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geomdl Changelog

v5.3.0 released on 2020-08-05

  • Deprecated some methods that produce incorrect results
  • Fixed sample_size computation
  • Minor fixes and documnetation updates

v5.2.10 released on 2020-07-07

  • Fixed a bug causing double matplotlib figures when run on a Jupyter notebook
  • Fixed filename argument when plotly visualization module is used
  • Added offscreen rendering support for VTK visualization module

v5.2.9 released on 2019-09-10

  • Fixed issues #59, #61 and #62
  • evaluators API and documentation updates
  • Documentation updates
  • Docker configuration updates: latest tag points to Python v3.6

v5.2.8 released on 2019-07-10

  • Update control_points module
  • Fix a bug in operations.refine_knotvector failing to work with Bezier-type geometries
  • Fix a bug in normal vector evaluation for curves (as discussed in #49 and #50)
  • Minor improvements and documentation updates

v5.2.7 released on 2019-05-24

  • Added operations.flip
  • Bug fixes and improvements
  • Documentation updates

v5.2.6 released on 2019-05-21

  • Fixed imports in control_points module

v5.2.5 released on 2019-05-21

  • Improved linalg module
  • Added control_points module for managing control points
  • Bug fixes and improvements
  • Documentation updates

v5.2.4 released on 2019-04-22

  • Reduced set control points restrictions for surfaces. Surface.set_ctrlpts now accepts 2-dimensional control points.
  • Deprecated save and load methods defined in BSpline module in favor of import_json and export_json
  • Generalized operations.add_dimension API call to work with all SplineGeometry subclasses
  • Documentation updates

v5.2.3 released on 2019-04-19

  • Fix incorrect dict export of trims in trimmed surfaces
  • Add analytic trim curve support to trimmed surface dict export
  • Change VolumeContainer base class from SurfaceContainer to AbstractContainer and add missing methods
  • Documentation updates
  • Minor bug fixes and improvements

v5.2.2 released on 2019-04-17

  • Convert "sense" to "reversed" for better understanding of trim curve orientation (API change for surface trimming)
  • Update curve degree elevation and reduction algorithms and operations API (no API change)
  • Fix trim curve exporting in exchange.export_json
  • Deprecate exchange.export_3dm and exchange.import_3dm in favor of rw3dm v2.0
  • Documentation updates

v5.2.1 released on 2019-03-25

  • Minor refactoring in elements module (no API change)
  • Visualization figure objects are now accessible outside the geometry classes, render method returns the figure object
  • vertex_spacing is set to 1 for consistency between the exchange and visualization modules
  • vertices property of the Surface class returns the exact list of vertices used in generation of the triangles
  • Minor bug fixes
  • Documentation updates

v5.2.0 released on 2019-03-22

  • Moved some six module functions and backports_functools_lru_cache module under geomdl directory
  • Removed typing dependency (no time to add all typing hints, see docs for input and output types)
  • Refactored imports, minimized internal dependencies
  • Code rearrangement for some internal functions
  • Refactored operations module (no API change)
  • Updated multi module
  • Updated elements module to make it consistent between its classes (minor API change)
  • Improved dict-type file formats (JSON, YAML, CFG) to support trim curves and more (backwards compatible)
  • Updated exchange_vtk.export_polydata to support tessellated surfaces and geometry containers
  • Refactored tessellation module (internal API change, user API is the same and comes with improvements)
  • Added tessellate.QuadTessellate class
  • Added == and !=operators to SplineGeometry classes
  • Added freeform module
  • Improved the surface trimming algorithm to handle edge cases
  • Added trimming module to fix different types of trim curves (open, multi-curve, etc.)
  • Added an option to set trim curve sense; i.e. sense = 0 means trim inside, sense = 1 means trim outside
  • Improved VTK visualization module to better handle surface and volume plots
  • Added voxel visualization option to VTK visualization module
  • Registered mode keypress events to VTK visualization module
  • Added an option to generate custom visualization configuration while generating the visualization object
  • General bug fixes and performance improvements
  • Added more tests
  • Documentation updates

