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Release Log 14.04.2025

Improvements

• Enhanced resolution and quality of before/after images.
• General performance optimizations for smoother experience.

Changes

• Blueprint restorative space mode now aligns with Smile Design's restorative mode for consistency.
• Updated overall design of the anatomy-displayed solutions for improved clarity and aesthetics.

Fixes

• Lower teeth set to 0% opacity are no longer generated in the after image.
• Zooming now correctly centers on the entire image instead of focusing on the smile.
• The design tab no longer appears in the layers panel when no design is present.
• Fixed issue with scrolling through Smile Design when starting Blueprint from scratch.
• Resolved export bug where unselected teeth were mistakenly included.
• Additional lower scans now properly follow motion.
• Selecting a tooth no longer triggers unwanted zooming.

Release Log 07.04.2025

Blueprint View Switching Enhancement
Enhanced the Blueprint module to allow seamless switching between Initial and Anatomy views.

Blueprint Fixes
Gimbal Controls Over Cross Section
Fixed an issue where gimbal controls couldn't be used properly when dragged over the companion cross section.

Automatic Alignment Animation
Resolved bugs related to the automatic alignment animation, ensuring consistent behaviour on success or failure.

Portrait Adjustment Persistence
Fixed an issue where custom image adjustments were not retained after adding a portrait in the Blueprint module.

Release Log 31.03.2025

Blueprint Improvements
Prevented selecting the same object multiple times using Cmd/Ctrl + click or Shift + click.
Moved the CBCT Align button to the left side in Stack for unsegmented CBCTs.
Ensured object visibility remains persistent after hiding the jaw using a shortcut and reloading.

Smile Design
Fixed camera position after editing the restorative space when exiting Presentation mode.

Blueprint & Smile Design
Enhanced teeth reflections for a more realistic appearance.
Improved overall teeth rendering for better aesthetics and realism.
Fixed various color-related bugs.

Design Legacy
Fixed superimposed pictures after adding an intraoral image.
Resolved an issue in legacy Smile Design that was affecting stability.

Release Log 24.03.2025

Features / Improvements

Smile Design & Blueprint

• Design Color enhancement
  • Picker - Select colors for design teeth and gingiva from the patient image
  • Refinements - Warmth and tint adjustments to enhance the matching
  • Textures - More variety added
• New look for teeth in the restorative mode for easier teeth positioning
• New unobtrusive tooltips with more info to guide you
• Enabled uploading CBCT with multiple files (1000+)

Metalab Orders: Removed CBCT as a mandatory requirement in the Metalab order flow
Blueprint: Improved error handling and messaging for auto-align failure 
Smile Design: Added undo/redo functionality for portrait rotation

Blueprint & Smile Design Fixes

• Re-enabled Flip and Mirror functionality in Smile Design.
• Changing a tooth now correctly discards the sculpt in Blueprint.
• Prevent unintended brush switching when Ctrl/Cmd is pressed in Blueprint.
• Ensure portraits remain on screen when rotating images after changing them in Blueprint.
• Fixed mirroring issues with re-labeled teeth in Blueprint.
• Preserve sculpt mode color when changing design tooth solutions.
• Resolved issue where teeth turned pink after changing solutions.
• Prevent guidelines from overlapping UI elements in Blueprint and Smile Design.
• Ensured proper loading of duplicated Blueprints with imported teeth.

