Improved SBOM Flexibility: You can now sync SBOMs with custom structures, including Kits, without having to follow the CAD hierarchy.
Kit Display: SBOMs for Kits now display the kit parts automatically.
Desktop
Windows Shortcuts: Zea Sync now scans local folders with shortcuts to other folders on Windows.
Networked Paths: Syncing from networked paths (e.g., //other-pc/shared-folders/folder) has also been added.
Zea Illustrations
Enhanced Viewer Interactions: Viewers can now select parts in the Illustrations Editor to view metadata and temporarily transform, hide, or show parts. Changes revert after refreshing the browser. Published illustrations maintain the previous functionality where parts cannot be selected.
Real-Time Collaboration (Beta) Removed: This feature has been removed to better focus on future improvements.
Bug Fixes:
Zea Parts
Peformance and Freedback: Improved performance and feedback when syncing spreadsheets in older workspaces.
Zea Illustrations
Group pivot: Enable picking the Group pivot in the TreeView. Previously this was only possible in the viewport and often the preferred pivot is not directly visible.
Admin Editors: Enable Admin users to edit illustrations, even if they don't have 'editor' right.
Framing on a Group: The Viewport can now be framed on a selected Group.
Group Edits: fixed bug causing incorrect translation after moving an item within a kinematic group.
3D Models
Reference Resolution: Fixed bug where assemblies would not be able to load sub-parts or assemblies if the relative path started with a “../”
July 24, 2024
New Features/Enhancements:
Desktop
Junction Support: Zea Sync can now scan local folders with directory junctions on Windows, allowing it to pick up files from linked directories.
Platform
Enhanced Deletion Process: Users must delete all Organizations before deleting their account. Likewise, users must delete all Workspaces and cancel all subscriptions before deleting an Organization.
June 27, 2024
New Features/Enhancements:
Zea Parts
Streamlined Public/Private Field Workflow: Public fields in Zea Sync are now displayed in the catalog, while private fields are not. The extra step of choosing visible fields in the Zea Parts settings is removed.
Changing quantity to 0 now removes an item from the shopping cart.
Added the number of ‘Sellable’ parts to the Workspace dashboard.
Zea Illustrations
Incremental Views Animation out of Beta: Incremental views animation is now the default system for new Zea Illustration projects. This traditional animation system allows view changes to accumulate, affecting all subsequent views until another change is introduced.
‘Viewer’ role can now view read-only illustrations.
3D Models
Shortened URLs.
Desktop
Improved handling of CAD files with large amounts of metadata.
Bug Fixes:
Platform
Fixed an issue where settings became unresponsive after clicking the Upgrade button.
Fixed an issue that caused resending an invite to an organization to change a user’s role from Admin to Standard.
Addressed inconsistencies in UI resizing when the browser window is adjusted.
Enhanced the visibility of loading bars in 3D viewports.
Zea Parts
Fixed an issue where clearing and reimporting serial numbers created duplicates.
Fixed an issue where results remained in the part lists search after clearing service parts.
Resolved an issue where unpublished catalogs could be accessed via URL.
Desktop
Fixed a display issue where files appeared as ‘modified’ in Zea Sync after correctly syncing metadata filter changes.
May 29, 2024
New Features/Enhancements:
Zea Parts
Try Zea Parts for Free: Zea Parts is now available for everyone to try in every workspace. Users can explore all features to create an interactive 3D parts catalog, preview results, and request quotes. The only restriction is that catalog publishing is disabled until you purchase.
Preview a catalog from the ‘Publish’ tab in the Zea Parts Settings.
Thumbnails: Thumbnails are now displayed in the shopping cart and quote emails. To set this up, go to Zea Parts Settings and generate views on the Views tab.
Number fields: Fields containing numbers with currency symbols and commas are now correctly imported as numerical values, with the extra symbols automatically removed.
Zea Illustrations
Dope Sheet: Enhanced pasting functionality, allowing users to paste copied keyframes into multiple cells, and cut and paste single keyframes.
