Blaze3D - The blazingly fast 3D viewer

Devlog

• 2.7.3
  January 23, 2021 by Martin Buck Software

  Fix a bug where Blaze3D would crash when dropping unsupported file formats... Continue reading
• 2.7.2
  January 12, 2021 by Martin Buck Software

  Have separate cameras for perspective and ortographic projection This resolves issues when switching between both frequently such as clipping the model Fix bug where flickering text might be shown whi... Continue reading
• 2.7.1
  January 03, 2021 by Martin Buck Software

  Fix a bug where opening an invalid file might prevent the folder view from loading additional models... Continue reading
• 2.7.0
  January 02, 2021 by Martin Buck Software

  Now loading all files within a folder, not only the currently visible ones Files which are visible are still loaded first Display error reasons within the render window Increase default and minimum wi... Continue reading
• 2.6.1
  December 05, 2020 by Martin Buck Software

  Fix a crash in font renderer that could be triggered by hovering files/folders with long names... Continue reading
• Removal of 2.6.0
  December 05, 2020 by Martin Buck Software

  Some users reported crashes on 2.6.0. I downgraded Blaze3D to 2.5.1 until this is resolved... Continue reading
• 2.6.0
  November 28, 2020 by Martin Buck Software

  Change folder view to display all folders instead of only those containing files that can be opened The previous behavior could cause very long wait times if e.g. the root folder of the system was bei... Continue reading
• 2.5.1
  November 11, 2020 by Martin Buck Software

  Improve Linux support (binaries now compiled on older host machine) Fix an issue within the `.gcode` loader in case a `;` is located directly behind a value... Continue reading
• 2.5.0
  October 10, 2020 by Martin Buck Software

  Greatly improve performance of .glb loading in case there are many seek operations (caused by e.g. many BufferViews) Slightly improve loading speed of smaller files Fix bug where clicking another fo... Continue reading
• 2.4.0 - .gltf inline data
  October 08, 2020 by Martin Buck Software

  Now also support inline base64 data in .gltf files... Continue reading
• 2.3.0 - .glTF support
  October 07, 2020 by Martin Buck Software

  Add basic .gltf v2.0 support... Continue reading
• 2.2.0
  October 05, 2020 by Martin Buck Software

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  Split Blaze3D into Lite and Pro editions Fix issue in bounding box calculation in case the first stream chunk has no valid size Support models that don't have a valid 3D bounding box (e.g. flat... Continue reading
• 2.1.0 - .glb support
  October 03, 2020 by Martin Buck Software

  Add basic .glb v2.0 support Slightly improve performance when using single buffering ( double_buffer_data = false )... Continue reading
• 2.0.0 - Stream loading
  September 25, 2020 by Martin Buck Software

  I'm very happy to announce that Blaze3D now supports stream loading. You'll instantly see parts of your model rendered, even if the loading is not finished yet. Especially for large files this is... Continue reading

  
• 1.9.0
  August 21, 2020 by Martin Buck Software

  Improve folder structure of released zip files IO Error messages now contain more information Change the initial model pose so more of the model is shown (90 degree rotations only)... Continue reading
• 1.8.0
  August 03, 2020 by Martin Buck Software

  Only show folders that potentially contain valid models (checked via extension) Improve .ply support (now supporting types int8, uint8, int16, uint16, int32 and uint32) Fix bug where folder up / trave... Continue reading
• 1.7.1
  August 01, 2020 by Martin Buck Software

  Avoid bad alloc crashes in case of invalid .stl data Handle invalid normals within an .stl file more gracefully... Continue reading
• 1.7.0
  July 31, 2020 by Martin Buck Software

  Can now scroll in the folder view via mouse wheel Now showing loading and error texts for single files within folder view On errors when loading ASCII files, the invalid line's content is now printed... Continue reading
• 1.6.0 - The File Browser Update
  July 16, 2020 by Martin Buck Software