v5.1.2 released on 2019-02-28

  • Updated surface derivative algorithm to fill the return array completely
  • Fixed variable initialization issue causing warnings during cython compilation

v5.1.1 released on 2019-02-26

  • Fixed a bug while computing the surface derivative

v5.1.0 released on 2019-02-25

  • Added alpha configuration directive to VisMPL to control opacity of the evaluated points
  • Added knot refinement operation: operations.refine_knotvector()
  • Minor bug fixes and coding improvements
  • Documentation updates

v5.0.3 released on 2019-02-22

  • Fixed CI config which was failing to generate geomdl.core binaries for v5.0.2 and version bumped for user convenience

v5.0.2 released on 2019-02-22

  • Removed dependency enum34 since it was causing problems with Python 3
  • Fixed some minor bugs

v5.0.1 released on 2019-02-22

  • Fix an issue in setup.py causing generation of an incompatible wheel for Python 2.7
  • conda-build configuration updates
  • Documentation updates

v5.0.0 released on 2019-02-21

  • Includes all updates from v5.0b1 to v5.0b7
  • Added knot removal for spline volumes
  • Added operations.degree_operations function for degree elevation and reduction (still WIP)
  • Added more surface decomposition options to operations.decompose_surface function
  • Minor coding improvements and fixes
  • Documentation updates

v5.0b7 released on 2019-02-17

  • Fixed a critical bug in smesh and vmesh importers
  • Added an option to change knot insertion and removal algorithms in the geometry classes
  • Documentation updates

v5.0b6 released on 2019-02-16

  • Added exchange.import_obj function
  • Added knot removal, degree elevation and degree reduction algorithms
  • Simplified evaluator API to make implementations easier
  • Added knotvector module
  • Added surface trimming algorithm
  • Minor bug fixes and compatibility updates
  • Documentation updates

v5.0b5 released on 2019-01-17

  • Minor API updates and fixes
  • Added more convenience methods to spline geometry classes
  • Minor fixes and updates in exchange module
  • Documentation updates
  • Added volume support to dict-based import and exports, i.e. cfg, yaml, json
  • Updated CI configurations
    • Added CircleCI support for automation of deployment to PyPI, Anaconda Cloud and Docker Hub
    • Updated TravisCI support to use tox and tox environments
    • Updated AppVeyor support to generate Cython-compiled versions of geomdl as artifacts
  • Added support for star imports, i.e. from geomdl import *

v5.0b4 released on 2018-12-31

  • Added abstract.Geometry and abstract.SplineGeometry classes
  • Improved multi module reusability
  • Added animate option to visualization component
  • Minor bug fixes and staability improvements
  • Documentation updates

v5.0b3 released on 2018-12-28

  • Added Jinja2 template support to JSON, YAML and CFG importers
  • Documentation updates and bug fixes

v5.0b2 released on 2018-12-26

  • Added construct.extract_isosurface function
  • Updated VisVTK module
  • Updated vis.VisAbstract class
  • Minor fixes and updates

v5.0b1 released on 2018-12-21

  • Simplified abstract module and moved all abstract classes to their relevant modules
  • Removed curvept and surfpt methods. Use evaluate_single instead.
  • Added an option to enable/disable knot vector normalization. Initialize the class with normalize_kv=False to disable knot vector normalization.
  • Added B-spline and NURBS volume support with visualization, BSpline.Volume and NURBS.Volume
  • Refactored convert module to improve reusability and add support to volumes
  • Refactored exchange module to improve reusability
  • Rhino file export and import options, export_3dm and, import_3dm in exchange module
  • Added exchange.export_vmesh for exporting NURBS volumes
  • Add Jinja2 template support for exchange.import_txt
  • Update the name of utilities.check_uv function to utilities.check_params
  • Refactored utilities module and moved some functions to linalg module
  • VisMPL.VisSurfTriangle is now an alias for VisMPL.VisSurface
  • fitting module for curve and surface global interpolation + approximation (fitting)
  • construct module for constructing surfaces and volumes + extracting surfaces and curves
  • linalg module (generated by splitting utilities module)
  • VisVoxel and VisVolume classes for volume visualization
  • VisVTK visualization module

