Open CASCADE Technology 7.1.0 is available for download!

Open CASCADE Technology 7.1.0 is available for download!

November 25, 2016

OPEN CASCADE is pleased to announce a new public release of Open CASCADE Technology (version 7.1.0).

Open CASCADE Technology and Products version 7.1.0 is a minor release, which includes more than 500 improvements and code enhancements over major release 7.0.0.

New in this version:

General

• Support of Windows Store applications
• Definition of Standard_Boolean as bool instead of unsigned int
• Execution without the need of setting environment variables

Application framework

• OCAF persistence without dynamic plugins
• Support of several attributes of one type at the same label

Modeling algorithms

• Improved 3D Offset operation in mode Complete with Joint type Intersection
• Calculation of the optimal axis-aligned bounding box for a shape
• Improved reliability of HLR algorithm
• Prevention of original shapes modification in Modeling algorithms

Visualization

• Use of a programmable pipeline (GLSL) by default on all platforms
• Improved rendering performance of a wireframe presentation
• Improved Shaded highlighting in AIS_Shape
• Improved clipping planes - better performance and upgraded capping that now can use object material
• Support of perspective projection and selection for transformation persistent objects
• New class AIS_Manipulator for interactive object transformation
• New optimized Path Tracing algorithm (adaptive screen space sampling)

Data exchange

• Improved support of STEP AP242, including PMI data, dimensions, and annotations

Detailed information about this release is available in Release Notes (PDF).

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