What’s New 2.9Release Date: 2018.07

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1 INTRODUCTION 3Copyright 3

2 INSTALLATION 3System Requirements 3

Download and Install Software 3

Activate License 3

3 NEW PRINTERS 4NextDent 5100 4

Figure 4 Standalone 4

ProJet MJP 2500 IC 5

4 NEW FEATURES 5Advanced Beta Functions 5

Report 6

Reference Files 6

New Material Introduction 6

Engrave Improvements 6

5 IMPROVEMENTS 6Common 6

MJPR 6

SLAR 6

SLSR 7

DLPR 7

6 FIXES 8Common 8

MJPR 8

SLAR 8

SLSR 9

DLPR 10

7 KNOWN ISSUES 11

3D Sprint 2.93

1 INTRODUCTIONWe are pleased to announce the availability of the new version 2.9 of 3D Sprint. 3D Sprint™ is 3D Systems’ exclusive software for preparing and optimizing CAD & polygon data, and managing the additive manufacturing process on its plastic 3D printers. Shipping with each supported 3D Systems printer, 3D Sprint delivers tools that allow you to 3D print better parts without needing high-priced software to achieve it.

For more information, please visit support.3dsystems.com.

Copyright©1993-2018. 3D Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. The content of this manual is furnished for informational use only, is subject to change without notice, and should not be construed as a commitment by 3D Systems, Inc. Any names, places, and/or events in this publication are not intended to correspond or relate in any way to individuals, groups or associations. Any similarity or likeness of the names, places, and/or events in this publication to those of any individual, living or dead, place, event, or that of any group or association is purely coincidental and unintentional.

2 INSTALLATION

System RequirementsFor the latest system requirements information and to learn about specific qualified system configurations, go to the System Requirements page. Some users have had success running system configurations that deviate from the supported listed on our website. In such cases, these configurations are not officially supported by 3D Systems, Inc.

Additionally, we test a variety of hardware platforms in combination with the graphics subsystems. While we make every attempt to be as thorough as possible, hardware manufacturers change their products frequently and may be shipping newer products or have discontinued active support for others. Check the support section of the website for the latest system requirement information and specific qualified systems.

Download and Install SoftwareYou can download and install the software from gettingstarted.geomagic.com, select the 3D Sprint product, then click Download 3D Sprint to download 3D Sprint.

In addition, automatic software updates are available if you set the Check for updates on launch option to True in Preferences and a valid maintenance code is activated, and your computer is connected to the Internet. The application will check if a newer version is available and will download it automatically for installation.

You can also visit support.3dsystems.com, select you printer, then download 3D Sprint for the Software Downloads section on you printer’s site.

Activate License3D Sprint requires license activation to run the application on your PC. You can choose to use an evaluation license for a 30-day period or activate a permanent license by using an activation code.

After you start your application, the License Utility window opens. The License Utility allows you to activate and use the 3D Sprint software.

NOTE: When you launch the License Utility, you can click the Help button to read the Licensing Guide.

To register for permanent activation codes please use the 3D Sprint registration landing page here:

http://www2.3dsystems.com/l/1004/2017-03-16/7mk48v *

*This request will go into a system, and we will produce activation codes within 48 hours (excluding weekends).

If you are an existing user and have already activated the license on your PC with the previous version of the application, you can run the newer version of the application without re-activating the license.

For more information, go to gettingstarted.geomagic.com, select the 3D Sprint product, and then click Licensing.

3D Sprint 2.94

3 NEW PRINTERS

With its release, 3D Sprint 2.9 now supports three new printersTwo of 3D Systems newest Figure 4 technology printers are now supported by 3D Sprint. The Figure 4 technology solutions use 3D Sprint for file preparation, editing, printing and management from a single, intuitive interface with access to SLA-Style tools such as support structures. Also, a new addition to our MJP series with the launch of the ProJet MJP 2500 IC, a high quality, low cost wax printer for industrial investment casting.

NextDent 5100DIGITAL DENTISTRY, REDEFINEDPowered by Figure 4 technology, the NextDent 5100 facilitates high-speed 3D printing for production of dental appliances and sacrificial castings. This revolutionary solution features an industry-defining value proposition that combines best-in-class speed and performance at a price point that is accessible to virtually all labs and clinics.

The range of dental materials, advanced print technology and compatibility with leading dental software is transforming dental workflows, enabling dental labs and clinics to produce trays, models, surgical guides, dentures, orthodontic splints, crowns and bridges with enhanced speed, precision, efficiency and lower cost.

Figure 4 StandaloneAFFORDABLE INDUSTRIAL-GRADE SOLUTION FOR LOWER COST PRODUCTION PARTSFigure 4 Standalone is an affordable and versatile solution for low volume production, and fast prototyping in the tens and hundreds of parts per month. Figure 4 Standalone offers quality and accuracy with industrial-grade durability, service and support.

