Latest Changes

CPACS Creator Version 0.1

27/09/2019

• Initial pre-release of CPACS Creator

Version 3.0.0

24/09/2019

• General Changes:
  • CPACS 3 compatibility, including the new component-segment coordinate-system definition. The new cpacs definition of the wing structure allows more precise modelling of ribs and spars.
  • Guide curve support for wings and fuselages for high-fidelity surface modeling according to the CPACS 3 defintion.
  • Note: TiGL 3 does not yet contain the control surface device modeling. This will be included into TiGL 3.1.
  • New modeling of nacelles.
  • New modeling of pylons.
  • New modeling of fuselage structure elements like doors, beams, frames and pressure bulkheads.
  • Automated creation of CPACS reading and writing routines. This allows much better vality checks of the CPACS document.
  • The "GetPoint" function of wings / fuselages operate now on the actual wing/fuselage shape (e.g. in case of guide curves). Before, these function operated on the linear loft, which is different from the actual shape. To be backwards compatible, tiglWingGetUpperPoint, tiglWingGetLowerPoint, and tiglFuselageGetPoint still use the linear loft by default. If the actual smooth surface is desired, the new function tiglWingSetGetPointBehavior and tiglFuselageSetGetPointBehavior must be used to enable smooth lofts. Note: Using the actual smooth wing shape, tiglWingGetUpperPoint and tiglWingGetLowerPoint do not use the wing chord surface anymore as a reference coordinate system, but relies on the wing surface parametrization. This change was required, since there would be no other way to retrieve points around the leading edge, that is on front of the trapezoidal chord surface.
  • Improved speed of tiglFuselageGetPoint function. Also, the paramter xsi is now interpreted as the relative curve parameter instead of the relative circumference.
  • Improved robustness of fuselage loft computation.
  • The TIGL library was renamed to tigl3. The TIGLViewer was renamed to tiglviewer-3.
  • The windows builds are now using the Visual C++ 2015 Toolchain.
  • TiGL now requires a C++ 11 capable compiler. Minimum required compilers are gcc 4.8 or Visual C++ 2015.
• New API functions:
  • tiglWingComponentSegmentPointGetEtaXsi computes the eta/xsi coordinates of a point on the component segment.
  • tiglIntersectWithPlaneSegment computes the intersection of a CPACS shape (e.g. wing) with a plane of finite size.
  • tiglGetCurveIntersection to compute the intersection of two curves.
  • tiglGetCurveIntersectionPoint to query the intersection point(s) computed by tiglGetCurveIntersection.
  • tiglGetCurveIntersectionCount returns the number of intersection points computed by tiglGetCurveIntersection.
  • tiglGetCurveParameter projects a point onto a curve and returns the curve parameter of the point.
  • tiglFuselageGetSectionCenter computes the center of a fuselage section defined by its eta coordinate.
  • tiglFuselageGetCrossSectionArea computes the area of a fuselage section.
  • tiglFuselageGetCenterLineLength computes the length of the centerline of the fuselage.
  • tiglCheckPointInside checks, whether a point lies inside some object (defined by its uid).
  • tiglExportFuselageBREPByUID and tiglExportWingBREPByUID
  • tiglSetExportOptions sets exports-specific options
  • tiglFuselageSetGetPointBehavior and tiglWingSetGetPointBehavior to adjust, whether the get point functions should return linear loft values or points on the actual shape.
    • tiglSetDebugDataDirectory specifies the directory of the crashdump data.
• Changed API:
  • Removed deprectated intersection functions. These include
    • tiglComponentIntersectionLineCount
    • tiglComponentIntersectionPoint
    • tiglComponentIntersectionPoints
  • Removed function tiglExportVTKSetOptions. This is now replaced by tiglSetExportOptions
    • tiglWingGetWettedArea now returns surface area of the wing, if the wing has no parent. Previously this caused a crash.
• Fixes:
  • TiGL Viewer: Fixed missing fonts on macOS
• Language bindings:
  • New python bindings allow to access the whole C++ API of TiGL. This bindings can be installed via conda.
  • Python: the tiglwrapper.py module was renamed to tigl3wrapper.py. The Tigl object is renamed to Tigl3.
  • Java: the tigl package moved from de.dlr.sc.tigl to de.dlr.sc.tigl3
• TiGL Viewer:
  • Display of reflection lines to inspect surface quality.
  • Display of textured surfaces.
  • Angle of perspective can be adjusted using the scripting API with setCameraPosition and setLookAtPosition. This allows e.g. to create videos of the geometry.
  • Option to display face names.
  • Number of U and V iso-lines can be adjusted independently.
  • New design

Version 2.2.3

28/06/2018

• New API functions:
  • Backport API function tiglCheckPointInside that checks wether a point lies inside a given geometric object
  • New API function tiglGetGuideCurvePoints to obtain the guide curve points on the fuselage/wing for a given guide curve.

