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Revision as of 13:10, 27 October 2016
This page contains a brief description of each new release of MatterControl. The version numbers shown on this page are for the official MatterHackers releases.
1.6
Release Date: November 2016 TBD
- Windows Download
- Mac, Linux, Android versions coming soon!
New Features
- Print Recovery
- Automatically recover from power failure, disconnection, or crash
- User settings stored in the cloud
- Have your settings everywhere, automatically available, and backed up
- New printer profiles can be added at any time
- New printers and updated settings retrieved from the Internet
- Improved Settings Editor
- Revert to default profile settings at any time, maintains history of changes, easier to use
- Improved Quality and Material Editors
- Improved Export and Import of settings
- Printer profiles added
- Calculate filament cost per print
- Part editing now has undo and redo
Better Print Results
- Fill Thin Gaps
- Expand Thin Edges
- Perimeter Merging
- Improved wipe towers
- Improved support detection and removal
- Improved seam hiding
- Convex priming (skirt) loops
- Better fan speed control
- Can use G0 instead of G1 for moves if desired
1.5.3
Release Date: May 19, 2016
New Features
- Added profile for the BCN3D Sigma printer
- Updated JumpStart V1 Printer Profile
- Added printer profile for the Lulzbot TAZ 6
1.5.2
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Bug Fixes
- Fixed Android keyboard crash on T10 tablet
Other
- Updated printer profiles
1.5
Release Date: February 19, 2016
New Features
- A new, vastly improved, support system
- Position tuning while printing (aka baby stepping)
- Ability to slice merged/intersecting parts
- Improved seam-hiding while printing
- Ability to cancel printing while heating
- Setting to retract when changing islands
- Made it possible to have the first perimeter have a different extrusion width to compensate for more accurate small holes
- Added top infill speed
- Add support for closing MatterControl while printing
- Put in reporting of hardware errors
- Improved the local search feature
- Added visual indicator for http failures
- Made it possible to render translucent extrusion paths
- Support drag and drop onto the settings widget will still add to Queue
- Fixed the macro window to grow in Y
- Implemented scroll wheel in the G-Code Terminal
- Added user configurable Library folders
- Finished Braille 2 functionality for Braille Builder
- Velocity during rotation of 3D View
- Improved MatterControl Touch printing
- Improved Android soft keyboard support
- Only process the most outside perimeter with Spiral Vase
- Fixed slicing to handle badly wound polygons
Bug Fixes
- Now reporting bed and extruder heating state for Repetier firmware
- You can now type a partial entry to a count or mm field and not have it get messed up if you are slow
- Make sure we turn off all heaters when we shut down
- Ability to save to the Queue on Save As
- Suppress error reporting and abort on COM Access Denied errors
- AMF save progress reporting
- Fixed first layer speed issue
- Better thread safety
- Made the leveling page easier to use on MatterControl Touch
- Made message box easier to use on MatterControl Touch
- Allow invalid image file formats to return a load failure rather than throw an assert
- Group objects move correctly on the bed when scaled
- Made it possible to edit the 3 point leveling positions even after you have set up 7 or 13 point leveling
- Making the save feature always go through a separate file so that we don't get collisions with files in use
- No crashing on corrupt zip files
- Fixed bug when opening and closing EEProm window
- Restore Clear Cache functionality
- Loading large GCode file no longer pauses Android
- Loading Repetier EEProm settings no longer pauses Android
- Fixed issue where Infill Overlap was not being used correctly
See also
MatterControl 1.5 Released article on MatterHackers.com
1.4.1
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Notes: MatterControl Touch only
Minor Changes
- Enabled new seam hiding code in MatterSlice
- Enabled 'Pinch to Zoom' on touchscreens
- Reset view button on model and gcode views
- Improved STL repair, added handling for bad polygon winding
- Added Outside perimeter extrusion width setting (Filament -> Extrusion)
- Added Top Solid Infill speed to MatterSlice
- Improved to Braille Grade 2 support in Braille Builder
- Made print leveling dialog easier to use on Touch
- Made message reports easier to read on Touch
Bug Fixes
- Improved showing and hiding of the Android keyboard
- Better startup behavior when a printer plugged in
- Fixed issue where grouped objects were not moving when scaled
- Android now resets boards on connect
- Fixed issue where Infill Overlap was not being used correctly
- Fixed issue with empty Start GCode
- General stability improvements
1.4.0
Release Date: October 5, 2015
New Features
- Added Cloud Design Library - automatic design file syncing
- Expanded general library management tools (folder creation, item rename)
- Added options for sharing designs
- Added support for X3G 3D printers (added new profiles)
- Added ability to start/stop prints remotely and remotely add items to queue
- Added 'Braille Builder' design add-on for creation of 3d printable braille labels
1.3.0
Release Date: June 23, 2015
New Features
- Auto arrange has been improved
- Added profiles for MakerGear, PrintSpace, Huxley
- Adding Touchscreen mode for touchscreen devices
- Support for ATX power hardware
- Improved Basic and Standard UI settings
- Perimeters, Bottom and Top layers can all be set in millimeters
