The Foundry MODO 17.1v1 x64 + MacOS

The Modo 10.2v2 Release Notes are still valid, as the only change is SolidWorks 2017 support for Windows.
The SolidWorks importer is only available on Modo for Windows. There is no update to the Modo for SolidWorks kit, the current kit will support SolidWorks 2017, once you have updated to Modo 10.2v2a.

Feature Enhancements
• The Qbic Browser has been enhanced to better support its use with Schematic Fusion models, and offers broader, better-organized placement options.
• Mesh Preset placement has been improved and expanded, including options to add multiple copies of the preset mesh as either individual meshes or combined into a single mesh (each method has advantages for subsequent Fusion modeling/editing goals). More thorough support has been added for placement based on selected target mesh elements (vertices, edges, and polygons). Schematic fusing support has also been added.

Main Bug Fixes
This is a list of the most important bug fixes. For a full list, see The Foundry Community site.
• Bezier tool: Changes behavior to create straight segments with clicks.
• The default turn speed of the Game Input Mode was 2.0 instead of 1.0.
• The absolute input mode was enabled when using the Game Input Mode, which caused issues on systems set up to use tablet input.
• The Generator Particle Modifier had no Center option.
• The up vector was incorrect when the Look At Particle Modifier was set to Planar. The Target channel had no Direction option, so there was no way to set an explicit vector to define the direction.
• Unreal and IBL Roughness did not work correctly. No reflection type was initialized for Unreal and Unity materials.
• Double-clicking an Assembly preset didn't add it to the current group in the Schematic.
• Unity and Unreal materials generated incorrect Image Based Lighting (IBL) textures due to the diffuse roughness not being 0.0.
• Unreal Material: There was no GLSL clearcoat shader. Clearcoat caused black edges. The shading model didn't have an option to switch between standard shading and clearcoat shading for the Advanced viewport. Clearcoat was applied twice for Unreal material, which caused energy issues.
• Improvements have been made to Unreal Screen-Space Reflections.
• BUG ID 14371 - Render outputs were not working correctly with Item masks and Instances.
• BUG ID 36261 - Foreground and background alphas were not working properly with Parametric Ink.
• BUG ID 36430 - Color Picker: HSV numeric values greater than 360 became 300 instead of 359.999.
• BUG ID 37130 - Shader Tree: Layer and Group masks could cause halos and fringing around them.
• BUG ID 37272 - Some materials were not evaluated in fur layers when using multiple fur layers.
• BUG ID 37643 - Vertex Illumination Baking didn't work with offset geometry.
• BUG ID 38235 - Items imported through FBX didn't respect the viewport visibility settings.
• BUG ID 38624 - Brush Blending Mode didn't function correctly with RGBA images.
• BUG ID 41160 - Preview: there was no option to save to layered images when rendering an animation.
• BUG ID 41732 - Changing fur spacing caused the fur width to change.
• BUG ID 41913 - Fur rendered differently than it displayed in GL.
• BUG ID 42480 - The gamma applied to images using image ink changed after saving and reloading the scene.
• BUG ID 43236 - Windows only: Modo didn't have support for multiple processor groups, so it couldn't fully utilize systems with more than 64 processors.
• BUG ID 43399 - Fur was tapering to absolute length, not parametric length.
• BUG ID 44062 - When painting, the first click when painting on an image map was delayed.
• BUG ID 44077 - In Full Resolution mode, clicking in Preview did not select materials in the Shader Tree.
• BUG ID 46509 - Image maps created at the root level could not be duplicated.
• BUG ID 46707 - Implicit UV textures on area lights were not supported.
• BUG ID 47572 - Bezier Deformer: deformation popping occurred on animated meshes.
• BUG ID 47829 - Topology layout: Active mesh has been set to Shaded mode to improve the visibility with color correction and transparency. The default rig lights have been made brighter to match the original Topology layout (MODO 601).
• BUG ID 47857 - Preview: Layered EXR could be saved with incorrect channel names.
• BUG ID 48117 - Use Clip UDIM was not working for UDIM 1001.
• BUG ID 48448 - Item List: Layer visibility icons didn't update if a layer's parent group was made invisible.
• BUG ID 48639 - Rendering animations to some formats didn't save the alpha channel.
• BUG ID 48734 - Fur: Vector maps and Weight maps couldn't be used together.
• BUG ID 48765 - Preview: Right-clicking did not show the light contributions.
• BUG ID 48979 - RayGL synchronous update mode was grainy.
• BUG ID 49038 - Area lights blocked indirect environment light with Environment Important Sampling (EIS) enabled, and Preview and Final render did not match.
• BUG ID 49435 - Renders using EIS sometimes produced NaNs.