Version 2.2.2

11/04/2018

• General changes:
  • Modelling of control surfaces as trailing and leading edge devices
  • The wing is now written a one entity instead of several segments in the file exports
• New API functions:
  • tiglControlSurfaceGetDeflection to query the deflection of the given control surface device
  • tiglControlSurfaceSetDeflection to set the deflection of the given control surface device
  • tiglGetControlSurfaceCount to get the number of control surface devices
  • tiglGetControlSurfaceType to query the type of the control surface device (leading + trailing edge device)
  • tiglGetControlSurfaceUID to query the UID of the control surface device
  • tiglControlSurfaceGetMinimumDeflection and tiglControlSurfaceGetMaximumDeflection to get the minimum and maximum deflection of the control surface device
• Fixes:
  • Fixed bug JAVA bindings getProfileSplines (issue #357)
• TiGLViewer:
  • The control surface devices can be extended and retracted from inside the GUI
  • Added functions to set camera positions. The following functions where added:
    • setLookAtPosition(x, y, z)
    • setCameraPosition(elevationAngle, azimuthAngle) They can be used from the console to e.g. create movies.

Version 2.2.1

18/08/2017

• General changes:
  • Improved calculation time of tiglFuselageGetPointAngle by roughly a factor of 30. The results might be a different than in previous versions, but the function should be more robust now.
  • Improved calculation time of tiglFuselageGetPoint by applying caching. This leads only to a benefit in case of a large number of GetPoint calls (~30) per fuselage segment. This will be even improved in TiGL 3.
• New API functions:
  • New API function tiglExportVTKSetOptions. This function can be used e.g to disable normal vector writing in the VTK export.
• Changed API:
  • Ignore Symmetry face in tiglFuselageGetSurfaceArea for half fuselages
  • In tiglFuselageGetPointAngle the cross section center is used as starting point of the angle rather than the origin of the yz-plane
• Fixes:
  • Fixed bug, where the VTK export showed no geometry in ParaView
  • Improved accuracy of the VTK export. The digits of points are not truncated anymore to avoid duplicate points
  • Triangles with zero surface are excluded from the VTK export
  • Fixed incorrect face name ordering in WingComponentSegment

Version 2.2.0

23/12/2016

• Major changes:
  • Added modelling of the wing structure, including ribs and spars . This code was part of a large pull request by Airbus D&S. Currently, the structure is only accessible by the TiGL Viewer. In future releases, we plan to make the structure accessible from the API.
  • Improved Collada export: The export is now conforming with the collada schema and can be displayed with OS X preview.
  • External shapes are added to the exports.
  • Added writing of modified CPACS files. Still, we do not offer yet API functions for modifications. Using the internal API, modifications are already possible.
• New API functions:
  • New API function tiglSaveCPACSConfiguration for writing the CPACS configuration into a file.
• TiGLViewer:
  • Visualization of the wing structure.
  • Improved linking and compilation with Qt.
  • Added STL export of the whole aircraft configuration.

