MeshMixer Changelog

What's new in MeshMixer 3.2

Jun 9, 2017

NOTE: requires graphics card drivers update
fixed startup crashes for certain machines
fixed the Cancel button for long-running tools
fixed intermittent mesh disappearing after running Make Solid or Remesh

New in MeshMixer 10.9.297 (Jun 25, 2015)

New in MeshMixer 10.9.246 (May 1, 2015)

most mesh editing tools now properly handle UVs and Texture Maps. Sculpting is the big one - you can now dynamic-mesh-sculpt on a textured mesh, without having to turn off Refinement. This does makes sculpting slower, in particular there can be a lag at the end of each brush stroke. We are working on it. Also, Tools like Meshmix, Extrude, Offset, Join, Bridge, Tube Handle, and so on, all will preserve texture and usually generate new UV maps with interpolated colors in areas where there is no texture already. There are still bugs, but it works pretty well.
new Pivots objects for simplifying precise positioning. You use the Create Pivot tool (hotkey: 5) to add Pivots to the scene. There are many different creation modes. They are persistent objects that you can select/transform/delete and so on. Use the small buttons at the bottom of the object browser to toggle their visibility in the list. Tools that have some kind of click-drag interaction will do things like snap to the pivot under the cursor (ie for Stamp, Meshmix, etc). In other tools like Plane Cut, clicking on a Pivot will set the plane to the Pivot. Repeat clicking will cycle through the 3 Pivot axes.
Pivots can be Linked to a mesh object. Currently this is only possible at creation time, with a toggle in Create Pivot. When you transform a mesh object, its linked pivots are also transormed. So you can basically create parts with a set of pivots and use the Align tool (see below) to quickly snap them together.
we can now Import .mix files into the current scene. This enables you to have files with different parts that can be easily combined.
updated Transform Tool with a property panel. You can directly enter translate/rotate/scale and dimension values into the property panel fields. The gizmo will also now snap to fixed sizes when using the axis and uniform-scale controllers. If you click on a Pivot, it will be used as the center/axes of rotation/scale.
updated Align Tool with more alignment modes and an updated property panel. There is also a fast alignment shortcut for a linked pivot. With no object selected, click and drag from a linked pivot to any other pivot. The Align tool will automatically be started, with the pivot-to-pivot transformation initialized. If you hold shift (after starting the drag) it will only do translation instead of translate+rotate, and hold ctrl to reverse/flip the target orientation.
You can now select obscured objects by repeatedly clicking in the same spot. It will cycle through the various objects under the cursor. This is particularly useful for selecting pivots inside objects.
updated Remesh Tool with various different remeshing modes. We also added a "Transition" parameter, which will let you blend the remesh into the surrounding area (ie to avoid sharp transitions in triangle density, which create ugly border triangles). The remeshing algorithm has also been tweaked so that it converges more quickly.
new Adaptivity setting for sculpting brushes. This replaces the Adaptive checkbox that we had added under Filters, with more granular per-brush control. When Adaptivity is high, a large brush will still preserve details. By default this is set to 0 for all brushes.
Improved stability, particularly startup crashes and GPU issues. The crashes that were fixable by disabling your network should no longer happen.
Meshmixer now supports multi-user installations. If the /Documents/meshmixer folder is missing on startup, we will try to initialize it. If this doesn't work, we provide a GUI to re-direct the path. Also if your /Documents/meshmixer folder becomes corrupted (ie files deleted, etc) we will try to repair it.
Support for Anti-Aliased Rendering. You can turn this on in the Preferences dialog. It is disabled by default (we are a bit hesitant to turn it on by default, given how flaky many laptop GPUs are...)
Attract To Target now has a toggle for enabling/disabling refinement
Misc: Replicator Z18 printer added, we improved support for non-US number encodings on OSX and Linux, Fixed some rendering glitches during sculpting...and more! We fixed lots of small things, but I can't remember them all...
New Shortcuts:
Ctrl-B to Bridge, J to Join. Previous Ctrl-B to toggle boundary visibility is moved to Ctrl-Shift-B
in the Create Pivot tool, q drops a pivot at the last tool frame (same as Last Tool Frame mode). This is a quick way to "save" something like a plane cut - if you need to use the same plane for multiple things, quickly hit 5-q to drop a pivot after you accept or cancel the Tool.
Shift-C will duplicate the current selected objects.
in the Transform tool, d hotkey will drop a copy at the current orientation. You can use this to drop multiple copies. Combine this with something like rotate around a pivot, or translate, and you can easily make small patterns (then send to Make Solid to get something printable!)
At the startup splash screen, q hotkey will load the last file you opened/imported.

MeshMixer Changelog

What's new in MeshMixer 3.2

New in MeshMixer 10.9.297 (Jun 25, 2015)

New in MeshMixer 10.9.246 (May 1, 2015)

New in MeshMixer 10.8.127 (Jan 31, 2015)

New in MeshMixer 10.7.91 (Dec 11, 2014)

New in MeshMixer 10.7.84 (Nov 27, 2014)

New in MeshMixer 10.6.53 (Oct 16, 2014)

New in MeshMixer 2.5 (Aug 12, 2014)

New in MeshMixer 2.4 (May 23, 2014)

New in MeshMixer 2.3 (Apr 24, 2014)

New in MeshMixer 2.0 (Sep 24, 2013)

New in MeshMixer 0.8b5 (Sep 13, 2013)

New in MeshMixer 0.8b1 (Oct 24, 2012)

New in MeshMixer 0.7 u5 (Sep 5, 2012)