Release notes for 0.7.2 (2012-04-15)
We have a shiny new beautiful icon now! Thanks to Corey Daniels for designing it.
Major new features:
- Honeycomb (hexagonal) infill pattern!
- SVG export for DLP printers and other purposes
- automatic arrangement for printing multiple copies of the same object (thanks Triffid Hunter for contributing this one)
New features:
- new Reslice command in the File menu
- customizable G-code to be executed at layer change
Improvements:
- huge speed boost (20%-50%) and more parallelization of long-running algorithms
- new implementation of support material generation
- don’t slow down travel moves when cooling is enabled
- new –threads command line option to set number of parallel jobs
Minor improvements:
- enable G0 automatically for Mach3
- allow decimal values for skirt/duplicate distances and speeds
- added the coordinates of the first non-manifold edge to the warning messages
- only output M109 if there’s none in the user-supplied start G-code
- make sure all concentric fill loops are extruded in the same direction to prevent sudden changes of direction
Changes:
- –duplicate-x and –duplicate-y were merged into a single –duplicate-grid option
Bugfixes:
- some holes were filled
- the No Extrusion mode had no effect
- use M109 for bed control (Makerbot)
- use P instead of S for M106 (Mach3)
- fixed some fatal errors