Version 2.1.7

22/09/2016

• General changes:
  • Support for generic aircraft systems (by Jonas Jepsen).
  • External components are now conforming with the CPACS 2.3 standard (by Jonas Jepsen).
  • Support for rotorcraft (by Philipp Kunze).
  • Improved IGES export: Added support for long names in IGES (more than 8 characters as before).
  • Removed support for RedHat 5 and Ubuntu 13.10.
  • Added support for RedHat 7.
  • Ported to OpenCASCADE 6.9.0 and 7.0.0.
• New API functions:
  • tiglWingComponentSegmentComputeEtaIntersection: This function should be used to compute points on the wing that lie on a straight line between two given points.
  • tiglFuselageGetIndex to compute the index based on the fuselage UID.
  • Added new API functions for rotors and rotor blades:
    • tiglGetRotorCount
    • tiglRotorGetUID
    • tiglRotorGetIndex
    • tiglRotorGetRadius
    • tiglRotorGetReferenceArea
    • tiglRotorGetTotalBladePlanformArea
    • tiglRotorGetSolidity
    • tiglRotorGetSurfaceArea
    • tiglRotorGetVolume
    • tiglRotorGetTipSpeed
    • tiglRotorGetRotorBladeCount
    • tiglRotorBladeGetWingIndex
    • tiglRotorBladeGetWingUID
    • tiglRotorBladeGetAzimuthAngle
    • tiglRotorBladeGetRadius
    • tiglRotorBladeGetPlanformArea
    • tiglRotorBladeGetSurfaceArea
    • tiglRotorBladeGetVolume
    • tiglRotorBladeGetTipSpeed
    • tiglRotorBladeGetLocalRadius
    • tiglRotorBladeGetLocalChord
    • tiglRotorBladeGetLocalTwistAngle
• Fixes:
  • Fixed parent-child transformations in case of multiple root components.
  • Fixed an error in tiglWingComponentSegmentGetPoint in case of multiple intersections of the eta plane with the wing. This was the case for e.g. box wings. (issue #176).
  • Fixed bug tiglWingGetSpan in wing span computation when no wing symmetry is given (e.g. for a VTP) (issue #185 and #195).
  • Fixed another bug in tiglWingGetSpan when the symmetry plane was the Y-Z plane (issue #174).
  • Fixed incorrect result in tiglWingGetSegmentEtaXsi near wing sections, returning the wrong section (issue#187).
  • Fixed an issue in tiglWingGetSegmentEtaXsi in case the airfoil is completely above the chord surface.
  • Fixed point projection on the geometry for large scale data (eg a factor of 1000) by making the convergence criterium size dependent (issue #203).
• TiGLViewer:
  • Visualization of rotorcraft and rotorcraft specific menus.
  • Visualization of generic aircraft systems.
  • Added wingGetSpan function to TiGLViewer scripting.
  • Added script function wingComponentSegmentGetPoint.
  • Fixed tiglviewer.sh script loading wrong OpenCASCADE libraries.
• Language bindings:
  • Started experimental python bindings for the internal API. This allows a direct manipulation of the geometry objects from python together with the OpenCASCADE python bindings (pythoncc).
  • The source code of the matlab bindings is now shipped on all systems. In addition, we distribute a Makefile which can be used to compile the Matlab bindings when needed.
  • Added function tiglWingComponentSegmentComputeEtaIntersection to java bindings.

Version 2.1.6

15/07/2015

• TiGL Viewer:
  • Fixed critical crash on Windows 64 bit systems that occured sporadically on some systems

Version 2.1.5

01/07/2015

• Changed API:
  • Added an output argument in the function tiglWingComponentSegmentPointGetSegmentEtaXsi that returns the error of the computation.
  • The function tiglWingComponentSegmentGetSegmentIntersection uses a new algorithm that should ensure straight flap leading edges and straight spars. Also, a new parameter hasWarning was added, to inform the user, that the returned segment xsi value is not in the valid range [0,1]. This might be the case, if a spar is partially located outside the wing.
  • Removed macros TIGL_VERSION and TIGL_VERSION_MAJOR from tigl.h. Please use tigl_version.h instead.
• General changes:
  • External geometries can be included into the CPACS file using a link to a STEP file. The allows e.g. the use of engines and nacelles. (Note: this is not yet included in the CPACS standard)
  • Improved computation of half model fuselage profiles. Now, fuselages are c2 continuous at the symmetry plane.
  • Improved computation speed of tiglWingComponentSegmentGetPoint by a factor of 30 to 600 (depending on the geometry).
  • Reduced execution time of tiglOpenCPACSConfiguration.
  • All TiXI messages (errors/warnings) are now printed to the TiGL log.
  • Ported to OpenCASCADE 6.8.0.
• New API functions:
  • tiglExportFusedBREP to export the fused configuration to the BRep file format.
• Fixes:
  • Fixed bug, where guide curves on half model fuselages were not touching the symmetry plane.
  • Fixed a TIGL_MATH_ERROR bug in tiglWingComponentSegmentGetSegmentIntersection.
• TiGL Viewer:
  • Ported to Qt 5.
  • OpenGL accelerated rubber band selection. This fixes the slow rubber band selection on Linux and the invisible rubber band selection on Mac.
  • Fixed bug when loading a CPACS file with multiple models (thanks Jonas!).
  • Removed support for legacy VRML and CSDFB files.

