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--- 2010-12-07 Release 7.18.0 ---
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This release includes the initial release of a new Bag of Triangle
(BoT) editing interface for MGED and Archer. Nicholas Reed developed
the new graphical user interface (GUI) in order to consolidate the
numerous BoT editing commands and processing steps into one unified
easy-to-use interface. The new GUI greatly simplifies BoT processing
steps and can save modelers considerable time.
* ported benchmark suite to Windows (requires 'sh') - Erik Greenwald
* improved NURBS wireframes with interior surface lines - Keith Bowman
* additional NURBS raytracing robustness improvements - Keith Bowman
* removed pl-sgi plot tool - Sean Morrison
* expanded rtarea documentation with examples and detail - Cliff Yapp
* improved support for unlimited object counts in mged - Sean Morrison
* fixed 'erase_all' behavior so 'who' gives correct lists - Bob Parker
* fixed idents, solids, and regions output - Bob Parker
* increased performance of facetization and export - Sean Morrison
* fixed NURBS raytrace bug grazing nearly flat surfaces - Keith Bowman
* fixed infinite loop bug converting to NMG and BoT - Sean Morrison
* improved Windows installer desktop shortcut creation - Bob Parker
* fixed running mged external tools (e.g., rt) after 'cd' - Bob Parker
* fixed 'pnts' point cloud primitive memory access bug - Richard Weiss
* new BoT editing interface for mged and archer - Nicholas Reed
* fixed crash during BoT decimation - Nicholas Reed
* improved robustness of CSG boolean tree processing - Sean Morrison
* improved loading of Pro/E export plugin on Windows - Bob Parker
* added ray bundle shooting capability to rtshot - Keith Bowman
* improved robustness of facetization and export - Richard Weiss
* cleaner logging of facetize command BoT failures - Sean Morrison
* removed 'query' command line prompting tool - Sean Morrison
* increased optimized package run-time performance - Sean Morrison
* fixed crash when raytracing multiple frames - Keith Bowman
* fixed mged zap crash while using preview - Keith Bowman, Bob Parker
* added ability to toggle mged status bar via .mgedrc - Rob Shinn
* new mged 'bot' command for accessing BoT properties - Nicholas Reed
