ANNOUNCE: DREAM3D-NX v7.0.0-RC9 is available for download.

[imikejackson]

Dear DREAM3D Users,
BlueQuartz Software is delighted to release the latest release candidate for the commercial version of DREAM3D-NX. This version has no limitations attached to it. It will stop working on APRIL 15, 2024. (60 days from today).

The user manual comes with the download and can be viewed online at https://www.dream3d.io/nx_reference_manual/Index/

The current python binding instructions can be viewed at https://www.dream3d.io/python_docs/

Binary Downloads

• The current version is 7.0.0-RC-9 and is available in prebuilt binaries for MacOS, Windows and Linux operating systems:

Operating System	Notes
macOS 11/12/13 (Intel CPU)	DREAM3DNX-7.0.0-RC-9-macos-x86_64.dmg
macOS 11/12/13 (Apple Silicon CPU)	DREAM3DNX-7.0.0-RC-9-macos-arm64.dmg
Linux (Ubuntu 20.04)	DREAM3DNX-7.0.0-RC-9-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
Windows 10/11 x64	DREAM3DNX-7.0.0-RC-9-windows-AMD64.zip

New Features

• Visualization: 2D Image/Slice view (MUCH faster to view rendered data)
• Visualization: Allow the Visualization Properties tree to be filtered and sorted.
• Add a Table View for data
• Allow user to dock/undock any UI widget.
• Filter: Lable CAD Geometry
• Filter: Remove Flag Triangles
• Enhancement: ITKImageReader allows user to set the origin and/or spacing
• Enhancement: ITKImageStackReader allows the user to convert images to grayscale on the fly
• Enhancement: STL File writer can write entire triangle geometry in a single STL File
• Enhancement: Crop Image Geometry with Physical Coordinate Bounds

Getting Help

https://github.com/BlueQuartzSoftware/DREAM3DNX-Issues/discussions

Fixed Issues

In the below tables are summarized git logs from the commits since the last release. Each line should have a short code at the
start of the line indicate a general area that the commit falls under. Also include is the Github Pull Request (PR) number. These can be fully reviewed at:

