3DViewStation is getting more and more enhancements for 2D. As part of the v2022.2 release we added the ability to activate and deactivate layers of a 2D drawing, similar to what we know from 2D CAD packages. Find some impressions below.
04/13/2022
2D Drawings layer support
04/12/2022
3DViewStation v2022.2 Release
We released 3DViewStation version v2022.2 with a series of enhancements, described below. The new 3DViewStation versions are available for download .
Import 3D:
- NX 2007
- Solid Edge 2022
- SolidWorks 2022
Import 2D:
- CATIA V5-6R2022 (R32)
- NX 2007, 2008, 2011, 2015
Functions & Features:
- Layer support for 2D documents
More at https://help-viewer.kisters.de/productfamily/en/3dvs_versioninfo_intro.php
03/11/2022
3DViewStation v2022.1 Release
We released 3DViewStation version v2022.1 with a series of enhancements, described below. The new 3DViewStation versions are available for download .
Functions & Features:
- New: Copy text from 2D files to clipboard
- New: Import setting to load PMIs as 'always on top'
- Enhanced: Shadow rendering
General:
New Microsoft Redistributables will be installed during the setup routine. They contain fixes for some OS.
More at https://help-viewer.kisters.de/productfamily/en/3dvs_versioninfo_intro.php
03/02/2022
Video: 3DViewStation V2022.0 News
a quick video showing mainly light related news of 3DViewStation V2022.0.
02/15/2022
3DViewStation v2022.0 Release
We have released 3DViewStation version v2022.0 with a series of enhancements, described below. Please also review our recent BLOG preview entries for details. The new 3DViewStation versions are available for download .
Import 3D:
- Parasolid 34.0
Import 2D:
- Solid Edge 2022
- Solidworks 2022 (SP0)
- NX 1992, 1996, 2000
Functions & Features:
- CATIA: PMI reference to solids
- Light sources on node level: allow e.g. inner parts of a car to render nicely in a night scene
- Night scene settings
- API only: New Glare effects. Light sources will appear more realistic in the night
- Setting to load prototype views
- Setup creates backup of presets.xml
- enhanced and accelerated file format recognition
More at https://help-viewer.kisters.de/productfamily/en/3dvs_versioninfo_intro.php
12/14/2021
No issue for 3DViewStation: Critical vulnerability in log4j published (CVE-2021-44228)
There is a warning from the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) entitled "Critical vulnerability in log4j published (CVE-2021-44228)". The logging library log4j is used in many Java applications.
The good news is:
The Kisters 3DViewStation product family is not affected as it does not use any JAVA at all. This applies to all member, which are
- 3DViewStation Desktop version
- 3DViewStation WebViewer version
- 3DViewStation VR-Edition
- VisShare
- Batchtool KAS
Hint:
As a customer or systems integrator you might use our products together with other software, like web servers, which might use JAVA. You will have to check.
We do not ship our products together with such web servers, except for VisShare. Here Nginx is used - which is free of JAVA as our own products are.
12/14/2021
Online again
We are happy to have our Web server online again.
Still you will face a few broken links for the next couple of days. We are working hard in restoring everything.
Thanks to all Kisters colleagues involved and also our service provider Christoph Hofmann.
11/11/2021
Cyber attack on the KISTERS Group
Aachen, 30 November 2021: In the night of 11 November 2021, the IT company KISTERS was the victim of a cyber attack. The criminal attackers secured access to the company's data through an orchestrated ransomware attack, encrypted it and threatened to publish the captured data. The corresponding ultimatum has expired.... more
Read more at http://www.kisters.de
11/08/2021
Preview: Automatic alignment solid to solid
Coming soon:
Many customer know the challenge:
A part has been designed in 3D CAD and has finally been manufactured. But how can QA ensure a certain precision?
Therefor the part produced will be 3D scanned today. After that we need to be able to compare the 3D scan against the original 3D CAD data.
For long 3DViewStation has been used to perform the comparison. Still the real challenge has always been to position both parts correctly upon each other before starting the comparison.
This is what we solved now. And all we can say is: it's magic. All the user has to do is to select two solids and then start the execution of the function. 3DViewStation will find the best possible alignment - automatically and really fast.
Please watch the video below. The first scenarios have been recorded in real time and you can see the fast performance of this pretty complex task. In the last sequence we recorded the alignment process in animated mode. That way you can get an impression of how the algorithm works and iterates to finally find the best possible alignment position.
10/27/2021
Preview: Shortest connecting line
Coming soon:
we'll introduce a new function which allows to quickly find the shortest connecting line between two points. We'll call that smart selection.
Internally we'll use a graph, which knows all neighbors of an object in any direction. Traversing this graph we find the shortest connection between two points.
Application scenarios:
- For certain cases this will be a replacement for accumulated length maesurement
- There is a way of working now in order to e.g. measure the lenght of a weld
- The same methodology might be used to find connected pipes or to identify disconnected pipes