Open CASCADE Technology 6.3 (Minor Public Release)
Open CASCADE S.A.S. is pleased to announce a new public minor release of Open CASCADE Technology (version 6.3). This release introduces over 170 new features, improvements and bug fixes, over minor public release 6.2. and maintenance release 6.2.1 (December 2007) exclusively available to the customers. Open CASCADE Technology has become more powerful and robust!
Main improvements in this version:
Open CASCADE tessellation algorithms (used for building triangulation of shapes in visualization) have been unified and improved
Next step in thread-safety: protection against concurrent construction / destruction of Handle objects
A new visualization library NIS (New Interactive Service) has been implemented
Objects serving as an intermediate layer between OCAF data attributes and high-level (e.g. GUI) code has been implemented
New supported platforms : Windows Vista, Mandriva2006, 2007, 2008, Debian Etch, Red Hat Enterprise 4.0
New supported compiler: gcc 4.0-4.2, Visual C++ 8.0
