Added {.cpp} highlighting markers to the C++ code blocks in documentation;
Excessive tildes "~~~~~~~" in code block borders are reduced to required minimum of "~~~~" (4);
Removed obsolete space bars after code block borders;
TCL code blocks are now highlighted with {.php} markers;
Removed excessive {.cpp} highlighting markers appended to non-code blocks such as lists, reports and file content or structure examples;
Minor fixes for tests.md and draw_test_harness.md (whitespace removal and structural fix for "Where:" in code examples);
Minimum HDD space for OCCT updated in introduction.md.
Revision of User Guides
- Changes in User Guides Section to correspond with OCCT Overview structure: Mesh became a direct subsection of User Guides (it was a part of Modeling Algorithms).
TObj is included into OCAF.
- Changes in User Guides – Modeling Algorithms section: Fillets and Chamfers, Offsets, Drafts, Pipes and Evolved shapes, Sewing, Features, 3D Model Defeaturing, 3D Model Periodicity,
Object Modification are moved into The Topology API section.
- Changes in User Guides – Modeling Data section: Naming shapes, sub-shapes, their orientation and state section is renamed to Shape content. Shape Location is moved into Shape content section.
Storage of Shapes is moved into BRep Format section of Specification. Lists and Maps of Shapes subsection is moved into Topology - Exploration of Topological Data Structures.
- Some pictures in User Guides (Foundation Classes, Modeling Data, Modeling Algorithms) and Tutorial are updated to improve quality and correct mistakes.
Changes in Technical Overview:
Corrected reference of "Mesh" as dedicated module, which is actually a Toolkit within "Modeling Algorithms" module.
Reduced references to "Configurable optimized memory manager",
which has not been updated for a long time and no more encouraged to be used as replacement of standard memory allocator of C library.
VRML/STL converters have been moved from section Mesh to Data Exchange.
Visualization chapter has been slightly reworded and reordered;
added references to PBR metallic-roughness material model.
Data Exchange chapter - reworded sentence "The exchanges run smoothly regardless of the quality of external data..."
to "This module handles various problems of interoperability between CAD systems...";
added AP242 to the list of STEP capabilities.
Changes in User Guide for Foundation Classes:
Removed references to "physical quantities" in package Quanity, deprecated since #0028799 and not actually used anywhere.
Adjusted description of string classes to avoid duplicated statements.
Collections section has been refactored to replace obsolete TCollection references by NCollection.
Remove obsolete statement "furthermore *catch()* statement does not allow passing exception object as argument".
Fixed broken nested enumeration in a couple of places.
Fixed usage of inappropriate quote symbols in code snippets.
Fixed references to non-existing classes like ZeroDivide instead of Standard_DivideByZero.
Removed suggested usage of Standard_Failure::Raise() instead of "throw Standard_Failure()" following #0026937.
Code snippets now suggest "catch(const Standard_Failure& )" instead of "catch(Standard_Failure )" (#0026937).
Fixed broken code snippets with lost symbols like <<.
Cosmetics: removed numerous trailing spaces, double spaces.
Added missing {.cpp} language qualifier to code quotations.
Sentences within paragraphs have been split into multiple lines in source file.
Updated OCC logo.
Replaced some external links to https.
Added references to VS2019 support.
Added glTF, OBJ, IFC, JT into listing within appropriate sections.
Replaced dead URLs.
Fixed misleading information.
The parameter defining image width has been added to all figures to improve their layout in PDF documents and tweaked depending on the nature of each image.
Additionally, some minor changes improving image and text layout have been introduced.
Remove temporary added possibility for setting image width automatically for generation of pdf documentation.
Updated destination directory for generated by gendoc proc pdf files.
Added additional option "-update_images_size" for gendoc procedure to update width of images in *.md files during pdf generation for @figure alias.
Documentation was updated to use alias @figure instead of outdated @image
Added support of svg image format in procedure OCCDoc_UpdateImagesSize.
Added generation of overview for product components.
Added generation of products refman/chm for each component.
Macro NO_CXX_EXCEPTION was removed from code.
Method Raise() was replaced by explicit throw statement.
Method Standard_Failure::Caught() was replaced by normal C++mechanism of exception transfer.
Method Standard_Failure::Caught() is deprecated now.
Eliminated empty constructors.
Updated samples.
Eliminate empty method ChangeValue from NCollection_Map class.
Removed not operable methods from NCollection classes.
A few remaining places mentioning .cdl files are corrected to mention only .hxx
Obsolete description of storage in old format is revised in OCAF User's Guide.
Technical docs are reviewed to:
* update references to page with third-party products
* update description of persistence, handles, and RTTI according to changes in OCCT 7.0
* remove references to CDL, WOK, and WOK-generated stuff
* update the list of environment variables
- m-dashes added.
- some other cases of incorrect dash use fixed
- unicode dashes were removed throughout the documentation.
- other comments taken into account.
Fix for bug 23640.
Merging the rest of Technical Overview content into User's Guides.
-Correct UG sections concerning Sewing.
-Correct comments in the code referring to old location of sewing algorithm.
Command gendoc improved to:
- generate Reference Manual documentation (OCCT classes reference) with option -refman; option -overview can be used for generation of overview documentation;
- generate PDF documents for all User Guides automatically (for files listed in FILES_PDF.txt);
- check availability of third-party tools (Doxygen, Inkscape etc.) and properly report warnings and errors.
- use templates of configuration files for third-party tools instead of their generation. These template files are located in dox/resources folder
Tcl scripts are moved from dox folder to adm.
Doxygen warnings are eliminated.
Moved all auxilary functions to occaux.tcl.
Fixed Reference manual generation on *nix platform.
Fixed PDF generation on *nix platforms.
unrelated changes: Unused unit OpenCL removed from UDLIST
All articles revised
README revised
comments are allowed in FILES.txt
Add gendoc.sh for Linux
Added option -s to set search engine of the HTML documents
Added 3rdparty_building docs for different platforms
help message removed from bat&sh scripts (left within tcl script)
tableofcontents added for all huge articles;
gendoc.bat doesn't change PATH variable
jpgs converted to pngs and unused pngs removed
logo displaying of pdf files fixed
Automatic detection of OCCT version number added to occtdoc.tcl
OCCT version within pdfs is got from Standard_Version.hxx; copyright changed
pdf generation process removes latex dir now
GIF images converted to PNG in technical_overview;
references fixed (incorrect reference to wok and cdl didn't touch; redundant latex option removed
Tutorial moved from Overview and made top level page
LICENSE.md moved from dox/overview to dox folder
Section related to OCCT building refactored and simplified.
WOK and CDL explicitly declared as deprecated.
building subsection introduced; wok moved to dev guides section;
Requirements and Installation sections were interchanged;
some Unicode characters removed from .md files; \DeclareUnicodeCharacter{00A0}{ } instruction added into refman file
images insertion rolled back to dual html,latex insertion; mainpage now is processed (index.tex);
surplus part of overview has been removed
foundation_classes.md and technical_overview.md updated;
Reviewed step, tobj, xde and partly iges; Corrections in other guides.
Overview installation and requirements changes updated
OCCT documentation (Overview and User Guides) has been converted from MS Word files to text-based MarkDown format and added to OCCT sources, in the new subfolder 'dox'. The HTML and PDF articles can be generated from the sources using Doxygen and MiKTeX. See the file OCCT_Docs_HowTo.md for details on the new documentation system.
This branch includes:
- new folder structure for Open CASCADE documentation
- sources of almost all OCCT User Guides and Overview
- tcl and bat scripts, which allow to generate HTML and PDF articles
