24.12 LTS

Part Identification

AI-Based 2D Drawing analysis

The 2D Drawing Analysis feature has been enhanced with best-in-class AI technology, delivering superior performance in extracting data directly from 2D drawings. This includes key details such as Name, Material, Dimensions, and Assembly information, enabling an initial technical assessment without requiring a 3D model.

Tailored to meet industry-specific requirements, it supports the extraction of customer-defined data points like Application/Used On, Safety Class, and more. This ensures compatibility with specialized sectors such as Defense and Railway.

Now fully ITAR-compliant, the feature is ready for industries with strict regulatory requirements. Additionally, customers retain complete ownership of their proprietary information, ensuring data security and confidentiality at every step.

Creo CAD Plugin

The latest enhancements to our Part Identification tool have made it fully integrated with PTC Creo. This update makes it easier than ever to streamline your additive manufacturing workflows directly from your preferred CAD environment.

Key Features & Capabilities:

• Easy File Transfer: Through our partnership with PTC, you can now send .PRT and .ASM files directly from Creo to Part Identification.

• Embedded Metadata Recognition: Automatically extract metadata such as part name, description, revision, department, assembly details, tolerances, sizes, and more to create parts effortlessly.

• Empower Designer to AM: Designers can now send parts for evaluation directly from Creo and quickly determine if their designs suit AM technologies such as L-PBF, WAAM, and WLAM.

With integrated manufacturability checks—developed in collaboration with industry and academia (see https://3yourmind.atlassian.net/wiki/x/AYAagw)—designers can confidently optimize their creations for AM. This includes guidance on thin-wall design, overhang limitations, hole and printing orientation, and more.

This new Creo integration enables faster iterations and smarter design decisions, bringing additive-ready parts to life.

New Technology Framework

Part Identification just got a significant upgrade, offering flexibility to manage technologies. The new Technology Framework empowers platform administrators with the ability to add, edit, or remove technologies effortlessly. This framework simplifies the process of linking cost and lead-time scripts, enabling precise tuning for specific technologies.

Additionally, the framework integrates the new Manufacturability Assessment https://3yourmind.atlassian.net/wiki/x/AYAagw , allowing users to define and manage technology-specific parameters with ease.

As part of our continuous improvement, we are expanding technology support incrementally. Through close collaboration with Meltio, we now support Wire Laser Additive Manufacturing, with more technologies to follow soon.

Distributed Manufacturing

Independent Price Setting for Catalog Parts Enables AMPI Customers

We've enhanced the flexibility of our Catalog module by allowing Catalog admins to define prices for parts independently of whether the 3YD Order Management module is activated. This update enables a fixed price to be set for any catalog part, making it simpler to communicate expected costs to users upfront, regardless of their service selections or Order Management usage.

The system now maintains manually entered prices even when a service is later associated, ensuring pricing consistency. Additionally, all price displays and transactions will align with the user’s currency. This change supports more transparent and direct pricing strategies.

See https://3yourmind.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/PD/pages/1633517582/Working+with+the+Catalog#Setting-Fixed-Manual-Prices-for-Catalog-Parts

Integration of TRUMPF TruPrint Machines via OPC/UA

We are excited to announce the successful integration of TRUMPF TruPrint series machines with our 3YD MES via the OPC/UA standard. This new connection allows operators to automatically receive real-time updates on machine statuses and ongoing print jobs directly within the Scheduler.

Requires Aggregator version 2.7 or higher. For further details regarding the technical setup see our documentation at https://3yourmind.atlassian.net/l/cp/FN0F22Cv.

New Login and Signup

We are excited to introduce our new Login and Signup system, designed to enhance user experience, security, and flexibility. This upgrade replaces the existing system and offers modern, user-friendly functionality that aligns with industry best practices.

The transition will occur gradually, with customers able to activate the new system via a feature switch in the admin panel. While the old login system will remain available during the transition, it will be fully phased out by the end of 2025.

Benefits of the New Login and Signup System

The new Log in and Signup system brings several key benefits that enhance both user experience and system security:

• Clearer Signup Process: A more straightforward and intuitive signup flow for new users, ensuring a smoother onboarding experience.

• Customizable Theme and Background: Administrators can now upload custom background images or select a background color to align the login page with their branding, ensuring a more professional and personalized user experience.

• Modern and Mobile-Friendly Frontend: The new system features a modern design, optimized for mobile devices, and visually aligned with the application itself.

