| 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. |
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'. |
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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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Fixed: Bug in
reproducing all face colors in objects (e.g.
HotAirBalloon.lig) loaded from .LIG files. |
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
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.
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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.
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The Face Information Box now in v3.53

Area and volume can now be measured in v3.52

Frequency v1 - v10 domes a breeze with v3.51

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'

Rough-sawn 'DodecaFrame'

'FrameDome.lig' Project File

'AlienEggs.lig' Project File

'SeaUrchin.lig' L3DD Project File

'BeadSpring.lig' L3DD Project File

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

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