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HOOPS Exchange - v7.2
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Enhancements
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.. rubric:: Platform updates

CentOS 6.5 is now supported.

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Autodesk Inventor Reader Can Now Import B-Rep
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B-rep may now be imported from Autodesk Inventor files. The
functionality is provided in beta status.

Please note that this feature may impact the reading of Inventor
files in `kA3DReadGeomAndTess` mode.

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Parasolid Export Improvements
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By employing a variety of healing techniques, we've continued to
improve the quality of our Parasolid export. In addition, if the
source file was Parasolid based (i.e. NX, JT, SOLIDWORKS, or Solid
Edge) then we'll make extreme efforts to provide the original
Parasolid data when you export to Parasolid.

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View and PMI Improvements
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There has been continued improvements in our visual PMI support
with the main focus being CV5, NX, and Creo.

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File Reader Improvements
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* Our Rhino reader now supports external references.
* Extensive quality improvements have been made to both the Rhino  and SAT readers.

Functional Changes
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.. rubric:: STEP importer

Our STEP importer now disables healing by default. Healing can be
enabled using the `m_bHealOrientations` flag.

The STEP importer flag `m_bSplitSHELL_BASED_SURFACE_MODEL` flag
controls whether each logical body is put into a separate B-rep
entity. Please note that this flag is set to true by default, thus in
order to achieve similar results to HOOPS Exchange 7.1.0, this flag
should be set to false.
