DiamCalc
What is new in the DiamCalc 3.2 beta?
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19. Creating custom girdle in the Cut Designer

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New feature allows creating various shapes of girdle for user choice. It is possible to create girdle contour from existing cut shape or from any shape created by the third party software. See sections Creating custom girdle shape and Creating custom girdle shape by third-party software in the DiamCalc 3.2 beta Documentation, PDF

Creating Girdle shape in the Xara Extreme software

20. Grayscale mode for observer

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To make the observer’s image grayscale separately from the whole scene check Grayscale checkbox in the tab Observer. This takes away any colour that may be resulting from the observer’s skin tone and their clothing.

21. High-quality ray tracing modes are available
in HDR rendering

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Accurate (10nm) and High-accuracy (5nm) ray tracing modes are available for creating HDR images of the diamond.

To select / change new ray tracing mode:

  • Press button Illumination type
  • Choose Customize…
  • Select Ray tracing accuracy from list
  • Press Apply or Ok

Table. Ray tracing accuracy modes

Three rays (RGB) Standard (20nm)
Accurate (10nm) High-accuracy (5nm)

22. JPEG, PNG, BMP, TIFF files formats are supported

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New version supports JPEG, PNG, BMP and TIFF formats for panoramas, observer and paper.

23. Paper auto distance mode

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Paper Autodistance mode is available. In this mode paper is placed at a tangent to the gemstone.

To enable Autodistance select checkbox Enable Autodistance in the tab Paper section General

24. Rendering of diamond covered by the paper

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Rendering of diamond covered by the paper is available. When observer is rotated paper might cover the diamond, and it becomes invisible under the paper.

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