Version 2.1.4

06/02/2015

• Changed API:
  • Added an output argument in the functionstiglWingGetUpperPointAtDirection and tiglWingGetLowerPointAtDirection that returns the error of the computation
• New API functions:
  • tiglFuselageGetIndex and tiglFuselageGetSegmentIndex to retrieve the index of a fuselage and fuselage segment given a CPACS UID
• Fixes:
  • Fixed some warnings using CMake 3
• TiGL Viewer:
  • Fixed a crash in case of a missing model UID
  • Fixed a bug, where debugging BREP files where always created on Linux
  • Improved scripting interface for wingGetLower/UpperPointAtDirection to return the error
• Language bindings:
  • Completed the new Java bindings for TiGL
  • Removed Fortran bindings since nobody is using them

Version 2.1.3

08/12/2014

• Changed API:
  • Changed functions tiglWingGetSegmentSurfaceArea to exclude side faces and trailing edges
  • Removed functions tiglWingGetUpperPointAtAngle and tiglWingGetLowerPointAtAngle. These functions were replaced by tiglWingGetUpperPointAtDirection and tiglWingGetLowerPointAtDirection.
• General changes:
  • Support for global transformation (translation refType="absGlobal"). Notice: some (incorrect) CPACS models will now look differently.
  • Accurate B-Spline approximation of CST curves using Chebychev approximation.
  • Implemented recursive fusing trimming for the use of e.g. bellyfairings. Added small cpacs example how to model a bellyfairing.
  • Implemented trimming of intersection curves with parent bodies and far fields
  • Improved computation of fuselage positionings. This should improve loading times of configurations with large number of sections, since the algorithmic complexity is reduced.
  • IGES + STEP export: All wing faces are now classified as Top-Wing, Bottom-Wing, or Trailing-Edge.
  • IGES export: Changed units to mm.
  • IGES export: Implemented layers/levels .
  • The OCAF framework is no longer required to build TiGL.
  • The build system now uses the cmake config-style TiXI and OCE search mechanisms.
• New API functions:
  • Added functions to get the B-Spline paramterization of fuselage and wing profiles:
    • tiglProfileGetBSplineCount, returns the of B-Splines a profile is built of.
    • tiglProfileGetBSplineDataSizes, returns the size of the knot vector and the number of control points of one profile B-Spline.
    • tiglProfileGetBSplineData, returns the knot vector and the control points.
  • Added functions tiglWingGetSectionCount and tiglFuselageGetSectionCount
  • Added functions tiglWingGetSegmentUpperSurfaceAreaTrimmed and tiglWingGetSegmentLowerSurfaceAreaTrimmed to e.g. compute the surface area of a control device.
  • Added functions tiglWingGetChordPoint and tiglWingGetChordNormal to query points on the wing chord surface.
  • Added functions tiglWingGetUpperPointAtDirection and tiglWingGetLowerPointAtDirection.
• Fixes:
  • Fixed tiglWingComponentSegmentGetPoint in case of global wing transformations.
  • Fixed tiglWingComponentSegmentGetPoint bug, returning eta values > 1 (issue 107).
  • Fixed numerical inaccuracy of tiglWingGetPointDirection
  • Fixed incorrect CST curves at for N2 < 1.
  • Fixed null pointer bug in IGES export.
• TiGLViewer:
  • Highly improved scripting console:
    • Script file can be given as command line argument (using option –script)
    • Added function to export all objects to file
    • The main application objects can be scripted (i.e. app, app.viewer, app.scene)
    • Draw shapes, points and vectors from script
    • Make screenshots by command
    • Context menu for copy-paste actions
    • History with recent commands
    • Mouse support
    • More wrapped tigl functions
    • Improved stability
    • Exception handling
    • TiXI errors and warnings are printed on the console now
  • Added dialog to draw points and vectors.
  • Added dialog for screenshot settings, including option for white background.
  • JPEG and PNG support for background images.
  • Collada export for the complete configuration (i.e. support for multiple objects).
  • Cleanup of menu entries.
  • Fixed multiple opened CPACS documents in TiGLViewer.
  • Fixed 3D view flickering on Mac OS X with Qt 4.8.6.
• Language bindings:
  • Added python 3 support of tiglwrapper.py
  • Improved TiGL library loading error messages in python wrapper
  • New Java bindings. Hand-written high level API not yet complete (not all TiGL functions wrapped). Low level API (autogenerated) can be used instead for unimplemented functions.
  • Added Java example (see share/doc/tigl/examples/JavaDemo.java)
• Documentation:
  • Added chapter for TiGL Viewer and the TiGL Viewer scripting console.