v4.4.4 released on 2018-12-20

  • Fix PyPI description

v4.4.3 released on 2018-12-20

  • Prepare for NURBS-Python v5 release

v4.4.2 released on 2018-12-18

  • Fix bugs in export_csv and export_smesh functions

4.4.1 released on 2018-11-15

  • Updated Cython-compiled module location for more convenient binary package generation
  • Major documentation update with more examples and API descriptions
  • Added DockerFiles

v4.4.0 released on 2018-11-10

  • Added and updated import and export methods. Unfortunately, this update breaks .cfg exports prior to v4.4.x; therefore, you might need to re-export your .cfg exports.
    • export_cfg, import_cfg
    • export_yaml, import_yaml
    • export_json, import_json
  • exchange module code optimizations

v4.3.8 released on 2018-11-08

  • Fixed a bug in bounding box computation
  • Added bounding box plotting option to the visualization module (still WIP)

v4.3.7 released on 2018-11-07

  • Added bbox property to Multi-type classes
  • Documentation updates

v4.3.6 released on 2018-11-04

  • Added evalpts property to Multi type of classes
  • Updated conda-build recipe

v4.3.5 released on 2018-11-03

  • Updated delta and sample_size properties of MultiCurve and MultiSurface classes. They are now compatible with Curve and Surface classes.
  • Added exchange.export_yaml function (experimental, designed to be used with geomdl_cli)
  • Updated conda-build recipe
  • Minor bug fixes
  • Documentation updates

v4.3.4 released on 2018-11-01

  • Updated operations.translate() function to make it compatible with multi curves and surfaces
  • Added conda-build recipe

v4.3.3 released on 2018-10-31

  • Fixed a typo in evaluated points definition of VisMPL.VisSurfWireframe() class
  • Documentation updates

v4.3.2 released on 2018-10-19

  • Hodograph curve and surface computation: operations.derivative_curve() and operations.derivative_surface()
  • LU-Factorization and Forward-Backward Substitution functions in utilities module
  • Documentation update for compiling the package with Cython
  • Added axes_equal and evalpts keyword arguments to visualization config class
  • Added set_plot_type method to surface visualization classes
  • Documentation updates
  • Minor code improvements

v4.3.1 released on 2018-10-06

  • Fixed a bug causing Plotly surface visualization module to show extra lines
  • Added exchange.export_smesh() function
  • Minor bug fixes and documentation updates

v4.3.0 released on 2018-10-01

  • Added Tessellate class for customization of the surface tessellation algorithms
  • Basic trimmed surface support (still work in progress)
  • Updated elements module
  • Visualization module improvements and added support for displaying trim curves for surfaces
  • Added evaluate_single and evaluate_list methods
  • Updated default evaluation delta to 0.01
  • Minor bug fixes, algorithm and performance improvements

v4.2.2 released on 2018-09-11

  • Fixed a bug causing incorrect alignment of control points that generate the hills in the surface generator module
  • Surface generator now generates more smooth hills
  • Added an option to change the label on the visualization legend by setting the name property
  • Updated Multi.MultiCurve and Multi.MultiSurface constructors to allow easy addition of the shapes to the container object

v4.2.1 released on 2018-09-08

This release adds the functionality of finding control points involved in the evaluation of a curve/surface at the specified parameter(s) using operations.find_ctrlpts().

  • Added operations.find_ctrlpts() function
  • Minor improvements in the surface evaluation algorithm

v4.2.0 released on 2018-09-07

This release moves some of the features from BSpline module to other modules since it is getting bigger and it has a lot of responsibilities which can be "globalized" to ease extensibility.

