Release Notes

O p e n C A S C A D E T e c h n o l o g y
P r o d u c t s
Open CASCADE 6.3

Minor Release
T e c h n o l o g y
Release Notes
Overview
Open CASCADE Technology 6.3 is a minor release, which includes new features, improvements and bug
fixes, over minor public release 6.2. and maintenance release 6.2.1.
C A S C A D E
Version 6.3 is binary incompatible with

the previous versions of Open
CASCADE Technology, so applications
linked against a previous version must
be recompiled to run with this Version
6.3.
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Table of Contents
New Features
P r o d u c t s
Foundation Classes
Modeling Algorithms
Visualization
Application Framework
Data Exchange
Draw
Products
New supported platforms and compilers
Improvements
Foundation Classes
T e c h n o l o g y
Modeling Algorithms
Visualization
Data Exchange
Building tools
3rd Party Products
Samples and Tools
Warnings
Products
Changes
Foundation Classes
Visualization
C A S C A D E
Data Exchange
Building Tools
Form of Delivery
Appendix: Bug Fixes

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Highlights
P r o d u c t s
Open CASCADE
Support of UTF8 encoding for extended strings, and Unicode symbols in IGES
Next step in thread-safety: protection against concurrent construction / destruction of

Handle objects
Improved compatibility with STL and Windows-specific code
Multiple new features introduced in visualization module
New visualization library NIS (New Interactive Service)

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New standard attributes and numerous improvements in OCAF
Integrated code changes made by OCC users for MacOS X and FreeBSD porting
Improved support of perspective view in Open CASCADE viewer
New version of the OCAF binary persistence format
The functionality of reading/writing VRML2.0 files has been implemented
The definitions of Standard_CString and Standard_ExtString (typedefs) have been

changed to be const: from char * (or short *) to const char * (or const short *)
New supported platforms : Windows Vista, Mandriva2006, 2007, 2008, Debian Etch,
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Red Hat Enterprise 4.0
New supported compiler: gcc 4.0-4.2, Visual C++ 8.0
Products
Reading of ACIS interface SAT versions 10.0 - 14.0
Improved tools for reading and writing NASTRAN files in OMF

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New Features
P r o d u c t s
Foundation Classes
News in version 6.2.1 over 6.2

• Support of UTF8 encoding has been implemented into TCollection_ExtendedString.
A string in UTF8 encoding is supposed as pure CString terminated by null.
The constructor TCollection_ExtendedString (const Standard_CString astring,
const Standard_Boolean isMultiByte) now has an additional parameter
<isMultiByte>, by default "false". If it is "true", the input CString is supposed to be in UTF8
encoding.
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Two methods have been added:

LengthOfCString() returns Integer.
Returns the expected CString length in UTF8 encoding. It can be used for memory
calculation before converting to CString in UTF8 encoding.
ToUTF8CString(theCString : out CString from Standard) returns Integer;
Converts the string to UTF8 encoding and returns length of the resulting CString. A
memory for the <theCString> should be allocated before call, with the size computed
using the previous method LengthOfCString().
• New method Added() is provided in the class NCollection_Map. This method adds new key to
the map (unless the same key is already there) and returns const reference to the corresponding
key actually contained in the map. Thus it provides access to the object instances contained in the
map, which can be useful when the map is used as a means to ensure uniqueness (by value) of
instances of objects of the definite type.
• Two new template classes have been added into the NCollection package:
NCollection_SparseArray: provides a compact data structure optimal for storing
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small objects addressed by integer index, where not full range of indices may be occupied.
This data structure is similar to the map with integer keys but is more compact and
provides better performance.
NCollection_CellFilter: provides a tool for fast check of coincidence or overlapping
of geometrical objects (e.g. points)
• New methods have been added to classes Bnd_B2x and Bnd_B3x (2- and 3-dimensional
bounding box):
IsVoid() indicates whether the box is uninitialized. The uninitialized state should be
checked before calling CornerMin(), CornerMax() and SquareExtent(), otherwise
these methods return irrelevant results;
IsIn (theBox) checks if the box is completely inside the given box.
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IsIn (theBox, theTrsf) checks if the box is completely inside the given box transformed with
the given transformation.
The 3rd parameter defining if the circle/sphere is hollow has been added into the method
IsOut() checking for intersection of the box with a circle/sphere,. If the parameter is
"true", a box that is completely inside the circle/sphere is not considered in intersection.
The 3rd parameter theOverthickness has been added into the method
Bnd_B3x::IsOut (theLine, isRay). It defines the addition to the size of the tested
box; it can also be understood as the radius of the cylinder that is checked for intersection
instead of the given line.
• New static functions IsReentrant() and SetReentrant() have been added into the Standard
package to query and set flag for reentrant (i.e. thread-safe) mode of operation of TKernel
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services (memory manager, handles, exceptions) in run-time. Note that the default value of this flag
is True if environment variable MMGT_REENTRANT is defined and False otherwise.
• New class Message_Algorithm has been added, intended to be a base class for algorithms. It
provides descendant classes with uniform means to give feedback on the execution of the
algorithm by setting status flags and print messages, configurable via resource file.
A few related types have been added:
class Message_ExecStatus represents a cumulative status of the algorithm that can be
a composition of several status flags
enumeration Message_StatusType defines available types of status flags (Done,
Warning, Alarm, or Fail)
enumeration Message_Status defines 32 status flags that can be set for each status
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type
News in version 6.3 over 6.2.1

• A new class Poly_CoherentTriangulation (and the types on which it depends) has been
added to the package Poly (toolkit TKMath).
This class implements the data structure and the API that support analysis and modification of the
triangulated mesh (like Poly_Triangulation). This tool can be used in the following areas:
Mesh generation and refinement
Mesh decimation
Constructions on surface meshes: offset, free boundary, geodesic, etc.
The data structure has been optimized to provide the best performance of the algorithms.
The complete Doxygen documentation is contained in Poly_CoherentTriangulation.hxx
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• Possibility to store vectors of normal to the surface in vertices of the triangulation structure (class
Poly_Triangulation) has been introduced. This provides better performance of visualization
(recalculation of normal is avoided) for normal shapes and allows visualization of shapes having
only triangulated representation (without any other geometry - curves, surfaces ...) with smooth
shading.
Modeling Algorithms

• New functionality provides shape volume computation by adaptive Gauss-Kronrod method. New
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computation methods are accessible via new methods of class BRepGProp:

VolumePropertiesGK(...).
• New method BRepAlgoAPI_BooleanOperation::RefineEdges() is added in class
BRepAlgoAPI_BooleanOperation.
This method can be used after performing any Boolean operation to concatenate edges that belong
to the same face, have at least G1 continuity in common vertices and the same type of underlined
curves (except Offset curves).

