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FUNCTIONAL CHANGES

License Key

HOOPS Publish 2015 requires a license key specifically generated for 2015. Licenses generated for previous versions of HOOPS Publish will not work. Please visit the HOOPS Publish download page to generate a new key. Once you have generated a new CustomerKey and VariableKey, you should copy them into include/A3DSDKLicenseKey.h.

The expiration date for the generated license key is tied to your contract with Tech Soft 3D. If you have signed a license agreement for HOOPS Publish, then the license key that is generated will be a perpetual (non-expiring) license key. If you are evaluating HOOPS Publish, then the license key will expire when your evaluation expires. Evaluation license keys will expire at the end of the evaluation period and are not suitable for production software. Any software that uses an evaluation license key will no longer work after the evaluation period.



Compatibility

Binary Compatibility

HOOPS Publish releases are not binary compatible with older releases. You must recompile your application when updating to a new version of HOOPS Publish.



HOOPS Publish 2015 Service Pack 1

Enhancements

Functional Changes


HOOPS Publish 2015 Update 1

Functional Changes

Bug fixes in slide table


HOOPS Publish 2015

Enhancements

Linux support

HOOPS Publish now works on Linux. All features are supported except the optional TableToPDF component.

Views

View-dependent colors are now supported.

PDF Widgets

In addition to text boxes and buttons, HOOPS Publish now supports check boxes, radio buttons, list boxes, drop down lists, and signature fields. View carousels can now display multiple rows and columns.

PMI

Two new end-user context menu options are available which facilitate highlighting data associated with PMI. "Highlight associated PMIs" and "Highlight associated datums"

Functional Changes

PDF Widgets

The function signature for inserting view carousels, A3DPDFDefineViewCarousel, has changed to accept one additional parameter.



HOOPS Publish - v7.20 Changes

Enhancements

PDF Widgets

Security

A new PDF security mechanism has been implemented, which allows the document author finer control over how a document is used.



HOOPS Publish - v7.10 Changes

Enhancements

Performance Optimizations for Animations containing many moving objects

We focused on optimizing animations which consist of many objects moving within the model. These are often used for simulating robots and/or assembly plants.



HOOPS Publish - v7.00 Changes

Enhancements

Further Performance Improvements for Animations

Significant post-processing of animations is now performed to improve the load time performance of animations created with HOOPS Publish.



HOOPS Publish - v6.10 Changes

Enhancements

Animation Support

A new set of APIs has been introduced which allows you to define an animation. The animation interface is based on the industry standard key-frame methodology and the animation is embedded in the exported PDF as Javascript code.

Semantic PMI display in Acrobat Model Info Box

You can now request that the semantic definition of PMI data is displayed in the Model Info box of Acrobat or Adobe Reader if a markup is selected.

Embedded Image Support

A new API has been introduced which allows you to embed images in the PDF file. These images can be later retrieved for use in JavaScript. This functionality allows developers to implement advanced functionality like a carousel for navigating different views in a model.

Remove BREP information in PRC/PDF export

Developers can now easily remove the BREP definition prior to export to PRC ro PDF. This allows developers to potentially sensitive information independent of the import settings.



HOOPS Publish - v6.00 Changes

New Import Formats

Format Supported Versions
PDF All

Note, in the current implementation PDF is not supported via the standard read API (i.e. A3DAsmModelFileLoadFromFile()). Instead Developers must first use the function A3DGet3DPDFStreams() to extract the PRC/U3D data from the PDF document and then provide this data to appropriate Exchange or Publish API. An example of using this API is provided in the samples\publish\publishsource\DemoFunctionalities sample.

Removed Import Formats

Format
STEP
STL

Interface Changes

Access to full HOOPS Exchange API

Developers can now access the full HOOPS Exchange API in HOOPS Publish. This means they can fully query the B-rep definition of the model and request for the tessellation of supported import files. For full details on the Exchange API, including a Programming Guide, please refer to the HOOPS Exchange Documentation.

Ability to query form fields

Developers can now open a PDF document and dynamically query the names of the form fields contained therein. Please refer to the <hoops_publish>\samples\publish\publishsource\DemoFunctionalities sample for an example of how to use this API.

More granular control over 3D annotation display settings

New APIs were added to provide Developers with more advanced control over the display settings assigned to particular views. Much of this new functionality is used in the existing samples included in the media.



HOOPS Publish - v5.30 Changes

Interface Changes

PMI cross-highlighting

This is the ability for a user to click on a PMI in order to find the associated geometry. HOOPS Publish automatizes the developer task to reproduce this behavior by only needing to activate one Boolean. Only supported with Acrobat 11 and later. See m_bActivatePMICrossHighlight.

3D PDF views in perspective mode

HOOPS Publish now can create 3D PDF camera views in a perspective projection. Before that only orthographic projection were supported. See A3DPDFViewData.

Table support

Enhancements have been made to the table implementation. Now customers are able to define tables of very rich aspect, and precisely position any number of tables on a page. For more information, visit the Table module in reference manual. An usage example can be found in the 'ResultsReporting' code sample.

Link

New functions have been added to create links on a PDF page. A link is a rectangle zone on which the user clicks to trigger an action. Applied upon tables, this allows to simply define actions on table cells: when clicking inside a cell of the table, the user can activate a 3D view, or highlight some 3D data. For more information, visit the Link module in reference manual. An usage example can be found in the 'ResultsReporting' code sample.

Enhancements

Poster generation

Several issues have been fixed upon the poster generation.

Views and PMI support

Several issues have been fixed regarding the treatment of views and PMI read from native files.

New Samples

Two new samples have been added.

CreatePRCMarkup

Sample which demonstrates how to easily create a PRC markup using the API. This sample is using a set of C++ classes wrapping the HOOPS Publish API.

ResultsReporting

Sample which demonstrates the creation of tables on a PDF page. Also, some table cells can be clicked in order to activate some particular 3D views that present some specific PMI.