February 26, 2022: Balancer, Balancer nPro, decimon 2.5.0.591
- new: FBX support
- new: object/sub-meshes selection with mouse
- improved: significant speed up of rendering and general responsiveness when
working with massive meshes
- many minor fixes and improvements
February 3, 2021: Balancer, Balancer nPro, decimon 2.4.1.572
- Mac version updated
- fixed: PLY import instabilities on some binary files
- minor fixes and improvements
October 2, 2020: Balancer, Balancer nPro, decimon 2.4.0.565 (Windows only)
- dark theme UI
- PLY support
- minor fixes and improvements
May 31, 2018: Balancer, Balancer nPro, decimon 2.2.3.501
- load input model as a startup parameter (e.g for 'Open with')
- abort button in the Progress dialog
Mar 11, 2018: Balancer, Balancer nPro, decimon 2.2.2.494
- high DPI icons
- minor fixes and improvements
Nov 1, 2012: Balancer, Balancer nPro, decimon 2.1.0.448
- new: decimon has been released
- fixed: rare start up delays on Mac OS X
- several minor fixes and improvements
Sep 3, 2012: Balancer and Balancer nPro 2.1.0.436
- new: detailed progress is displayed during lengthy operations on very large models
- fixed: instabilities when using STL files with degenerate faces
- several minor fixes and improvements
Jul 5, 2012: Balancer nPro 2.0.2.412
- fixed: loading of binary STL files starting with string 'solid' (against the spec)
May 14, 2012: Balancer and Balancer nPro 2.0.1.405
- Balancer: single Mac/Windows licensing
- fixed: loading of OBJ files with obsolete line breaks
May 7, 2012: Balancer nPro 2.0.0.400
- Accurate metric-based tolerance simplification
- Watertightness verification
- Units conversion
- Support for STL format
Jan 3, 2012: Balancer 2.0.0.373
- Accurate pixel-based tolerance simplification
This is the only difference from 1.5.1.373.
- Simplification: even further improved robustness and feature preservation
- New mesh processing: T-Junction elimination
- New: show/hide applies on multiple selected objects
- New: isolation of displaying selected objects for easier inspection
- New: ability to save/export selected and/or visible objects only
- New: customization of mouse wheel direction
- Many minor fixes and improvements
- Mac: random crashes on some systems are finally fixed
Balancer for Mac is now officially stable!
Jan 3, 2012: Balancer 1.5.1.373
- New: show/hide applies on multiple selected objects
- Minor fixes and improvements
- Mac: random crashes on some systems are finally fixed
Balancer for Mac is now officially stable!
Dec 2, 2011: Balancer 1.5.0.360
- Simplification: even further improved robustness and feature preservation
- New mesh processing: T-Junction elimination
- New: isolation of displaying selected objects for easier inspection
- New: ability to save/export selected and/or visible objects only
- New: customization of mouse wheel direction
- Many minor fixes and improvements
- Mac: several critical stability issues fixed
Dec 21, 2010: Balancer 1.2.0.272
- New: Densities for selective reduction rate of different groups/sub-meshes
- New: Locking of different groups/sub-meshes
- New: Multiple selection
- New: Selection by material
- Minor fixes and improvements
Nov 8, 2010: Balancer 1.1.4.256
- Mac: Release
- New: Both 32 bit and 64 bit binaries
- Windows: Licensed version can be used from a USB stick
- New: customization of visualization settings
- Improved: model visualization
Oct 14, 2010: Balancer 1.1.3.253
- Fixed: Mac: incorrect access permissions of saved files
- Fixed: Textures are not rendered in flat shading mode
Oct 7, 2010: Balancer 1.1.3.252
- New: Mac OS X version (beta)
- New: Prevention of UV and XY foldovers
- New: Customization of mouse assignments
- New: Support for mouse wheel to zoom in/out
- New: Customization of background color
- Minor fixes and improvements
Mar 17, 2010: Balancer 1.1.0.214
- New: Locking of surface boundaries
- New: Locking of individual vertices by selection
- New: Flat shading for easier quality inspection
- New: Auto normal update option
- New: Discard Smoothing Groups in Tools
- Several minor fixes and improvements
Dec 18, 2009: Balancer 1.0.2.184
- New: Full support for smoothing groups
- Fixed: Loading of models with inconsistent normal/uv indices
- Fixed: A rare crash when simplifying models with complex topology
- Fixed: Automatic updates
- Several minor fixes and improvements
Nov 19, 2009: Balancer 1.0.1.169
- Vertex joining:
- Fixed slow performance of vertex joining in some rare cases
- Intelligent joining: only relevant vertices are affected
- New: Non-boundary vertices with close normals can be protected from joining;
This feature is controlled by a threshold value in Options/Joining
- Enable/disable lighting for easier silhouette inspection
- Improved rendering of transparent objects
- A dozen of fixes and minor improvements
Aug 30, 2009: Balancer 1.0.0.140
- Check for updates
- Minor fixes
Aug 13, 2009: Balancer 1.0.132.RC
- Support for TIFF, BMP, PPM, PBM images
- Drag-and-drop model loading
- Support for unicode file paths
- Numerous fixes and improvements
May 3, 2009: Balancer 0.73.112.Beta
- New mesh tool: Joining normals and texture coordinates were added
for elimination of corresponding false boundaries.
- Joining vertices, normals and texture coordinates are now with
threshold parameter.
- New mesh tool: Discarding normals and texture coordinates were added.
- New option page: Apply joining of vertices, normals, texture coordinates and
construction of simplification hierarchy automatically on model loading.
- A dozen of fixes and minor improvements.
Apr 7, 2009: Balancer 0.72.101.Beta
- The first public release.