NextDent 5100 Figure 4 Standalone

ProJet MJP 2500 ICHIGH QUALITY LOW COST WAX PATTERN PRINTER FOR RAPID METAL PRODUCTION

The ProJet MJP 2500 IC is 3D Systems first printing solution designed for industrial investment casting applications utilizing 100% wax which replaces the need for injection mold tool development. VisiJet M2 ICast build and VisiJet M2 IC SUW support materials have been specifically designed to provide high quality & low cost wax patterns for rapid metal production

4 NEW FEATURES

Advanced Beta Functions3D Sprint version 2.9 sees the inclusion of optional access to several advanced beta features that users can opt-in to use. A table of features, functionality and supported printers can be found here.

Feature Beta Mode Functionality Supported

Materials Beta Mode exposes Support and Air types in the material pallet for 2500 and 5X00 Printers. Parts can now be assigned something other than real part material.

MJP 2500 and 5X00 Series Printers

Add Part

Add Part is an alternative way to position and orient “tool” parts onto “target” parts using a mating surface method and relative transforms. Tool parts can also have their material property set to “air” now, when this is set, part booleans are per-formed at slice time.

MJP Printers

Infill → Lattice Beta Functionality enables 10 additional lattice cell structures to pick from. MJP Printers

Surface Displace

Surface Displace is a method of applying physical surface texture to parts without requiring computationally intensive modeling operations usually associated with baking a texture into part geometry. This function can be applied to models which have a color texture layer, and works best when the texture layer is greyscale.

MJP Printers

Smart Supports Additional parameters have been made available for more fine control over the analysis, placement and generation of support structures.

SLA Printers

Auto-Placement

Our full range of Auto-placement parameters have been exposed. New features are available such as Placement strategy, Priority setting & Rotation control.Auto-place also gains a Presets dialog so the parameters can be maintained locally, exported, imported etc.

All Printers

Fix Manual Fix is now available with advanced polygon selection and editing tools, including hole filling and bridging.

All Printers

CAD I/O Native CAD vendor formats are now available as an import option. All Printers

ADVANCED BETA FUNCTIONALITY WILL ONLY BE AVAILABLE UNTIL DECEMBER 31ST 2018*

*: When the Advanced Beta Functionality expires or is disabled all new functions will be disabled and existing functions will revert to their officially released

functionality. However, changes made to parts will be retained even after the Beta is no longer active.

To activate the Advanced Beta Functionality in 3D Sprint:

1. Open Preferences → Beta Features.

2. Toggle the ‘Enable Beta Features’ option.

3. Enter your name and email address.

4. Click Set.

You will now be able to access the Beta Features in 3D Sprint.

3D Sprint 2.96

ReportA new reporting tool has been added to this version of 3D Sprint for those users that want to account for things like schedule or material consumption. This command can be accessed for all printers from the Print tab and allow for a number of selected attributes to be included in the report. All reports are generated into a standard Excel format.

Reference FilesWe have added a new command for DLP printers to make it easier to load and print reference parts to be used in conjunction with the Scale and Offset Wizard. Now you can simply choose the Load Reference Model command from the Print tab to load the reference parts directly onto the platform. If you are connected to a printer via a network, you can send the reference build directly to the printer queue.

New Material IntroductionWith the inclusion of the New Material Introduction process, we have added the functionality to add or update materials in 3D Sprint without having to reinstall 3D Sprint. This allows the update of the local 3D Sprint materials database via a patch file from within the application. This can be accessed from the Preferences → About tab when the 3D Sprint application is run in Administrator mode.

Engrave ImprovementsImprovements have been made to the Engrave tool to allow labeling a part with its name and easier positioning of engraving text.

5 IMPROVEMENTS

Common• Update to the UI to give easy access to all commands from the command bar.

• The rollover color has been changed so that it is easier to differentiate between selected and focused parts on the build canvas.

• An update has been made to the Line option of the Split command to make the line easier to see when in use.

• Valid part selections are now retained so that they no longer need to be re-selected after launching some commands.

• Parts will now be selected by default at the time of import.

• An option has been added to the Quality Check command to only display parts with errors.

• You can now open the release notes for the current version of 3D Sprint from the Preferences tab.

MJP• The option for Large Volume Mode (LVM) has been added to the ProJet MJP 2500W XHD print mode.

• To make it easier to remember what infill pattern a part is using, the infill type will be shown when the ‘Infill’ option is toggled in the View command.

• A new pre-populated Raw build style has been added for all ProJet MJP 2500 / 2500W / 2500IC printers with 100% scaling factor.

SLA• Supports are now mirrored along with parts when using the Mirror command.

• Build Parameters are now savable as part of Build Style.

• Build styles are not removed for parts after they are rotated about the Z-axis.

