What's new in Bricksmith 3.0
Apr 8, 2014
- New Features:
- LSynth integration with real-time, drag-and-drop constraint editing for creating flexible hoses, chains, bands, etc.
- Curved parts are drawn with smooth shading
- Can change spin center to center of selection
- “Walk-Through” camera mode lets you view your model from the inside.
- Search feature to select all parts of a particular color or name
- Translucent parts correctly show the model behind them. (The interiors of translucent parts may not be rendered correctly.)
- Performance improvements for rendering models with large numbers of parts.
- “Insert Related” command automatically inserts selected parts that match the selection, e.g. drawers for a cupboard, tires for a wheel, window glass for a window frame.
- Split Step command
- Bugs Fixed:
- Fixed modifier shortcuts for mouse tools not working after invoking a contextual menu on 10.8+
New in Bricksmith 2.6.1 (Nov 12, 2012)
- New Features:
- Automatic application update checking and installation
- Bugs Fixed:
- Fixed texture search path
- Fixed issues with drag handles inside textures
- Fixed object selection inside textures
New in Bricksmith 2.6 (Oct 31, 2012)
- New Features:
- Supports planar textures (LDraw TEXMAP language extension)
- Select multiple parts by dragging a rectangle around them
- Part Browser improvements:
- Source-list UI
- Part Browser search scope buttons for choosing all parts or selected category
- Improved text-matching algorithm for search
- Recognizes and searches !KEYWORDS in parts
- Identify and categorize alias parts, and exclude them from searches
- New option for turntable-style model spinning (in which the model can't be rolled on its side)
- Substantial improvements to the handling of neighboring file references
- Referenced neighbor files can be opened and edited; changes seen in parent document
- Submodels in neighboring files will be drawn correctly
- New duplicated parts are inserted into last step instead of current one
- Document autosave
- Option-wheel (or just wheel) to zoom
- Command-Shift-C for color palette
- Removed nonstandard Officiality setting for models
- Speed improvements for models with many submodel references
- Speed improvements while hovering mouse over model
- Bugs Fixed:
- Fixed crash on 10.7+ when closing windows or viewports
- Step display won't change the view rotation unless the step specifies it
- Pan-dragging is not affected by perspective distortion
- Zooming gesture locked in when view is orthographic; no interspersed rotations are permitted (prevents view from changing to perspective)
- Allow leading whitespace in any line
- Fixed primitives failing to be drawn in new submodels
- Fixed certain hang situations
- Avoid accessing Address Book to avoid scare dialog on 10.8
- General Notes:
- Now requires Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) at minimum.
New in Bricksmith 2.5.1 (Nov 3, 2011)
- New Features:
- Show 3D coordinates while hovering mouse
- Show All command
- Auto zooms to fit when opening a file
- Bugs Fixed:
- Fixed hang when deleting parts by dragging them out of the window
- Fixed parsing problems when opening files which do not terminate with 0 FILE
- Disallow the insertion of circular submodel references
- Fixed bug in which newly-opened document windows did not automatically become the main window
- Fixed unexpected viewing angle reset when inserting parts during step display mode
- Undo works when the Part Browser and Rotate panels are open
New in Bricksmith 2.5 (Apr 28, 2011)
- New Features:
- Multi-threaded file parser (10.6 64-bit only)
- Inlined primitives drawn with faster optimized structures
- Direct primitive vertex interaction
- Cursor-centric zooming
- Supports 3DConnexion mice for part orientation
- Bugs Fixed:
- Fixed situation in which all viewports could disappear
- Fixed preserving perspective/orthographic view between launches
- Magnification trackpad gesture is smoother
New in Bricksmith 2.4 (Jun 14, 2010)
- New Features
- Drawing speed improvements of up to 1200%
- 64-bit native on Mac OS X 10.6
- Viewports fill their entire frame
- Supports displaying direct RGB LDraw syntax
- Supports displaying legacy blended colors from the original LDRAW
- Saved files formatted in traditional LDraw text style instead of fixed-width columns
- Bugs Fixed
- Fixed part selection failures for certain indirectly-referenced objects
- Eliminated several extra redraws
New in Bricksmith 2.3.1 (Dec 13, 2009)
- Empty steps no longer prevent files from being opened.
- Split and Close tooltips appear.
- Split and Close buttons always work.
New in Bricksmith 2.1 (Jan 21, 2009)
- New Features:
- Supports step rotations
- Streamlined Step Display UI
- Moved file outline on to the main window
- Improved line appearance
- Toolbar buttons for Part Browser, Inspector, and Colors
- Bugs Fixed:
- Fixed MLCad/LDraw spec compatibility issue which caused files containing multiple submodels to not render correctly in MLCad. (All model names are now internally forced to end in .ldr; old files will be automatically fixed as they are opened.)
- LDraw/ldconfig.ldr is now read; previously Bricksmith would only refer to an internal copy
- Renaming a submodel also renames all references to it
- Duplicating models adds a "copy X" suffix
New in Bricksmith 2.0 (Jul 24, 2008)
- Mouse-based part movement
- Drag-and-drop from the Part Browser
- Global color list is read from ldconfig.ldr
- Anti-aliased drawing (much prettier)
- Lines are drawn with a complimentary color to the main part
- Hotkeys for viewing angles
- Simplified some keyboard shortcuts
- Added help pages for secret key shortcuts and unofficial parts
- Eliminated drawing problems resulting in unilluminated polygons (ex. flowers.dat)
- Fixed split-view state restoration under Leopard