Release Log 03.03.2025

Blueprint & Smile Design Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the Ctrl/Cmd modifier was not registering properly when sculpting in an undocked 3D scene.
• Resolved interaction issues when using the Add/Remove brush and pressing Ctrl/Cmd or W while holding the mouse down.
• Prevented the selection of the Trim brush via shortcut in an undocked 3D view.
• Fixed an issue where the 3D scene portrait view (P) was not updating correctly after rotating the portrait.
• Adjustments are now applied per individual portrait rather than globally.
• The Contrast slider now has the same range as in Smile Design.
• Resolved an issue where the search function did not display solutions for teeth selected in the portrait view.
• Addressed visibility issues when checking and unchecking "Remove in Structure" while adding only the upper jaw.
• Ensured that contacts were updated correctly when all design teeth were selected during sculpting.
• Prevented selection of other objects using Ctrl/Cmd + click when transforming and sculpting a design tooth.
• Fixed crashes occurring when previewing blueprints.
• Addressed issues with portrait switching after deleting an additional portrait.
• Ensured that a blueprint without a portrait still generates a project thumbnail.
• Resolved lighting inconsistencies in the before & after preview.
• Corrected the tooltip display for restorative space.
• Implemented a maximum limit on the number of extra objects in Stack.
• Added an option to remove wisdom teeth under Structure settings.

Release Log 24.02.2025

Blueprint Fixes

• Fixed an issue related CBCT segmentation.
• Prevented selecting objects in the docked 3D scene.
• Added cross-section companion on the portrait in all Layout views for improved visualization.
• Prevented cross-section companion from displaying over the selected tooth on the portrait.
• Added Contours button for Blueprints without restorative space.
• Prevented hidden teeth selection on portrait.
• Fixed object interaction in the 3D scene when switching views after selecting a tooth on the portrait in Full View.
• Fixed portrait view initial camera offset when switching between views in Full View or deselecting a tooth in the 3D scene.
• Fixed shortcut functionality for hiding lower design teeth.
• Ensured active tool exits upon switching photos to prevent tool lock issues.
• Fixed an issue where tool controls remained visible in Full View on docked portrait when switching between Portrait and 3D views.
• Fixed gimbal to hide when the selected tooth is hidden.
• Fixed color differentiation for aligned meshes to improve visualization.

Smile Design Fixes

• Fixed hidden sidebar to include all options on tooth selection for improved usability.

Blueprint & Smile Design

• Prevented guideline interaction when pressing the Case Chat button to avoid unintended modifications.

Release Log 18.02.2025

Smile Design & Blueprint: Introducing Enhanced Restorative Space Controls & Companion
New styling for restorative space controls
Companions for restorative space to better understand adjustments

Major performance boost due to the upgrade of the underlying framework.

Blueprint Fixes

• Reset teeth transformations on any restorative changes (curve controls, proportions, beziers) for the teeth that are replaced with new solutions  
• Fixed transformation reset issue for initial lower teeth in blueprints with restorative space.
• Ensured transformation matrices persist on lower design teeth after toggling reshape.
• Improved blueprint functionality to display solutions for relabeled teeth while the original is missing.
• Fixed sculpt loss issue when flipping a tooth twice.
• Addressed an issue where switching brushes with shortcuts after drawing a brush stroke did not function properly.
• Ensured sculpt actions performed while switching brushes were correctly registered in the undo action list.
• Prevented sculpt shortcuts from selecting all teeth when nothing is selected.
• Fixed issue where missing teeth were displayed in the portrait when reshape was not checked.
• Ensured imported lower gingiva follows motion correctly.
• Resolved issue with segmented teeth transformation matrix on portrait after toggling reshape.
   

Release Log 10.02.2025

Blueprint Fixes

• Prevent losing sculpt data when reloading the page after flipping mirrored teeth
• Fix first tooth solution after selecting different teeth
• Restore the option to unshare galleries with the patient
• Sculpting on multiple meshes may corrupt them
• Fix lower jaw flickering in companion cross-section when bite is open
• Fix adding "after" picture to exported zip
• Prevent brush from being displayed on inactive objects
• Prevent sculpting materials from losing properties
• Increase smooth brush maximum intensity
• Increase brush size and intensity sliders' sensitivity when using shortcuts

Release Log 27.01.2025

Smile design: Introducing Tooth Properties
Cleaner UX for easier visual navigation and alignment with the Blueprint experience
Right-click options were removed and replaced by the new Tooth Properties view in the sidebar

