What's new from version 9 to 10

GENERAL FEATURES

• Mac OS X version
• Added stereoscopy (3D view) support with anaglyphs and Quad planes and save animations.
• Added shadow support using the shadow mapping technique for a better depth perception and enhance presentations.
• GMED: new module for treatment of medical images.
• Added shadow support.
• Ready for Windows Vista an 7
• Added support for usb's SpaceNavigator and 3D SpaceBall in Linux
• Plugins: tcl files inside the \plugins folder will be automatically sourced when starting.
• zoom centered on the current cursor when using mouse wheel

PREPROCESSING

• Rhinoceros 4.0 export
• Import of x y z? ASCII files as points of nodes
• Import of 'ply' mesh files
• Geometric surfaces reconstruction from triangle or quadrilateral meshes.
• Join surfaces (also able to rebuild a single surface by contour)
• Boolean operations with multiple selection
• Tcl wrapper of the HDF5 library to read/write this data format.

MESHING

• Boundary layer mesh generation in 3D
• Generation of quad dominant meshes (surface mesh with quadrilateral and triangles), if a meshing preference is set.
• New unstructured volume mesher available, based on constrained Delaunay algorithm.
• New unstructured non constrained volume mesher, based in Iso-stuffing.
• Force Points to Volume Mesh option available (Mesh Criteria->Force Points to Volume Mesh)
• Sphere/Circle mesher options in preferences window and new generation algorithms.

POSTPROCESSING

• Graphs: polar graphs, logarithmic scales, draw axes and labels, select grid color.
• Integral of a scalar or vector result over a mesh part.
• New Points/Circles/Spheres visualization mode: Internal texture
• Support for 'Units' has been added, both for mesh and results:
• Options->Geometry->Create delaunay meshes allows the user to create delaunay meshes from the nodes of the postprocess model
• New 18 nodes prism element
• New file *.post.lst: a file which contains a list of the files for multiple meshes and graphs.
• Isosurface exportation is done now with GiD format.
• Visualization: in the 'View Style' windows, possibility to visualize the preprocess model (geometry or mesh) with the postprocessed results. There is also de possibility to select which
• Render mode to use with the preprocess model.
• Basic postprocess state is saved and restored.

CUSTOMIZATION

• CompassLIB problemtype Toolkit
• Separated customization manual
• New Tcl events:
  AfterChangeBackground
  AfterRenumber
  BeforeCopy, AfterCopy, BeforeMove, AfterMove
  AfterCreatePoint, BeforeDeletePoint, AfterCreateLine, BeforeDeleteLine, etc.
  AfterCreateLayer AfterRenameLayer BeforeDeleteLayer AfterChangeLayer AfterSetLayerToUse
  AfterCreateDimension BeforeDeleteDimension
  AfterChangeLicenceStatus
• Tcl-GiD commands:
  GiD_Geometry can get and create more types of surfaces: plsurface, coonsurface and meshsurface
  GiD_Geometry create line: new option to create NURBS interpolating points
  GiD_Mesh'get' to obtain information of nodes and elements
  GiD_Info Mesh also for meshes of post
  GiD_Result create , -array option to efficiently handle data
  GiD_Info IsPointInside
  New Tcl commands to register procedures (interesting for plugins)
  To modify menus: GiD_RegisterPluginAddedMenuProc, GiD_UnRegisterPluginAddedMenuProc
  To handle dropped files with some extension: GiD_RegisterExtensionProc, GiD_UnRegisterExtensionProc
  GiD_OpenGL get modelviewmatrix|projectionmatrix|viewport , and polygonoffsetfill constant
  GiD_OpenGL pgffont pushfont | popfont | print | dimensions | foreground | background
  .central.s graphmode , dynamicbox, and dynamicline
• objarray command to ask type and length of this vector object
• New bas template commands:
  *loop conditions nodes|bodyelements|faceelements|layers
  *condname, *condnumfields, *condelemface *condhaslocalaxes
  *matprop, *cond, *gendata, *intvdata: without arguments print all fields
• Other:
• Grid data showed with a new widget to easily copy/paste big data, and a XY plot can be drawn
• Added option #WIDTH# to the Value: field in .cnd to set a specific width for value entries in the Condition Window
• Data Conditions NewCond process command, to define a new condition at runtime
• Hide/show all volume related menus and toolbars when setting the global variable GidPriv(HideVolumeLevel) to 1/0
• Updated to Tcl/Tk 8.5.8
• Added more Tcl packages: Tktable, sqlite, ..., and the rest updated to the latest versions.