• New parameter "Toler" which defines tolerance when calculating curve length has been added to
class GCPnts_UniformAbscissa. By default this parameter is equal to
Precision::Confusion().
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It is required to use with this class the same tolerance as in this algorithm for curve length
calculation. Otherwise results could be inconsistent.
• Open CASCADE tessellation algorithms (used for building triangulation of shapes in visualization)
have been unified and improved. The improvements include protection against duplicated 2D
nodes, elimination of numerical instabilities, advanced handling of holes and cutting of external
triangles, optimization of MeshDS_Mesh2d data structures and performance of remeshing in self
intersection case.
A new possibility is provided to customize tessellation algorithms used in OCCT visualization via
plug-in mechanism. The basic classes for plugins are:
BRepMesh_PluginMacro
BRepMesh_DiscretFactory
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BRepMesh_DiscretRoot
• Progress indication for reading and saving of BRep files has been implemented. For that, progress
indicator can be passed as an additional optional argument to methods BRepTools::Read() and
BRepTools::Write(). The applications can feature the progress bar with the possibility to stop the
indicated operation.
Note that it is recommended to update the bar not more than 10 times in 1 second to avoid
performance decrease.
Visualization

• Selection mechanism in MeshVS has been improved to support a great number of selectable mesh
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entities (500K and more) with a good response time. This new functionality has been introduced as
an option. According to the new approach, the single selectable object is created for all
presentation, and the treatment of the selection event is exercised on application level.
The old approach remains the default one. It consists in creating in memory a separate object for
every selectable item-owner. This approach becomes inefficient when the number of objects
exceeds 100 000.
Several new virtual methods of MeshVS_DataSource are to be redefined to switch to the new
mechanism. The virtual method IsAdvancedSelectionEnabled() defines if the new
mechanism is used.
• Simplified visualization of vectors has been implemented in MeshVS package. The simplified
visualization mode can be activated instead of the present vector presentation through a special
flag and parameters (see methods SetSimplePrsMode() and SetSimplePrsParams() of the
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class MeshVS_VectorPrsBuilder). It allows faster computation and less memory allocation for
presentations on large mesh models.
• The possibility to read depth values of OpenGL window pixels has been implemented for
applications that use OCC viewer. The class Visual3d_View provides the necessary API for that
(see method ReadDepths()).
• Support of mesh group selection has been introduced in MeshVS package. To enable this
functionality group selection mode should be activated using new
MeshVS_SelectionModeFlags enumeration, which allows defining a specific mesh selection
mode:
MeshVS_SMF_Mesh = 0 – selection of the whole mesh (default)

MeshVS_SMF_Node = 1 – selection of mesh nodes
MeshVS_SMF_0D = 2 – selection of 0D elements
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MeshVS_SMF_Link = 4 – selection of edges

MeshVS_SMF_Face = 8 – selection of faces
MeshVS_SMF_Volume = 16 – selection of volumes
MeshVS_SMF_Group = 256 – selection of mesh groups
Information about the existing groups is provided by MeshVS_DataSource with the following
methods:
GetAllGroups() returns list of all defined groups (group IDs);
GetGroup() returns type and list of elements of given group;
GetGroupAddr() returns address to group data structure if defined. The obtained
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address value is used for selection to provide quick access to group info from the selected
owner.
Note that the default MeshVS_DataSource class implementation returns no group information.
The real data should be provided by MeshVS_DataSource class successor.
Additionally the following modifications have been implemented:
ComputeSelection() method from MeshVS_Mesh have been modified to build a set of
sensitive entities for each group (process MeshVS_SMF_Group selection mode). A
sensitive entity is built only for selectable elements/nodes belonging to a given group. If the
group contains no selectable elements/nodes, then a dummy sensitive entity is created.
HilightSelected() and HilightOwnerWithColor() have been modified to provide
highlighting of detected group.
MeshVS/MeshVS_MeshPrsBuilder::BuildElements() method have been modified
to support highlighting of a set of elements (process MeshVS_DMF_HilightPrs display
mode).
C A S C A D E
MeshVS/MeshVS_Owner.cdl and MeshVS/MeshVS_Owner.cxx contain a new flag

myIsGroup indicating the owner of a group of elements/nodes (default value is false). The
flag value can be asked with a new IsGroup() method. In the case of a group owner
(IsGroup() returns true) the Owner() method returns the address of the group data
structure that corresponds to the value returned by
MeshVS_DataSource::GetGroupAddr() method.
• The Boolean parameter ContainsFacet (false by default) has been added to

Graphic3d_Group::UserDraw() method, indicating whether the primitive contains filled
polygons and therefore requires the depth buffer. If the parameter is true, the function updates its
MyContainsFacet flag.
• Possibility to set the transparency for the objects of Visual3d_Layer has been implemented.
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• The data structures and visualization routines supporting visualization of voxel models have been
added in the new package Voxel. A voxel is a sub-volume box with attached constant scalar/vector
value. The object in voxel representation is split into many small sub-volumes (voxels) and its
properties are distributed through voxels.
In the current implementation OCCT provides several basic data containers of voxels with fast
access to the data and optimized allocation of data in memory.
In the same time it provides simple Boolean operations (fuse and cut) on cubes of voxels and a
mechanism of voxelization conversion of a geometrical model into a voxel representation (discrete
topology).
A specialized classes allow visualization of voxels as colored or black/white points and cubes,
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displaying only the voxels visible from the user's point of view.
• The possibility to record an AVI video stream from OpenGl code has been implemented. The class
OpenGl_AVIWriter provides the API to create an AVIfile, start/stop the recording and to close
the file. It uses Windows Multimedia API for this purpose, thus the code can only be executed on
Windows platform.
The new DRAW command "vrecord" can be used to test the AVI creation in 3D AIS viewer
(ViewerTest package). This command also allows choosing the AVI codec (by default it uses
XVID).
• A special class V3d_LayerMgr has been introduced in OCCT to control the layer update taking
into account various 'macro' objects that must be rendered simultaneously (such as labels, color
scale etc.).
• The new visualization library 'NIS' has been created, providing the API similar to the traditional AIS
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but with some important differences/improvements:

For every type of InteractiveObject a corresponding Drawer class should be provided that
defines the presentation of the Object type using direct OpenGl calls. This is a much faster
way to display 3D objects, allowing to have more than 1 million separate selectable entities
in one view.
The abstract type NIS_InteractiveObject does not support any properties (color, material,
other aspects). The relevant properties should be defined in the specializations of the
Drawer class, and the API to set/modify should be implemented in the specializations of
InteractiveObject class.
Interactive selection is managed by InteractiveObject methods instead of special selector
classes and data types. This is possible since in NIS the selection is based on 3D
representation (by a ray or a box corresponding to the view direction) without intermediate
2D projection.
Many InteractiveContext instances can be attached to a V3d_View, these instances being
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independent containers of interactive objects; removal (detaching) of InteractiveContext

instance destroys the contained objects.
All data types and algorithms are designed to provide the best performance for both
OpenGl (server side) and application. On the other hand, the API is open to any feature
supported by any version of OpenGl. This allows to build custom presentations quickly and
efficiently.
The type NIS_View subclasses V3d_View thus providing all its public API like scene
definition (view orientation, lights, background, etc.) as well as the standard view
transformations (pan/zoom/rotate,fitAll,...). The traditional AIS-based presentations (e.g.,
AIS_Shape) are also supported, they can be rendered together with NIS presentations in
the same view window.
The DRAW test plugin, TKViewerTest, is modified so that it manages now
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AIS_InteractiveContext and NIS_InteractiveContext together in one view window.