• A bug where double recoating was incorrectly occurring for some layer ranges has been fixed.

• The Additional Borders parameter in legacy build styles files is now applied correctly.

• Build Time Estimation has been improved for more accurate estimates.

3D Sprint 2.97

SLS• Dimension names have been added to the Scale and Offset Wizard interface to make it easier to use.

• The ‘Recommended Build Volume’ check has been included in the Quality Check command.

• A number of improvements have been made to the Cage command for better use.

DLP• 3D Sprint now supports SLC workflows for all of our DLP printers.

• Measurements in the Scale and Offset wizard are no longer lost after updating the 3D Sprint version.

3D Sprint 2.98

6 FIXES

Common• (GW-15428) Enhanced the .3dxi import interface to accept transform matrix together.

• (GW-15155) Fixed an application crash on clicking of Dynamic Collision check in Prepare tab under Transform when no printer is set

• (GW-15126) Jobs are no longer sent to queue even if clicking [X] on warning message of hidden part.

• (GW-14978) Fixed the wrong positioning of measure object after undo of Scale by Unit.

• (GW-14921) Resolved general memory leaks.

• (GW-14883) Fixed an application crash with Engrave while using projection mode to engrave on the mesh surface.

• (GW-14878) Fixed and issue where some users were seeing an unhandled exception and a hang on using the Texture command.

• (GW-14708) Deleting presets now works correctly.

MJP• (GW-14844) Fixed and issue where on the Queue tab, the Pending list disappears and later does not allow the user to add

jobs to the Queue.

SLA• (GW-15565) Fixed an application crash on switching between POINT and REGION Mode of Smart Supports in the Modify

tab

• (GW-15561) Fixed an application crash while switching Mode in Smart Support.

• (GW-15547) Opening a native file, which has the specific material, no longer crashes the application on selecting material.

• (GW-15540) Fixed missing layer when importing some build files.

• (GW-15452) Layer Thickness no longer resets when using custom style Build Style on a specific scenario.

• (GW-15046) 3D Sprint no longer crashes when clicking a thumbnail while retrieving material when the specific material is installed.

• (GW-15012) ‘Save As’ followed by ‘Rename’ from Build Style no longer incorrectly renames the existing Build Style and Recoat Style presets.

• (GW-14994) 3D Sprint no longer crashes when resizing the application.

• (GW-14992) Build Style values no longer change after certain action when the material VisiJet SL Jewel is set.

• (GW-14986) 3D Sprint no longer crashes when clicking cancel (X) button while generating region in the Smart Supports command.

• (GW-14923) When importing .3dpconfig file, smart support parameter are no longer blank in printer settings.

• (GW-14909) .3dprint files now correctly track working units for styles.

• (GW-14882) Transform, Move to Origin now works on a specific parts that is placed 0,0,0.

• (GW-14763) Fixed an issue where an incorrect warning message about generated support is displayed when user change the material or printer.

• (GW-14641) Build Style Region size is now changing correctly when we try to drag the bottom (SUPPORT) region.

3D Sprint 2.99

SLS• (GW-15582) The restore button is now enabled on import of a .bpz with different config version into the Build Profile Editor

• (GW-15453) Warning message in the Cage command now closes on click of ‘OK’.

• (GW-15383) Proper cage now gets created for generate geometry box.

• (GW-15381) Fixed an application crash when Cage is moved from Print Tab to Prepare Tab

• (GW-15243) Fixed an application crash after shifting tabs while using Scale & Offset Wizard.

• (GW-15214) Z scale factor is now applied properly when using 1 Dimension in some cases.

• (GW-15182) Fixed an issue when unable to open build file causes the build to crash with an Alarm “Wait layer sliced timeout”

• (GW-15172) Parts should no longer collide when grouped parts are auto-placed.

• (GW-15161) Fixed an application crash after a freeform cage is generated and moved to the prepare tab or when copies are created for some languages.

• (GW-15158) Fixed an application crashes when clicking on ‘Back’ after changing the font style and selecting cage from part list.

• (GW-15136) Cage is no longer deleted from the canvas after fixing a part.

• (GW-15118) SFF files are no longer generated for parts that are not big enough to print when the warning message is displayed to ignore the part

• (GW-15117) Fixed an application crash on click of ‘show layer time’ when part is not big enough to print.

• (GW-15114) In-Progress Z plane no longer is displayed in Prepare tab when any part is moved from Print tab

• (GW-15112) Fixed an application crash on fourth step of scale and offset wizard in Russian OS.

• (GW-15098) While in Build stage when an add/delete operation is performed, 3DSPRINT no longer pops up a “build file is write protected” warning.

• (GW-15093) When In-Progress, SFF file is now generated after clicking Undo for the part placed outside platform.”

• (GW-15091) In the Scale and Offset wizard, Distance and Radius buttons are now available under the Description section in Russian OS.

