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The WIREFRAME feature allows you to toggle a wireframe on the surface of the solid models.

The new feature can often give better clarity for straights and arc sections in the tube.

(This was a customer-requested feature.)

The SPAN values of each of the part's axes can be reported on as of this version. This means that the total volume the part takes in its current orientation can be reported in three 3D distances.

(This was a customer-requested feature.)

VTube can now import the centerline XYZ data from UTE XML files.

The data imported is centerline XYZ data, diameter, linear unit used, and radii.



(This was a customer-requested feature.)

Play the video on the right to see this new feature working.

The graphic viewport now switches between ORBIT mode and PAN mode when you press the mouse wheel button.

Press right click to change back to SELECT mode from either ORBIT or PAN.

(This was a customer-requested feature.)

In the Path Manager's NEW PATH window, the PATH dialog was not very user friendly compared to the open dialog window, so we changed the folder selection dialog to look like an open file dialog.

It is much easier to view and use than before.

This version includes an important fix to a bug introduced accidentally in 2.1.x that could corrupt the default configuration file when operators saved new defaults.

The calculation precision for short straights and very small holes is MUCH improved in this version.

As of this version, when VTube detects a new path from any OPEN or SAVE dialog that is not already in the Path Manager, it will offer to store the new path in the Path Manager with this ADD dialog.

VTube now allows you to save projects in one of over 50 older project file versions for compatibility with older versions of VTube.

The feature is available whenever the Save Dialog appears. Choose the file version in the "Save as type" box.

Whenever VTube senses that you are about to save a project file in an older version, it will warn you with a dialog like the one shown below.

Previous versions of VTube-STEP could sometimes randomly erase collected entities during the centerline calculation.

This issue has been fixed.

The popup menu now includes toggles for Auto Zoom and Perspective mode.

(This was a customer-requested feature.)

This menu now correctly uses the Benderlink network setup path when you select a bender number.

The output data now always uses the springback values in Part Setup to calculate the outgoing straights and bends.

The output data now compresses the bender data if split bends are present. (For example two adjacent 90 degree bend angles become a single 180.)

We made an important change to the Network License Manager networking portion of the code for Windows compliance.

VTube used to open an IP socket using 0.0.0.0, then assign a working IP address based on the configuration.

As of November 2015, some Windows started throwing a critical error to VTube when VTube attempted to open the IP connection like this. So now VTube opens sockets with at least a local address of 127.0.0.1 - which is allowed by Windows.

When Split Bends are active, then there are 180 degree bends in the part. In that case, VTube automatically compresses the LRA data to show one bend combined from two bends in the LRA grid.

With this version, VTube-STEP compresses the data for output Supravision Network protocol when Split Bend is active when sending data to benders.