [CEV-3719] Crash: during parallel patch creation.
• [CEV-3720] Crash: opening test file with coarse patch mesh and complex surface geometry
• [CEV-3698] Crash: while changing orientation (for rolling motion) of a patch in Patch Artist
• [CEV-3692] Crash: when draping patches
• [CEV-3636] Crash: when clicking on gripper box when trapezoids are enabled

Motion Artist changes

• [CEV-3213] Add a way to unselect whole laminate while creating/recreating data set

Other

• [CEV-3738] An installation of Autodesk® Inventor® can cause Artist Studio to crash during file browsing. This issue can't be directly resolved by us, we therefore added a warning to the documentation.