• BUG ID 49594 - Images saved from Preview did not have an alpha channel if Render All Outputs was disabled.
• BUG ID 49603 - The Spline Effector's visibility state didn't work.
• BUG ID 49673 - Deferred Meshes: Items that support instancable interfaces now include automatic instancing. Render memory use was high when using instances of deferred meshes.
• BUG ID 49897 - Double-sided meshes were not displaying correctly in the Default viewport.
• BUG ID 49916 - Auto-added Alpha render outputs (used for border expansion) were saved when baking render outputs using bake items.
• BUG ID 49960 - Camera Matcher: The origin position derived from the line length control landed off camera.
• BUG ID 50376 - OBJ I/O: The Importer failed to load files that other applications could load, due to it containing non-standard OBJ elements.
• BUG ID 50395 - Bake Wizard: Bake items couldn't save each UDIM clip after baking, only all at the end.
• BUG ID 50509 - Game Export: The texture sub-path wasn't changing in the FBX Export > PBR XML preset settings.
• BUG ID 50608 - Particle Modifiers: Tries to maintain particle IDs from source items when multiple sources are connected.
• BUG ID 50620 - Volumes driven by OpenVDB could not be scaled.
• BUG ID 50634 - Editing the material of an invisible item made it show in Preview.
• BUG ID 50696 - De-selecting certain image map layers in the Shader Tree wasn't updating in GL.
• BUG ID 50786 - Mac OS X only: The Render window remained in focus and on top of other windows even when switching to another application.
• BUG ID 50958 - Vertex Maps: Subdivision Weight Map values could not be cleared from vertices in Catmull-Clark polygons.
• BUG ID 50972 - Game Export: Relative paths were being used when disabled.
• BUG ID 50991 - Bump and Displacement were not affected by nodal shading.
• BUG ID 50995 - FBX I/O: The UV Distortion map was exported.
• BUG ID 51001 - Vertex Illumination Baking ignored GI and gave incorrect values.
• BUG ID 51022 - Edge Slice: the multi-slice option was creating holes in the mesh in some circumstances.
• BUG ID 51070 - The Bake Wizard did not have a viewport group, and couldn't be added to layouts.
• BUG ID 51205 - Motion Vector didn't support cylindrical and spherical cameras.
• BUG ID 51207 - Baking to Render Outputs with an animated environment was not updating after frame 1.
• BUG ID 51325 - Game Export: the script ignored the Export PBR setting if there was an Unreal or Unity Material in a group.
• BUG ID 51344 - A memory leak occurred when assigning image clips to shaders.
• BUG ID 51389 - Vertex Illumination Baking: baking errors occurred on rigged/skinned meshes.
• BUG ID 51426 - Reflections did not work in orthographic views.
• BUG ID 51485 - Bake Wizard: The cage value was not set on the bake item.
• BUG ID 51502 - Unreal Material: The default specular has been changed from 100% to 50%.
• BUG ID 51524 - Windows only: In Preview, not all processors were used if there were more than 64.
• BUG ID 51543 - The Advanced viewport often displayed environment reflections and lighting incorrectly.
• BUG ID 51549 - In the Occlusion Processing Texture, convexity and concavity could not be represented differently, due to the lack of a Curvature option.
• BUG ID 51557 - Unreal Material: Roughness was incorrect in the Advanced viewport compared to Unreal Engine and Preview.
• BUG ID 51558 - The Screen-Space Reflections in the Advanced viewport did not default to off.
• BUG ID 51598 - Replica Mirror: The BG meshes Effector option was not working.
• BUG ID 51649 - Render Pass groups were disabled when first loading a scene.
• BUG ID 51676 - Subdividing certain shapes created polygons with flipped normals.
• BUG ID 51679 - MeshFusion: Fusions caused jagged meshes when strip widths were reduced.
• BUG ID 51843 - The Apply to Item instances channel has been added to the shader group to control the behavior with instances, which is necessary, because without it the behavior is ambiguous. The new channel defaults to enabled.
• BUG ID 51901 - Mesh Paint: Normals were flipped in some cases, when painting geometry in Item mode.
• BUG ID 52092 - Linear Falloff: Several fields were missing from the Properties panel.
• BUG ID 56826 - The default value of the Texture Offset Amplitude was 1 instead of 0.
• BUG ID 57134 - Network Rendering: The Render window didn't show the last frame rendered, if rendered on a slave.

The first installment of the MODO 10 Series, MODO 10.0v1, offers significantly enhanced workflows for creating real-time content for games, or for other immersive interactive experiences like virtual reality. With it, you can:
— Author in MODO and be confident that your assets will look virtually the same in Unity or Unreal Engine
— Easily get realistic detail into your real-time assets with a streamlined, repeatable texture baking workflow
— Export to popular engines with simple, automated steps that minimize the need to recreate work