v1.23b (3/4/2013)

Droplet generation has been optimized by removing unnecessary placement checking.

v1.22 (4/4/2012)

Speed of the Edge Rasterizer was greatly improved.
Checking outer droplets was redundant so it has been removed.
Finding voids is now using striping and multithreading.

Pitch is no longer expressed in percent values. Both Gbrvu's Edge Rasterizer GUI and the independent GUI have been altered to this effect.

v1.21 (1/5/2012)

Added image reversal mode with margins.

Added BMP Output on top of the existing TIFF and Gerber.

Added scaling option for output data.

v1.20 (3/8/2011)

Added mode for dropping single droplet pads for features smaller than a specified threshold. Both the Gbrvu Edge Rasterizer tool and the independent Edge Rasterizer shell were revised to control this.

v1.19 (4/28/2009)

This version runs twice as fast as the previous version.

v1.18 (4/2/2009)

There were exceptions generated from tiff output of an entire file, 132-233-91 l7p.gbr. This was caused by insufficient precision in unionizing droplets. This has now been fixed.

A change was made to handle paths which are close to the dot size in width. Extra droplets were appearing under these conditions. This has now been fixed.

Note: In version 1.17, all interior filling is done with staggering placement of droplets. This was done to ensure consistency in the filling density. This fixes the problem illustrated in results 1 described in ER Strip File Section of Artwork_ver115_feedback_13th_010909.pdf file.

v1.17 (3/4/2009)

All interior filling is now done with staggering placement of droplets.
This was done to ensure consistency in the filling density.

v1.16 (2/9/2009)

The method of interior filling has changed. There is the additional filling to cover the area between the interior and outer edge. However, it may or may not affect the flatness of top side, i.e., the ink density because the amount of ink coverage in outer edge is smaller than the ink coverage of the interior.

This issue was fixed.

Additional droplets caused the superposition ratio, e.g., nominal pitch is higher than 30% and 40%.
It may affect the line/space tolerance and the flatness of top side, i.e., the ink density.This issue was fixed.

This issue was fixed.

Added "Min Void Area" Settings - this allows the user to define a minimum value so voids will be smaller than this value.

v1.15 (12/9/2008)

Narrow lines have staggering placement of droplets.

Changed "Dot Size" label to "Droplet Dia."

Added help button to dialog to display added documents for Edge Rasterizer.

v1.14 (10/7/2008)

The edge rasterizer has the latest droplets engine with an improved filling algorithm.

Removal of redundant droplets associated with "patching" of holes.
Patching of holes has been optimized to reduced coverage and droplet count.

v1.12 (9/17/2008)

The edge rasterizer has the latest droplets engine with an improved filling algorithm (files l1_metal.gbr and l2_er.gbr).

Gbrvu's "Edit Droplet Location" dialog box has a check box to move a droplet ten pixel grids at a time.

v1.11 (9/17/2008)

The edge rasterizer has the latest droplets engine with an improved filling algorithm.

v1.10 (8/17/2008)

Minor changes made to reduce the number of droplets at the neck of a trace.

v1.08 (2/1/2008)

This image improves the filling alogorithm to better handle the transition area between the edge rasterizer data and the interior fills.

v1.07a (12/12/2007)

This image fixes the dropped data problem that occurred for the following settings:
5080 DPI, 38 um droplet diameter, 40% overlap, window 279.5, 481.27,283.268, 484.33 (mm) 279500.1,481270.1,283267.9,484330 (um)
output is Gerber droplet simulation - The input file was 132-233-91 l7p.274x

v1.07 (10/3/2007)

Problems fixed in this version are:
Line space distortion.
The number of droplets issue.
Unfilled area in circles was fixed.

Added dialog controls displaying the "Notch Depth" and "Pitch Bounds" in relation to the current raster settings. These controls are updated for the following events:
When the dialog box comes up.
When the nominal pitch is toggled between the unit and percent input.
When the Units are changed in the GUI.
When the "Update Display" button is hit.