Open CASCADE Technology 7.2.0 is available for download!

Open CASCADE Technology 7.2.0 is available for download!

August 31, 2017

OPEN CASCADE is pleased to announce a new public release of Open CASCADE Technology (version 7.2.0).

Open CASCADE Technology and Products version 7.2.0 is a minor release, which includes more than 500 new features, improvements and bug fixes over minor release 7.1.0.

New in this version:

Configuration

•  Support of Visual Studio 2017
•  CMake option to accelerate build by use of precompiled headers

Application Framework

•  Dedicated attribute for storage of triangulations
•  Possibility to save OCAF document in XML format compatible with OCCT 6.7+
•  Restored possibility to write shapes in legacy persistence format (CSFDB, ShapeSchema)
•  Support of files greater than 2 GiB in binary persistence

Modeling

•  Optimization of surface intersection and other algorithms
•  Specialized offset algorithm for smooth shells
•  Proper setting of regularity on edges connecting smooth surfaces (e.g. seam edges)
•  New algorithm BOPAlgo_Splitter allowing to split shapes by intersection with others
•  New option “Glue” in the family of Boolean algorithms
•  New Error/Warning reporting system in Boolean Operations component

Visualization

•  Order-independent transparency within rasterization rendering
•  Extended features of color scale presentation
•  Possibility to customize display of hatching and selection highlight
•  Multiple improvements in Path Tracing engine
•  Option for efficient display on high-density screens with low-end graphic cards

Data exchange

•  Optimized update of assemblies in XDE
•  Support of PMI data without semantics in STEP import and export
•  Support of transparency as part of color specification in XDE
•  Refactored and optimized STL read / write module

Test system

•  Possibility to add custom counters
•  Interface to connect DRAW interpreter to user applications

Samples and tools

•  New sample for usage of 3D Viewer on iOS
•  Tools for visual inspection of data structures

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

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