Version 2.1.2

17/04/2014

• Changed API:
  • The returned UID strings of the following functions must not be freed by the user anymore:
    • tiglWingGetOuterSectionAndElementIndex
    • tiglWingGetInnerSectionAndElementUID
    • tiglFuselageGetStartSectionAndElementUID
    • tiglFuselageGetEndSectionAndElementUID
    • tiglWingComponentSegmentPointGetSegmentEtaXsi
    • tiglWingComponentSegmentFindSegment
  • Changed behavior of tiglWingComponentSegmentFindSegment. In case the specified point does not lie within 1 cm of any segment, TIGL_NOT_FOUND is returned.
  • Changed behavior of tiglWingComponentSegmentPointGetSegmentEtaXsi. If the specified point lies outside any segment so that the transformation can not be executed, TIGL_MATH_ERROR is returned.
  • The following API functions tiglComponentIntersectionPoint, tiglComponentIntersectionPoints and tiglComponentIntersectionLineCount are deprecated and will be removed in future releases. These functions are replaced by new intersection routines.
  • Removed functions tiglExportStructuredIGES and tiglExportStructuredSTEP
• General changes:
  • Completely reworked boolean operations with the following effects:
    • Fusing the whole plane is faster in many cases and more reliable
    • We keep track of the origins of each trimmed face which helps for the IGES and STEP exports
    • The boolean operations can be debugged now by setting the environment variable TIGL_DEBUG_BOP
  • Completely rewritten STEP and IGES exports:
    • Each face has now an identifier name
    • Inclusion of intersection curves
    • Inclusion of far fields into exports
    • IGES export in non-BREP mode since it is not supported by CATIA
  • Added new demos for C, Python and MATLAB. Please look into the documentation how to run them.
  • Added function for the intersection computation of a geometrical shape with a plane
  • Experimental implementation of wing and fuselage guide curves
  • The mathematical orientation of wing profiles is checked for correctness
  • TiGL requires now at least OpenCASCADE 6.6.0
  • Ported to OpenCASCADE 6.7.0
• New API functions:
  • Added new API functions for shape/shape and shape/plane intersections:
    • tiglIntersectComponents
    • tiglIntersectWithPlane
    • tiglIntersectGetLineCount
    • tiglIntersectGetPoint
• Fixes:
  • Fixed a bug in tiglWingComponentSegmentFindSegment
  • Fixed numerical inaccuracy in the projection of points to a wing segment
  • Fixed crash in case of too long UIDs
  • Fixed some memory leaks
• TiGLViewer:
  • Improved IGES import:
    • Multiple shapes are now imported as separate shapes from IGES files.
    • Fixed wrong scaling when importing IGES files.
  • Improved STEP export:
    • Files are now exported in units of meters instead of millimeters.
  • Improved BREP export and import: compound objects are now decomposed to separate objects.
  • Added method to export fused aircraft to BREP
  • Added method to export wing and fuselage profiles and guide curves to BREP
  • Fixed incorrect units in IGES and STEP export from save-as dialog.
  • General save-as dialog: All visible objects are saved to the file, if no shape is selected. Otherwise, only the selected objects are exported.
  • Added debugging parameters to settings dialog. This includes:
    • Adapting number of displayed iso lines per face
    • Display face numbers
    • Debug boolean operations (if enabled, debugging shapes in BRep format are stored to the current working directory)
  • Added new dialog for shape/shape and shape/plane intersections.
  • Added drag and drop support to TiGLViewer. Files (CPACS, IGES, STEP, BREP) are opened when they are dragged into TiGLViewer.
  • TiGLViewer displays far field after calculating the trimmed aircraft
  • Iso U/V lines are no longer displayed by default. This can be changed in the settings dialog.
  • The fused/trimmed aircraft geometry is displayed using a different color for each component.
  • Added visualization of wing and fuselage guide curves.
  • Fix: Only the first intersection curve was displayed. This is fixed now.
  • New icons

Version 2.1.1

Released: 28/01/2014

• Changed API:
  • In previous TiGL version, some strings had to be freed manually after calling some functions. These strings must not be freed anymore. Following functions are affected:
    • tiglWingGetOuterSectionAndElementIndex
    • tiglWingGetInnerSectionAndElementUID
    • tiglFuselageGetStartSectionAndElementUID
    • tiglFuselageGetEndSectionAndElementUID
    • tiglWingComponentSegmentPointGetSegmentEtaXsi
    • tiglWingComponentSegmentFindSegment
    • Changed return value of tiglWingComponentSegmentFindSegment: In case the given point is located more than 1 cm away from any segment, TIGL_NOT_FOUND is returned.
    • Changed return value of tiglWingComponentSegmentPointGetSegmentEtaXsi: If the given point lies outside any segment so that the transformation can not be executed, TIGL_MATH_ERROR is returned.
• General changes:
  • Changed console logging to include errors and warnings by default
  • Wing profiles are automatically trimmed at their trailing edge to ensure, that the trailing edge is always perpendicular to the chord line. This is required by the wingGetUpperPoint and wingGetLowerPoint functions.
• Fixes:
  • Fixed a bug in tiglWingGetUpperPoint and tiglWingGetLowerPoint in which some points could not be calculated
  • Fixed two memory leaks