  • Code reorganization and cleanup for Curve and Surface classes
  • Removed plural-named methods, such as tangents, normals, etc and moved the functionality to singular methods (normal, tangent, etc.)
  • Moved translate, split and decompose methods to operations module
  • derivatives method is added as an abstract method to Abstract.Curve and Abstract.Surface since it is also a requirement for all Evaluator implementations.

The following new and updated features are added with this release:

  • New module: operations, it contains geometric operations that can be applied to curves and surfaces
  • Added libconfig-type file export feature to exchange module
  • Updated triangulation functions
  • Updated elements module
  • Updated VisMPL.VisSurfTriangle() class to use utilities.make_triangle_mesh() for triangulation
  • Added colormap input to VisMPL.VisSurfTriangle() class
  • Fixed deprecation errors for Plotly >= 3.0.0
  • Added new vector and point operations to utilities module

v4.1.0 released on 2018-07-31

  • Added algorithms A2.4, A2.5, A3.7 and A3.8
  • Added an option to generate knot vectors for unclamped shapes
  • Bug fixes and minor updates
  • Documentation updates

v4.0.2 released on 2018-07-09

  • Bug fix: Fixed an inconsistent behavior while setting delta and sample_size properties

v4.0.1 released on 2018-07-08

  • Bug fix: Use six package to maintain Python 2 and 3 interoperability for meta classes
  • Bug fix: Updated order property for curves and order_u, order_v, delta properties for surfaces by removing excess conditional checks from their setters
  • Updated error messages
  • Updated documentation
  • Updated tests
  • Various minor updates and bug fixes

v4.0.0 released on 2018-07-04

This is the official release of NURBS-Python (geomdl) v4.0.0. The following list summarizes the new and the updated features.

  • Added Plotly visualization module
  • Improved algorithms
  • Reorganized exchange module and added new export file types
  • Export to file and no window options for the Visualization component
  • NURBS module now allows setting control points and weights separately
  • Load and save functionality
  • New Evaluator module for changing evaluation algorithms at runtime
  • New convert module for converting B-Spline objects to NURBS objects
  • Improved the surface generator module
  • Added more examples to the Examples repository: https://github.com/orbingol/NURBS-Python_Examples
  • Documentation updates and improvements: http://nurbs-python.readthedocs.io/
  • Bug fixes, code cleaning and compatibility updates
  • New unit and function tests with codecov.io integration

v4.0b10 released on 2018-07-03

  • Fix a bug in surface generator causing miscalculation of the grid boundaries when users add padding via base_adjust argument
  • Renamed surface control points row order changing functions (flipping)
  • Updated smesh file importing API calls
  • Minor updates in error messages and exceptions
  • Documentation updates

v4.0b9 released on 2018-07-02

  • Bug fix release for Surface Generator module

v4.0b8 released on 2018-07-01

  • Bug fix release (surface generator)

v4.0b7 released on 2018-07-01

  • NURBS.ctrlptsw now returns a tuple
  • Algorithm and compatibility updates to surface grid generator
  • Add more tests

v4.0b6 released on 2018-06-29

  • Fixed an issue which causes figure display problems during rendering curves and surfaces in Multi-type classes
  • Coding improvements in utilities module
  • Added more tests, increasing the code coverage to 47%

v4.0b5 released on 2018-06-22

  • New feature: Exporting plots as image files
  • Documentation: Added exporting plots section with code examples
  • Documentation: Updated load-save section with some code examples

v4.0b4 released on 2018-06-20

  • Bug fix: The sample generator function was not considering the starting value

v4.0b3 released on 2018-06-16

  • exchange module updates
  • Documentation updates

v4.0b2 released on 2018-06-14

  • Several bug fixes and compatibility updates
  • Documentation updates

v4.0b1 released on 2018-06-04

This is the first beta version of NURBS-Python v4.x series.

