Active Dimensions 3 History
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Version 1.0 Released 07/08/99

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Version 1.5 Released 09/08/99
most significant changes:

Regular polygons were replaced with extruded regular polygons.

One essential category of surfaces, the soft diamond, was added to allow you to create new shapes that were not possible with version 1.0. 

Arbitrary surface scaling was added, giving you the ability to create shapes that were not possible with version 1.0.

More thorough documentation was provided.

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Version 1.6 Released 11/08/99
most significant changes:

Accuracy of Boolean Operations was increased.

Seamless Boolean Operations capability was added.

VRML 2 export was added.

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Version 1.7 Released 01/08/00
most significant changes:

Rendering speed was increased.

Undo feature was enhanced to enable the user to undo Boolean Operations and object deletion.

DXF export was added.

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Version 2.0 Released 03/23/00
most significant changes:

Powerful spline-based modeling capability was added through the use of "Outline Blocks".

More efficient Active Dimensions 3 version 2.0 file format was introduced.

Added install/uninstall based on Windows 2000 installer technology.

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Version 2.1 Released 06/08/00
most significant changes:

Phong shading with antialiasing was added.

Object mirroring capability was added.

Parts import feature was added.

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Version 2.2 Released 09/18/00
most significant changes:

The extrusion features were enhanced from version 2.1.

The "Apply Current Color" command was enhanced to perform color matching.

Handling of Boolean Operations was improved.

Upgraded file format to version 2.2.