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Solve a certain kind of puzzle. Burr Tools will help you solve a certain kind of puzzle.Namely puzzles that are made out of square or dice shaped units and whose solution also contains only rectangular aligned pieces. Here are some key features of "Burr Tools": · Does nearly all that PuzzleSolver 3D which is · You can enter all puzzles that are assembled out of dice shaped units · Find assemblies for you puzzle · Disassemble the found assembly them · Show everything in a 3 dimensional image · Animate how the puzzle has to be assembled · Toggle the visibility of pieces in the solution to have a look at the inner workings of a puzzle. This is especially helpful for box packing puzzles · Runs on Windows and Linux and probably is also compilable on MacOS · You can specify which cubes to fill and which can be empty or full. PuzzleSolver 3D has only 2 modes. Either all cubes may be left empty in the solution, or the cubes that have an empty neighbor must be filled. BurrTools are more flexible here. · More than one problem in one file (e.g. have several Soma Cube problems in the same file) · Constraints to piece placements (like checkerboard) · Group pieces together to tell the disassembler that they don't need to be taken apart this is necessary for puzzles like "Cube In Cage" where the cage can not be taken apart but has 3 movable pieces · No limits to sizes and number of shapes. As long as your computer has the memory and you the patience the program will do it for you, even if it takes eons. · Free as in beer. It doesn't cost you anything · Free as in speech. The source is available, so you can do your own programming or help me improve continue improving the program in case I have to stop working on it. · Save puzzles with solutions in compressed XML-files. This allows you to create puzzles with other means (like your own burrgrower, ...) · A library is provided that helps you to write your own software for puzzle design and analysis What's New in This Release: · fix problem in the rotation filter when 2 mirror shapes were assigned to a problem with different ranges. In that case some solutions were not found when the mirror check was enabled · new grid: tetrahedra-octahedron · basic movement analysis for triangle grid allowing to analyse puzzles without coordinated motion · add scrollwheel support for 3D view zoom · a lot of cleanup in the disassembler functions · converter from cube to rhombic grid and from cube to tetra-octa grid · remove 256 piece limitation for disassembler · add a simple movement browser to analyse the movements of pieces in an assembled puzzle · more memory efficient disassembler, which means you can analyse puzzles with more movement without running out of memory · the command line tool (not in the windows binary distribution) can now print some information about a puzzle file · add lots and lots of code comments in the hope someone may need it, doxygen comments for the library are added in many places · different config file format (the old one is thrown away) this new format will allow more easy additions · faster sorting method for solution sorting · fix a cursor drawing bug in the rhombic grid · a new console application that can solve puzzles and actually saves them (this application is not included in the windows binary package) · fix potential symmetry calculation problem with the rhombic grid · cube disassembly analysis should be a tiny bit faster · explicitly limit colours to 63, the user could add more but it didn't work in older versions · better compression for XML files, should result in smaller files although not that much · millability and notchability in status window · rewrite XML loading and writing code, this code is faster and compacter and uses much less memory so saving and loading puzzles is much quicker now · the printable userguide is back download it separately from the burrtools website, it is better than ever · remove windows installer (it was buggy and noone cared to tell me, so now only the zip is left, which I can verify) · add a function to convert assemblies into shapes and add those to the puzzle various filters can be applied · add a new, more CPU intensive but more thorough check for rotated, translated solutions, which can be used with the assembly import to get a usable piece generator · status window information calculation is much much faster and will not longer get slower with each additional shape
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