  • Updated NURBS class control points / weights getters and setters

  • Rearranged / updated some functions and properties to clean up the BSpline and NURBS class structure

  • Control points reading and CSV export functionality are moved to exchange module

  • Added more tests

  • Updated examples

  • Evaluation algorithms speed improvements

  • Added Plotly visualization module

  • Updated documentation and added more details

  • Added new export file formats

  • Added B-Spline to NURBS converters

4.x update might break NURBS class API a little bit due to the updates in getters and setters but the fix would be very easy: Please see the ctrlptsw and ctrlpts properties for details.

v3.7.8 released on 2018-06-04

  • Minor updates

v3.7.7 released on 2018-05-06

  • Minor update related to generating a python source package

v3.7.6 released on 2018-05-03

  • VisMPL module displays all figures in the correct aspect ratio

v3.7.5 released on 2018-04-26

  • Bug fix release

v3.7.4 released on 2018-04-26

  • Fixed a bug when _reset_ctrlpts function resets the bounding box

v3.7.3 released on 2018-04-25

  • Bug fix release

v3.7.2 released on 2018-04-20

  • Bug fix release

v3.7.1 released on 2018-04-19

  • Removed unnecessary evaluations while setting sample_size and delta properties.

v3.7.0 released on 2018-04-19

  • Added delta_u and delta_v properties to Surface classes. This change allows different sampling in u- and v-directions
  • Fixed some bugs related to sample_size property
  • Replaced delta with sample_size in Multi classes. sample_size property directly corresponds to num argument in numpy.linspace function.

These changes may cause a small API break in your existing code, especially if you are visualizing using the geomdl.visualization.VisMPL component. Please see the examples repository and check any example for the updated usage scenarios.

v3.6.7 released on 2018-04-07

  • Added sample_size property.

sample_size works very similar to numpy.linspace. In numpy.linspace, you define start and end positions with the number or samples to generate between them. This property automatically sets the delta property, so after setting sample_size, there is no need to play with delta.

v3.6.6 released on 2018-04-04

  • Bug fixes and compatibility updates
  • Added new tests

v3.6.5 released on 2018-03-29

  • Added Object File Format (OFF) export support to exchange module

v3.6.4 released on 2018-03-28

  • Code reorganization
  • Bug fixes

v3.6.3 released on 2018-03-18

  • Updated NURBS module to have an extensible variable cache
  • Minor bug fixes

v3.6.2 released on 2018-03-14

  • Fixed a bug in Multi module render method which fails to work after VisMPL update.
  • Fixed a bug in frange function which sometimes fails to generate correct output with bigger delta values

v3.6.1 released on 2018-03-09

  • Bug fixes

v3.6.0 released on 2018-03-06

The new version comes with performance improvements and documentation updates. It also adds bbox property for evaluation and storage of curve and surface bounding box.

v3.5.3 released on 2018-02-24

  • Minor improvements

v3.5.2 released on 2018-02-23

  • Bug fixes and improvements

v3.5.1 released on 2018-02-23

  • Performance improvements

v3.5.0 released on 2018-02-23

  • compatibility module
  • Performance improvements
  • Compatibility fixes and updates
  • Documentation updates
  • Code reorganization (no API break)

v3.4.7 released on 2018-02-21

  • compatibility module enhancements

v3.4.6 released on 2018-02-21

  • Removed super restrictive knot vector checks
  • Improvements in curve/surface evaluation functions

v3.4.4 released on 2018-02-19

  • Performance improvements

v3.4.3 released on 2018-02-19

  • Bug fixes
  • Documentation updates

v3.4.2 released on 2018-02-18

  • Added compatibility module for control points manipulation
  • Updated documentation

v3.4.1 released on 2018-02-16

  • Added remove axes option to Matplotlib visualization module
  • Added translate wrapper to abstract Multi class

v3.4.0 released on 2018-02-15

  • Code clean-up and reorganization
  • Bug fixes

v3.3.2 released on 2018-02-14

  • Bug fix release

v3.3.1 released on 2018-02-13

  • Fixed a point of failure in VisCurve3D when it takes a 2D input instead of a 3D one

