What's New in 3D Canvas 5.5
 

bulletRight-Click Access to Common Operations

Many of the most common operations are now available via the right-click popup menu.

 
bulletRight-Click Selection Features

Many new object, face, edge and point selection features have been added to the right-click popup menus. New features include Select Group, Grow Selection, Edge Loop, By Direction, By Material etc.

 
bullet Center Mouse Button Navigation

The center mouse button is now used as a navigation button. Center-dragging while the mouse pointer is over an object examines the object. Center-dragging while not over an object results in zooming in/out. Holding down the ctrl, shift, or ctrl-shift keys provide additional navigation options.

 
bulletChamfer Operation (3D Canvas LP/Pro only)

Chamfers points and edges.

 
bulletChamfer Scaling

Chamfer scaling is available by shift-dragging on the scale planes of the Edit Control.

 
bulletPoint Position Operation

Permits direct entry of the position of the selected point.

 
bulletInset Operation

Creates a new faces inset within the selected face or faces.

 
bulletSmooth Operation

Uses a new smoothing algorithm. This result is better adherence to the general shape of the original object.

 
bulletSoften Operation

Softens the edges of an object. Similar to the Smooth operation though it does not increase the number of faces or points. It also can be used on a selection of faces, edges or points.

 
bulletEqualize Operation

Equalizes a selection of points along either the X, Y or Z axes.

 
bulletBridge Operation (3D Canvas LP/Pro only)

Creates a bridge between two faces.

 
bulletWeld-Nearest Operation (3D Canvas LP/Pro only)

Welds the nearest neighbouring point to the selected point.

 
bulletWeld-To-First Operation (3D Canvas LP/Pro only)

Welds all selected points to the first selected point.

 
bulletWeld-To-Nearest Operation (3D Canvas LP/Pro only)

Welds the selected point to its nearest neighbouring point.

 
bulletDivide Operation

The Divide operation can now divide edges into a user-selectable number of edges.

 
bulletMirror/Flip Operations (3D Canvas LP/Pro only)

The Mirror operation has been renamed the Flip operation. A new Mirror operation takes its place which automates the entire mirroring process including the removal of interior faces. Also, both operations now support mirroring on the X, Y and Z axes.

 
bulletExtrude Operation

The Extrude operation now has the option of extruding a group of faces as a region or individually. If faces are extruded as a region they remain linked after the extrusion.

 
bulletTrim Operation

The Trim operation is now available in the freeware version of 3D Canvas.

 
bulletScale Operation

The Scale operation is now available in the freeware version of 3D Canvas.

 
bullet Improved Grouping

3D Canvas now uses a familiar grouping concept. Groups, and group hierarchies can be selected and manipulated as a whole.

 
bulletAutomatic Face Re-Selection

The faces most likely to be used for the next operation are automatically re-selected.

 
bulletNew Scripting method (3D Canvas Pro/LP only)

New Face object method:

GetFaceNormal