Hi Damian,

Pleased to confirm the change you made works for me – first time I have seen it make something of mine and it’s great that you updated it so fast, so I am encouraged to throw more things at it and try to break it again J

Before I go deep – can I ask if you can elaborate on protection of intellectual property pasted into this box?  IF you’re taking this to any serious level, people will want to know what happens to their designs – I for one would be keen to clarify.

Also, in the vein of preparing for success, would you be able to make this in the form of an ‘embeddable widget’?  It would be amazing if I could use this sort of thing to edit models and push them to a page on my website, for example, so people can see the latest tweaks!

I can confirm the left-button-pan works, and right-button-move only goes down-right for me too.  Chrome on Windows 7.

Cheers

Alex

From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-bounces@lists.openscad.org] On Behalf Of Damien Towning
Sent: 21 July 2017 08:24
To: OpenSCAD general discussion
Subject: Re: [OpenSCAD] Project Announcement Makertron

Hi Alex,

I pushed a new update out today with some improved argument parsing. I see that nice little example you gave now loads. I'll be sorting out some sort of supported features matrix and a time line as well. Just a lot to get done :)

On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 4:26 PM, Torsten Paul Torsten.Paul@gmx.de wrote:

On github it says:

If that's one of the core premises, I'd suggest to have a look at
http://apidesign.org/

Also it would be interesting to have a look at that geometry engine
(quote "The Makertron server supports its own internal geometry
engine based on a BREP representation.") which seems to be based on
Open Cascade. I can only find shared libs in the server repo.

ciao,
Torsten.

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On 2017-07-21 10:09, Damien Towning wrote:

As noted initially: "When pressing the Generate button, nothing
happens."

Requiring port 3000 is a no-no on this network. The page loads with
http://makertron.io but not with http://makertron.io:3000. When loading
with http://makertron.io, clicking Generate provides no response at all
(multiple tries).

The port issue appears to prohibit any further trials on this network.

Carsten Arnholm

Hi Mark,

Leaks are very bad!

Was this in Chrome or Firefox or Edge?

I'll go investigate.

What will really help with a lot of this is when the OffscreenCanvas
feature becomes available.

Being able to put the rendering pipe inside a worker is a must-have.

Also I once knew a Mark Schafer that worked at RH in New Zealand? Fond
memories of those days.... !

On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 6:22 PM, Mark Schafer mschafer@wireframe.biz
wrote:

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Next challenge:  Minkowski.  I use it all. The. Time.

I just tried:

minkowski()

{

cube([20,20,20],center=true);

cylinder(20,20,20,center=true);

}

AND – this is maybe the biggest useful feedback for your development…

Right now if it doesn’t understand something, you get zero response.  If you want to get traction for this, let’s make it a game between you and trial users?

Better:

“Sorry, I don’t understand that”

Much Better:

“Sorry, I don’t know the function ‘minkowski()’ ”

Even better:

“Sorry, I don’t know the function ‘minkowski()’, this has been logged, check the development roadmap HERE”

•      If you’re going for OpenSCAD compatibility – and it’s online – how about flagging back to you every time a function is hit that your app does not understand, like an ‘upvote’.  You could host a page showing how many times people were encountering each of the unknown functions, and other kinds of error, it will give you and the people trying the app instant visibility of where the biggest wins are, and you could also comment on your own intentions?
  

Would you like a discussion by phone/Hangout/etc in the week of 31st July-4th August?  I can think of some exciting applications for this in my own work and would love to chat…

From: Alex Gibson [mailto:alex@alexgibson.net]
Sent: 21 July 2017 09:21
To: 'OpenSCAD general discussion'
Subject: RE: [OpenSCAD] Project Announcement Makertron

Hi Damian,

Pleased to confirm the change you made works for me – first time I have seen it make something of mine and it’s great that you updated it so fast, so I am encouraged to throw more things at it and try to break it again J

Before I go deep – can I ask if you can elaborate on protection of intellectual property pasted into this box?  IF you’re taking this to any serious level, people will want to know what happens to their designs – I for one would be keen to clarify.

Also, in the vein of preparing for success, would you be able to make this in the form of an ‘embeddable widget’?  It would be amazing if I could use this sort of thing to edit models and push them to a page on my website, for example, so people can see the latest tweaks!

I can confirm the left-button-pan works, and right-button-move only goes down-right for me too.  Chrome on Windows 7.

Cheers

Alex

From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-bounces@lists.openscad.org] On Behalf Of Damien Towning
Sent: 21 July 2017 08:24
To: OpenSCAD general discussion
Subject: Re: [OpenSCAD] Project Announcement Makertron

Hi Alex,

I pushed a new update out today with some improved argument parsing. I see that nice little example you gave now loads. I'll be sorting out some sort of supported features matrix and a time line as well. Just a lot to get done :)

On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 4:26 PM, Torsten Paul Torsten.Paul@gmx.de wrote:

On github it says:

If that's one of the core premises, I'd suggest to have a look at
http://apidesign.org/

Also it would be interesting to have a look at that geometry engine
(quote "The Makertron server supports its own internal geometry
engine based on a BREP representation.") which seems to be based on
Open Cascade. I can only find shared libs in the server repo.

ciao,
Torsten.

