by Matt Sederberg » Thu Dec 02, 2010 4:19 pm
T-Splines v3 WIP3 is now available.
T-Splines v3 WIP3 has known bugs and we would not recommend using it for commercial use. However, if you would like to download and try out the new features, we would welcome your feedback to help us shape the final look of v3!
Rhino v4 SR8, or Rhino v5 2010-11-30 (32 or 64 bit)
Important notes:
If you're upgrading the 64-bit plugin, you'll need to manually uninstall it first.
You may need to use tsSymmetry to rediscover symmetry from T-Splines v2 files.
Please submit crash reports to McNeel so we can fix them.
New in WIP 3
Many speed/memory improvements.
Crashes are now being passed to Rhino's crash reporting rather than being caught by T-Splines during the WIP period. Please submit the crashes to McNeel so we can fix them.
tsPull now lets you subdivide faces while in the command to get a closer fit.
tsPull can now pull surface points as well as control points.
tsPull can now pull to all visible objects in the scene.
Fixed some surface deformation with tsInterpolate
tsThicken now supports symmetric models
Fixed crashes where we were loading v2 symmetry. If you have files with v2 symmetry, you'll need to re-discover symmetry with tsSymmetry
The 32-bit installer now installs to Rhino v4 and Rhino v5.
The 64-bit installer no longer uninstalls the 32-bit plugin. As a side-effect, if you're upgrading the 64-bit plugin you'll need to manually uninstall it first.
Selection set display is more up to date
Fixed a crash in tsConvert
Fixed some crashes in tsPipe
New in WIP 2
64-bit version - This version works with Rhino 5 WIP 2010-11-04.
Fixed crash in V5 32-bit.
Fixed crash in Grasshopper.
OBJ export no longer requires converting to a rhino mesh.
New in WIP 1
New commands
tsPipe, a powerful, easy-to-use command that creates a T-spline out of a network of intersecting curves. Enabled with Rhino history!
tsSelectionSets Selection sets for T-splines points, edges, faces, objects, and Rhino objects are now available to more easily keep track of selections.
“Poor man’s reverse engineering”: new commands tsPull will suck the control points of a t-spline primitive to a polysurface or mesh, then tsInterpolate will make the T-Splines smooth mode pass through those control points. These commands are in an early stage and we’re looking forward to feedback as to how we should improve them.
Export Bezier patches and elements suitable for isogeometric analysis.
Improved commands
Primitives (tsBox, tsPlane, tsCone, tsTorus, tsSphere, tsCylinder) can now be created anywhere in the scene.
tsSymmetry has been completely rewritten, with a number of improvements:
Symmetric objects can be oriented to any cPlane, anywhere in the scene.
Symmetry can now be discovered on existing objects without first deleting half the model.
Symmetry can be turned off on part of a model while the rest of the model continues to be symmetric.
Other improvements
UVs are now supported.
Improved speed and greater capacity to handle larger models (we completely rewrote the core T-Splines code to handle speedups but are still in the process of actually speeding things up in this WIP).
64-bit Rhino v5 support (not in this version of the WIP)
Below are videos that demonstrate some of the new v3 WIP features. You can change the resolution by clicking on the "360p" after you start the video. Please leave any comments or suggestions about v3 in this post.
