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The latest release of Visual Components 4.10 introduces new features and key improvements
that enhance usability, stability, and overall performance. Here’s a summary of what’s new in this version.

Known issues

• KUKA.Sim Add-on is not yet available
• When a PC that includes the latest Windows updates goes to sleep, Visual Components application might not properly recover when machine is woken-up. Closing of application is
  recommended before entering sleep or hibernate.
  
  Features
  CADENAS 3dfindit library add-on
  The CADENAS 3dfindit library add-on allows users to access CADENAS CAD library and import models
  directly to Visual Components. The CADENAS 3dfindit library add-on is available on the Modeling tab
  on VC Premium, Professional, and the corresponding OLP products.
  Guided workflow
  Guided workflows enable defining and viewing step-by-step user instructions directly in Visual
  Components’ user interface. Instructions can be saved to components using a behavior and
  optionally automatically opened when importing the component. Similar to the existing note
  functionality, users can also find the workflow from 3DWorld. Additionally, default workflows are
  loaded directly to the application from a server.
  Point cloud improvements
  Performance Improvements
• Point Cloud file loading has been improved and loading times have been reduced.
• Performance when navigating large point clouds has been greatly improved. Users can now
  have multiple large point clouds open at the same time.
  Level of Detail
  Users can toggle LOD for point cloud files from backstage. With the LOD setting active, the
  application changes the number and size of points rendered depending on the distance between the
  camera and the model. This improves performance when zoomed out and improves the fidelity of
  the model when close by.
  E57 (v. 1.0) Import
  User can import .E57 (v. 1.0) file type point clouds.
  Omron Connectivity plugin
  The Omron Connectivity plugin allows users to connect to a real or virtual Omron robot controller.
  The plugin is available in Premium and Premium OLP. It supports version 4 of Omron ACE software
  and API. Supported data types are Digital Input/Output, Joint, and Position.
• Note the following limitations: Omron TM robots are not supported, event-based update
  mode only works from simulation to server direction, and joint values cannot be written to a
  real controller.
  Focus mode
  Focus mode is a new tool in the 3D Toolbar that allows users to highlight the selected layout or
  component by making everything else except the selection opaque or hidden. The tool also allows
  for configuring the opacity of unfocused components and their behavior with dynamic components.
  CAD import / export updates
  Siemens PLM Software NX Reader 24.06 (2024 Jun.)
  Navisworks 2025
  Creo 11.0
  Inventor 2025
  CATIA V5 2024
  3DXML 2024
  General improvements
• Statistics are no longer collected during the warm-up period
• Reliability of saving on network drives is improved
• Network license server now works with more than 30 simultaneous users. Server does not
  need updates, but all clients must be VC 4.10 or newer.
• Improved SVG file support for UI icons. The icon content alignment (view box)
  is now respected and most of the common SVG visual features are supported.
  o Note: SVG files with invalid syntax or values may not work anymore.
  o .NET API: ICustomizationService.GetIconPath(…) is now obsolete and all VC’s WPF
  Styles accept icon file names.
  o Behavior of SvgImage.PrimaryFill has slightly changed: Previously “Transparent”
  brush / color meant that the DefaultFill would be used instead. Now only null value
  falls back to the DefaultFill, thus allowing deliberate use of transparent color.
  API improvements
• ExecutorContainer.Source property was modified to have return type object instead of
  IStatementExecutor. This change was made to ensure that the API remains generic enough
  to incorporate different executor types (including those that don’t implement the current
  IStatementExecutor). From now on please use safe type casting at the caller side, instead of
  relying on the Source getter to return IStatementExecutor.
• Support for auto-sizing columns (TreeViewColumn with Type set to “Auto” or “Range”) in
  TreeViewEx has been extended with dynamic resizing capability. Previously the width of
  such columns was calculated only once during the column initialization, based on the size of
  its initial content. Now it’s possible for such a column to be resized dynamically based on the
  content currently visible in the TreeViewEx (i.e. during vertical scrolling,
  expanding/collapsing nodes, search/filtering, content updates in
  TreeNodeViewEx/TreeViewCell, resizing the TreeViewEx itself).
• Improved control over geometry rendering layers. Added IGeometryLayer and
  IGeometryLayerService. Extended vcLayer with Selectable, Snappable and
  CollisionDetectable properties.