Deep Exploration Release Notes

These release notes describe and illustrate the features of this latest release of Deep Exploration. 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 the Release Notes for 64bit Deep Exploration, please see 64Bit Release Notes.

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

• Settings added for highlighting sequences in steps.
• Ability to combine (merge) steps, making a number of steps into one step. This includes merging animations.
• Additional settings in the Tool Assistant, for adjusting opacity and shape of notes.
• Animation options for highlights.
• Metadata settings for PDF.
• Ability to record Walk Mode movements.
• Expand/Close Children options in the right-click menu of the scene tree.
• New setting in F3 search, for using metadata expressions to search.
• Import/Export settings pop-up facility.
• Spatial Search toolbar, for use with Deep Server.
• New interface for adding Metadata in properties dialogs.
• New shortcut keys for Decal Mapping.
• 'Expand all' option in window selection.
• PMI Settings now in the Tool Assistant.
• Hotspots toolbar renamed to CGM Hotspot.
• HDR Light Studio toolbar added. This is a demo of the HDR Light Studio plugin.
• New PMI viewing filters.
• Opacity settings for callouts.
• CAD specific:
• Tessellation has been improved for all formats. Increased control over the tessellation settings for CAD files.
• Read and write aupport for JT 9.3.
• NX7 is supported.
• Inventor 2010 is supported by the Recommended and Alternate load methods.
• Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5 is supported.
• Solid Edge V20 ST1 and ST2, and additional support for *.psm files.
• Improvements for the DGN file type - modelview support, assembly loading and performance enhancements.
• Solids - The CAD Solid reader has been improved for all formats and has been implemented to take better advantage of the Solid Tools toolbar. All tessellation presets can be adjusted dynamically and the tessellation controls can be adjusted.
• New Export Option for RH files to save either Solids Only, Mesh Only, or Solids and Mesh.
• CAD file loading can be aborted using the Cancel button in Deep Exploration.
• Assembly files with external reference types; for example, VRML, are now supported.
• CATIA4: New import options to collapse surfaces improves tessellation and allows sewing for better looking models.
• JTPMI: Cross-section support in modelviews.
• CAD Drawing files: CATIA4, CATIA5, NX, Pro/ENGINEER supports line styles, fills and hatching.

• Deep Exploration does not support exporting to 3D PDF with a Multi-BOM scene.
• There has been new implementation to Detailed Views in Deep Exploration 6.1. This new implementation is not backwards compatible with previous versions of Deep Exploration.
• Functionality of the Decal Mapping tool is limited to computer memory capacity. Because of this, there will be situations where images do not appear on a high resolution surface due to insufficient memory.
• There has been a update to the FBX plugin. Please be aware that there may be limitations to importing FBX files.
• Graphical errors with thrustline when viewed in the OpenGL renderer mode.

• Import and Export Options:
• The Import option dialog now displays when a file is clicked to open in the file list. Export options are also set to display when saving a file. A global setting also exists in Edit >Preferences>Files: 'Show import settings when opening files', and 'Show export settings when saving files'. Each Import/Export dialog has a checkbox to disable this when loading or saving.
• Compact Scene Tree:
• Compact Scene Tree is a new import option (On by default) that collapses the complex scene tree from CATIA assemblies and parts only. The Compact Scene Tree option has been introduced to manage the very complex scene tree structure from CATIA parts or assemblies.
• Compact Scene Tree is filtered via an xml file that applies a set of rules that govern the degree with which the scene tree is collapsed. It can be adjusted to collapse only some nodes or objects of the scene tree as required. This xml file ( compactscenetree.xml) is located in the plugins folder.
• For further information regarding this new option, refer to 'The Compact Scene Tree option for CATIA files' in Deep Exploration Help.
• Default Import Options:
• PMI is now set to OFF by default for new installs as well as upgrades from 6.0.
• Tessellation Improvements:
• Tessellation has been improved for all formats. The quality of tessellation has been improved along with control over the tessellation settings. There is a bigger range between Very Low and Very High tessellation settings with a better spread between the various preset levels. Angular tolerance, Chord height tolerance and chord height behavior allows complete control of tessellation, and the preset levels are created using these controls.
• Load Method Renaming:
• The CAD module names have been changed to more generic names to remove confusion with actual CAD package or format names. The Legacy and 2009 Reader names have also been changed for the CoreCAD formats that can choose between them. They are now either Recommended or Alternate, depending on which loader is deemed better for a specific format. The Unigraphics module name has been changed to NX, as that is the actual CAD Application name.

Installation whilst maintaining a version of Deep Exploration 6.1.x on the same machine

DE 6.1 installs into a separate folder by default. In addition, there are separate start menu entries for each. For DE 5.7 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 6.1

As Deep Exploration 6.1 is installed into a separate folder, there is no need to uninstall the previous Deep Exploration build 5.7 and install the latest 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 6.1 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 6.1. Without the required updates, the Deep Exploration 6.1. installer will fail.

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For Deep Exploration 6.1. 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.