New: Presentation widget – group nodes are checkable
New: Presentation widget – morph and cache subtree
New: Presentation widget – morph and cache all checked
New: Presentation widget – create variant sets for checked
New: Presentation widget – added viewpoint list per group node (comma seperated string)
New: Presentation widget – sorting enabled
New: Presentation widget – exclude duplicates in groups
New: Presentation widget – “Unmorph All” function on context menu of group nodes
New: Added part id for transformation variant sets
New: Excel import – added BMW combinations format
New: Warning message in terminal window when history widget or presentation widget need to be reset after selecting a VRED variant set
Change: Presentation widget – morph status is set only for the selected gap/flush/combination – all other gap/flush/combination in group are reset to their original state
Fix: “Clear History” function will now always create an “Initial State” entry
Fix: viewpoint name referencing from preferences
Fix: corrected indexing of mirrored sections
Fix: corrected editing of gap value in gap/flush widget
Fix: corrected editing of ratio value in gap/flush widget
Fix: corrected editing of morph rad value in gap/flush widget
Fix: high-lighting of parts when selected a combination or a child of a combination
Fix: drag&drop transformation variants for part no. 2 to presentation widget
Release 2021.1 Date: 16 June 2021
Fix: BMW parallel gap and BMW parallel flush
Release 2021.0 Date: 30 April 2021
New: Supports VRED Professional Release 2021.3
New: Supports VRED Professional Release 2021.2
New: Supports VRED Professional Release 2021.1
New: Presentation Widget
New: PQ Data Validator application for Daimler data format
New: Preferences – BMW All Variants
New: Excel import keyword “Tesla”
New: Excel import keyword “Scania”
New: Extended excel import for “Scania” to include Mirrors, Combinations and Transformations.
New: Updated Excel importer for “Arrival”
New: Supports VRED Sceneplates with current morph state information
New: Import “Mirror” sheet from Excel
New: Configurable VRED variant set names with all available parameters
New: Context menu on gap/flush variants – “Print VRED Variant Set Names Preview” – prints variant set names for all checked as configured in Preferences to terminal window
New: Context menu on combinations – “Print VRED Variant Set Names Preview” – prints variant set names for all checked as configured in Preferences to terminal window
New: Preferences – tree widgets double click action – option to expand node or morph variant/combination
New: Function to morph gap/flush variant by double click on node
New: Function to morph combination by double click on node
New: Combinations Sheet for Daimler: Autofill MSnn based on MS01
New: Combinations Sheet for Daimler: Extrapolation to the left: Left most value assigned to all previous points
New: Combinations Sheet for Daimler: Interpolation between the values available
New: Combinations Sheet for Daimler: Extrapolation to the right: right most value assigned to all further points
New: Combinations Sheet for Daimler: Catch error with etra “;” in effected gaps
New: Remove white spaces from Exel – Daimler only
Change: Updated Excel importer for BMW
Change: Updated Excel importer for Bentley
Change: Removed default config file for the demo
Fix: No errors when canceling windows file dialog
Fix: Export xml
Fix: Morphing a transformation variant resets the previous morphings
Fix: Morphing a transformation variant applies only to affected part
Fix: Downward compatibility with Autodesk VRED Professional 2020
Release 2020.6 Date: 15 July 2020
New: Excel import keyword “Arrival”
Release 2020.5 Date: 10 July 2020
Bug fix: gap variant presets calculation made Py3 compatible
Release 2020.4 Date: 03 July 2020
New: Excel import keyword “BMW”
Bug fix: Gracefully handle if ‘;’ is found in one of the cells in Excel sheet.
Release 2020.3 Date: 09 June 2020
New: Excel import keyword “Audi”
Release 2020.2 Date: 08 June 2020
New: Supports VRED Professional Release 2021
Release 2020.1 Date: 01 April 2020
New: Excel import keyword “ItalDesign”
Release 2020.0 Date: 29 January 2020
New: Supports VRED Professional Releases 2020.2 and 2020.3
New: Function “Save”
New: Morphing control by angle between gap measure direction and local vertex normal direction.
New: Morphing limitation to maximum value of nearest measure point.
New: Function “Edit Column” to edit all measure points values of one gap/flush simultaneously.
New: Preset gap/flush variant “Taper O” – max gap/flush a center point; min gap/flush at both ends
New: Preset gap/flush variant “Taper X” – min gap/flush a center point; max gap/flush at both ends
Bug fix: Correctly updating morph zone symbols.
Bug fix: Double nodes in VRED scene graph when creating VRED variant sets for combinations.
Bug fix: UnboundLocalError: local variable ‘part1TransformTemplatesMapping’ referenced before assignment.