- Perimeters can now be printed outer layer first or last
Minor Changes
- Updated Lulzbot settings
- Added tool change g-code
- Added crash reporting to alpha and beta channels
- Better default printer naming
- Fixed slicing problems with very complex models during top and bottom layer creation.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed issue with spiral vase setting
- Fixed bug with dual extrusion offset (offset values were limited to integer values)
- Fixed slicing problems with very complex models during top and bottom layer creation
- Improved reset connection
- Keep 3D views up to date with model changes
- Fix to end gcode processing not doing replacements
- Improved error messages
- Fixed handling of bad AMF loading
- Better handling of connection not available
- Fixed a bug in the queue while printing and trying to change items1
- Fixes for international number formatting
- Improved clarity of redundant slice settings naming
- Fixed a problem with first layer extrusion width
MatterSlice
Features
- Added a wipe before retract feature
- Made it possible to print the raft with any extruder
Bug Fixes
- Filter move writes better
- Spiral Vase now ignores confounding settings when set
- Outer perimeters can no longer overlap themselves
- Improved loop clipping
- Put in tool change code
- Print the skirt before the raft
- Hex infill could sometimes miss a bottom edge
- Fixed a freeze bug when creating top and bottom layers for complex parts
- Make sure we retract on layer change if required
- Extruder offset previously could only be an integer value (it can now be a decimal value as well)
1.2.2
Release Date: March 6, 2015
New Features
- Improved printer connection stability
- Updated Serial Driver for RAMPS
- Added profiles for Revolution 3D, Solidoodle
- Added hexagon infill
- Added the ability to turn on 'Reset Connection' works as an e-stop
Minor Changes
- Bug fixes
- Better memory reporting and stability
- Fixed a bug with temp being set repeatedly
- Using sub-modules (easier to build from GitHub)
1.2.1
Release Date: January 28, 2015
New Features
- Pop Out Windows - now you can show settings and controls all the time
- Ability to send parts to other computers and MatterControl Touch
- We now display a big 3D view on startup
- Better connection handling
- Support for many more printers
- Added a Simple mode to slice settings
Minor Changes
- External Perimeter First slice setting
- Improved edge detection during slicing
- Select Raft Extruder
- Vertical offsets in edit mode
- Faster editing of models
- More accurate gcode generation
- More accurate support angles
- Better slice settings help and defaults
- Fixed some very obscure errors with Print Leveling being too high sometimes
- Better detection of co-linear edges (highly tessellated round things work better)
1.2
Release Date: November 19, 2014
New Features
- Dual-Extrusion Support
- Simple Multi-Material Workflow
- Advanced Support Material Generation
- New Touch-Friendly UI
- Signed Windows Drivers (no more Windows 8 pain)
- AMF support
Minor Changes
- Improved Pausing (remembers and returns to pause position)
- Support for @pause and M226 (user requested pause from gcode)
- MatterSlice
- Skirt always draws from the outside
1.1.3
Release Date: August 8, 2014
- Windows Download - last XP compatible build
- Mac Download
New Features
- Updated to Slic3r 1.1.7
- MatterSlice significantly improved
- Support can now have interface layers
- Many bugs and performance improvements
- New 3D Display options (outline view)
- MakerBot X3G support now available (beta)
- Added Turkish translation
Minor Changes:
- Make sure the 3D views always match the current printer size and shape
- Improved 3D GCode view (more display options)
- Faster Mesh and GCode loading
- New driver for RoBo 3D
- Made Smoothieboards work better
1.1.2
Release Date: July 22, 2014
New Features
- 3D GCode View
- Cloud Monitoring: While logged in, printer status viewable from the web
- SD Card Support: Allows you to print from and view/edit the contents of the on-board SD Card
- Triangle infill in MatterSlice, for incredibly strong parts
Minor Changes
- Minor UI fixes (ex. added scroll bars to slice presets)
- Added 'Preheat' temperature preset - sets temp to current slice settings
- Fixed slice implementation of Raft settings. It was not putting in correct spacing
- Fixed issue with update download not starting.
- Fixed issue with auto-connect causing start-up crash (on Printrboards specifically)
1.1.1
Release Date: May 27, 2014
New Features
- New Advanced Raft in MatterSlice
- GCode playback during printing
Minor Changes
- Independent Axis Scaling Improved
- Fixed a bug in Macros being sent in reverse order
- Better international support (
- Bug fixes and performance improvements
1.1.0
Release Date: May 14, 2014
New Features
- MatterSlice : A new high quality, high speed slicing engine by MatterHackers
- Material/Quality Presets : Layers settings to that modify the base settings
- Widescreen Mode
- Expanded Themes
- Image Converter : A new tool that lets you change images into printable models
- Print History updates and improvements
Minor Changes
- Pause, cancel, resume functionality can now be assigned custom GCode.
- Added visualization for retraction and partial path viewing to GCode view.
- When parts are repositioned in the plate editor, the offsets are now preserved.
- Localization support has been added. We'll be integrating translations as they become available.
- Saving part file edits is now significantly faster.
- Loading images is now faster (uses caching).
- Many bug fixes and performance improvements