• The new ErasedObjects command gives access to objects with status AIS_FullErased from
context. These are the objects which have been erased from display but not placed into the
interactive context collector. Previously they were not accessible, which could lead to memory
leaks.
The new ObjectsByDisplayStatus command gives access to objects from context by display status
(AIS_Displayed, AIS_Erased, AIS_FullErased).

•
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Boolean flag <isCheckItems> has been added to the methods ChangeArray() of attributes
TDataStd_IntegerArray, TDataStd_RealArray and TDataStd_ExtStringArray. This
flag indicates whether comparison of each item of the input array with the items of the internal array
of OCAF attribute is necessary.
If the flag is "true" (default value), the OCAF attribute compares the arrays and calls the
backup methods only if the arrays are different (i.e. the user actually changes the array).
If the flag is "false", the input array replaces the internal array of OCAF attribute without
any check. The flag is relevant when dimensions of arrays are equal.
Additionally, the methods: Value(), Upper(), Lower(), Length(), and Dump() have been optimized.
• A number of new data attributes have been added in the TDataStd package.
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Tick – defines a boolean flag attached to a label.

AsciiString – defines a pure ASCII string.
IntPackedMap – defines a map of integers packed so that it occupies minimum space in
memory.
Lists:
IntegerList – defines a list of integer values.
RealList – defines a list of double values.
ExtStringList – defines a list of extended strings.
BooleanList – defines a list of boolean flags.
ReferenceList – defines a list of references to labels.
Arrays:
BooleanArray – defines an array of boolean flags.
ReferenceArray – defines an array of references to labels.
ByteArray – defines an array of unsigned chars.
NamedData – keeps named data in internal maps, i.e. it keeps pairs Key – Value, where
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a Key – ExtendedString and a Value belongs to one of the following types: Integer,
Real, ExtendedString, Byte, ArrayOfIntegers, ArrayOfReals.

• New package TObj has been implemented as a separate TKTObj toolkit. The purpose of this
package is to facilitate implementation of object-oriented data model on top of OCAF data
structures. This package provides data objects serving as intermediate layer between OCAF data
attributes and high-level application code.
This set of classes contains specific attributes and implementation of base classes for object,
model and application, with support of Undo/Redo and persistence (currently only binary and Xml).
All objects store their data (simple data, child objects, references) as attributes in OCAF document
on their sub-labels. The advantage is that the created object-oriented layer allows working with
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objects and their data and relationship without dealing much with internal OCAF structures and
without additional implementation efforts of persistence for each new created object type.
The set of classes covers such basic concepts as application, model, object, references between
objects, iterators, etc.
• A new mode of storing transaction delta has been implemented in some OCAF attributes. It is
possible to use these attributes both in the standard mode, when the full attribute value is backed
up during CommitTransaction command, and in new DeltaOnModification mode, when
only the difference between the new and the old attribute value is backed up. The new feature can
be used when the attribute value (array or packed map) of a very great size is expected and the
usage of standard backup mode becomes not effective.
The implementation allows using the same attributes in the same document both in the standard
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mode and in DeltaOnModification mode. The choice is driven by Boolean parameter

<isDelta> of the corresponding <Set> command of the attribute. It is required that the mode
(standard or DeltaOnModification) of attribute usage will not be changed after the initial set. If
it is necessary for the application logic to change the mode for existing attribute object, that
attribute should be removed using Forget command and created anew.
• Function Mechanism of Open CASCADE Application Framework (OCAF) has been extended with
the following possibilities:
Direct manipulation of arguments and results by a function
Creation of a graph of functions by means of dependencies between functions determined
by their arguments and results
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Iteration of the graph of functions in execution order

Class – interface for Function Mechanism
Support of multi-threaded mode of execution of the functions (calculation of the maximum
number of threads, a list of functions for being executed simultaneously)
• New version of the OCAF binary persistence format has been implemented.
This improvement unifies the inclusion of non-OCAF data into persistent documents. In format
version 2 there was only one such data block in Shapes section. In the new format version 3 it is
possible to create any number of custom sections, the Shapes being just one of them.
Each Section is uniquely identified by ASCII name string and also has the attribute IsPostRead.
This attribute defines if the Section is read before or after the OCAF data. Earlier the BinOcaf
attribute drivers could access non-OCAF data read in advance (as in the SHAPES section).
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To use custom sections in OCAF binary documents, it will be necessary to subclass

DocumentRetrievalDriver and DocumentStorageDriver from BinLDrivers, with the
relevant definition of virtual methods that process the section data.
Compatibility with documents written in format version 2 is preserved in
DocumentRetrievalDriver.
Data Exchange

• The functionality of reading/writing VRML2.0 files has been implemented in OCC in a new package
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VrmlData. The API to read and write VRML files is provided in the class VrmlData_Scene. Note that
this functionality is completely independent on previously existing VRML 1.0 writer (API provided by
the package VrmlAPI), due to principal differences between the two formats.
Draw

•
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New function "countshapes", which returns number of shapes taking into account their orientations
and locations has been introduced.
• Two commands have been added to OCAF Draw module:
SetUTFName DF, entry, fileName allows importing a UTF8 text from file
<fileName> and storing it in the current document under the tree of sub-labels. The label
<entry> is a parent label for it.
GetUTF DF, entry, fileName allows extracting text information (strings) stored in the
specified document under the tree of sub-labels. All strings found under child sub-labels of
<entry> are converted in UTF8 and are kept in the specified file <fileName>.
Products
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OMF
• A new low-level class OMFTools_NASFormatter has been added in the package OMFTools for
writing data according to NASTRAN requirements for formatting of different types of data (integer,
double, string, comment).
New supported platforms and compilers

• Open CASCADE has been ported to the following new platforms:

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Windows Vista,
Mandriva2006, 2007, 2008,
Debian Etch,
Red Hat Enterprise 4.0
compiler gcc 4.0-4.2,
Visual C++ 8.0
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Improvements
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Foundation Classes
Improvements in version 6.2.1 over 6.2

• Reference counter in Standard_Transient class (and consequently in all OCCT classes
managed by handles) is protected to be thread-safe, with respect to simultaneous construction and
destruction of Handles to the same object.
Note that this feature is optional; it should be activated when needed either by defining environment
variable MMGT_REENTRANT before starting the OCCT application, or by calling static function
Standard::SetReentrant(Standard_True).
The current implementation of protection of the reference counter has some limitations.