Desktop
Template Excel Files: Download template spreadsheets in Zea Sync for Master Parts List, Service Bill of Material (SBOM), and Serial Numbers. They can also be found in the
ZIP files now include the version number for easier reference.
Bug Fixes:
Platform
Minor UI and usability improvements.
Zea Parts
Resolved an issue where users had to manually select a language in Admin view if the only processed language was not English.
Desktop
Resolved a problem that could cause Zea Sync to fail when processing files with many metadata fields.
Fixed the "Windows protected your PC" and "Do you want to allow this app from an unknown publisher to make changes to your device?" warnings when installing Zea Sync MSI or running Zea Sync ZIP. We've signed the files with a verified certificate to prevent these security alerts.
Fixed an issue where changing metadata filters in Zea Sync would not mark the files as ‘ready to process again’.
Minor UI and usability improvements.
May 10, 2024
Bug Fixes:
Parts
Resolved an issue causing the BOM to sometimes display duplicate parts multiple times.
3D Models
Corrected an issue that led to improper positioning of parts in certain SolidEdge assemblies.
May 7, 2024
Issue Fixed: Blank Page After Logging into Zea Sync
The issue where some users encountered a blank page after logging into Zea Sync v1.7.1 has been resolved. If you still see this issue, please download the latest version from
Numerical Fields: Users can now choose between numerical and string types for fields when syncing SBOMs and Master Parts Lists in Zea Sync. This feature allows for pricing to be displayed in published catalogs.
Numerical fields will automatically total when items are added to the shopping cart.
Improved Navigation: Users can now frame both selected parts and the root assembly from the toolbar and the right-click context menu in published catalogs.
Excluding Duplicate Parts: When importing a BOM as a Master Parts List, any duplicate parts are automatically excluded.
Desktop
Metadata Filter: A new filter is available in the 3D Settings of Zea Sync, allowing users to exclude certain metadata fields during CAD processing.
Expanded File Format Support: Support has been added for STL, OBJ, WRL, FBX, and GLB file formats. View the
Users on Safari and iOS devices can now log into the Zea Platform and Zea Sync without issues.
Updating the profile image on Zea accounts created with a Google account now correctly reflects across the platform.
Zea Parts
Enhanced selection logic for non-sellable parts in 3D, preventing unintended parent assembly selection. Previously, if a BOM or Master Parts Lists with many missing part was synced, clicking on those parts would select the parent assembly.
The BOM panel in published catalogs can now be resized on touch devices.
Resolved an issue where resizing the BOM panel in admin view would also affect the published view, and vice versa.
Implemented minor UI improvements in the admin view.
Addressed a display issue where the quantity in the BOM showed incorrect values temporarily.
Illustrations
Fixed minor errors that occurred in the real-time collaboration beta feature when creating views and joining sessions.
Desktop
Zea Sync now prompts users to download new versions when available. The update process is as follows:
Completely close Zea Sync, including from the system tray
Install or run the new version
Workspaces are now ordered the same on the platform and Zea Sync.
April 17, 2024
Bug Fixes:
Engine
Fixed an issue where CAD metadata fields named ‘color’ were being mistaken as actual color values.
April 11, 2024
New Features/Enhancements:
Platform
Strengthened Admin Permissions: Only admins have the privilege to modify Zea Parts settings on the platform, and access 3D Models and Zea Parts setup in Zea Sync.
Zea Parts
Domains Whitelist: You can now specify which domains are allowed to display your parts catalogs, blocking unauthorized domains. This feature is found under the Publish tab in Zea Parts Settings.
Context Menu: A new right-click option enables quick hiding or showing of parts.
Parts can be added to the shopping cart from the toolbar, even when the BOM is minimized.
Default metadata fields have been removed from the Zea Parts settings.
We've made the mapping of Parts Lists and Serial Numbers more intuitive in Zea Sync, closely matching the SBOMs workflow.
Importing large Parts Lists, with tens-of-thousands of parts, is now faster.
Zea Illustrations
Dope Sheet: Previously a Beta Feature, the Dope Sheet has been fully released. The Dope Sheet allows keyframes to be managed in a single place for improved animation control.
