UVtools birthday 🎁 2 Years 🥳

[sn4k3]

Today (06/04) it's the UVtools birthday 🎁

IT DOES 2 YEARS OLD 🥳

Just 2 years has passed from first release, short time, a new born, still it grow big and powerfull tool with an incredible performance!

Some stats:

• Open-Source and Free
• Downloads: ± 63.2k
• Repo size: 547 MB
• Code size: 3.74 MB
• Code lines: ±145k
• Code contributors: 6
• Releases: 181
• Major releases: 3
• Commits: 916
• Traffic: ± 750 views and 250 unique views per day
• Issues: > 241 and solved
• Highest single donation: 50 USD (excluding fees)

Some facts:

• Project born from a hobby wish to return to C# and try the new features of the language, but also because i had an ideia to buy a printer (EPAX) on the time, but not want to get restricted with slicers. I never did buy the printer... And i'm still an FDM guy.
• UVtools was former called PrusaSL1Viewer (http://github.com/sn4k3/PrusaSL1Viewer)
• First release was codded in a night and was only a simple file viewer for SL1 files from PrusaSlicer, it could only view slices and extract contents (unzip). It had only 2 files (v0.1)
• Second release, 1 week after, incorporated cbdlp format, and allow file convertion from sl1 to cbdlp (v0.2)
• After second release it start to grow exponential and get rich of features, CTB format was implemented on v0.3.1, 24 days after first release, give it a try to fell the difference ;) (v0.3.1)
• Many of the formats was only possible due uv3dp project, big thanks to Jason McMullan (https://github.com/ezrec/uv3dp)
• Just on v0.5.1 project got renamed to UVtools
• Cancelling actions were not possible in the past
• Major version 1.0 got rewritten and add support for Linux and macOS
• Last year it was on v2.8.2
• Most of the features are requests from people, others are just my imagination...
• Just to show 1 layer, it need to execute more than 500 lines of code, considering that, is blazing fast, i'm always amazed...
• Issue detection is more than 1000 lines of code
• The developer (me) don't personally use UVtools, because i don't do resin printing, as so, he is a big noob on resin themes
• UVtools logo background is purple, guess why...
• UVtools is a huge toolkit but also provides a huge code base for adopters, samples and solutions to problems which in future people may use.
• Very permissive, so stupid that you can program C# inside UVtools, mess with your system and even format drives!
• UVtools may be the faster program that you can use to turn any photo in grayscale... Try to open any on it ;)
• It works like magic, i got beaten already by my own creation
• By now it took a lot of hours to reach this point, maintaining such project isn't easy, consider yourself a blessed person when using this software.

Please give a try on a old version to know it roots.
Have fun and make sure to use it today!

[X3msnake]

Awsome Master. keep up the great work :)