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Version 1.3.0: Triangle Sets and Mirroring

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@martinweismann martinweismann released this 07 Oct 15:45

This is a minor release of the Core Specification of 3MF.

It clarifies several ambiguities, resolves inconsistencies and adds new concepts.
New Concepts compared to 1.3.0:

  • trianglesets allow to encode sets of triangles into 3MF-files. Applications can apply grouping operations and assign properties to a list of triangles.
    Figure: Triangle sets that correspond to engineering surfaces of a part. One of the triangesets is rendered differently to indicate selection. image

  • Mirroring of Meshes: the mirrormesh-element allows to explicitly encode the relation of one mesh-object to be a mirrored instance of a different mesh in the 3MF file.
    Figure: a mesh, the mirror plane and its mirrored copy
    image

  • reccomendedextensions is a list of extension namespace prefixes that allow to encode which extensions are recommended for a consumer to read a file.

Clarifications compared to v1.2.3:

  • the interpretation of transformations with negative determinants has been clarified
  • the usage of the ZIP-format and the zip64 extensions has been clarified
  • the notion of object-level and package-level thumbnails has been clarified