https://www.github.com/bluequartzsoftware/simplnx

https://www.github.com/bluequartzsoftware/DREAM3DNX

DREAM3D-NX Changes

Description (author)	Git Commit Date
DOC: Update RC9 release notes [mike.jackson]	e086c0cf
ENH: Read CSV Filter Parameter improvements (#596) [mike.jackson]	21cea829
ENH : Ignore duplicate VTK render calls. (#594) [jessica.marquis]	42ee1828
ENH: Visual updates and bug fixes (#590) [jessica.marquis]	eadb6a08
PY: Fixed prebuilt pipeline installation issue when packaging for Anaconda (#592) [jared.duffey]	e8ad2641
ENH: Add filtering & sorting to visualization render window treeview (#578) [jessica.marquis]	326b7fd4
Fix memory leak with data set from VXDataSource & the original index arrays (#591) [jessica.marquis]	9209a64e
ENH: ImageGeom Origin and Spacing clearly identified in mouse hover info [mike.jackson]	654366d2
ENH: Add tool tips for pipeline filter list item "buttons" (#589) [jessica.marquis]	d6ffe86b
BUG: Try...Catch for azure variables that are not defined for develop builds [mike.jackson]	9e9d86fb
BUG: Fix crashing bug when duplicating filter to the end of pipeline (#587) [jessica.marquis]	c78bcdff
ENH: Improve Buttons that control camera snapping in the 3D widget (#575) [jessica.marquis]	dbb208e3
PY: Package DREAM3D-NX as an Anaconda installable package (#579) [mike.jackson]	8ff6fa32
BUG/ENH : Fix issues in the Volume Data View (#585) [jessica.marquis]	7e1d8ceb
BUG : Do not allow a filter to be removed from the pipeline by dragging outside the pipeline (#586) [jessica.marquis]	a1d524eb
ENH : Add new Image Data View (#573) [jessica.marquis]	8aceefbc
Add ability to delete visualization presets (#574) [jessica.marquis]	4299a819
Fix data structure hover info for image geometries to match what is actually stored (#576) [jessica.marquis]	c28224ff
Add versioning to settings file in order to better initialize the filter parameters, workflow parameters, and visualization dockwidgets when comming from version 0 (#577) [jessica.marquis]	b4330077
BUG: Fix dynamic table widget not saving user entered value. (#572) [joey.kleingers]	a56c5cca
DOC: Cleanup VS Generated Solution file for documentation targets [mike.jackson]	e67ab887
BUG: Fix widget initialization for detach color setting buttons (#571) [jessica.marquis]	45d33551
ENH: Sphinx generation improvements [mike.jackson]	fe5bc238
Fix nullptr check in global source objects [jessica.marquis]	dde8b69c
BUG: Fix warning for nullptr in Qt signal/slot connection. [mike.jackson]	23773772
BUG: Check nullptr before use in CDockWidget [mike.jackson]	e65e7bed
BUG: dock widget bug fixes (#570) [jessica.marquis]	edd99cd8
ENH: no central dock widget (#566) [jessica.marquis]	bb5f0afc
BUG: Use correct preference file naming conventions on macOS (#568) [mike.jackson]	738c52b0
ENH: Cleanup more internal names complex->simplnx (#565) [mike.jackson]	c71ad4e0
ENH: spreadsheet view (#560) [jessica.marquis]	07cef0bd
Set PYTHONHOME using CONDA_PREFIX value when launching DREAM3DNX. (#567) [joey.kleingers]	a4b89c61
BUG: Fix vtk widgets out-of-viewport rendering (#542) [jessica.marquis]	79dbc3e0
ENH: Rename complex to simplnx (#559) [mike.jackson]	f9f2f5cd
DEV: Update to RC-9 versioning (#562) [mike.jackson]	e01491f3