Callouts and Shapes have been added to the Dope Sheet.
Incremental Views Animation (Beta): This new feature offers a traditional animation system, where view changes accumulate, affecting all subsequent views until another change is introduced. Available for new illustration projects with the beta feature activated.
WebXR (Beta): VR users can now explore illustrations in VR directly through the browser.
Beta Features can be activated in Illustration Settings.
Group Highlighting: Highlights can be added to groups and animated between views. Accessible from the Inspector panel when a group is selected
3D Models:
Models can now be inspected via a new context menu without the need for initial loading.
Desktop:
Zea Sync will now automatically display SolidWorks assemblies using cached data, but only if the main assembly is uploaded without its parts and the file has cached data available. This feature acts as a backup to ensure a complete assemblies in specific situations.
A new dropdown menu replaces manual entry for setting tessellation precision, ranging from Extra Low to Extra High.
Tessellation Precision and File Filter settings have been simplified and are now solely available in Zea Sync because they require reprocessing of 3D Models.
Overall reliability in processing SolidWorks files has been improved.
Bug Fixes:
Zea Parts:
The parts catalog now offers a smoother experience on touch devices.
The workspace dashboard now accurately updates after clearing service parts.
An issues preventing serial number searches due to leading spaces in the spreadsheet has been resolved.
Fixed an issue where hidden parts were incorrectly displayed as visible in the BOM when using the isolate tool.
Zea Illustrations:
Resolved an issue where models would temporarily disappear when adding new views.
Addressed an error when pasting multiple keyframes into a single cell.
3D Models:
Corrected an issue that caused ‘Assembly Features’ to display in the model tree.
Desktop:
Fixed a problem where mapping fields would clear out during rapid setup.
Resolved an issue where deleted workspaces were still showing in Zea Sync.
March 15, 2024
New Features/Enhancements:
Zea Parts
A minor update has improved a previously released feature. Non-sellable part are now not displayed in the BOM, but can still be selected and hidden in 3D for improved model exploration.
Bug Fixes:
Zea Sync
Fixed an error that occurred while loading the Parts List.
Resolved an issue related to mapping when empty spaces were detected in imported Spreadsheet cells.
3D Models
Addressed problems related to saving applied materials.
March 14, 2024
New Features/Enhancements:
Zea Parts
Zea Parts now allows users to provide SBOMs for their products, enabling more control over the structure and content of the SBOM. Non-3D items such as consumables (oils, tape) can be shown in the BOM alongside the parts associated with CAD.
Users can target a folder, and all BOMs within that folder will be matched to processed CAD models.
Improved previewing a part from the shopping cart or quote emails to open the full assembly in a new tab. If a part was added individually, only that part will be displayed.
Updated the Zea Parts user interface for both admin and public views. Enhancements include the ability to show/collapse the BOM, a new visibility toolbar, and a button to open selected parts in a new tab.
Parts lacking CAD data have a different colored background BOM.
Non-sellable parts without sellable children are now visible in the BOM. This allows non-sellable parts such as the body of a vehicle to be selected and hidden to easily expose the parts beneath it.
Note: Dummy part number can be added to the ‘Part Number’ column and the real part number in the ‘Engineering Part Number’ column to censor sensitive part numbers.
Introduced a feature to generate views for parts, either in bulk from the settings or manually by positioning parts and saving views. These views can create pre-defined positioning for published parts. The thumbnails are used to populate parts pages in e-commerce platforms like Shopify.
3D Models:
Edited 3D models can now be explicitly saved for use in Zea Parts and Zea Illustrations. This includes hiding/transforming geometries, saving material edits, and a Manage Edits dialog for viewing and resetting edits.
Added a feature to open a selected model in a new tab while inspecting a model.
Desktop:
Made the filtering feature more robust. Previously, files that were filtered after processing CAD were hidden. Now, filtered files will be marked for deletion in Zea Sync and processing again will permanently remove them from the database.
Added information in 3D Models advanced settings about clearing unnecessary temporary files generated during processing CAD data.