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The protection now works only on Windows and Linux platforms

This improvement leads to some downgrade of performance of creation and destruction of
Handle objects (~2 times when reentrant mode is OFF, ~10 times when it is ON). So, it
becomes more important to avoid creation of unnecessary Handles in performance-critical
parts of the code. For information, the time of creation and destruction of one Handle
measured on P4 3GHz CPU is around 20 ns in non-reentrant mode and 100 ns in reentrant
mode.
• The bug in method Subtract of the class TColStd_PackedMapOfInteger that led to
inconsistency of the map has been corrected.
• The problem with running out of memory that might cause mutex deadlock in multithreaded
applications running under UNIX/Linux has been fixed
• The numerical problem in constructor gp_Lin2d has been fixed. Previously, the origin of the
created line was located at the intersection of the line with axis OX. With small "A" this brought
about a very large X-coordinate of the origin point.
The corrected constructor of class gp_Lin2d creates the line origin as the nearest point to the
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global origin (0, 0) located on the line. This algorithm is simpler than the previous one that created
the origin on axis OX or OY, and it avoids any numerical problems whatever the parameters of this
constructor.
• Implementation of type information in OCCT has been corrected for method
Standard_Type::Size() to return the actual size of the corresponding type. Previously the
value returned by this method was actually a length of the type name.
• Method Bnd_Box::Add(Bnd_Box&) has been corrected to avoid taking the value of the gap into
account twice.
• A set of changes in OCCT code and WOK configuration files made by OCCT users to ensure its
porting on other platforms (MacOS X – by Torsten Sadowski and GMSH, FreeBSD – by Thomas
Thierry) have been integrated. This does not make OCCT completely ported on these platforms,
but facilitates such porting in the future.
•
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Granularity of memory manager allocation blocks on SGI64 bit has been increased up to 8 bytes
instead of usual 4 bytes on 32 bit systems.
Improvements in version 6.3 over 6.2.1

• Possibilities to have different cell size on each dimension and to remove objects from the structure
have been introduced in the template class NCollection_CellFilter.
• The bug in the method TColStd_PackedMapOfInteger::Subtract() has been fixed. The
problem was that in some cases (typically for a very great number of integers in the map) call to
method Subtract() could lead to loss of some numbers stored in it (with Extent() returning
correct value, but iterator skipping some values).
• Copy-constructor of class math_IntegerVector has been moved from private to public block.
• Some OCCT header files have been corrected to avoid compiler warnings when high warning level
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is set (e.g. level 4 on MS VC++ compiler).

• NCollection containers (maps, list and sequence) have been improved to use allocators, allowing to
reduce the number of calls to the system memory routines:
Map collections now can accept an allocator in their constructors. In this case, the
possibility to clear a map without releasing the memory used for the table of buckets has
been implemented to effectively reuse the same map many times.
The methods operator=() in List and Sequence collections now replace their own allocator
with the allocator of the other collection. This allows creating collections where List or
Sequence is used as an item type, using the same allocator for all structures.
Modeling Algorithms
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• The algorithm of 2D curve building used by ShapeFix_Edge class has been fixed to avoid creation
of the curve if the first and the last point coordinates are equal.

• The algorithm of calculation of section between 2 tori has been improved for the cases when two
tori have the same radiuses and center, but different axes.
• Bounding box is now calculated precisely for case of analytical sphere.
• Some memory leeks in BOP have been eliminated.
• To improve the performance of BRepTools, parametric curves are from face's edges only once
and stored in intermediate lists.
• The way of treatment of intersection between two faces that have the same underlying surfaces has
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been changed. Now the case is treated by the common general way that is used for any pairs of
faces.
• The treatment of seam edges that belong to faces with B-Spline and Bezier underlying surfaces
has been improved.
• Treatment of a hyperbola has been changed to prevent infinite result during computation of
hyperbolic sine.
• ReShape function has been modified to keep the natural restriction flag during face to face
modification. This flag should be kept if the old face is transformed into one new face (1 to 1
modification). Please note that if face is split (1 to N modification) this flag is not kept.
• The class ShapeUpgrade_SplitCurve3dContinuity has been corrected to avoid the
exception in case of complete knot removing.
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Visualization

• The bug in Bnd_BoundSortBox2d that sometimes prevented selection of objects by mouse, for
example, when all selectable objects were fit along a horizontal line of the view port, has been
fixed.
• Anti-aliasing visualization has been corrected to work both in normal and environment mapping
modes.
• The bug in the method V3d_View::Convert(theX, TheY, aXpix, aYpix), which

generated incorrect output pixel coordinates when “top” or “side” orientation has been set in the
view, has been corrected.
• The bug with exclusion of unprocessed elements in MeshVS_PrsBuilder has been corrected.
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Now the builder excludes an element only if it really has been processed.
• The bug causing exception during visualization of empty nested compounds has been fixed.
• Calls to the function exportText have been eliminated in OpenGl_tXfm.c, unless OpenGL is in
feedback mode.
• The class DsgPrs_DiameterPresentation has been modified to increase the space between
the symbol of the diameter and the diameter value, which earlier was partially hidden by the
symbol.
• Instruction "C++: alias ~" for the method Destroy() in WNT_PixMap.cdl (lost in OCCT
5.2.3 release) has been restored, thus fixing the problem of destruction of instances of this class.
• A detailed comment for method SetTransparency() has been added in
Graphic3d_MaterialAspect.cdl.
• The bug in AIS_DiameterDimension raising exception if the automatic-position of the dimension
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is OFF has been fixed.

• The bug in distribution of memory in C layer of visualization library has been fixed. Earlier, in case
of many interactive objects (more than 22 000), the memory became so fragmented that at least
100kb could not be allocated anymore.
• Initialization of Select3D_Box2d class used by interactive selection has been corrected so that
the box coordinates were updated properly and thus to picking errors would have been avoided.
• Hidden element IDs are excluded from iterations and from memory allocation during mesh
presentation creation. A default constructor has been added for class MeshVS_TwoNodes
• Uninitialized variables in MeshVS_Tool are now initialized with the default status.
• Revision of perspective view implementation in Open CASCADE viewer has been started.
The following convenient methods have been added to V3d API in order to facilitate definition of
C A S C A D E
perspective view parameters:

V3d_View::DepthFitAll(Aspect,Margin): adjusts Z size and depth of a 3D view
automatically so as not to clip the displayed objects by front and back clipping planes.
Depth is Aspect / 2 times smaller than the new Z size, that allows achieving required
perspective effect easily.
V3d_View::SetViewingVolume(Left,Right,Bottom,Top,ZNear,ZFar): allows
defining viewing volume parameters in OpenGL-like manner (see glFrustum() and
glOrtho() functions). It computes view orientation and mapping parameters on a basis of
its arguments, depending on the view type (orthographic or perspective).
V3d_PerspectiveView::SetPerspective(Angle,UVRatio,ZNear,ZFar):
convenient function that works similarly to gluPerspective(). It calculates view
orientation and mapping parameters on a basis of its arguments.
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Low-level part of OCCT visualization that concerns working with view orientation (MODELVIEW)
and mapping (PROJECTION) matrices has been simplified. These matrices are calculated in a
single source file (OpenGl_view.c) and re-used by OpenGL visualization, interactive detection and
selection.
In further OCCT versions, this simplification and refinement will be continued in part concerning
auxiliary algorithms such as "fit all" operation and the code that projects 3D points onto the
viewport.
• OCCT Visualization User's Guide has been amended with a detailed description of view definition
parameters. The recommended parameter values suitable in most typical cases are given.
P r o d u c t s

• The bug with XML OCAF reader considering "00", "000", etc. as integers and therefore reading
them as "0", which caused problems with the use of names like "00" in TDataStd_Name attribute
has been fixed. The name "0000" is now correctly read by OCAF XML reader as "0000".
• The method LDOM_XmlReader::ReadRecord(LDOM_OSStream& theData) has been
corrected. If the attempt to read record is not successful (return code = -1), then the processing of
the current record is canceled and the method returns XML_UNKNOWN type of record. The
<myError> receives message "Unknown read/write error".
• In operations of saving and opening OCAF document it has become possible to use local file
names (without directory prefix). If a directory name is not set it is assumed that the current
T e c h n o l o g y
directory will be used.