simplnx

| Description (author) | Git Commit Date |
| ENH: WriteAsciData now writes String Arrays (#856) [mike.jackson] | f36a7320 |
| COMP: Fix VS compiler warnings (#855) [mike.jackson] | a55bf295 |
| DOC: Created example images for most ITK ImageProcessing Filters (#841) [alex.jackson] | c16c9d57 |
| ENH: ReadCSVFilter and TriangleCentroidFilter improvements (#854) [joey.kleingers] | dcdb63e2 |
| ENH: FeatureFaceCurvature Filter Enhancements (#853) [mike.jackson] | b568c7bb |
| DEV: Enable macOS-ARM, remove extra checkout steps (#848) [mike.jackson] | f8099861 |
| BUG: GeneratePoleFigure-Only create RGB when creating the Image Geometry (#827) [mike.jackson] | 3a1e77e8 |
| DOC: Link directly to the discussion page on GitHub. (#847) [mike.jackson] | c83e9f2a |
| ENH: Fixed cmake syntax warning (#850) [jared.duffey] | 4db702a5 |
| ENH: Replaced deprecated exec_program with execute_process (#851) [jared.duffey] | 8f1a2919 |
| FILTERS: Added CalculateHistogram, InterpolateGridData, and CliReader Python filters. (#838) [joey.kleingers] | 4a830573 |
| COMP: Clang v14 -ffp-contract=off compiler option (#849) [mike.jackson] | 9d8379b6 |
| FILTER: Label Triangle Geometry and Remove Flagged Triangles Filters (#842) [nathan.young] | d512fa24 |
| BUG: Fixed example pipeline installation when creating Anaconda package (#846) [jared.duffey] | c265d601 |
| ENH: Misc user facing labels and help text updates (#845) [mike.jackson] | 62e6ecec |
| BUG: Fix IParallelAlgorithm not running in parallel (#844) [mike.jackson] | d1d613b2 |
| BUG: Fix human facing label in Crop Image Geometry (#843) [mike.jackson] | 73a21c9e |
| BUG: ReadStlFile-Fix error logic when reading an ASCII STL File. (#839) [mike.jackson] | 77f3909c |
| Updated vcpkg baseline for pybind11 2.11.1 (#840) [jared.duffey] | 0ff43b9d |
| PY: Fix GIL crashes, unit test false positive results, misc other test issues. (#831) [jared.duffey] | c6112835 |
| ENH: ApplyTransformationToGeometry: Better error messages, Update documentation. (#835) [mike.jackson] | 6406635b |
| ENH: ITKImageReader - Allow user to set/override the origin/spacing (#834) [mike.jackson] | 18498ae2 |
| ENH: ITKImportImageStack - Add option to convert images to grayscale 'on-the-fly'. (#832) [mike.jackson] | 19b009c8 |
| BUG: ITKImportFijiMontage: Fixing incorrect DataPath that was causing a crash. (#833) [joey.kleingers] | 7c434ae5 |
| BUG: Fix preflight updated values for Create Geometry filters (#825) [jessica.marquis] | 7060dcaa |
| BUG: Fix ITKImportImageStack image flip operations. Add unit test for flip operations. (#815) [mike.jackson] | 3f70819a |
| DynamicTableParameter: Return better error message when validation fails. (#824) [joey.kleingers] | 554be1bd |
| FILTER: Generate Python Plugin/Filter Skeleton Code (#821) [joey.kleingers] | f869943b |
| Fixed shallow copy in python bindings function (#822) [jared.duffey] | 3b8230ce |
| Changed StringArray to store its data in a shared_ptr (#823) [jared.duffey] | ce7ae084 |
| ENH: Crop Image Geometry with Physical Coordinate Bounds (#818) [nathan.young] | 3e637324 |
| PY: Added Python Code for Most Example Pipelines (#800) [alex.jackson] | f282e771 |
| ENH: Fix various anaconda packaging issues (#810) [mike.jackson] | 6eef7638 |
| ENH: Group a copy file target into the proper source group (#817) [mike.jackson] | 91964a50 |
| DOC: ConvertHexGridToSquareGrid. Update and add image to doc file (#816) [mike.jackson] | 3fa6c4a1 |
| ENH: Write STL File - Option to write out the entire triangle geometry in a single file. (#809) [nathan.young] | 1e7759ae |
| BUG: Fix determination of default parallelization mode. (#814) [mike.jackson] | 8641d3f4 |
| STYLE: Fix all-contributors Dynamic Badge in README (#813) [nathan.young] | f1d7bbed |
| BUG: Fix missing python dependencies for ASAN build (#812) [mike.jackson] | f36fa0cd |
| ENH/BUG: Additional Origin Centering Options and BoundingBox API Fix (#811) [nathan.young] | 62df7647 |
| Expose IDataArray/IDataStore resize_tuples method to Python. (#807) [joey.kleingers] | 4994adba |
| PY: Fix crash when running nxrunner with python filters. (#808) [mike.jackson] | 26de9937 |
| PY: Enable testing python example codes (#806) [mike.jackson] | cded997f |
| ENH: Create unit tests for each python example pipeline (#793) [mike.jackson] | 0e9ce25e |
| ENH: Add Additional Warnings When Moving/Copying DataObjects with a Tuple Mismatch (#804) [nathan.young] | 6b7b1f0e |
| BUG: Repair Append Image Geometry Z Slice Default Pipeline (#805) [nathan.young] | ca4c8189 |
| ENH: Rename complex to simplnx (#801) [mike.jackson] | 95265d6c |
| BUG FIX: All IDataCreationAction subclasses now correctly pass the geometry path member variable when being cloned. (#802) [joey.kleingers] | f340465e |
| ENH: Write Temp Files for All Writers (#790) [nathan.young] | 5b9d046b |

[marinerhemant]

dream3d_crash_report.txt

On macOS 14.3.1, rc9 is crashing when I try to open it. rc8 worked properly. Please see the attached crash report.