Bug Fixes:
Platform:
Fixed an issue where Editors upgraded to Admins appeared twice on the Workspace Users settings page.
Addressed a problem where quickly double-clicking the next button during onboarding led to a blank page.
Zea Parts:
Corrected an issue where empty header rows were omitted when importing a parts list.
February 7, 2024
Bug Fixes:
3D Models
Resolved an issue where file filters were not being properly applied.
Zea Illustrations
Addressed a problem that resulted in published illustrations appearing blank.
February 6, 2024
New Features/Enhancements:
Platform
Introduced email and password login and sign-up options, including for Zea Sync.
Existing users who registered via the passwordless method can now set a password through the "Forgot password" option.
Rebranded Parts Hub and Illustrations Hub to Zea Parts and Zea Illustrations, respectively.
Improved caching to enhance the performance and stability of the Zea platform.
Zea Parts
Added customization for the text labels of the “Serial Number” and “Parts Number” search options.
Introduced a “Mailing Address” field to the shopping cart.
Changed PDF previews to open in a new tab instead of being downloaded directly.
3D Models
Updated the tree view and inspector to display the ‘occurrence’ node rather than the ‘reference’ node.
Local transforms are now displayed in the inspector instead of global transforms.
Simplified nodes in the tree from “reference(occurrence)” to “occurrence”.
The root assembly is now presented as a single node.
Restored the functionality to translate parts and assemblies temporarily while inspecting 3D Models, without affecting the models platform-wide.
Zea Illustrations
Implemented the ‘occurrence’ node changes mentioned above.
Desktop
Zea Sync is now available for download as a .ZIP file, which can be extracted and run without requiring administrative rights.
Restored the display of the version number in the Zea Sync header.
Introduced the ability to bulk paste file filters into the 3D Models settings page.
Bug Fixes:
Platform
Resolved an issue preventing the opening of context menus in the Version History of Zea Illustrations and in pending invitations within Organization Settings.
Zea Parts
Addressed a bug that caused the "hide header" URL parameter to not work.
December 22, 2023
New Features/Enhancements:
Parts Hub
A new feature is now available for matching part numbers to CAD files by specifying a metadata field alongside the filename.
Non-sellable parts without sellable children can be hidden from the SBOM.
Platform
The platform now supports searching CAD files using metadata. Please note that existing files will need to be reprocessed using Zea Sync to extract the metadata.
Bug Fixes:
Parts Hub
Fixed an issue where searching for a serial number would take you back to the search page.
The problem of dashboard statistics not updating after syncing a parts list has been resolved.
When no matches are found in the SBOM search, a message indicating no results will now be displayed.
Resolved a problem where some part numbers didn't link to CAD files with corresponding file names.
Desktop
An issue has been fixed where changes to the up direction and tessellation precision were not promptly reflected.
Engine
Resolved an issue causing edges to render over surfaces when the view is zoomed out.
Fixed a translation value discrepancy in assemblies with different unit values than one of its parts.
December 15, 2023
Bug Fixes:
Parts Hub
Fixed an issue that caused panels to jump when resizing.
Fixed an issue that caused the BOM to jump to the selection when expanding assemblies.
Fixed an issue that caused serial numbers in Admin view to display in the red “missing CAD” state even if they had CAD associated.
December 13, 2023
Known Issue: Performance in Chrome for Mac
On some Macs, particularly older machines, our 3D engine runs slowly in Chrome. If you encounter this, try adjusting the setting below to see if it has a positive impact on performance.
Go to chrome://flags and search for “angle”, then set the ANGLE backend to use Metal instead of OpenGL.
New Features/Enhancements:
Parts Hub
Parts Hub importing now supports specification of sellable parts, which indicate which parts can be added to the cart.
Parts Hub importing now supports specification of “Engineering Part Numbers” for robust part-to-CAD mapping.
“Part Number” has been renamed to “Service Part Number”.
Hierarchical SBOM tree view introduced in Parts Hub admin and published views for enhanced part search experience.
Part order placing usability enhancements (including part previews).
