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Describes RotoScheduler 0.2.1 · checked 2026-09-14 D5

The manual describes the RotoScheduler version offered for download, and only that version. This page lists what each release changed for the user.

0.2.1 (2026-09-12)

• Redrew the arm rows. An unfolded arm row is the size of its spider, and each mounted mold is a coloured band with its name, as tall as the room the mold takes on the spider; two copies are twice as tall. The separate row per mold type of 0.2 is gone. A folded arm row is a thin thumbnail of the same picture; a dotted line under it means more molds than the thumbnail can show, and clicking it unfolds the arm.
• Click a band to select a mold run at that cycle; the selection outline and its handles sit on the band. With a run or a job selected, a click on another band still checks that destination; press Esc first to select the other band. Up and Down walk the bands, then the arm's cycle boxes, then the next arm.
• Heating is a flat orange fill, cooling a light blue fill, and mold mounting or removal a dotted texture within the grey service work.
• The arm's spider area is written under its name.

0.2 (2026-09-11)

• Replaced the separate docked day strip with one continuous time board. Day, Week and Month are shortcuts; the slider supports other spans, with right to zoom in. Keyboard zoom, Ctrl+wheel at the pointer and dragging empty space move between an overview and a few hours of detail.
• Added mold continuity lines and a colour for each mold. Thin lines mean one copy, thick lines two or more; hover gives the exact count. Colours can be changed in the desktop factory inputs.
• Added service, oven and cooler fills to projected arm cycles at a close view, with clock times and timing sentences in the inspector. Waiting and mold-change work are visible too.
• Reshaped the two-week sample with work on all six machines. RM-4 uses all three arms on every date with different heating and cooling times; RM-3 uses its second arm on four dates. Turret arms enter the oven A, B, C. The sample plans 868 of 892 parts.
• A plain click selects a mold run; Ctrl+click selects the single cycle.
• Made edit previews faster.
• Corrected opening a small document with three fully loaded arms, drawing mold lines across timing gaps, and accepting arms defined in a day's configuration. Timing messages name the configured closing time.

0.1 (2026-09-07, published as 0.8.12 at the time)

• Released RotoScheduler as its own application with Scheduler and Settings pages and a signed Windows trial installer.
• Opened the sample factory on first start, with a week board and a separate docked day strip.
• Supported manual moves with preview, apply, undo and redo; a Jobs list with an Attention filter; and editable factory inputs.
• Included experimental Generate, schedule documents, named versions, and CSV and Excel workbook exports.
• Published the browser demo at rotoscheduler.app and six video tours: the browser demo, board, jobs, Generate, factory inputs and documents.