New Features and Enhancements

Common

Key Improvements

• Subscription & Add-on Licensing

  3D Sprint has introduced a new Subscription and Add-on licensing model, allowing customers to purchase licenses for multiple years based on their maintenance date. With the basic or subscription license, you can add specific licensed features as required.

• Home Tab

  Upon launching the application, you now have access to the Home tab, designed to be your resource hub.

• Auto Place Improvements

  The following improvements were made to Auto Place for enhanced precision and automation.

  • Max Density Control (Subscription)

    Introducing a new “Max Density” option that allows you to set the highest density for part placement in 3D space.

  • User Defined Priority

    The priority of parts for auto-placing can now be manually reordered through a user-friendly interface within the Auto Place command. Furthermore, any changes made to the order of parts can be synchronized with the Parts List.

  • Area Sectional Constraint Control (Subscription)

    A new control has been added for the 3D nesting style, providing additional constraint control for area.

• View Overlay Enhancements

  The View Overlay now includes new tools that enhance object visibility and provide quick measurements.

  • Smooth Shading Tool

    This tool improves object visualization by displaying objects with smooth shading, reducing the visibility of unnecessary tessellation.

  • Quick Measure Tools (Subscription)

    The new Quick Measure tools provide dynamic and rapid measurements for various applications:

    • Coordinate : Checking X, Y, and Z coordinates of a specific point of interest.

    • Down Face Angle : Measuring precise down face angle with reference to the Printer Platform.

    • Distance : Measuring linear distances between features while using various commands.

    • Thickness : Measuring the thickness of a feature.

    • Gap Clearance : Measuring the gap distance between two opposing faces.

• File Import

  Native CAD File Import has been updated to support more recent file versions.

SLA

Key Improvements

• Smart Support Improvements

  The following improvements have been implemented in Smart Support to optimize support structure controls and enhance productivity.

  • Base Thickness of Empire’s Volume Support

    Introducing a new control for the base thickness of Empire’s volume support. Actual base thickness will now be determined by the maximum values of both support thickness and base thickness. Additionally, the strong thickness will not have a separate control; it will be the maximum of actual base thickness and strong support thickness.

  • Enhanced Anchor Point Generation and Filtering

    Introducing an enhanced method for filtering anchor points. This filtering process has been seamlessly integrated as a post-processing step in anchor point generation, designed exclusively for SLA printing.

  • New Strong Support View Option

    Enhanced visibility by introducing the “Strong Support” view option, which uniquely colors and highlights strong supports, making them effortlessly distinguishable.

  • Enhanced Tip Thickness Control for Empire’s Strong Support

    Introducing an advanced setting that allows precise adjustment of the tip thickness, working alongside thickness, spread level, and spacing parameters to refine the strong support’s structure.

  • Automatic Strong Anchors for Low Regions

    Strong Anchors can now be applied automatically to local low regions around point and line anchors. To revert this feature, simply utilize the existing unassigned workflow.

  • Flexible Strong Anchor Intervals

    Introducing enhanced control with strong anchor intervals. In the Modify tab, a new “Strong” option allows you to fine-tune Strong Anchor intervals.

  • Anchor point projection on Polyline

    Enhanced the accuracy of anchor point placement on a polyline by incorporating additional interpolation points during polyline definition.

  • Anchor Point Reprioritization

    Elevated the priority of primary region, line and point region anchors over sharp edge points so that lowest layers could be supported with a 0 offset. Additionally, there have been improvements made to sharp edge processing.

  • Enhanced Anchor Point Corner Alignment

    Enhanced corner alignment for anchor points, ensuring their consistent placement over edges.

  • Exclude Gap Clearance

    Expanding coverage to concave areas through 3D analysis, the Exclude Gap Clearance now removes primary points found on the tops of arches within negative features. Additionally, the max range value for the Exclude Gap Clearance parameter has been increased from 10 mm to 20 mm, resulting in broader coverage.

  • Anchor Point Type Toggling

    Toggles have been added to the following options, allowing users to easily enable or disable the creation of anchor points for Thin Wall, Curve Face, and Sharp Edge.

    • Thin Wall

    • Curve Face (Subscription)

    • Sharp Edge

  • Snap Anchor Point to Boundary

    The “Snap Anchor Point to Boundary” option is now accessible to users with a 3D Sprint Basic license.

• Even Section Timeout for Auto Placing

  You can now manage the even sectioning process by setting the maximum timeout using the Max Time option. This ensures an equitable distribution of parts across the Print Platform when additional sectional constraints are applied to auto-placed results.

SLS

Key New Features

• Even Section Timeout for Auto Placing

  You can now manage the even sectioning process by setting the maximum timeout using the Max Time option. This ensures an equitable distribution of parts across the Print Platform when additional sectional constraints are applied to auto-placed results.

Miscellaneous Enhancements and Bug Fixes

For the full, up-to-date list of miscellaneous enhancements and bug fixes, please consult the What's New document at the 3D Sprint download page. (https://support.3dsystems.com/s/article/3D-Sprint)