Ligno3D Designer Versions
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Ligno3D Designer's version number is displayed in the program's 'About Box' - invoked via the Help Menu.        

Version 3.53 posted Sat 24 Nov, 2007

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Fixed:  Colours and textures are now applied correctly to all group-selected components. 

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Added:  A Face Information Box is now seen when ia face is selected and Project Info button clicked.

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Documented:  How to turn on anti-aliasing now in help system -- in 'User Interface', '3D View'. 

Version 3.52 posted Tues 14 Aug, 2007

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Improved:  All symmetry operations involving a Y rotation axis with mirrors, or a symmetry centre, are now executed correctly. 

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Added:  The ability to measure the total area of all selected faces.  New command in Tools Menu.

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Added:  The ability to measure the volume of a polyhedron.  New command in Tools Menu.

Version 3.51 posted Tues 7 Nov, 2006

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Added:  The ability to draw geodesic spheres of frequency v1 -> v10, directly from Object Menu. 

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Added:  A new 'Placement Menu' with commands for moving and rotating selections within XYZ axes.

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Added:  The commands 'Rotate 180', '90 Clockwise' and '90 Anticlockwise' now in Placement Menu.

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Improved:  Rotate Mode, for rotating selections with mouse or arrow keys, now entirely intuitive.

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Improved:  Rectangular framework members now join perfectly, and no longer interpenetrate.

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Fixed:  Revolution Command now works properly again, after a bug crept into version 3.50.

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Updated:  Help system/manual fully updated to reflect the above additions and changes.

Version 3.50 posted Thur 27 July, 2006

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Added:  The ability to convert a polyhedron into a ''split frame' suitable for making framed-panels. 

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Added:  Conventional parallel-sided dovetails can now be designed to join thick polyhedral panels.

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Added:  Thick-panelled polyhedra can also be joined with tapered 'butterfly keystones'.

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Improved:  Rectangular-section frames can now be made from all polyhedra, not just convex ones.

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Improved:  Multiple components can now be selected additively using 'Shift-Double-Left click'.

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Improved:  Cloned and extruded faces now adopt the decor and component of the original faces.

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Updated:  User manual updated and now online.

Version 3.44 posted Wed 21 June, 2006

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Added:  The ability to add a new vertex at the intersection of a selected line and plane. 

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Added:  The ability to add a new vertex at the intersection of three selected planes. 

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Added:  The ability to add a new vertex lying in a selected plane at point closest to selected vertex. 

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Added:  The ability to convert selected faces of a polyhedron into mitred panels of given thickness. 

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Improved:  The scale and auto-scale commands are now smarter, as is the initial plan scale. 

Version 3.43 posted Thurs 25 May, 2006

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Added:  The ability to import objects from STL &  DXF CAD interchange files, and to autoscale them. 

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Added:  The ability to export 3D projects to STL rapid prototyping CAD files, in addition to DXF files.  Points and lines are now included in DXF files.

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Added:  The settings Menu now has an 'AutoScale' command that rejigs the 3D View to fit the object. 

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Added:  On startup, L3DD now remembers its previous window size, location and configuration. 

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Improved:  L3DD now looks for LIG, BMP, STL and DXF files in the appropriate folders beneath the program folder.  If not found, L3DD remembers the last folders manually navigated in the program. 

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Changed:  The folders beneath the L3DD folder are now called 'BMP Files', 'CAD Files' and 'LIG Files'.

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Improved:  The Weld Vertices command now removes any duplicate vertices within a face.

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Improved:  Now clone or extrude a group of faces by using Ctrl-left click (clone), or Alt-left click (extrude), on a completed group selection.

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Fixed:  Textured faces now appear correctly in printouts and saved BMP files.

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Updated:  User manual updated.

Version 3.42 posted Tues 20 Dec, 2005

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Improved:  In most special cursor modes you can now left-click on completed group selections to simultaneously move/extrude/rotate the selection. 

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Fixed:  In previous version, at least, the 'Precise Move' command did not work on a group selection.

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Refined:  User manual edited and expanded.  A 'Special Cursors' section has been added.

Version 3.41 posted Thurs 1 Sept, 2005   

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Fixed:  Esc & Tab keys work again as intended to move faces normally, while vertices move radially.

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Fixed:  Multiply & Divide move vertices radially.

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Refined:  User manual edited and expanded a bit.

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Enhanced:  The program's anticracking measures.

Version 3.40 posted Tues 2 August, 2005   

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Added:  Create Frame command to make a convex polygon into a rectangular-sectioned framework.

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Fixed:  Adding a component name after selecting the whole object would crash the program.

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Changed:  Precision of the millimetre scale reported in the Plan View increased to two decimal places.

