MTEX 3.4.0

[Ralf Hielscher]

Dear texture experts,

we are very proud to announce a new major release MTEX 3.4. This release features a completely rewritten visualization engine. It is now much more powerful and more simple to use. Below you find a short list of new features. For more details have a look at the ChangeLog.

We hope you like it.

Ralf Hielscher and Florian Bachmann

Major new features (short list)

• Support for Schmid tensor and active slip system computations.
  
• MTEX is now aware about inconsistent coordinate system used in CTF and HKL EBSD files for Euler angles and spatial coordinates and can correct this.
  
• New option 'sharp' for plotting EBSD maps having a sharp texture that yields optimized contrast in the color map.
  
• The alignment of the coordinate axes in all plots can be changed interactively using the new MTEX menu.
  
• Arbitrary plots can be combined in one figure.
  
• Arbitrary plots can be plotted as contour plots.
• new methods for import / export of vectors and orientations
• new interfaces for EBSD and pole figure data

Unfortunately, we included a stupid bug into MTEX 3.4. which does not allow to startup MTEX. We shall provide a fixed version MTEX 3.4.1 soon. In the meanwhile the following workaround should help

setpref('mtex','binaries',false)

startup_mtex

[Ralf Hielscher]

Dear texture experts,

MTEX 3.4.1 has been released today fixing the bug mentioned above. Beside that MTEX 3.4.1 comes with an much better export routine for images to jpg and png file format. For a detailed list of all changes have a look at the Changelog.

Ralf.