  The folder view can now be used as full file browser Now displaying names of files Now displaying folders including .. Folder view now shows in title whether loading is in progress Now possible to us... Continue reading
• 1.5.0
  July 08, 2020 by Martin Buck Software

  Improve smoothness of interactive rendering while also dropping CPU usage during interactions Folder view now behaving more responsive Slightly improved (loading) performance Now more reactive when re... Continue reading
• 1.4.1
  June 22, 2020 by Martin Buck Software

  Fix issue on Windows where CPU usage was high even with no interaction... Continue reading
• 1.4.0 - Improved folder view
  June 20, 2020 by Martin Buck Software

  The folder view can now be very efficiently redrawn This avoids any file reloads when resizing the window or traversing the folder At the cost of a slight VRAM usage increase for every cached file Fil... Continue reading
• 1.3.0
  June 13, 2020 by Martin Buck Software

  The folder view can now be configured to load at most max_models_folder_view models Set this value to 0 to have the previous, unlimited behavior Add a scroll indicator for the multi view in case i... Continue reading
• 1.2.0 - Incremental rendering
  June 07, 2020 by Martin Buck Software

  Add option to render point clouds incrementally . This makes it possible to render large point clouds even with very little GPU memory. See max_points_per_render_call in the configuration file Add a... Continue reading
• 1.1.0 - The multi view update
  May 30, 2020 by Martin Buck Software

  Now supporting display of multiple models at once when opening a folder Add option to reload a file or folder by using the R key Add option to display folder of currently loaded file via Backspace... Continue reading

  
• 1.0.0
  May 09, 2020 by Martin Buck Software

  Version 1.0.0 has finally landed! Remove the blaze3df executable Add setting on_duplicate_stl_vertex to the configuration as replacement "Allow" equates the previous behavior of blaze3df "Merge"... Continue reading
• 0.17.0
  May 01, 2020 by Martin Buck Software

  Add .pts support All values within configuration are now optional Add switching between perspective and orthographic projection via configuration Add field of view setting for perspective projection... Continue reading
• 0.16.0
  April 19, 2020 by Martin Buck Software

  Now supporting `.ply` files that only contain point data Now able to open folders directly (will load first valid file in folder) Icon for the Windows executable... Continue reading
• 0.15.0
  April 13, 2020 by Martin Buck Software

  Add .las support... Continue reading
• 0.14.0
  April 05, 2020 by Martin Buck Software

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  Greatly improve speed for all text/ASCII file formats [time to first frame, hot] 31% .stl 25% .gcode 32% .ply 20% .xyz 34% .obj 20% .ptx and others (no data for benchmarks available)... Continue reading
• 0.13.0
  March 29, 2020 by Martin Buck Software

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  Further greatly improved performance (> 2x in some cases) There's changes to the configuration, you'll have to update yours... Continue reading
• 0.12.0
  March 23, 2020 by Martin Buck Software

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  Arrow keys can now be used to load the previous/next file of the current folder Readme and Changelog now .html pages The camera controls can now be configured by editing `blaze3d.toml`... Continue reading
• 0.11.0
  March 21, 2020 by Martin Buck Software

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  `.gcode` support greatly improved... Continue reading
• 0.10.0
  March 21, 2020 by Martin Buck Software

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  Add `.ptx` support Add `.gcode` support (reading `G1` commands assuming absolute positioning)... Continue reading
• 0.9.0
  March 16, 2020 by Martin Buck Software

  Greatly improve loading speed especially when loading .stl files Extend time logging to track time loading -> finish rendering frame Use normals provided by .stl files iff they seem to be valid Now al... Continue reading
• 0.8.1
  March 15, 2020 by Martin Buck Software

  Fix issue where binary .stl files were detected as ASCII and failed to load properly Fix issue where .stl files with invalid faces could not be loaded... Continue reading
• 0.8.0
  March 14, 2020 by Martin Buck Software

  Nicer time logging and output Support for binary .ply files .ply import is now more capable and should be able to open most (possibly all) files Free community edition for non-commercial use is now... Continue reading