Blueprint Fixes

• Save tooth visibility settings from the Initial tab when exiting a project.
• Fix the selected tooth visibility slider to keep its value when adjusting other tooth sliders in the Layers panel.
• Ensure the first solution corresponds to the currently selected tooth.
• Keep the tooth search panel open while changing tooth controls.
• Maintain tooth selection when changing solutions using search controls.
• Address an issue where sculpting on multiple meshes could corrupt them.
• Fix solution flickering when moving a tooth or guideline.
• Automatically enter side-by-side view when creating a blueprint from a smile design.
• Ensure additional scans follow motion too.
• Correct the lower tooth gimbal position when changing the bite with motion.
• Fix resetting missing teeth when unchecking reshape.

General Fixes

• Resolve flickering on the profile card when hovering over a case team member's avatar.
• Fix an issue with persisting resource movement between galleries.

Release Log 20.01.2025

Features / Improvements

• Blueprint / Simulate: New Layers
  Redesigned to accommodate upcoming features, such as import design functionality
  Cleaner UX for easier visual navigation
  The Reset option is now a toggle, differentiating between shape and position
  Right-click options were removed and replaced by the new Object Properties view in the sidebar
   
• Blueprint / Structure: Re-label
  Allows to manually correct segmentation mislabelling and address congenitally missing anatomy cases, or situations where we intentionally change the anatomical configuration
   
• Share Link: Now Available to Everyone
  Allows you to invite dental professionals, whether they are part of the Smilecloud platform or not, to collaborate on a case as guests for a limited time (24 hours). https://discover-3dna.smilecloud.com/en/article/more-collaboration-share-link 
   
• Team-Up with Network: Now Available to Everyone
  We’ve enhanced the Team-Up functionality by introducing a new concept called “Network.” Your Network consists of frequent collaborators you’ve connected with at least once.
   
• Blueprint / Smile design: Lock projects
  We’re excited to introduce a new feature that lets you lock and unlock your projects, ensuring no changes are made without your permission.
  Locking Projects: Prevents other users from making changes, keeping your work protected.
  Read-Only Access: Others can view the project but cannot modify it.
  Duplicate for Collaboration: Users can duplicate a locked project to continue working without altering the original.

Fixes:

• Blueprint: Resolved flickering of lower teeth when moved in an open bite.
• Blueprint: Fixed contact issues for a new bite when the motion is closed.

Release Log 16.12.2024

Fixes:

• Blueprint: Fixed an issue where incorrect CBCT removal caused scans to be removed and segmented groups to appear unexpectedly in the Layers (Simulate)
• Guest: Fixed an issue preventing guests from registering or logging in using the email associated with their guest account

Release Log 09.12.2024

Improvements

• Enhanced teeth zoom functionality: The zoom now dynamically adjusts based on the teeth area and the browser size for better visibility.

Fixes

• Resolved an issue preventing the Blueprint editor from loading
• Fixed a bug causing tooltips to display in incorrect positions.
• Adjusted the Before & After view to account for the new open bite configuration.

Release Log 02.12.2024

Features / Improvements

• Tooth Pair Display: Enhanced individual tooth search to display the corresponding tooth pair.
• Optimized Segmentation Flow: Reduced waiting time for segmentation processes, ensuring faster and smoother performance.