• The signatures of some methods in TDataStd package that return TCollection_AsciiString
and TCollection_ExtendedString have been corrected to return a reference instead of a
copy of the string, thus avoiding unnecessary operations and improving the performance.
• Storage of information about vertexes in the format of the binary persistence file has been modified.
The new format correctly processes geometry having points on Curve or point on Surface or points
on curve of surface. The old format is also interpreted correctly.
• The exception raising if TDF_Label Resume operation was executed with a removed attribute has
been fixed.
• In the previous version, a reference to an empty label became lost after opening of the document.
Now the document keeps the reference.
• Now the user gets a proper warning of the failure if document is being saved to a read only file or
directory.

C A S C A D E
• The regression connected with impossibility to change the range of the arrays already attached to a
label has been fixed.
• The performance of Append operation has been optimized.
Data Exchange

• The methods for writing shape in the file for STEP, IGES and BREP formats have been improved to
check the state of stream after saving the data on disk. If the file was not saved correctly (for
example the disk is full), the following methods will return the error status.
IGESControl_Writer::Write(CString,Boolean) returns Standard_False;
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STEPControl_Writer::Write(CString) returns IFSElect_RetError;

BRepTools::Write(TopoDS_Shape,CString) returns Standard_False;
• Earlier OCC IGES reader incorrectly handled Unicode data from IGES header. If the code of the
symbol was more than 127 the processing of header was incorrect (which caused, for example,
wrong reading of units). This fix corrects the reading of header (useful for non-European, for
example Japanese vendors).
• A bug has been fixed in Interface_ParamSet::Append(): due to incorrect allocation of

memory buffer, reading IGES files containing long text strings in the General section could be a
cause of memory corruption.
• The algorithm of IGES assembly translation has been fixed to work with non-mm units.
P r o d u c t s
• IGESData_IGESEntity class has been fixed to handle correctly several names of one IGES
entity in an input file. NameValue() method returns the first available name, while
TypedProperty() method allows getting the n-th value of a property in general.
• Reading of Ordered Groups (Type 402 Form 14 and 15) from IGES file format has been
implemented.

• The implementation of class Interface_ParamList has been changed so that now the
parameters are stored in class NCollection_Vector instead of class TCollection_HArray1
when a file is loaded.
• The protection on reading validation properties without the name has been implemented.
T e c h n o l o g y
Building tools
Makefiles procedure
• make install step installs Open CASCADE in usable form without any additional operations.
• make install step of Makefile procedure has been modified to correctly copy OCCT sources.
• configure script of OCCT has been improved to automatically detect 64-bit platforms.
• Problem with permissions during re-launch of make install of the Makefile procedure has been
eliminated.
• New flags have been added to OCCT Makefile procedure. Now you can build Open CASCADE
without Draw, WOK and Jcas modules.
Additional flags:
--disable-draw – allows OCCT building without Draw.
--disable-wok – allows OCCT building without WOK.
C A S C A D E
--disable-wrappers – allows OCCT building without JCas (Wrappers).

If you want to build Draw, Wok or Jcas, please, define the following flags:
Draw - --enable-draw=yes –with-tcl=/path-where-tcl-is-installed –with-
tk=/path-where-tk-is-installed
Wok - --enable-wok=yes –with-tcl=/path-where-tcl-is-installed –with-tk=/path-
where-tk-is-installed
Jcas - --enable-wrappers =yes –with-java-include=/path-where-java-includes-
are-installed
MS Visual Studio projects

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Files for MS VC++ 6.0, VC++ 7.1 and VC++ 8.0 have been placed in the directory ros/adm/win32 in the
folders vc6, vc7 and vc8 correspondingly. It is possible to use them to rebuild OCCT using either VC++ 6.0,
VC++ 7.1 or VC++ 8.0.
New ros/adm/win64 folder contains vc8 folder with MS Visual Studio project files for MS VC++ 8.0 that you
can use to rebuild Open CASCADE in 64 bit mode.
3rd party products

Qt 3.3.3 has been replaced by Qt 4.2.3 in 3rdparty folder of Open CACADE delivery.
P r o d u c t s
Samples and Tools

Open CASCADE QT Import Export sample, tutorial, graphic3ddemo and OCAF browser have been ported
to Qt 4.2.3.
Warnings
The first step of eliminating Open CASCADE compilation warnings was finished.
Open CASCADE compilation gives no warning on Linux platform by Makefiles building procedure without
defining the level of warning output (i.e. by default)
T e c h n o l o g y
Products
OMF
• NASTRAN reader has been improved and is now able to handle properly different types of
continuation entries.
• Class OMFTools_NASFormatter has been completely updated following recent changes in OCCT
(const in Standard_CString).
Parasolid interface
• Reading of the modern versions (10.0 – 14.0) of ACIS interface SAT format has been implemented.
C A S C A D E
ACIS interface SAT

• Processing of ACIS interface SAT topological entities possessing tolerance (tedge, tvertex
and tcoedge) has been improved. Earlier they were not taken into account.
• The ACIS interface Reader inability to read ext fields containing # symbol has been fixed: the
separator is handled only if it is a separate field.
• The handling of faces which lack natural boundaries has been implemented: a natural bound is
added if all wires are reversed.
Collision Detection
• A method to check intersection of tested shape with a ray has been added.
• A method to check intersection of tested shape with a sphere has been added.
• The intersector has been made thread-safe (the same instance called from 2 threads).
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Express Mesh
• The bug in the algorithm causing some faces with holes to be incorrectly meshed (some holes were
filled) has been fixed.
Changes
P r o d u c t s
Foundation Classes
Changes in version 6.2.1 over 6.2

• Some changes have been made in basic OCCT headers:
Statement "using std" in Standard_Stream.hxx has been replaced by individual
"using" statements for several types used extensively in OCCT code. This should reduce
the risk of conflicts between OCCT headers and application codes due to imported STL
names. However, some code probably might need to be corrected to add std:: prefix
before STL classes (or equivalent “using” statement).
A number of macros (such as WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN) have been defined in
Standard_Macro.hxx for WNT platform in order to reduce the number of symbols
T e c h n o l o g y
defined by eventual inclusion of windows.h. This is necessary to prevent interference

between multiple macro definitions made in windows.h (e.g. SendMessage defined as
SendMessageA) and normal code of OCCT and applications. If some code needs the
complete set of symbols defined in windows.h, it is recommended to include windows.h
prior to OCCT headers.
• Methods RowLength() and ColLength() of the class NCollection_Array2 have been
corrected to return length of rows (i.e. number of columns) and length of columns (i.e. number of
rows), respectively, in order to have the same meaning as the same methods in the class
TCollection_Array2. Note that previously these methods had swapped meaning.
• A number of rarely-used classes have been removed from TcolStd (instantiations of Slist and
AVLSearchTree templates)
• Class Message_Messenger providing a top-level interface to the messaging system has been
added. This class provides the possibility to direct messages into one or more contexts, each being
a descendant of Message_Printer class, and intended to be used instead of separate instances
of Message_Printer classes.
C A S C A D E
Static global instance of the messenger returned by Message::DefaultMessenger() is

provided for use from parts of code that do not have other interfaces to the user. By default, this
messenger contains a single context connected to cout.
The following modifications have been implemented in existing classes:
Argument tracelevel of Message_Printer class methods that was an integer value
has become enumeration Message_Gravity.
Class Message_PrinterOStream replaces previous implementation of
Message_Printer and Mesage_TraceFile.
Removed classes: Message_OutFile, Message_TraceFile (use
Message_PrinterOStream instead).
Removed aliases: MoniTool_Msg, MoniTool_MsgFile, MoniTool_TraceFile,
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Interface_OutFile, Interface_TraceFile (use corresponding classes from

package Message)
API of Message_Msg class changed: Methods AddInteger and AddString replaced by
method Arg (aliased to "operator <<" )
Changes in version 6.3 over 6.2.1

