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--- 2006-06-20 Release 7.8.2 ---
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This release includes a new example geometry model, a "Toy Barbie
Jeep" (see note below regarding trademarks) that was modeled in 2005
over the course of a day by a small group of students attending a free
hands-on BRL-CAD training class at SURVICE Engineering, Inc. The
class involved working in groups to simulate a real-world
time-constrained modeling experience taking measurements of a real toy
vehicle, considering what aspects of the vehicle are important for
analytic purposes, deciding how to best represent complex geometric
shapes, modeling the parts of the vehicle in MGED, assembling the
components together, and running geometric processing and rendering
tools on the final model.
The DXF importer received considerable updates this iteration, with
John Anderson providing additional support for a variety of 2D DXF
entities.
* fixed asc-nmg bug that caused a crash on exit - John Anderson
* fixed minor mged memory leak - Jim Monte
* added archer version info to bottom of about dialog - Bob Parker
* added a beta vertex array exporter (g-var) - Prasad Silva
* archer support for multi-select and cut-n-paste - Doug Howard
* added newly supported entities to dxf-g manual page - John Anderson
* fixed asc2g bug reading files with carriage returns - Sean Morrison
* added dbupgrade manual page - Sean Morrison
* updated the g2asc manual page with format details - Sean Morrison
* fixed g_diff attribute comparison issue - Sean Morrison
* g_diff reports more detail whether differences exist - Sean Morrison
* g2asc now saves additional _GLOBAL attribute values - Sean Morrison
* fixed g2asc export of null units bug - Sean Morrison
* fixed libwdb corruption when creating pipes - Daniel Roßberg
* fixed crash in release build concerning bot's - Daniel Roßberg
* new toy barbie jeep geometry - Various Students
* considerable dxf-g enhancements, more entity support - John Anderson
Note: Barbie and Jeep are trademarks of Mattel Inc. and the
Daimler-Chrysler Corporation respectively. No endorsement is intended
or implied.