Change: Renamed variant presets from “(xxx%) Max. Gap/Flush” to “(xxx%) Max”
Change: Renamed variant presets from “(xxx%) Min. Gap/Flush” to “(xxx%) Min”
Change: Changed nomenclature of VRED variant sets from “7-8_G: (140%) Max vp1 [2020-01-20 15:41:44.810000]” to “7-8_G_vp1_(140%)Max_2020-01-20-16-42-18-474000”
Change: Changed window title to project file name
Release 2019.5 Date: 04 December 2019
New: Supports VRED 2020.2
Bug fix: Double nodes in VRED scene graph when creating VRED variant sets from combinations.
Bug fix: UnboundLocalError: local variable ‘part1TransformTemplatesMapping’ referenced before assignment.
Release 2019.4 Date: 27 November 2019
New: Supports VRED 2020.1
New: New: Discontinued support of VRED Versions 2019 and 2018.
New: Excel import keyword “McLaren”.
New: Excel import for keyword “Porsche”: option to read or calculate morph radius, option to read or calculate nominal gap, option to read direction vector from points sheet or from measures sheet.
New: Daimler config file keyword MEASURE-GAP_OPTION, 0: gap direction vector from Excel, 1: gap direction vector calculated P1-P2, 2: gap direction vector calculated P2-P1.
New: Daimler presets Taper V1- V4.
New: Main Menu > File “Import Gap/Flush Measure Data” – deletes current data and imports data from Excel.
New: Main Menu > File “Import Add-Replace Gap/Flush Measure Data” – adds data with new gap/flush/combination Ids and overwrites data with existing gap/flush/combination Ids.
New: Main menu > View > Extended Gap/Flush List – shows or hides gap/flush used in combinations.
New: Main menu > View > Refresh Lists – updates all three tree widgets.
New: Tree widget for gap/flush – expandable down to measure point data.
New: Tree widget for combinations with 10 combinations groups – imported combinations will be added to groups based on the first digit of the combination Id.
New: Tree widget for history of morphed states – enables real time A-B comparison.
New: Drag & drop gap/flush variants to combinations.
New: Context menus on gap/flush widget (item sensitive) for all gap/flush/transformation functions.
New: Context menus on combinations widget (item sensitive) for all combination functions.
New: Context menus on history widget for all history functions.
New: Added sort functions to gap/flush and combiantions tree widgets.
New: “Force Delete” option for deleting gap/flush/tranf variants which are part of combinations.
New: Warning for affected combinations when deleting gap/flush/tranf variant – delete nothing unless “Force Delete” is checked.
New: Multiple materials created for PQ symbols are now merged to a single material per symbol and named nVIZpqMa…
New: Performant morphing of combinations.
New: Create VRED variant sets from combinations.
New: Added part transformations to VRED variant sets.
New: Added gap/flush/combinations ID and name and time stamp to VRED variant set name.
New: Optional viewpoint names 1 and 2 in preferences – viewpoints will be added to VRED variant sets if preferences are filled in and viewpoints exist; nomenclature for viewpoints: and .
New: Auto-generate all VRED variant sets for checked gap/flush or checked combinations.
New: Single variant set with original data for all gap and flush variant sets.
New: Preferences check box to auto-generate gap/flush presets.
New: Preference spin box to set history cache size.
Resolved: Limitations on VRED variant sets – variant sets can now be created for arbitrary gaps/flush/transf configurations.
Resolved: Renaming gap/flush/tranf variant will now update the names in the combinations.
Bug fix: Combinations with deformation and transformation on the same gap are now handled correctly.
Bug fix: Daimler combinations from column D imported correctly if column E is not filled in.
Change: Removed edit tab (edit functions added to context menu on measure points).
Limitation: pqb file from earlier versions is not compatible.
Release 2019.3.1 Date: 16 September 2019
New: Excel import keyword “Ford”
Release 2019.3 Date: 12 July 2019
Change: Updated Bentley excel data extraction format.
Release 2019.2 Date: 04 July 2019
New: Supports VRED 2019
New: Supports VRED 2020
New: Function to create multiple VRED variant sets from morphed gap/flush states for direct A-B comparison (currently not supported for ‘Transformations’ and ‘Assemblies’)
New: A copy of the original data of each part will allways be created for manual recovery – see node ‘nVIZpqTrf__originalData’
New: GUI tab with functions to edit the measure points positions and direction vectors
New: Options to hide part 1 or part 2 with related symbols for convenient inspection of measure points
New: Version information printed to VRED terminal window when plugin is loaded
New: Preferences option to specify a custom config file to be used
Bug-Fix: Part search after PQ-specific nodes have been created and the same part name still occurs in further gaps/flushes
Bug-Fix: Part search after manually assigning a node path to part 1/2 which is referenced as part 2/1 on a different gap/flush
Bug-Fix: Measure sections variants can no longer be deleted while assembly definitions exist
Bug-Fix: Assemblies correctly morphed when switching between morphing of measures sections and morphing of assemblies
Bug-Fix: Assemblies correctly morphed in combination with assemblies filter function
Bug-Fix: ‘Remove Selected Measures’ in combination with filter function