v3.3.0 released on 2018-02-12

  • Save surfaces as .stl file
  • Surface and curve splitting
  • Surface and curve Bézier decomposition
  • Surface and curve translate by a vector functionality

v3.2.2 released on 2018-02-09

  • Added an option to save .stl files in binary format

v3.2.1 released on 2018-02-09

  • Fixed some bugs in exchange module
  • Fixed some bugs in utilities module
  • Added experimental Export surfaces as .stl support, with exchange.save_stl()

v3.2.0 released on 2018-02-09

  • The core library now utilizes Abstract and Multi modules
  • Curve classes now have split() method for curve splitting at the given parameter and decompose() method for Bézier decomposition
  • Shapes module upgrades

v3.1.4 released on 2018-02-08

  • Added decompose method to curve classes for applying Bézier decomposition
  • Added add_list method to Multi module

v3.1.3 released on 2018-02-08

  • Minor bug fixes
  • Added translate() function to curve classes

v3.1.2 released on 2018-02-07

  • Fix a control points copy error in insert_knot() methods
  • Increased stability of generate_knot_vector() function
  • Some other minor fixes in exchange module
  • save_obj can save single or multiple surfaces to a single .obj file
  • Curve and Curve2D classes have a new method, split(). This method splits the curve and returns 2 new instances as the split pieces of the initial curve. It doesn't modify the initial curve.
  • Multi module is designed to operate on multiple curves and surfaces. Currently, it can only do multi curve and multi surface visualization (in 2D and 3D) on the same window. Documentation will come soon.
  • Abstract module provides a base for further development of the NURBS algorithms. It will become the base class for B-Spline and NURBS curves and surfaces represented in NURBS-Python. Unfortunately, the module is still WIP and it could remain like that for a while.

v3.1.1 released on 2018-02-03

  • Performance improvements
  • Documentation updates

v3.1.0 released on 2018-02-02

This version comes with stability updates and more tests to cover the majority of the module functionality. The documentation is also improved.

  • Added exchange module with the capability to save surfaces as .obj files
  • Added shapes module to automatically generate well-defined NURBS curves and surfaces
  • More configurable visualization module
  • Bug and stability fixes
  • Documentation updates

v3.0.21 released on 2018-01-31

  • Bug fix release

v3.0.20 released on 2018-01-31

  • Added new parameters to evaluate() functions
  • Updated documentation

v3.0.19 released on 2018-01-28

  • Bug fix release

v3.0.18 released on 2018-01-28

  • Marker updates on curve and surface plots
  • Fixed a PyPI glitch

v3.0.17 released on 2018-01-28

  • Fixed a problem with surface setters (no API break)
  • Visualization module updates
  • Added more tests

v3.0.15 released on 2018-01-26

  • Added utilities.vector_generate function
  • Fixed some compatibility issues (related to future releases)

v3.0.14 released on 2018-01-26

  • Bug fixes in make_triangle
  • Add VisSurface class to visualization module

v3.0.13 released on 2018-01-26

  • Added make_triangle function
  • Updated visualization module

v3.0.12 released on 2018-01-24

  • Minor updates

v3.0.10 released on 2018-01-23

  • Bug fix release

v3.0.9 released on 2018-01-22

  • PyPI description update (requires version bump)
  • Minor updates and bug fixes

v3.0.8 released on 2018-01-21

  • Reorganize and update Matplotlib visualization component, VisMPL

Please note that updates to VisMPL component might cause a small API break on the visualization module, and therefore it is marked as experimental from now on. Updates to visualization component do not affect NURBS evaluation components.

