NPOWER Software - Advanced Modeling Plugins for 3DSMAX and RHINO

Power NURBS / Solids / Translators / all plug-ins 6.2 - December , 2009:

1. For Power Translators Universal - implemented JT, SolidEdge, SolidWorks, Inventor, Parasolids formats
2. Major stability improvements (undo crashes virtually eliminated).
3. Fillet tool should no longer lose/corrupt fillet sets.
4. Isocurve tool should no longer randomly ignore the user selections.
5. Power primitive redraw in sub-object mode sped up.
   
6. plugin load time during Max load time drastically reduced.
7. Sub-object cloning within sketch tool improved (bezier handles should persist).
8. Various minor bug fixes.
   
   Usage Notes:
   1. As part of our solution to the periodic undo crashes, we now maintain a hidden/frozen layer where place holder nodes accumulate during use of the nPower tools.  In general, we have tried to minimize the visibility of this layer to the user.  The user should not need to worry about this layer for the most part, as its contents are automatically cleaned if the user saves their progress to a Max file and then loads that file.  A dialog may appear to remind the user to save and reload their progress if this layer starts to get crowded.  It is recommended that users DO NOT manually delete the contents of this layer, as this may cause the undo system to destabilize.  Please let us know if any aspect of this system hinders your work flow or if you continue to encounter undo-related crashes.
   2. In general it is recommended that users minimize deletion of objects in Max.  Frequent node deletions appear to encourage undo-related crashes.  If the need arises to delete a large number of objects, it is recommended to 'save and reload' after the deletion.
   3. Due to a recently discovered bug in Max, we recommend against single-axis-rescaling of any object in "Affect Pivot Only" mode.  Such objects tend to behave oddly, particularly when used as rails or shapes as input to various shape generators.  If such a scaling operation is desired with a sketch object, it is much safer to rescale the sub-object vertices than to rescale the sketch object at the top level.

Power NURBS / Solids / Translators / all plug-ins 6.1 - October , 2009:

1. User Interface simplification (disabling of invalid options) of the most common tools
2. UVW Unwrap completion
3. Sketch extents bug fix
4. Massive improvement in SAT file translation
5. Tessellation improvements
6. Blending bug fixes
7. Many other major and minor bug fixes

Power NURBS / Solids / Translators / all plug-ins 6.0 - April , 2009:

1. Added support for 3ds Max 2010
2. Added new UV unwrap tool
3. Added support for all 3ds Max modifiers (Path Deform, Patch Deform, SurfDeform, Bend, Affect Region, Displace, FFD (all 5), Noise, Ripple, Skew, Spherify, Squeeze, Stretch, Taper, Twist, Wave) applied directly to our NURBS objects
4. Added support for importing SolidWorks 2009 files (Power Translators Pro and Power SolidWorksToMax)
5. Added crash protection to prevent most crashing bugs
6. Many other major and minor bug fixes
7. 2x performance improvement in interactive editing operations
8. Improved user interface for curve selection

Power NURBS / Solids / Translators / all plug-ins 5.3 - October 15, 2008:

1. Fixed authorization problems with educational versions
2. Fixed authorization problems for Power SolidWorksToMax
3. Fixed problems with importing SolidWorks 2009 files
4. Fixed tessellation bugs
5. Several other minor bug fixes

Power NURBS 2.3 / Translators & Solids 4.3 - Feb. 1, 2007:

1. Fixed authorization problems causing rendering crashes.
2. Fixed offseting problem with filleted surfaces
3. Other minor bug fixes

Power NURBS 2.22 / Translators & Solids 4.22 - Jan. 17, 2007:

1. Fixed authorization problem for Power RhinoToMax, Power CatiaToMax, Power UGSToMax.

Power NURBS 2.21 / Translators & Solids 4.21 - Jan. 12, 2007:

1. Fixed crashing bug importing certain SolidWorks files. This fix is very important for Power SolidWorksToMax customers.
   
2. Fixed problem with Max 9 handling of nPower_Settings.ini file. It was not correctly finding the file. The result was that rendering could crash, and you would see always "0.0" for all entries in the Render Approximation Settings dialog.

Power NURBS 2.2 / Translators & Solids 4.2 - Jan. 10, 2007:

1. Fixed Major Bug with Tessellation running out of memory for larger models during Import, Rendering and Viewport mesh generation. This is a must have fix for Power Translators customers who have had out of memory crashing problems.

Power NURBS 2.11 / Translators & Solids 4.11 - Jan. 2, 2007:

1. 64 Bit Release Only. New timed 64 bit version which expires in April. We are still working on new 64 bit licensing.