Version 2.1.0

Released: 17/01/2014

• Changed API:
  • Added argument for tiglWingGetReferenceArea to define the projection plane for reference area calculations
• General Changes:
  • Support for parametric CST wing profiles
  • Logging improvements. The console verbosity can now be set independent of file logging.
• New API functions:
  • tiglWingGetMAC, computes the mead aerodynamic chord length and position (thanks to Arda!)
• Fixes:
  • Fixed crash in case of missing wing and fuselage profiles
  • Fixed accuracy errors in tiglWingSegmentPointGetComponentSegmentEtaXsi and tiglWingComponentSegmentPointGetSegmentEtaXsi
  • Fixed a warning when including tigl.h
  • Fixed numerical bug tiglWingComponentSegmentGetSegmentIntersection
• TiGLViewer:
  • Improved dialog for displaying wing component segment points
  • Added BRep export
  • Fixed crash on some Linux systems with strange LANG settings
  • Added dialog showing log history in case of an error

Version 2.0.7

Released: 21/11/2013

• Changed API:
  • replaced tiglWingComponentSegmentGetMaterialUIDs with tiglWingComponentSegmentGetMaterialUID and tiglWingComponentSegmentGetMaterialCount
• General Changes:
  • Implementation of far fields
  • More work on STEP and IGES export. The geometry is now exported as faces instead of solids in the STEP export.
  • Verification of airfoils during CPACS loading, this fixes twisted wing segments for some CPACS files
  • Improved modelling of leading and trailing edge
  • New Logging Framework
• New API functions:
  • tiglWingGetSegmentEtaXsi, to transform global x,y,z coordinates into wing segment coordinates
  • tiglExportFusedSTEP, exports the trimmed/fused geometry as a step file
  • tiglWingComponentSegmentGetMaterialUID, to get the material UID at a point of the component segment
  • tiglWingComponentSegmentGetMaterialThickness, to get the material thickness at a point of the component segment
  • tiglWingComponentSegmentGetMaterialCount, to get the number of materials defined at a point of the component segment
  • tiglLogSetFileEnding, tiglLogSetTimeInFilenameEnabled, tiglLogToFileDisabled, tiglLogToFileEnabled, tiglLogToFileStreamEnabled, to modify logging settings
• Fixes:
  • fixed a bug in tiglWingComponentSegmentGetSegmentIntersection
• TiGLViewer:
  • Loading of HOTSOSE mesh files
  • Auto-reload of non-CPACS files
  • Improved display of airfoils
  • Improved error dialogs

Version 2.0.6

Released: 27/08/2013

• General Changes:
  • Improved loading times
  • Improved speed of intersection calculations by caching and reusing results
  • Switched to faces instead of solids in STEP Export
  • Switched to const char * API
  • Prepared TiGL for Android (currently working but still experimental)
• New API functions:
  • tiglExportMeshedWingSTLByUID and tiglExportMeshedFuselageSTLByUID for STL export (Hello 3D printing!)
  • tiglWingComponentSegmentGetSegmentIntersection
• Fixes:
  • Fixed tiglFuselageGetPointAngle and tiglFuselageGetPointAngleTranslated giving wrong results (issues 89 and 92)
  • TiGL required positionings for all fuselage segments, this is now fixed (issue 57)
  • Fixed error when opening CPACS files with composite materials
  • Fixed wrong units in iges export (issue 78)
  • Silenced Error messages that weren't errors
  • Fixed different errors in tiglWingComponentSegmentPointGetSegmentEtaXsi
  • Fixed duplicate log files