Fixes

• Segmentation Status: Corrected an issue where segmentation status was incorrectly displayed upon order placement.
• Alignment in Metalab Orders: Resolved alignment issues when placing Metalab orders.
• Contours Visibility: Fixed contour display problems during papilla adjustments.
• Guide Line Overlap: Addressed guide lines occasionally appearing over the UI interface.
• CBCT Display in Portrait View: Corrected issues with CBCT companion cross-section display in portrait orientation.
• Preview Mode: Fixed missing "Hide patient teeth" option in preview.
• Lower Jaw CBCT Motion: Resolved motion issues in lower jaw CBCT cross-section.
• Sculpting Design Data Loss: Fixed occasional data loss during tooth sculpting design.
• Wireframe Mode: Restored functionality for mirrored teeth in wireframe mode.
• Anatomy Solutions Rotation: Fixed a bug causing problems when rotating anatomy solutions.
• Tooth Selection in Portrait View: Addressed an issue preventing tooth selection in side-by-side view under the anatomy tab.
• Tooth Deselecting During Rotation: Fixed tooth deselection when rotating anatomy solutions.
• Layer Sidebar: Adjusted positioning for objects with long names in the layers sidebar.
• Smile Design Interface: Resolved a temporary disappearance issue of the smile design interface when adding portrait images.
• Chat and Jaw Motion Trigger: Prevented unintentional jaw motion activation when pressing "space" in the chat interface.
• Motion Star Positioning: Fixed unclickable motion star position issues.
• Gimbal Arrow Radius: Reduced the action radius for gimbal arrows for improved precision.

Release Log 25.11.2024

Fixes

• Blueprint - Prevent exporting mirrored teeth if not checked
• Smile design - Prevent restorative space controls from showing up when editing papillae
• Blueprint, Smile design - Prevent Anatomy solutions from setting new rotation pivot without a tooth selected
• Blueprint - Prevent missing teeth from not being displayed in Structure
• Blueprint - Fix teeth color in Stack
• Blueprint - Fix alignment of restorative space with scan
• Blueprint - Prevent sculpting on additional scans from losing sculpt data
• Blueprint - Fix imported gingiva display problems

Features / Improvements

• Blueprint - Remove separated islands by Ctrl + Shift + clicking on the biggest island
• Blueprint - Import as Design - Improved TSC (tooth shape completion) segmentation flow
• Add new Shortcuts for Trim and Materials in the help popup

Release Log 18.11.2024

Fixes

• Blueprint - Prevent inverting add/remove brush direction when sculpting on a root hole
• Blueprint - Sculpt brush cursor should be visible on both sides of the mesh
• Close the Chat sidebar when entering edit mode on any project

Release Log 14.11.2024

Features / Improvements

• Blueprint - Stack - Allow to import design from other software. You will be able to import, visualize and interact on wax-ups / set-ups from third party software. (available now for selected users and will be released gradually to everybody)
• Blueprint / Smile design - Add Tooltips across the UI, available on hover. Right now hover time is set for 2 seconds, will see how it feels.
• Blueprint & Smile Design: Improve teeth and gingiva outline - now supports fully dynamic teeth contours.
• Services are back - Allow users to place orders using Blueprint / Smile design projects - With revamped interactive workflow.

Fixes

• Blueprint and Smile Design - always show anatomy uppers on previews
• Blueprint - Fix shortcut for hiding jaw toggling hidden design teeth
• Blueprint - Prevent design teeth from appearing in export list if not reshaped
• Blueprint - Fix trim brush to save Undo commands
• Share link - New share case modal  - Fix for user getting 403 when trying to invite a member who is already part of the case team
• Resources - Processing failed - Add the ability to process JPEG files that visually look ok but their format is not fully compliant with the standard

Release Log 11.11.2024

Features / Improvements

• Platform - 2FA - Allow users to enable / disable the Two Factor Authentication (using OTP)
• Smile design / Blueprint - Improve the solutions rendering
• Platform - UI Update - My Account Dropdown Menu & Page

Fixes

• Blueprint - Fix for Q shortcut (search mode with papilla) should not work on Blueprints without restorative.
• Blueprint - Fix for shortcuts showing/hiding segmented and design upper/lower
• Blueprint - Fix for inconsistent solutions anatomy
• Smile design - Fix for mirror not working
• Blueprint - Fix for changing a segmented tooth color should not be reflected in Structure / Stack
• Blueprint - Fix for gingiva geometry gets messed up after sculpt and exporting
• Smile design - Fix for pressing Tab should close the tabs/panels
• Blueprint - In Structure do not reposition scene after last missing is placed or removed
• Platform - Notifications - Fix for user doesn't get a chat notification when a message is edited

