Announcements

Dear existing customers of Atangeo Balancer!

1) purchased Balancer before June 18, 2012?

All those who purchased Balancer before June 18, 2012
can upgrade to Balancer nPro for the exact price difference
between the products plus additional discount of $12
($6 for non-commercial licenses).

So, the upgrade prices for Balancer nPro are:

Commercial license: $80 ($144 - $52 - $12)
Non-Commercial license: $40 ($72 - $26 - $6)

To get a coupon for these upgrade prices please send us
a request email to support@atangeo.com.
Don't forget to mention your username or

Balancer nPro, an extended version of Balancer for professional engineering tasks, has been released.

It is designed to optimize 3D models for:

• 3D printing,
• CAD / CAM,
• architecture,
• and any other 3D model optimization that requires metric specified accuracy.

Here is the list of the main features that Balancer nPro brings out:

• accurate metric-based tolerance simplification
• water-tightness verification
• units conversion
• support for STL format

Enjoy!

Balancer 2.0 features robust and easy to use accurate pixel-based tolerance simplification. Now you can easily obtain desired visual quality just in one click, without thoroughly inspecting simplified models at different triangle count.

Balancer 1.5 is now available!
Here is a brief list of the main new features and improvements:

• Simplification: even further improved robustness and feature preservation
• New mesh processing: T-Junction elimination
• New: isolation of displaying selected objects for easier inspection
• New: ability to save/export selected and/or visible objects only
• New: customization of mouse wheel direction
• Many minor fixes and improvements
• Mac: several critical stability issues fixed

Balancer 1.2 is available! and has the features many of you requested.

Now you can control face densities for selective reduction rate of
different groups/meshes/sub-meshes. For example, you can set
density of 5 to the head group of your model, to increase the density
of the head vertices roughly 5 times.

All the new features:

• Densities for selective reduction rate of different groups/sub-meshes
• Locking of different groups/sub-meshes
• Multiple selection
• Selection by material:
  

Atangeo Balancer for Mac OS X has been released!
Thanks to everybody for your feedback.
We also grateful to all those who purchased Balancer
for Mac when it was still in Beta.

New features in 1.1.4.256:

• New: Both 32 bit and 64 bit binaries
  on both Windows and Mac OS X
• Windows: Licensed version can be used from a USB stick.
  This feature is not yet available for Mac users.
• New: customization of visualization settings.
  You can adjust edge and boundaries widths, colors etc.

Atangeo Balancer 1.1.3.252 is now available.

Many of you asked to be able to change mouse mapping. Now you can customize mouse navigation to match your favorite authoring application.

New simplification features:

Prevent UV Foldovers guarantees that simplified models do not have
texture foldovers. It is turned on by default.

Prevent XY Foldovers is for terrain-like models. While Balancer almost never
introduces foldovers (aka caves or triangle flips) of terrain meshes,
in some very rare cases it still may happen. This feature guarantees

Beta of Balancer for Mac is out!

Please download it here.

Known issues:

• specular colors are ignored when drawing
• colored back faces feature is disabled
• tooltips are not displayed correctly after vertex selection< /br>
  workaround: click on the background outside the model

All your feedback is highly appreciated.

Enjoy!

We are excited to officially announced Balancer SDK.

Now you can easily integrate Balancer simplification technology into your own tools or plugins for other software.
Balancer SDK is available as 32bit and 64bit binary libraries for both Windows and Mac OS X.
Learn more here.

Atangeo Balancer 1.1.0.214 is now available.

This version adds vertex locking feature. Fine tune simplification results by selecting individual vertices to preserve specific details of your model or constrain the mesh the way you like.
Learn more here.

Here is the list of changes since 1.0.2.184: