Rhino for Windows 6 Beta Now Available

The Rhino V6 beta is finally here!

Version 5 users can register for the beta here and get started with all the new features of V6.

For the next few builds, McNeel will be wrapping up the documentation, localisation and working with their third-party developers to get their plug-ins ported to Rhino 6.

New this week:

Bug Fixes:

• Annotation: Dot: Text unreadable when dots are blue (RH-424292)
• ApplyShutLining: Turning off the crv removes the render mesh (RH-42386)
• Cycles:
  • Doesn’t respect the Transparent background option (RH-42413)
  • Properties panel doesn’t update when Raytraced is running (RH-423341)
  • Setting display to Raytraced crashes Rhino (RH-42332)
  • StartResolution default value is bad (zero) (RH-42376)
• Display:
  • Can’t drag and drop material onto fully transparent object (RH-42313)
  • Cannot override locked color of curves (RH-42357)
  • Curves in X-Ray after Glass assignment (RH-42333)
  • Rhino crashes when loading the attached file. (RH-42428)
  • Video driver information is always wrong or “Not Available” (RH-424881)
• File IO:
  • Font size tune up in PDF export (RH-42397)
  • Stacked, multi-line text from DWG is not stacked or positioned correctly (RH-28474)
• Fin: Fin on twisted degree 1 surfaces (RH-42324)
• Grasshopper: Mesh naked edges are too difficult to merge. (RH-40126)
• Grasshopper: Components: Construct Mesh in GH (RH-37837)
• Help:
  • String possibly missing (?) in BooleanIntersection.htm (RH-42420)
  • Wrong syntax in Options (RH-424231)
• Installer:
  • Beta Dujour installer doesn’t install on top of old WIP/6.x build (RH-424161)
  • Rhino BETA shortcut icon says “WIP” (RH-42402)
• Licensing and Validation:
  • After user enters their license key, offer to add it to their Rhino account (RH-424421)
  • Language for adding license to Rhino account (RH-42502)
  • Rhino Commercial Build failure (RH-42436)
• Localization: “Edit selection” button in SelConnectedMeshFaces (select connected mesh faces) dialog is not aligned with the other two controls. (RH-42445)
• No Subsystem: Search Box localization for Name, Notes and Tags (RH-42203)
• OffsetMesh: Makes inside-out closed meshes (RH-42446)
• Panels:
  • Memory leak in Rhino 6: CRhinoUiDockBarTab::~CRhinoUiDockBarTab rhinotabbeddockbar.cpp Line 130 (RH-42454)
  • RhinoUiShowDockbarTab() passes a bad parameter (RH-42355)
• Print: Vector printing misplaces dimension text (RH-423832)
• RDK:
  • Memory leak in CRhRdkContentNavigator::Add (RH-42457)
  • Panels with edit box may cause Rhino to hang (RH-42496)
• Rendering: Materials: Appear grey in viewports (RH-423952)
• Rendering: Realtime SDK: Printing through realtime display pipeline doesn’t work properly (RH-41970)
• SDK:
  • Rhino C++ SDK should include the license agreement (RH-42437)
  • Rhino C/C++ SDK installer folder incorrect (RH-42439)
  • Rhino C/C++ SDK installer needs updated text (RH-42438)
• SDK: RhinoCommon: InstanceDefinition.UpdateType returns obsolete type (RH-42250)
• SelChain: SelChain and mesh objects (RH-42145)
• Selection: SelNone does not work transparently (RH-30328)
• Shade: Rendered mode does not match (RH-421941)
• Toolbar: I do not see the Object Osnap Between (RH-350632)
• UntrimHoles: UntrimHoles deletes wrong hole (RH-42367)
• ViewCaptureToClipboard: Doesn’t respect the sample count (RH-42339)
• ViewCaptureToFile: JPG quality different that V5 (RH-41818)
• Viewports: Redrawing of viewports works incorrectly (RH-422581)
• Volume: Mass Properties regression tests failing (RH-42098)

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