• The definitions of Standard_CString and Standard_ExtString (typedefs) have been
changed to be const: from char * (or short *) to const char * (or const short *). New
types Standard_PCharacter and Standard_PExtCharacter are provided for cases when

non-const pointers are needed. This change provides the following advantages:
It has become possible to pass both (const char *) and (char *) types as arguments to
OCCT methods. Earlier it was only possible to pass (char *).
P r o d u c t s
The code security has been improved. Passing a char * is unsafe: such strings generally
should not be modifiable outside the scope where they are created and destroyed
(exceptions are well-known functions like strcpy, strcat). To pass a modifiable string use
either TCollection_AsciiString or Standard_Address type, or use directly the
type (char *).
• Conversion of big double value to integer on Windows under MS VC++ 8.0 raised a signal not
handled previously by OSD::SetSignal(). This has been fixed by implementation of the
following changes:
In OSD: handling of signal "Floating point multiple traps" and converting it to appropriate
OCC exception (Standard_NumericError)
In Standard: function RealToInt() changed to perform safe conversion to integer (using
T e c h n o l o g y
method (a), i.e. cutting values to be in the range from INT_MIN to INT_MAX).
In V3d: function RealToInt() is used to avoid exceptions in conversion of values
Visualization

• Along with implementation of the advanced selection mechanism in MeshVS package, the
interfaces of some classes have been changed to increase the performance when dealing with a
great number of mesh elements and to support the new advanced selection mode:
The class MeshVS_MeshOwner has been renamed to MeshVS_MeshEntityOwner. Note
that the class with the name MeshVS_MeshOwner also exists; it represents the whole
mesh as a selectable entity.
C A S C A D E
The class MeshVS_DataMapOfIntegerMeshOwner has been renamed to

MeshVS_DataMapOfIntegerMeshEntityOwner.
The interface of pure virtual method GetNodesByElement of MeshVS_DataSource has
been changed to avoid creation of a new array on each call.
• The interface of the methods Build and CustomBuild of the class MeshVS_PrsBuilder has
been revised to avoid copying of all IDs of the whole mesh into an artificial temporary data structure
MeshVS_Array1OfIntegerBoolean.
The classes MeshVS_IntegerBoolean and MeshVS_Array1OfIntegerBoolean and the
static method MeshVS_Mesh::TColStdMapToMeshVSArray have been removed.
• The small change in font management for text display on UNIX platform has been introduced. Now
if the given font is not found in the font base, the default font is used (the first font in the list of font
O p e n
names of OCCT)

• The behavior of material transparency has been revised; current behavior is described in detail in
Graphic3d_MaterialAspect.cdl. The dependency of the current transparency on diffuse
color of the previous material has been eliminated.

P r o d u c t s
• The class TPrsStd_NamedShapeDriver.cxx has been modified: the method

TNaming_Tool::CurrentShape (NS) has been replaced by the TNaming_Tool::GetShape
(NS).
The drawback of the old method is that it returned not the shape contained in the specified NS, but
the last modification of this shape. Now the method TNaming_Tool::GetShape (NS) returns
exactly the shape value of the specified NS.
Data Exchange

T e c h n o l o g y
• Data Exchange components (IGES, STEP) now use Message_Messenger class for outputting
messages (instead of cout or Message_Printer). This may affect output of messages by these
components. Several headers have been removed (Interface_DT.hxx,
Interface_TraceFile.hxx etc.) along with relevant aliases and macros. The facilities provided
by the package Message (see above) shall be used instead.
Building tools
Starting from Open CASCADE 6.3 support and delivery of COMP (UNIX) and nmake (Windows) building
procedures has been stopped.
Form of Open CASCADE Technology Delivery
•
C A S C A D E
Starting from version 6.3. Open CASCADE Technology can be installed with binaries precompiled
by Visual C++ 7.1 using Installation Procedure under Windows platform only. Automatic installation
procedures and pre-compiled binaries for SunOS and Linux are not provided any more.
• Starting from Open CASCADE 6.3 the source package of the Open CASCADE Technology
(including the source files of samples, 3rd party tools, and a set of building procedures) is available
for UNIX and Linux (and Windows, as well) platforms.
The building tools are delivered in the form of Visual C++ Projects for Windows platform and a
Makefile procedure for Unix platform.
O p e n
Description of the Directory Tree
data - This folder contains files different formats for experiments with Open
CASCADE functionality
P r o d u c t s
doc - This folder contains Open CASCADE Overview documentation;

ros/adm/make - This folder contains files of Makefile procedure , which
allow rebuilding Open CASCADE on Unix platforms;
ros/adm/win32 - This folder contains Visual Studio workspace for Visual
C++ 6.0, 7.1 and 8.0, which allows rebuilding Open CASCADE under
Windows platform in 32 bit mode.
ros/adm/win64 - This folder contains Visual Studio workspace for Visual
C++ 8.0, which allows rebuilding Open CASCADE under Windows platform
in 64 bit mode.
ros/drv - This folder contains source files generated by WOK (private
header files and instantiations of generic classes);
ros/inc - This folder contains all Open CASCADE header files;
ros/src - This folder contains Open CASCADE source files. They are
T e c h n o l o g y
organized in folders, one per development unit;

Samples - This folder contains source files and building procedure for
Standard samples of applications and Tutorial (c# and mfc samples are
applicable only for Windows platform);
Bug Fixes
• Since last minor release (version 6.2) Open CASCADE 6.3 incorporates 170
modifications (bug fixes, enhancements and other corrections). For details, refer
C A S C A D E
to Appendix.
O p e n
Appendix: Open CASCADE 6.3 Modifications

P r o d u c t s
o Foundation Classes
o Modeling Data
o Modeling Algorithms
o Visualization
o Application Framework
o Data Exchange
o Shape Healing
o WOK
o Draw
o Development Environment
Products
T e c h n o l o g y
o OMF
o Express Mesh
o Parasolid interface
o ACIS interface
o Collision Detection
Foundation Classes, 32 modifications
ID Short Description
14670 Method to access object contained in the map
15125 Ncolleciton_Arra2 returns wrong values by RowLength and ColLength methods
15159 Bug in the method Subtract of the class TcolStd_PackedMapOfInteger
15190 Locking in Standard_MmgrOpt
C A S C A D E
15489 Constructor gp_Lin2d(A, B, C) creates line with origin point in infinity