Version 2.0.5

Released: 11/06/2013

• Changed API:
  • Switched to const char * strings
  • tiglWingGetSegmentIndex returns now also the wing index instead of asking for it
  • Removed TiGL wire algorithms switching functions. Now a Bspline wire is used for each profile.
• General Changes:
  • Symmetry modeling
  • Explicit modeling of the wing leading edge to improve tesselated output (no more leading edge bumps)
  • Explicit modeling of the wing upper and lower shape
  • The fuselage lofting now creates a smooth surface without hard edges (due to fixed OpenCASCADE bug)
  • Completely rewritten VTK export:
    • Full body export including wing segment metadata
    • Fixed lots of errors.
    • Large improvement of calculation times.
    • Provides wing segment metadata in a proper VTK-way, to allow visualization of these data in VTK viewers. Calculation and export of the proper normal vectors.
  • IGES and STEP export with CPACS metadata
  • Collada export for use in 3D rendering programs like Blender
  • MATLAB bindings for TiGL!
  • Completeley rewritten python bindings (e.g. better support for arrays)
  • Added logging framework to write outputs into log files (google-glog)
  • Ported to OpenCASCADE 6.6.0
• New API functions:
  • tiglWingComponentSegmentGetMaterialUIDs, to query materials on component segment
  • tiglWingComponentSegmentGetPoint, to query cartesian point on the wing component segment (on chord surface)
  • tiglWingSegmentPointGetComponentSegmentEtaXsi, to compute segment to component segment coordinates
  • tiglWingComponentSegmentGetSegmentUID, queries the uids of the ith segment of the component segment
  • tiglWingComponentSegmentGetNumberOfSegments, queries the number of segments belonging to a component segment
  • tiglExportFuselageColladaByUID
  • tiglExportWingColladaByUID
  • tiglExportStructuredIGES
  • tiglExportStructuredSTEP
  • tiglConfigurationGetLength, returns the length of the airplane
  • tiglWingGetSpan, returns the wing span
  • tiglComponentIntersectionPoints (convenience function, vectorizes tiglComponentIntersectionPoint to improve speed)
  • tiglExportMeshedGeometryVTKSimple and tiglExportMeshedGeometryVTKSimple (replaced dummy implementation)
• Fixes:
  • Intersection calculation used by tiglComponentIntersectionPoint
  • Fixed incorrectly placed fuselage positionings
  • Fixed tiglWingComponentSegmentFindSegment returning segments that don't belong to the component segment
  • Workaround to buggy OpenCASCADE boolean fuse algorithms (which seems to be non-commutative). As a result, the fusing of the whole plane can be slower than before.
  • Removed warning about missing component segments
• TiGLViewer:
  • Display user defined component segment point
  • Improved speed of intersection calculation
  • Improved speed of shape triangulation
  • Display upper and lower shape of the wing
  • Display of the full model incorporating the symmetry properties of the CPACS components
  • Fixed detection, if CPACS file is changed while displayed in TiGLViewer
  • An optional control file can steer some basic settings like tesselation/triangulation accuracy (e.g. to tune speed of cpacs file opening)
  • STEP export
  • Settings Dialog (tesslation accuracy settings, background...)
  • New icon and color scheme

Version 2.0.4

Released: 17/01/2013

• New API Functions:
  • Added function tiglGetErrorString
• Fixes:
  • Fixed bug in tiglWingComponentSegmentPointGetSegmentEtaXsi
  • Fixed camberline / chordline bug
  • Fixed exception, when no airfoils are available
• TiGLViewer:
  • Added scripting interface to TIGLViewer. It is now possible to call TIGL/TIXI functions from within the TIGLViewer. The output is displayed in the console-view. Find more information here.
  • Added context-popup menu on right click. Available actions:
    • Removing of geometric shapes
    • Set transparency level of geometric shapes
    • Set color of selected shapes
    • Set material of selected shapes
    • Set wireframe/shading of selected shapes
  • Works now also in Mac OSX (since opencascade commit 4fe5661 )
  • Added toolbars
  • Added option to load a background image
  • Added autosave of user settings
  • Menus are disabled/enabled depending on dataset
  • Script could be loaded from file via File->open Script
  • Fixed opening from command line
  • Fixed bad font rendering for OpenCascade? > - 6.4.0