OpenSCAD mailing list
Discuss@lists.openscad.org
http://lists.openscad.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.openscad.org

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http://makertron.io

This is such a great forum. This is some wonderful feedback I am getting.

One of the things about the Makertron is that both the client and server
components are docker ready.

So if you are in a locked down environment you can pull both the server
and client and build both the client and server image and deploy them
locally in to a docker.

Instructions are in the github documentation to do this but are by no means
complete!

On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 6:28 PM, arnholm@arnholm.org wrote:

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Another thing…

cube([20,20,20],center=true);

cylinder(20,20,20,center=true);

OpenSCAD preview:

Makertron:

The cube should be gone.  For this to be solid, manifold and for example 3D printable, it worries me if we still see any trace of that cube – is this a conscious decision, or possible issue?

Cheers

Alex

From: Alex Gibson [mailto:alex@alexgibson.net]
Sent: 21 July 2017 09:36
To: 'OpenSCAD general discussion'
Subject: RE: [OpenSCAD] Project Announcement Makertron

Next challenge:  Minkowski.  I use it all. The. Time.

I just tried:

minkowski()

{

cube([20,20,20],center=true);

cylinder(20,20,20,center=true);

}

AND – this is maybe the biggest useful feedback for your development…

Right now if it doesn’t understand something, you get zero response.  If you want to get traction for this, let’s make it a game between you and trial users?

Better:

“Sorry, I don’t understand that”

Much Better:

“Sorry, I don’t know the function ‘minkowski()’ ”

Even better:

“Sorry, I don’t know the function ‘minkowski()’, this has been logged, check the development roadmap HERE”

•      If you’re going for OpenSCAD compatibility – and it’s online – how about flagging back to you every time a function is hit that your app does not understand, like an ‘upvote’.  You could host a page showing how many times people were encountering each of the unknown functions, and other kinds of error, it will give you and the people trying the app instant visibility of where the biggest wins are, and you could also comment on your own intentions?
  

Would you like a discussion by phone/Hangout/etc in the week of 31st July-4th August?  I can think of some exciting applications for this in my own work and would love to chat…

From: Alex Gibson [mailto:alex@alexgibson.net]
Sent: 21 July 2017 09:21
To: 'OpenSCAD general discussion'
Subject: RE: [OpenSCAD] Project Announcement Makertron

Hi Damian,

Pleased to confirm the change you made works for me – first time I have seen it make something of mine and it’s great that you updated it so fast, so I am encouraged to throw more things at it and try to break it again J

Before I go deep – can I ask if you can elaborate on protection of intellectual property pasted into this box?  IF you’re taking this to any serious level, people will want to know what happens to their designs – I for one would be keen to clarify.

Also, in the vein of preparing for success, would you be able to make this in the form of an ‘embeddable widget’?  It would be amazing if I could use this sort of thing to edit models and push them to a page on my website, for example, so people can see the latest tweaks!

I can confirm the left-button-pan works, and right-button-move only goes down-right for me too.  Chrome on Windows 7.

Cheers

Alex

From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-bounces@lists.openscad.org] On Behalf Of Damien Towning
Sent: 21 July 2017 08:24
To: OpenSCAD general discussion
Subject: Re: [OpenSCAD] Project Announcement Makertron

Hi Alex,

I pushed a new update out today with some improved argument parsing. I see that nice little example you gave now loads. I'll be sorting out some sort of supported features matrix and a time line as well. Just a lot to get done :)

On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 4:26 PM, Torsten Paul Torsten.Paul@gmx.de wrote:

On github it says:

If that's one of the core premises, I'd suggest to have a look at
http://apidesign.org/

Also it would be interesting to have a look at that geometry engine
(quote "The Makertron server supports its own internal geometry
engine based on a BREP representation.") which seems to be based on
Open Cascade. I can only find shared libs in the server repo.

ciao,
Torsten.

OpenSCAD mailing list
Discuss@lists.openscad.org
http://lists.openscad.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.openscad.org

--

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CEO / Developer
http://makertron.io

On 2017-07-21 10:39, Damien Towning wrote:

Where is the source code for the OpenCasCade/BREP interaction? You refer
to
https://www.opencascade.com/doc/occt-6.7.0/overview/html/occt_brep_format.html
in the github client readme.md and I was interested in the
OpenCasCade/BREP, but could not find anything in either the client or
server github repositories. Can you point to the surce code where
interaction with with OpenCasCade is taking place?

I am on Windows here, it isn't clear to me if makertron builds under
Windows and I don't have the time to investigate. Instead I will try
makertron.io a bit more from home where the port 3000 issue probably
does not apply.

Carsten Arnholm

Alex,

Yes! I've had this on a beagle bone with MachineKit ( but -not- in the
docker containers in the current deployment). I was attempting to do just
that. Send SCAD straight to the Beagle Bone which has a copy of Machinekit
and the Replicape board plugged in to it.

On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 6:49 PM, Alex Gibson alex@alexgibson.net wrote:

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http://makertron.io