• (GW-15089) Fixed an application crash on using preset file with * in Scale & Offset, Part Profile and Build Profile commands.

• (GW-15080) A warning is now shown if some imported parts are positioned below current Z

• (GW-15070) ‘Part contains bad geometries’ error message is no longer shown for the cage generated with rotation of 90 degrees when using CasForm PS on a sPro140/230.

• (GW-15050) Fixed an application crash on clicking ‘Next’ on Step 1 in the Scale and Offset Wizard when no part is selected.

• (GW-14985) Fixed an application crash when freeform cage is generated in In-Progress mode and changes before the cage generation is completed.

• (GW-14980) Wrong part status is no longer saved in native file from Progress Build mode.

• (GW-14976) Fixed and error where on the first try on a ProX SLS 6100, Jobs added to Print Queue are flagged with an error message and get listed in the SENDING section of the Queue.

• (GW-14966) In the Build Profile Editor, Maximum Z height changed for Warm Up or Cool Down stage now shows * for the default preset.

• (GW-14960) Decimal places are now rounded after running the Scale and Offset Wizard.

• (GW-14957) Fixed and issues on the Scale and Offset Wizard where dimension along the X-axis is deleted when only a Y-axis dimension was selected and deleted.

• (GW-14917) Scale and Offset Wizard no longer makes Z-Compensation value a minus.

• (GW-14904) Cage is now generated correctly if “Show Scaled Parts” option is turned on.

• (GW-14875) When using the Scale and Offset Wizard, dimension names no longer get changed to the part name when clicking [X] on step 5 of the wizard.

• (GW-14865) Existing presets now update rather than add as a new parameter when importing a .3dpconfig file.

• (GW-14861) Scale factors affect Cage’s Label position now.

• (GW-14857) Preference for Auto-Place can now be set to off during add/delete operations.

• (GW-14684) Adding a Cage label no longer results in the software crashing when undo is used in the Second Step.

3D Sprint 2.910

• (GW-14645) Z scaled extent of parts is now uniform regardless of selecting parts before or after opening the COMBINE/SEPARATE command.

• (GW-14590) Added the ability to resize the UI for the part profile, build profile editors and scale/offset wizard.

DLP• (GW-15372) Fixed Sharp Edge Anchor points for Empire support structures

• (GW-14879) Fixed an issue to be able to click Create Supports when resizing the 3D Sprint application window.

• (GW-14772) Z compensation value in now correctly passed to the printer for Slice.

• (GW-14672) Support points are now generated correctly for selected region under the modify tab.

• (GW-14397) Supports are now calculated correctly when excluded regions are included again.

• (GW-13981) Fixed and issue to eliminate supports in areas where they will cause accuracy problems.

• (GW-13879) Creating a pxl file with ‘[‘ or ‘]’ in file path no longer causes corruption when trying to add said file to the queue later.

3D Sprint 2.911

7 KNOWN ISSUES

• (GW-14521) Job name is not displayed while the job is being sent via the “Add Job From File” option in the “Queue” tab for the NextDent 1000 and Figure 4 Standalone printers.

• (GW-14629) The estimated time remaining to complete the job and estimated time for the entire job are not being correctly calculated for NextDent 1000 and Figure 4 Standalone printers.

• (GW-14712) When changing the printer name for a Figure 4 Standalone or NextDent 1000 it does not change for all connected clients.

• (GW-14792) Some printers are not able to be located using the ‘Find Printer’ button even if they are on the same subnet. However, manually entering the printer’s IP will still correctly connect the printer.

• (GW-14817) The value of the Print Time Log is showing 0 for all Figure 4 Standalone printers. This means the actual build time is not being recorded.

• (GW-14827) Selecting “Move to Top” overwrites active printing job on ProX SLS 6100.

• (GW-15258) The printer properties incorrectly shows the printer status as printing when it’s aborting for Figure 4 Standalone printers.

• (GW-15360) Cannot delete a completed job from the queue history on NextDent 5100 or Figure 4 Standalone printers.

• (GW-15363) When there are 50 completed jobs, any newly completed/aborted jobs aren’t displayed in history queue for the NextDent 1000 and Figure 4 Standalone printers.

• (GW 15789) 3D Sprint does not show queue history while sending a print job.

• (GW-15816) 3D Sprint sometimes shows the printer as disconnected in the Queue tab after the printer’s IP is changed.

• (GW-16061) 3D Sprint cannot save printer log files for NextDent 5100 and Figure 4 Standalone printers.

• (GW-16083) The Sender is being displayed as ‘Unknown’ for NextDent 5100 and Figure 4 Standalone printers in the Print Queue.

• Material is displayed as ‘Unknown’ when build files prepared for FabPro 1000 in 3D Sprint 2.8 and 3D Sprint 2.8.1 are added to the Print Queue.

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