Version 2.0.3

Released: 17/01/2013

• General Changes:
  • Added CCPACSWingSegment::GetChordPoint to internal API
  • Added a simple cpacs data set for accuracy testing
  • Added some accuracy tests for getPoint functions
  • Added support for visual leak detector
  • Changed UnitTesting? Framework to google-test
  • Changed TIGL linking to static for unit tests
  • Added coverage with gcov (gcc only) to project
• New API Functions:
  • tiglWingGetIndex Returns the wing index given a wing UID
  • tiglWingGetSegmentIndex Returns the segment index given a wing segment UID
  • tiglWingGetComponentSegmentCount Returns the number of component segments for a specific wing (selected by wing index)
  • tiglWingGetComponentSegmentIndex Translates component segment UID into component segment index
  • tiglWingGetComponentSegmentUID Translates component segment index into component segment UID
• Fixes:
  • Fixed tiglWingComponentSegmentPointGetSegmentEtaXsi
  • Fixed accuracy of CCPACSWingComponentSegment::getPoint
  • Fixed accuracy of CCPACSWingSegment::getEta
  • Fixed memory management handling of tiglWingGetProfileName
  • Fixed memory leaks in VTK export
  • Fixed memory leak in CCPACSFuselages
• TIGLViewer:
  • Menus are enabled/disabled depending on number of wings/fuselages
  • Added close configuration menu entry
  • improved view rotation with middle mouse button

Version 2.0.2

Released: 16/10/2012

• General Changes:
  • Fixed wing translation bug in TIGLViewer and export Functions
  • Implemented STL import
  • The result of the fused plane calculation is now chached
• TiGLViewer:
  • Fixed triangulation algorithm (should not crash anymore)
  • Added full plane triangulation
  • Checks in all Selection-Dialogs, if cancel was pressed
  • Added calculation of intersection line of Wing and Fuselage
  • The recently opened folder is now saved

Version 2.0.1

Released: 02/10/2012

• General Changes:
  • Fixed geometry transformations like sweep angle and dihedral angle rotating sections
  • Fixed scalings that lead to a translation of sections
  • Datasets with CPACS Version < 2.0 are now rejected
  • Calculation of fused fuselage, wing, and airplane should not crash anymore
  • Removed memory leaks
  • Cmake based project files
  • Prepared for OpenCascade? 6.5.3
  • Windows 64 Bit builds available
• TiGLViewer:
  • Fixed inconsistent hot keys and menu entries for views
  • Console window showing outputs of TIGL and OpenCascade?
  • Wireframe mode
  • Recent Documents menu entry

Version 2.0

• General Changes:
  • Compatible with CPACS 2.0
  • Corrected the implicit rotation of fuselage and wing profiles. They shouldn't turn from x-y to x-z by TIGL
  • TIGL now uses the coordinate system of parent components for child components. This is only done when parent –> child relations could be figured out via UIDs.
  • Profile points could now also be stored as the vector (x ,y, and z) containing all profile points.
  • Some XPath have changed in CPACS 2.0, for example "sweepangle" is now "sweepAngle". TIGL is taking care of these changes.
• New API Functions:
  • tiglFuselageGetSymmetry and tiglWingGetSymmetry for querying symmetry information
  • tiglWingGetReferenceArea gives the reference area of a wing
  • tiglWingComponentSegmentFindSegment returns the segmentUID and wingUID for a given point on a componentSegment
  • tiglWingGetWettedArea a new function for caluclating wetted area of a wing
  • tiglWingComponentSegmentPointGetSegmentEtaXsireturns eta, xsi, segmentUID and wingUID for a given eta and xsi on a componentSegment
• TiGLViewer:
  • Complete rebuild of TIGLViewer. It is now QT based and platform independent
  • TIGLViewer now updates the view when the cpacs file is changed.

Version 1.0

Released: 31/08/2011

• Changed API:
  • tiglOpenCpacsConfiguration now opens a configuration without specification if the uid if it is the only one in the data set. Simply take NULL or en empty string as uid argument.
  • Added a Python wrapper for the C-code and DLL handling (no need to manually convert cpython variables to python)
• New API Functions
  • tiglComponentIntersectionPoint Returns a point on the intersection line of two geometric components. Often there are more one intersection line, therefore you need to specify the line.
  • tiglComponentIntersectionLineCount Returns the number if intersection lines of two geometric components.
  • tiglComponentGetHashCode Computes a hash value to represent a specific shape. The value is computed from the value of the underlying shape reference and the Orientation is not taken into account.
  • tiglFuselageGetMinumumDistanceToGround Returns the point where the distance between the selected fuselage and the ground is at minimum. Fuselage could be turned with a given angle at at given axis, specified by a point and a direction.
• TIGLViewer
  • now could draw the componentSegment of a selected wing.

Version 0.9

Released: 29/04/2011

• General Changes:
  • Fixed a bug that leads to strange errors when the first positioning of a Wing is not in the origin and has not innerSectionUID-element.
  • Removed annoying strErr message when a point miss one parameter.
  • TIGL 64-Bit libs are available for linux.
  • TIGL is now able to open rotocraft configurations as well as aircraft