Release Log 29.10.2024

Features

• Keyboard Shortcuts Help Page 
• Contacts are back: Improved heat-map coloring 
• Improved performance Works with sculpt tool Changed defaults to 0.2mm

Settings page:

• Change language
• Interface theme: Light / Dark mode 
• Blueprint lights and materials: Wet / Dry

Fixes

• Blueprint > Fix Anatomy display issues
• Context menu adjustments
• Removed align option from context menu 
• Disabled ungroup option for lower segmented
• Blueprint: Show 3D reconvert option for CTs in blueprint
• Blueprint: Fix for Upper remains unsegmented
• Blueprint: Fix for loading stages of upper and lower segmentation boxes 
• Blueprint: Fixes for Segmentation Error Handling
• Errors not properly displayed in certain scenarios
• Lower jaw segmentation failure tooltip is wrong
• Services: Place Order > Requirements Step > Fix visibility for stack messages during resource selection 
• Blueprint: Object opacity should be visible also in preview and thumb
• Smile design: Guidelines displayed wrong when entering edit mode
• Blueprint: Missing error toast when add wrong Portrait as additional image
• Blueprint: Cannot add/move guidelines on side-by-side view with portrait on the right side
• Blueprint: Show 3D surface generation loading indicator in Stack
• Blueprint: Fix the issue caused by moving a tooth from an additional image
• Blueprint > Structure: Fix for flickering when add/ remove teeth from lower arch to reshape
• Blueprint: Fix for scaled mirror tooth should keep the same dimensions
• Blueprint: Fix for Layers right side glitch, when Portrait is scaled
• Fix filename extension detection
• Blueprint: Fix for page crashes when selecting a lower design tooth with the Anatomy tab open
• Blueprint: Hide Symmetry and Papilla options on blueprints without restoration space
• Fix alignment for Ordered Services status
• Allow users to start a new resources download while one or more are already in progress
• Show cases updated banner on top of cases
• Prevent page flicker when navigating from deleted cases to the case list (any filter)
• Blueprint: Hiding contours with W should not change lowers opacity
• Blueprint and Smile Design: Hide the mask of “Hide patient teeth” when Upper opacity is lower than 100%

Libraries:

• Added approx 3500 more natural libraries ( upper / lower )

Release Log 15.10.2024

Performance

• further performance enhancements for blueprint and smile design. 
• performance enhancement for documentation. Everything loads significantly faster now. Massive improvement for cases with lots of resources

Photorealism

• fixed a bug that was distorting colors to appear darker than they should , specially for gingiva.
• improved portrait lighting
• added brightness and contrast controls. Most photorealism issues are related to brightness ( pictures under or over exposed )

We will continue to improve this area. We also plan to automate all of the above, but for the time being manual controls are in place to get the job done. And in the window of time we are doing that, its a good opportunity to practice manual a bit. Especially speakers, you guys should make sure you master this. It will be always helpful, even after automation.
 

Release Log 06.09.2024

New Features

• In crown shortening scenarios, you can now hide the patient's teeth in Portrait view. Use the visibility icon to toggle the mask on or off.
• Anatomy colors: Select colors for gingiva and teeth from predefined gradient areas, with the option to adjust the warmth of the colors.
• ⁠Add additional images to a stack and seamlessly switch between them in Portrait view. Teeth positions will automatically adjust based on the new image. This feature applies only to newly created Blueprints.
• ⁠You can now select a position from the motion player and set it as the default for lower jaw position, which in a very simple way allows you to design in different vertical dimensions if you have motion
• ⁠Exports now incorporate the motion frame, applying motion transformations during export.

Fixes

• Resolved issues where before & after views would not regenerate after sculpting or changing resource attributes.
• Fixed a bug that prevented updated Blueprints from appearing at the top of the project list.
• ⁠Addressed gradient cursor issues when using the Sculpt - Drag tool.
• ⁠Corrected initial positioning issues of missing teeth.
• ⁠Fixed segmentation errors that caused missing teeth in CBCT segmentation.
• Resetting a tooth no longer removes the mirror attribute.