15679 Standard_Type::Size() method returns the string length of the class name instead of the
sizeof(class)
15899 Problem with launching DRAWEXE on IRIX 32-bit
16484 New data structures for memory- and performance-critical applications
16485 Bnd_Box method Add(Box) incorrectly takes Gap into account
16494 Reimplement Message mechanism according to last modifications in projects
16602 [OCC Forum] Integration of code porting to MacOSX by Torsten Sadowski
16618 Minor corrections in several classes (AIS, TcolStd, PrsMgr, OSD)
16689 Suppress redundant debug message in NCollection_UBTreeFiller
16832 New methods in Bnd classes (Bnd_B2x and Bnd_B3x)
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16846 [OCCT Forum] Multithreading troubles: reference counter of Standard_Transient

17133 Correction of OSD_signal.cxx
17654 Minor corrections in several classes (Standard, Message, TcolStd)
17861 WNT MS VC8.0: conversion of big double value to int raises signal not handled by
OSD::SetSignal()
18364 Improve NCollection_CellFilter to have different cell size on each dimension and to
allow removal of objects from the structure
18408 Reading invalid BRep file
18540 Memory leak in OCC
18984 Bug in the method Subtract of the class TcolStd_PackedMapOfInteger (#2)

19186 Eliminating of compilation problem.
19279 Corrections in OCCT headers to avoid compiler warnings
19308 Make consistent Standard_CString and Standard_ExtString definition.
P r o d u c t s
19640 Change the visibility for math_IntegerVector copy-constructor

19984 Data structure supporting mesh analysis and modifications
19987 Using atan2 function in calculation of angles between 2 vectors
20005 Performance improvements of NCollection containers
20017 Eliminating of compiler warnings
20178 Conversion problems during VS2005 compilation
20210 Compatibility problems in OCC6.3 pre-release
Modeling Data, 2 modifications
T e c h n o l o g y
9303 Intersection curve surface doesn't take account of bounds of the surface
13028 IntAna2d_AnaIntersection(const gp_Lin2d&,const gp_Circ2d&) ignores circle sense
Modeling Algorithms, 46 modifications
11042 Exception in ChFi3d_Builder, function ChFi3d_PerformElSpine
11565 Boolean operation "Cut" in 2d cannot cut the hole from the rectangle
12507 Wrong result of fuse operation
13538 Problem with Boolean operation on Shells
13904 Exception during "filling" operation
14376 Shading triangulation of face is not computed
14643 Checkshape command gives wrong result for compound of 66 solids
15500 Bad work nbshapes draw-command
C A S C A D E
15515 Integration of improvement of volume computation in Open Cascade

15519 Exception while meshing shape
15804 Restructuring of Boolean Operations algorithm. Part# 1
15836 Wrong visualization of filleted shape on IRIX32 platform
15850 Regression in BOP – wrong results for simple shapes with Bspline geometry
15936 Wrong shape build by revolution algorithm
15943 Wrong result of boolen fuse.
15968 Result of checkshape command depends on order of subshapes in a shape
16119 Bug in GeomFill_Coons algorithm
16179 Printing of error dump by Fillet algorithm
16517 Cylindrical projection is wrong
16662 Crash in ShapeAnalysis_Wire::CheckSmall
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16667 2D Offset algorithm fails

16781 Wrong result of Cut operation.
16833 Error in Coons algorithm
16847 Integration in CASCADE FIP "Topological refiner"
16852 Error in Extrema_ExtPElC2d::Perform
17046 Exception in Extrema_ExtPS on Mandriva2006 32-bits
17357 Any Boolean operation is impossible between attached shapes
18082 The method Standard_Boolean Bnd_B2x::IsOut(const gp_Ax2d& theLine) const works
incorrectly
18541 Problem with GCPnts_UniformAbscissa class
18912 Unification of BRepMesh_Discret and BRepMesh_FastDiscret algorithms
18961 Min distance is defined incorrectly between 2 objects
P r o d u c t s
19071 The MakeFuse or the MakePartition function crash together on 2 torus.

19559 Progress indicator in BRep reader / writer
19667 Appendix for Salome bug NPAL19578.
19751 Integration of BRepTools:Update performance improvement
19793 Fuse problem of symmetrical shapes.
19811 Scaling problem.
19887 License problem on 64 bit platforms
20029 Bounding box gives strange values on a sphere
20037 Shading display on a spring is very bad
20055 Command distmini produce wrong result for NT and SUN in optimize mode
20056 The bug is appendix to the Salome Bug 0019881.
T e c h n o l o g y
20061 Error on Create shape with preview when Shading mode is on.
20093 Development of Surfaces
20104 The bug is appendix to the Salome Bug 0019912.
20196 Problem with DRAW commands that use pick as arguments.
Visualization, 37 modifications
7721 Visualization of 33 000 interactive objects crashes an application
12584 Exception "Invalid Floating Point Operation" in V3d_View::ColorScaleDisplay()
method
13439 The text in ColorScale is not displayed on Linux.
14420 Bnd_BoundSortBox2d works incorrectly if all objects are degenerated into a line parallel to
X axis of viewport
14821 Regression in anti aliasing
C A S C A D E
15196 MeshVS: Implement selection mechanism with single owner for the whole mesh
15213 Incorrect conversion of 2d coordinates of reference plane into pixel coordinates in side view
15571 Improve MeshVS_VectorPrsBuilder to show simplified arrows
15671 Mistakes in CDL files
15793 Provide access to OpenGl depth buffer from applications using OCC viewer
15988 Crash in AIS_DiameterDimension for non-automatic positioning
15989 Symbol of the diameter partially hides the diameter value in the Viewer 3D
16050 Transparency for Visual3d_Layer
16055 Support of groups in MeshVS
16207 Problem of displaying AIS interactive object on Unix
16300 MeshVS: custom presentation is lost if it should be drawn by PrsBuilder of second priority
16487 Aspect_TypeMapEntry initialization
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16786 Contribution for UserDraw mode amelioration (ZbufferAuto feature)

16798 OpenGL: text optimization
16950 OCC Visualization fails to display empty nested compounds
16981 Fonts are broken if the application closes all windows before opening a new window.
17656 Loading attached BRep file in 3D Viewer raises hanging of the latter
17899 OCC Forum: Select3D_Box2d does not handle "void" correctly
18349 MeshVS mesh presentation builder optimisation
19148 A narrow pipe is badly shaded
19373 Add API for AIS_InteractiveContext to get Erased objects

19410 MeshVS_Tool has uninitialized variables
19433 SetAxialScale method of V3d_View rise an exception if view is empty.
19639 Integration of Layer Manager
P r o d u c t s
19820 3D discrete topology (voxels)

19821 3D discrete topology (voxels)
19862 The Draw axonometric view in draw can not be saved in gif format.
19915 Problems with transparency
20035 Addition of AVI recorder to TKOpenGl
20053 Introduction of NIS vizualization library
7691 Wrong hidden lines computed by HLRBRep_PolyAlgo and HLRBRep_PolyHLRToShape in
OCC 5.1
18942 Improved perspective in OCCT 3D view
Application Framework, 21 modifications