• Better Visibility for Unconfirmed Users: Provides improved tracking and visibility over users who have registered but have yet to confirm their email addresses.

• More Secure Password Picker: A user-friendly password picker with enhanced security, offering clearer guidance on password strength and requirements.

https://3yourmind.atlassian.net/l/cp/pATh9N27

Performance

We improved the overall performance and reliability of our Backend, leading to a significant reduction of page load times across the software. General page load time is reduced by up to 30%, with a reduction of up to 50% when multiple users are using the software simultaneously.

The algorithms that handle optimization and analysis of uploaded 3D files have been improved.
Newly supported features:

• STEP files with abbreviated entity names

• STEP files with a certain malformed header that several customers received from their clients

• ASCII STL files with empty lines or vertex coordinates close to zero

• OBJ files with missing texture file are now treated as unicolor

• Binary STL files produced by Meshmixer

Additionally, several small bugs were fixed, resulting in improved processing times, reduced memory consumption and fewer analysis errors.

Slightly reduced tessellation quality of triangle meshes created from parametric file formats which reduces processing time by up to 50% while keeping deviation of parameters like surface area and volume below 0.5%.

Administration Information

Updating Kurl.Sh

With release 24.12 we are updating our Kurl installer with a newer version of Kubernetes and updating most of the clusters’s components. Use this article to do the upgrade process.

Upgrade Kubernetes components(Kurl.sh)

Migrate to Metabase Serialization v2

Duplicated Analytics Dashboards

In some circumstances, Metabase may import some question in the wrong place, resulting in duplicates.

1. Find the duplicates:

   1. In Default Collection/Professional/Part Lifecycle Management, there can be 1 duplicate

   2. In Default Collection/Professional+/Part Lifecycle Management, there can be 3 duplicates

2. If any duplicate exists, archive the oldest duplicates.

   1. Hover with the mouse over the duplicates, and locate the progressive integer in their URLs. Example:
      Duplicate1: <domain>/analytics/question/1203-configured-parts-per-part-type
      Duplicate2: <domain>/analytics/question/1214-configured-parts-per-part-type

   2. Archive the one with the lowest index (in this example Duplicate1, because its url contains 1203)

Re-Analysis of 3D Files for New Manufacturability Checks

This is relevant for all AMPI customers who need a complete set of our new manufacturability checks of parts that had been created before updating to 24.12

In our new Manufacturability Checks Panel, existing parts might show an .

To resolve the errors, one must re-analyze the part in the Admin panel.

Re-analyzing all parts is also possible. It will require some time (hours) to finish and run in the background. To do so, follow the following steps:

• Open the Admin Panel (/admin/)

• Go to “Parts”

• Click on the top-left checkbox to select all parts on the current page

• Click on “Select all xxx parts” on the top right

• As an Action, select “Recalculate Geometries, Scores & Manufacturability Checks” in the dropdown

• Click Go

Extra-Scripts

It is possible to inject custom java-script into the application from within the admin panel. This functionality was modified as follows:

1. The script is executed as plain javascript. That means that a <script> tag is not necessary anymore.

2. To ensure backwards compatibility, all existing scripts have been wrapped like this: document.write(`[old script]`).

3. The script is now injected at the bottom of the pages <head> section instead of the start of the pages <body> section.

4. The script is now loaded with the async property.

5. There is a new extra-style field available in the admin panel, that can be used to include custom css.

We encourage customers who currently use an extra-script to manually remove the document.write again and transform the existing scripts into plain javascript and css.

Update Direct Links for the New Login and Signup System

If you enable the new Login and Signup system (and we encourage you to do so), please ensure any direct links to the login or signup pages on your website, such as on your homepage, are updated. The new system uses different URLs for login and signup. For example:

Configuration of the Tessellation Quality

We slightly reduced the tessellation quality of triangle meshes created from parametric file formats. The old behavior can be restored by setting meshTessellationQuality: 0 in the values.yaml.

Changes to Machine Connectivity System Requirements

The 3YOURMIND Aggregator release v2.7.0 for Windows is the first to require Windows 10 / Windows Server 2016 or higher, we have removed support for Windows 7 / Windows Server 2012 R2 (see also Machine Connectivity System Requirements).

Previous Release Notes for LTS customers

This section provides a summary of product additions since the last LTS release (24.5).

Expand the following sections to see details.