Deep Exploration Release Notes

These release notes describe and illustrate the features of this latest release of Deep Exploration CAD and Standard Editions. They address any issues not discussed in the Help reference or Readme documentation and they include information regarding installation.

For a list of bug fixes, please see the Right Hemisphere Support - Knowledgebase.

For a complete list of features, please see the Right Hemisphere website.

Please note that this document may be updated as more information becomes available

• New CAD loaders - CATIA 2008 (4 and 5), Unigraphics 2008, Solidedge 2008. Note that these are our recommended readers, and will be replacing theMethod A and Method B readers.
  • CATIA 2008 (4 and 5) - improved PMI support, capture support, and portfolio support.
  • UG 2008 - improved tessellation, solid support with dynamic tessellation support, and improved PMI (no modelviews).
  • Solidedge 2008 - solid support with dynamic tessellation support.
• Steps and Procedures can be rendered out in video form, with subtitles.
• Color profile support for TIF, PNG and JPEG images.
• CGM workflow improvements - adding hotspots, 2D layer and vector file support.
• Autosave - ability to set a frequency that the autosave feature will respond to and save the current work.
• Ability to isolate import processes via a separate job process.
• Illustration changes - ability to mark patch boundaries and preserve them in healing operations.
• Increased control over the appearance of lines and borders of Detail Views.
• Slideshow toolbar separated from the Standard Toolbar.
• Select Objects dialog is now non-modal.
• Collapsible Browser panes to maximise viewer size.
• Alt-click will select up the Scene Tree and close the children. An ideal way to go up the Tree.
• Enhanced Selection now includes patch boundaries if the model was originally loaded from a Solid, Nurb, or Brep form.
• Steps and Procedures can be rendered out in video form, with subtitles.
• New viewport window - Output Size.
• Two additional options in Cutting Settings dialog - Group Parts and Keep Original Parts.
• Additional password options for exporting to PDF.
• Ability to save cameras, and mark callouts as PMI objects, when exporting to PDF.
• Enhanced Drawing and Markup options - symbol leaders.
• Support for Inventor 2009 files. Note that this is a plugged solution, and requires the free Autodesk Inventor 2009 viewer to open Autodesk Inventor 2009 files. For more information about opening Inventor files in Deep Exploration, refer to the Knowledgebase.

• Billboards reading backwards – in some situations, billboards will read backwards. The workaround is to make billboards single-sided.
• Cross-section issue – Catia5 2008 CAD reader imports and creates a cross-section object. This object is in the wrong place and can cause Deep Exploration to crash when the node is collapsed.
• Output Size Window has issues that will be resolved in the next release - Output size displayed in the title bar is incorrect and camera angle is incorrect.
• Colour Management Tool only works with *.jpg and *.tiff files at present.
• Drawing files are not supported with our new 2008 Readers. They are supported with the separate CAD 2D Reader.

Installation whilst maintaining a version of Deep Exploration 5.0.x on the same machine

DE 5.6 installs into a separate folder by default. In addition, there are separate start menu entries for each. For DE 5.5 users, your product activation codes will be used, so there is no need to re-activate. Thumbnails however, will need to be re-generated as these are stored separate from existing.

Upgrading to Deep Exploration 5.6

When upgrading to Deep Exploration 5.6, you may either un-install and then install the latest build, or just upgrade by installing over the existing build.

Notes

Before installing Deep Exploration, we advise closing all applications.

For network installation and deployment instructions, please see the Right Hemisphere Support - Knowledgebase.

For a network FAQ, please see the Right Hemisphere Support - Knowledgebase.

For the Standalone License Activation Guide, please see the Right Hemisphere Support - Knowledgebase.

For a Standalone License FAQ, please see the Right Hemisphere Support - Knowledgebase.

All customers using Deep Exploration version 5.6 will, at a minimum, require Adobe Reader 8.1 for PDF Publishing.

Note: For users with Microsoft Windows 2000 operating system, you will require all of the latest Microsoft Windows 2000 operating system updates to be installed before installing Deep Exploration 5.6. Without the required updates, the Deep Exploration 5.6. installer will fail.

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For Deep Exploration 5.6. silent install :

DeepExploration.exe /v"/passive ALLUSERS=1"

For the combined module ( ensuring that the file exists for Deep View or that you are going to do the regsvr32 after for Deep View ) :

DeepExplorationPackaged_ x. x. x.x.exe 0 /SILENT /MODULE DP /v/passive /MODULE DE /v"/passive ALLUSERS=1"

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Network Installation & Deployment - follow this link - Knowledgebase article.

Network FAQ - follow this link - Knowledgebase article.

Standalone License Activation Guide - follow this link - Knowledgebase article.

Standalone License FAQ - follow this link - Knowledgebase article.

More information and common questions can be found on the Right Hemisphere Knowledgebase.

The Help reference information is available from the Deep Exploration menu and by pressing F1 on your keyboard within Deep Exploration.

The version number scheme is 1.2.3.4567 where:

1 = Major version indicator. This would be incremented for a major release.
2 = Minor release that indicates new feature release between major releases.
3 = Indicates a patch that includes fixes only.

4567 = Build number as an identification of the build that is released.