Version 3.31 posted Fri 15 July, 2005   

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Fixed:  Field for entering no. of steps in 'Revolution Steps' dialog was too short -- lengthened.

Version 3.30 posted Fri 11 Mar, 2005

This version has some significant upgrades - notably the introduction of 'components', matrix replication and décor that remains attached to faces during editing.

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Added:  Named components for grouping faces - e.g. columns in GreekTemple.lig.  Double-click on a member face to select the whole component.

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Added:  Textures and colors that now stay with faces during editing and .LIG file saving or loading.

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Added:  Enter or edit project title and description via a dialog that also shows project statistics.

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Added:  Matrix Replication command that replicates selections according to a 1D, 2D or 3D matrix.

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Added:  Edit Menu command to enter, edit or delete a named component.

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Added:  Edit Menu command to select component.

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Enhanced:  The Undo command now works with all decor changes.

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Enhanced:  Data View now has a Component List and a column for component no. in the Face List.

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Enhanced:  Texture file path names now stored in .LIG files, so that textures automatically reload.

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Enhanced:  Add-Face command can now be used to edit existing faces, as well as add new faces.

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Changed: Ctrl-Left Button now used to select hidden edges in Wireframe mode (was Shift-LB).

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Fixed: A number of minor bugs in the program.

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Updated: User manual/help system fully updated.


Version 3.25 posted 23 Dec, 2004

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Enhanced:  Undo and Redo commands now act consistently following all Tools Menu commands.

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Fixed:  Bug in Center on Origin/Y/GP commands.  No Selection now acts the same as 'Select All'.

bullet Fixed:  Bug in face replication via a rotation axis - where one vertex coincides with the Y axis.

Version 3.24 posted 12 Dec, 2004

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Fixed:  A freeze bug that appeared immediately after loading .LIG files generated by version 3.23.  

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Version 3.23 posted 7 Dec, 2004

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Enhanced:  The Undo command is now multi-level.  >100 consecutive undos commonly available.  

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Added:  A 'Redo' command in the Standard Toolbar that reverses all previous undos, one by one.

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Added:  A 'Weld Vertices' command now in 3D edit toolbar -- unifies two or more selected vertices. 

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Fixed:  A bug in the centring and 'Precise Move' commands when one vertex or edge is selected.

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Fixed:  A bug preventing more than two faces or vertices being manually selected in rotate mode.

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 User manual brought up to date.

Version 3.22 posted 18 Sep, 2004

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Fixed:  A bug affecting the movement increment per keystroke, as specified in the 'Scale' dialog box.

bullet Changed:  The old 'Add X-Z Plane' command in the Tools Menu and 'Boxatrix' toolbar is now the 'Create Cutting Plane' command, with added functionality.
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Version 3.21 posted 3 Aug, 2004

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Fixed:  A bug preventing full Plan View display if two or more vertices selected in 3D View. 

Version 3.20 posted 20 Jun, 2004

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Fixed:  Bug in 'Rotate to Top & Bottom' commands. 

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Added:  The ability to draw lines ('guy ropes') between two vertices -- just click on vertex 1, vertex 2, and then vertex 1 again.  Stored as 'faces' with only 2 vertices.

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Added:  A Chamfer Command to the Tools Menu.  Can chamfer both vertices and edges, resulting in surprising transformations to some objects.

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Added:  The ability to select multiple edges (with Shift-Left Mouse Button) so that they can be chamfered simultaneously.

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Changed:  The selection of hidden edges in Wireframe Display Mode now uses Control-Left Mouse Button, rather than Shift-LMB.

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User manual brought up to date.

See L3DD Features for a summary of the main features of Ligno3D Designer and Online Manual for full information.



The Face Information Box now in v3.53

Area and volume can now be measured in v3.52

Splitframe V5 Dome

Frequency v1 - v10 domes a breeze with v3.51

Keystome Soccerball

Pine-panelled soccer ball joined with Black Bean butterfly keystones


Cube minus geosphere in Western Red Cedar Now possible with 3-plane intersection vertices


Cylinder imported from STL file.  All faces in STL files are tessellated into triangular 'facelets'

DodecaFrame

Rough-sawn 'DodecaFrame'

FrameDome

'FrameDome.lig' Project File

Alien Eggs

'AlienEggs.lig' Project File

Sea Urchin

'SeaUrchin.lig' L3DD Project File
BeadSpring.lig

'BeadSpring.lig' L3DD Project File

Virtual Lapidary Wheel
The 'Create Cutting Plane' command acts like a virtual lapidary wheel for cutting diamonds

 Chamfered Icosohedron
Chamfer all edges of an Icosahedron
to get this thirty-faced Rhombohedron.  Chamfer all vertices of an Icosahedron and you get a Pentagonal Dodecahedron.

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