Currently, VisMPL has the following classes:

  • VisCurve2D for 2D curves
  • VisCurve3D for 3D curves
  • VisSurfWireframe for surfaces (uses plot_wireframe function)
  • VisSurfTriangle for surfaces (uses plot_trisurf function)
  • VisSurfScatter for surfaces (uses 3D scatter function)

v3.0.7 released on 2018-01-19

  • Added checks to knot vector assignments
  • Added 'tangents', 'normals' and 'binormals' methods to Curve classes
  • Added 'tangents' and 'normals' methods to Surface classes
  • A new example added to documentation

v3.0.6 released on 2018-01-17

  • normal method of the Surface type classes has been updated. It now returns a list containing 2 elements. First one is the starting point (or origin) of the normal vector and the second one is the normal vector itself.
  • Added normal and binormal methods to the Curve and Curve2D type classes
  • Minor fixes to the inline documentation
  • Visualization figure updates

v3.0.5 released on 2018-01-14

  • Bug fixes in Surface classes
  • Added tests
  • AppVeyor and Travis-CI integration
  • Documentation updates
  • Style updates and code reformatting after pylint

v3.0.4 released on 2018-01-12

  • Bug fixes
  • Documentation updates

v3.0.3 released on 2018-01-12

  • Documentation updates

v3.0.2 released on 2018-01-11

  • Minor updates to VisMPL, a visualization module which implements Matplotlib
  • Documentation updates

v3.0.1 released on 2018-01-11

  • Version bump for fixing issues on Python Package Index (PyPI).

v2.3.8 released on 2018-01-11

  • Version bump for Python Package Index (PyPI) upload.

v3.0.0 released on 2018-01-10

  • Initial stable release of NURBS-Python v3.0.0
  • Added the library to Python Package Index (PyPI).

v3.0b3 released on 2018-01-09

  • Bug fixes
  • Update visualization component

v3.0b2 released on 2018-01-08

  • Added visualization module.

Visualization module is an optional module for NURBS-Python. In other words, you don't need to import it to evaluate surfaces and curves.

The visualization module currently includes a base class VisABC which can be used to create new visualization components, and VisMPL component that implements Matplotlib for 2D and 3D plotting.

Please see the following for usage examples:

v3.0b1 released on 2018-01-07

This is the first beta release of NURBS-Python after a huge set of new features and updates. Unfortunately, there has been some API changes between v2.x and v3.x series but these changes are not too big, so you might only need to change the import statements to make things working again.

The v2.x code is moved to 2.x branch. This version will not receive any updates, since I would like to focus on v3.x branch from now on.

  • Please check the README file and the documentation for changes in the implementation. I updated the class structure and now the code has different classes for 2D and 3D curves. I also added different classes for B-Spline (NUBS) and NURBS implementations of curves and surfaces.
  • There are more file reading and writing routines, such as different types of TXT formats and CSV export for using the data for various visualization software.
  • Of course, new version fixes some of the bugs and reorganizes the code
  • The documentation is reorganized and vastly improved: http://nurbs-python.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ -- You can still access v2.x series documentation here.
  • New functionality: Knot insertion in curves and surfaces
  • JSON support (will be extended/merged from the existing branch)
  • An optional visualization module using Matplotlib. Visualization module can be extended to use other visualization tools.
  • New CSV and TXT export modes
  • Documentation improvements and more examples

The examples repository is also updated with some nice visualization examples using Matplotlib and demonstrating new TXT and CSV export features. Please check it out here: https://github.com/orbingol/NURBS-Python_Examples

v2.3.6 released on 2018-01-07

  • Added order property

v2.3.5.1 released on 2017-09-03

  • Minor updates in documentation
  • Moved examples to a different repository

v2.3.5 released on 2017-06-20

  • Bug fixes

v2.3.4 released on 2017-05-19

  • Fixed a bug in Curve::evaluate_rational() method which causes erroneous NURBS curve evaluation
  • Added a new NURBS curve example (ex_curve04.py) on evaluation of a full circle
  • Documentation updates

v2.3.3 released on 2017-05-11

v2.3.2 released on 2017-05-10

  • Added rotate_x and rotate_y functions to the Grid class
  • Updated documentation
  • Minor bug fixes

v2.3.1 released on 2017-05-09

  • Added read_ctrlptsw() method to the Curve class
  • Some minor documentation updates

v2.3.0 released on 2017-05-09

  • Added a 2D grid generator
  • Minor bug fixes