Release Log 28.08.2024

New Feature

• Team up has been slightly redesigned. You now have to add a collaborator using email the first time. After that you can re add by name, as the system will store your “network”.

Now comes the important new feature: You can copy and send an invitation link to anyone, including someone who doesn’t have a Smilecloud account.

• They will be able to join your case as a guest for a limited session, and will have basic permisions. 
• They can upload / download files and view resources and projects. 
• And off course they can use all chat functions. 
• The mechanism of accesing the link is the simplest way, that we can do, without jeopardising security.

This is a tool to further incentivise collaboration for the people who you have a hard time convincing, and opens up many posibilities, for example:

• technician that wants to keep it clean, but struggles with dentists sending stuff all over the place. You can create the cass yourself as an empty case, create a link, drop it on whatsapp and say “ put files here “ etc

Theres no limit on how many links you or how many times you can share a link to the same person. The duration of the session is limited however. 

Release Log 22.08.2024

Fixes

• Fixed orientation in cross section when not having a CBCT.
• ⁠Fixed Blueprint preview before & after image generation.
• ⁠Fixed some shortcuts not working if CapsLock is on.
• ⁠Fixed tooth gimbal resetting mirrored tooth back to original shape.
• Fixed an issue where after deleting galleries you could still use deleted resources in Blueprint / Smiledesign.
• Fixed restorative space symmetry default state to always true.
• ⁠Styling adjustments to portrait and scene buttons for better visibility and ease of access.

Release Log 21.08.2024

Improvements

• Lip contour. You can now add or remove additional lip points on the lip contour (Click anywhere on the line and you will create a point, you can drag it or select the point by clicking on it and press Backspace to remove it).

Fixes

• ⁠Fixed an issue with Replace Portrait where the restorative space would be positioned far away from the intraoral scan.
• Fixed Anatomy tab in Blueprint not working. Anatomy will only be visible if the Blueprint project has a restorative space.
• Fixed Papillas mode not working in Blueprint.
• Fixed an issue where missing teeth would be displayed in Stack.
• ⁠Fixed an issue where the restorative curves lines would be rendered behind the teeth and thus not visible.
• ⁠Fixed a large number of Light/Dark theme and styling issues.

Release Log 06.03.2024

Main highlights

• Invisible gimbal
• Sculpting suite
• A bit of ui clean-up to acomodate the different working layouts
• Two clear working modes
  Red : you move 
  Green : you sculpt stuff
• Shortcuts for easy switches

Release Log 22.02.2024

Fixes

• ⁠Mirroring issues (Missing in portrait, affecting a different tooth)
• Teeth library selection issues
• ⁠Disappearing teeth
• ⁠Reset all design teeth now working
• ⁠Hiding teeth will now properly update in Multiview mode

Release Log 16.02.2024

New Features

• 3DNA in Projects - Rename, Duplicate, Delete, Restore, Double click to edit
• Layouts - Standard (current), Side by side, Multiview

Fixes

• Fixed gimbal rotation for mirrored teeth
• Fixed gingiva and shadows hiding on portrait with slider or design opacity toggle
• Fixed selecting groups with SHIFT or CTRL / CMD
• Fixed tooth selection through hidden groups

Release Log 12.01.2024

Quick update

• new library sidebar, improved visuals, added ambient occlusion, improved performance
• when cbct and ios scan have different bites, cbct will always be aligned to the upper ios scan when performing segmentation / fusion. 
• ⁠⁠ability to add other scan in the lower when working with motion
• ⁠⁠fixed contacts on cases with segmentation
• ⁠⁠various other small fixes

Release Log 19.12.2023

Updates

• New orientation mode Portrait set as default and on P
• Fixed align popup on wide screens
• Align confirmation popup -> upper is now visible at all times (it was rendered behind the image sometimes)
• Changes to delete 3dna design popup
• Deselect tooth when right clicking an object
• Deselect objects after aligning them
• Add portrait text fixed