Soon after getting my 3D printer I was soon enthusiastically experimenting with dozens of files from thingiverse and other sources. To organise access to them was I started an Excel spreadsheet (imaginatively called 3D-Projects.xlsm) with a row for every ‘Project’, and columns containing hyperlinks to the project folder, the SCAD and STL files (multiples when appropriate), screenshots from OpenSCAD and Cura, the thingiverse or other source, a photo of any 3D print that made it that far, and a few other things.
With hindsight it was probably OTT. More of value for referring back quickly for possible repeats or adaptions than using during the project itself.
LOnce something looks like a ‘project’ I now just ensure everything about it goes into an appropriately named folder. And the link to that (captured with a hotkey macro while in File Explorer) can then be copied anywhere with another hotkey macro at any time. Such as into an OpenSCAD comment
Terry
On 25 Feb 2022, at 12:20, Dave Harris wortinguk@gmail.com wrote:
Hi
Any thoughts on having a 'project' feature in OpenSCAD? (Create/Open collection of project files)
I find my current project now has a lot of note/screenshot/.scad files and being able to open a 'project' would really help. It takes a while to reopen the project.
Just a thought.
Best regards
Dave
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Soon after getting my 3D printer I was soon enthusiastically experimenting with dozens of files from thingiverse and other sources. To organise access to them was I started an Excel spreadsheet (imaginatively called 3D-Projects.xlsm) with a row for every ‘Project’, and columns containing hyperlinks to the project folder, the SCAD and STL files (multiples when appropriate), screenshots from OpenSCAD and Cura, the thingiverse or other source, a photo of any 3D print that made it that far, and a few other things.
With hindsight it was probably OTT. More of value for referring back quickly for possible repeats or adaptions than using during the project itself.
LOnce something looks like a ‘project’ I now just ensure everything about it goes into an appropriately named folder. And the link to that (captured with a hotkey macro while in File Explorer) can then be copied anywhere with another hotkey macro at any time. Such as into an OpenSCAD comment
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Terry
> On 25 Feb 2022, at 12:20, Dave Harris <wortinguk@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi
> Any thoughts on having a 'project' feature in OpenSCAD? (Create/Open collection of project files)
>
> I find my current project now has a lot of note/screenshot/.scad files and being able to open a 'project' would really help. It takes a while to reopen the project.
> Just a thought.
>
> Best regards
> Dave
>
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