T e c h n o l o g y
1138 OSD_SIGSEGV is thrown during call LDOMParser.parse method
5032 LDOM parser and XML formatter should be able to treat UNICODE strings
8988 Document open/save functions do not work with simple file name
9745 In BinTools_ShapeSet, methods WriteGeometry and ReadGeometry are inconsistent
9746 Incorrect writing of integer array in BinMNaming_NamingDriver::Paste
10138 Crash on attempt to copy an OCAF attribute: TDataStd_RealArray, TDataStd_IntegerArray
16495 Create reusable intermediate layer between OCAF and GUI
16497 XML OCAF storage of document on disk looses "0" in "00", "000", etc.
16745 Resume of an attribute raises an exception
16748 Reference to an empty label is lost on open of a document
16782 New OCAF attributes
16879 Storage of a document on disk into a read-only file fails, but no error is issued
16965 OCAF attributes should return strings by reference rather than by value
C A S C A D E
17140 Copying a presentation to another presentation is not very clear

18570 A regression in TDataStd_RealArray::Set()
19184 Bad performance of Append operation of TDataStd_TreeNode class
19403 Adding DeltaOnModification functionality to set of Standard attributes
19592 Advancement of Function Mechanism of OCAF
19847 NamedShape presentation driver (TPrsStd_NamedShapeDriver) displays not expected
shape
19986 Version "3" of binary OCAF persistence (BinOcaf)
20008 Binary format is incompatible between 32 and 64 bits OSs
Data Exchange, 15 modifications

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13542 Export to BRep, IGES, STEP with not enough space on disk: file is invalid, but no error
status returned.
15220 Problems with IGES file locations
15570 Incorrect handling of Unicode strings
15755 IGESData_IGESEntity::NameValue returns nothing when nbname > 1
16351 Crash in ShapeFix_Edge::FixAddPCurve
16569 Exception in IGESDraw_Planar::Init when allEntities parameter is a null handle
17026 Problem of reading IGES files

17099 [OCC Forum] bug in reading IGES file
17927 NaturalRestriction flag fails after sewing
18612 Exception is raised during reading big file (file xyz.igs)
P r o d u c t s
19110 Reading IGES file hangs

19586 Reading "NOT VISIBLE" entities from IGES
19777 Integration of new version of read/write VRML2.0 files
19990 Exception on reading of validation properties
20054 Appearance node not available for VRML primitives (box, cylinder, etc.)
Shape Healing, 1 modification
19764 'Out of Memory' exception during reading of an IGES file
T e c h n o l o g y
WOK, 1 modification
19770 Implementation of returning pointer to OCC Handle for performance reasons.
DRAW, 2 modifications
19946 Draw command "whatis ." does not print the name of geometry object picked on a Draw
viewer
20196 Problem with DRAW commands that use pick as arguments.
Development Environment, 4 modifications
C A S C A D E
15767 Portability CASCADE 6.2 to gcc4.1.X

18669 make install of OCCT installation works incorrect
18670 64 platforms should be detected automatically by configure script of OCCT
20184 Problem of make install 2 times
Product Bug Fixes

The following bug fixes have been performed for Open CASCADE products customers.
OMF, 3 modification1
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16648 Integration of improvements of NASTRAN reader and NASTRAN writer.
18081 Invalid result of Boolean operations
20211 Corrections in NASTRAN Formatter class for OCC 6.3 release
Express Mesh, 1 modification
P r o d u c t s
19587 ExpressMesh ignores some holes in a shape
Parasolid interface Interface, 1 modification
15225 Incorrect usage of TCollection_AsciiString::Insert method
ACIS interface Interface, 3 modifications
16327 Incorrect handling of tcoedge, tedge, tvertex ...
T e c h n o l o g y
16483 Reading of SAT Versions 10.0 - 14.0

20098 Problems with # in string constants and improvement of fix natural bounds
Collision Detection, 1 modification
16215 Additional checks; thread-safe intersector

C A S C A D E
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Open CASCADE 6.3

Version 6.3 is binary incompatible with

 Appendix: Bug Fixes

Next step in thread-safety: protection against concurrent construction / destruction of

Improved compatibility with STL and Windows-specific code

Multiple new features introduced in visualization module

New visualization library NIS (New Interactive Service)

New standard attributes and numerous improvements in OCAF

Improved support of perspective view in Open CASCADE viewer

New version of the OCAF binary persistence format

The functionality of reading/writing VRML2.0 files has been implemented

The definitions of Standard_CString and Standard_ExtString (typedefs) have been

Red Hat Enterprise 4.0

New supported compiler: gcc 4.0-4.2, Visual C++ 8.0

Reading of ACIS interface SAT versions 10.0 - 14.0

Improved tools for reading and writing NASTRAN files in OMF

News in version 6.2.1 over 6.2

Two methods have been added:

News in version 6.3 over 6.2.1

News in version 6.2.1 over 6.2

computation methods are accessible via new methods of class BRepGProp:

News in version 6.3 over 6.2.1

News in version 6.2.1 over 6.2

 MeshVS_SMF_Mesh = 0 – selection of the whole mesh (default)

 MeshVS_SMF_Link = 4 – selection of edges

 MeshVS/MeshVS_Owner.cdl and MeshVS/MeshVS_Owner.cxx contain a new flag

• The Boolean parameter ContainsFacet (false by default) has been added to

News in version 6.3 over 6.2.1

but with some important differences/improvements:

independent containers of interactive objects; removal (detaching) of InteractiveContext

AIS_InteractiveContext and NIS_InteractiveContext together in one view window.

News in version 6.2.1 over 6.2

 Tick – defines a boolean flag attached to a label.

News in version 6.3 over 6.2.1

mode and in DeltaOnModification mode. The choice is driven by Boolean parameter

 Iteration of the graph of functions in execution order

To use custom sections in OCAF binary documents, it will be necessary to subclass

News in version 6.3 over 6.2.1

News in version 6.2.1 over 6.2

News in version 6.2.1 over 6.2

New supported platforms and compilers

Improvements in version 6.2.1 over 6.2

The protection now works only on Windows and Linux platforms

Improvements in version 6.3 over 6.2.1

is set (e.g. level 4 on MS VC++ compiler).

Improvements in version 6.2.1 over 6.2

Improvements in version 6.3 over 6.2.1

Improvements in version 6.2.1 over 6.2

• The bug in the method V3d_View::Convert(theX, TheY, aXpix, aYpix), which

is OFF has been fixed.

Improvements in version 6.3 over 6.2.1

perspective view parameters:

Improvements in version 6.2.1 over 6.2

directory will be used.

Improvements in version 6.3 over 6.2.1

Improvements in version 6.2.1 over 6.2

 STEPControl_Writer::Write(CString) returns IFSElect_RetError;

• A bug has been fixed in Interface_ParamSet::Append(): due to incorrect allocation of

Appendix: Bug Fixes

MeshVS_SMF_Mesh = 0 – selection of the whole mesh (default)

MeshVS_SMF_Link = 4 – selection of edges

MeshVS/MeshVS_Owner.cdl and MeshVS/MeshVS_Owner.cxx contain a new flag

Tick – defines a boolean flag attached to a label.

Iteration of the graph of functions in execution order

STEPControl_Writer::Write(CString) returns IFSElect_RetError;

--disable-wrappers – allows OCCT building without JCas (Wrappers).

The class MeshVS_DataMapOfIntegerMeshOwner has been renamed to