August 2022

Version 5.5.61 (August 17)

🚀 Features & Tweaks

- Beta release of Screen Collab app. You can now invite your peers to collaborate in real time from their VR headset, desktop or Mac, or leave notes for your team members for when they next access the room.
- Redesigned sketch navigation locks. Grab with the offhand controller and pull down on the control stick to set a lock. Grab with the offhand controller and press up on the control stick to jump to a lock.
- Passthrough mode on Quest is now toggled by performing a grab gesture with the main hand controller near your headset.
- Added buttons with common email domains to the email entry keyboard.
- Added inactivity warning for idle users in Collab.

🐛 Bug Fixes

- Improved trimming of surfaces on IGES imports.
- The names of additional layers in a Collab room are now named consistently if the user’s name is unknown.
- Improved wrapping on long folder names.
- HDR upload help message now correctly reflects user’s default save directory.
- Fixed multiple of the same error message sometimes stacking on top of each other.
- Merging a mirrored object into a non-mirrored subdivision object now bakes the mirror of the mirrored object.
- Can now rename a Collab room back to its original name after already renaming it once.
- Fixed the Ink/Stroke cursor displaying when scaling the sketch while the Separate tool is selected.
- The primitive centre line and measurement tool axis snapping now correctly reflect axis colours.
- Fixed moving the clipboard in File manager causing files to move after they have been grabbed out of the clipboard.
- Fixed imports of some IGES files through the prefab menu being heavier than when opened through File Manager.
- Can no longer rename a file from the clipboard in File Manager.
- Fixed the mirrored parts of sketch imports being ungrabbable until the original half of the sketch is grabbed.
- Added support for blink movement when rotating

Version 5.5.62 (August 18)

VR

🐛 Bug Fixes

- Fixed converting a polar symmetrical object to subdivision geometry causing it to disappear.
- Fixed mirrored versions of polar symmetrical copies not being grabbable until the original was grabbed.
- Added note to beta panel with new passthrough toggle instructions.

Screen Collab

🐛 Bug Fixes

- Fixed not being able to draw before any annotations are placed.

Version 5.5.63 (August 22)

VR

🚀 Features & Tweaks

- Improved file repair system and implemented a notification for if a repair has taken place on load or import.
- Can now see other users’ Smart Move UI in Collab.

🐛 Bug Fixes

- Saving a file twice no longer causes its navigation lock to be forgotten on standalone Quest.
- Fixed a crash that could occur upon connection timeout.
- Fixed upload and download progress notifications either not appearing or disappearing when they should.
- Fixed a crash when deleting a loop on a looped NURBS surface.
- Prefab thumbnails and 3D previews no longer load on top of each other if the import is started while the thumbnail is loading.
- Fixed an issue on Windows where the app would not resume rendering if the frame rate failed to stabilise.
- Fixed an error that could occur when drawing after undoing a mirrored object.

Screen Collab

🐛 Bug Fixes

- Annotations are no longer visible during transitions between viewpoints.

Version 5.5.64 (August 30)

VR

🚀 Features & Tweaks

- Changed the login password text to say “enter password” not “enter new password”.
- The grab cube now aligns with the smart move axis, allowing for easier and smoother smart moving while using the cube.
- Added the ability to see a list of what users are in a given Collab room by pressing the ellipsis located in the top corner of the room icons.

🐛 Bug Fixes

- Fixed an issue where re-imported files from GS didn't show the reference images/materials they had applied to them before exporting.
- Fixed a bug where clicking on the new sketch icon while in the quit menu disabled the back button.
- Fixed a bug that disallowed users to use smart move if they were in the viewpoints tool.
- Fixed a bug where reconnecting to the internet would not reconnect to LandingPad.
- Fixed a UI issue where it would seem like a sketch was saving to the cloud when a user had no internet connection.
- Fixed an issue where deleting the third point of an ink or stroke spline causes it to be deleting but act like it is still there.
- Fixed a bug that introduced odd behaviour using the looping tool in SubD while in the revolve tool.
- Fixed a bug where low-poly toggle on planar volumes would stay in the off position

Screen Collab

🚀 Features & Tweaks

- Made it so that the hovered sticky note stays on top of the stack.
- Added the ability to keep sticky notes open on a click
- Screen Collab now has a selection of keyboard shortcuts for PC and Mac. (PC / Mac)
- Undo: CTRL / CMD + Z
- Leave tool mode User is in: ESC
- Mute/un-mute: CTRL / CMD + D
- Laser pointer: HOLD SHIFT + CTRL / CMD
- Pen: CTRL / CMD + P
- Sticky note: CTRL / CMD + S
- Eraser: CTRL / CMD + E
- Previous/Next viewpoint: CTRL / CMD + Up / Down
- Full Screen: F11 / CMD + CTRL + F

🐛 Bug Fixes

- Fixed an issue where annotations were visible during camera transitions