Email formatting enhancements with order numbers and customer cc’ing.
Added hide/show visibility icon to parts.
Platform
Editing UI is now hidden from non-admin (standard users) in the 3D Models editor to prevent editing.
Illustrations Hub
Selection filters for parts, products, and bodies now applies to drop material tool.
Bug Fixes:
Desktop
Fixed text overflows for organization and workspace cards in Zea Sync.
Fixed regression in cache when processing CAD files.
Parts Hub
Fixed an issue where importing spreadsheets in Zea Sync was not immediately reflected in Parts Hub.
Fixed browser back/forward behavior in published parts catalogs.
Models Are Still Visible in Parts Hub Even If They Are Deleted From Local Folder.
Improved searching in Parts Hub admin view for partial string match.
November 16, 2023
New Features/Enhancements:
Platform
Added a 'Scene Summary' dialog to the 3D model inspector
Improved display to show missing files during assembly loading
UI tweaks for missing 3D models and minor UI tweaks for Scene Statistics
Addressed UI inconsistencies on the Organization Users page
Improved error messaging and prompts for new user invitations
Fixed issues with sBOM icon size in Spanish translation
Addressed onboarding flow issues for invited users with missing buttons
Parts Hub
Implemented CC’ing customers for quotes requested
Added "General Notes" to order confirmation
Disabled Parts Hub on Zea Sync for organizations without a subscription
Illustrations Hub
Users can now rename and clone illustrations
Tooltip explanations for locked illustrations
Fixed Dope Sheet search overlapping Version History
Corrected right-click behavior in the Dope Sheet and added keyframe menu
Bug Fixes:
Platform
Fix for upgrading to a paid plan without selecting the number of seats
Resolved issues with subscription proration error retrieval
Search functionality not closing after name or email selection
Fixed issues with changing seat numbers in billing
Fixed empty workspace display and organization field size inconsistency
Users restricted to settings of uninvited workspaces
Super-users restricted by Illustrations Hub (IH) roles and access
Issues resolved for changing seat quantity in Stripe
Improved dropdown styles on the Organization Users page
Fixed issues with next button missing in the onboarding flow
Parts Hub
Minor spreadsheet import fixes
Illustrations Hub
Fixed Dope Sheet search overlapping Version History
Desktop
Disabled Parts Hub on Zea Sync for organizations without a subscription
November 3, 2023
Change Notice: New role names for Organizations and Workspaces
With the move toward making our platform free for organization members to access models even without a paid seat, role naming has changed slightly.
Previously the “Editor” organization role signified a user holds a seat for Illustrations Hub and can create/edit illustrations.
Now,
Standard Users are non-admins/owners
Illustration Hub seats are assign to organization members as ‘Editors’
Note: Permissions based on this change should not impact most users, however, Organization Admins who need Illustrations Hub editing will need to assign themselves a seat.
New Features/Enhancements:
Platform
Free Platform Users: a new role has been introduced to allow unlimited free view-only users (”Standard Users”) to join organizations to facilitate collaboration around model data.
Consolidated Organization & Workspace Settings: Settings are now centralized and can be access easily through a consolidated interface.
Creo Support: Creo’s configurations are now supported in XPR and Assemblies
Workspace Theming: Admins can now apply themes to a workspace, including logos and user-interface colors
Parts Hub
Spanish and French for Dealer View: All static text from the dealer view now has Spanish and English options (in addition to English)
Fixed renaming materials so they update in Inspector
Fixed bug where application of materials was breaking illustrations
Fixed regression for older models where assemblies could not be selected
Fixed bug where initial view is in the wrong position after undoing delete
October 19, 2023
Known Issue: Zea Sync fails to update
Older installations of Zea Sync are failing to auto-update. Please manually update by downloading from the Workspace settings and installing over the existing installation. (No need to uninstall the older version).
New Features/Enhancements:
Illustrations Hub
Dope Sheet (beta): A spreadsheet-like tool for managing modifications in Illustration Views..
Group Pivot Editor: Default pivots for groups can be modified manually or via snap to other part pivots.