I am not keen on adding even more menu options. I think the existing ones
were poorly concieved, perhaps before the external editor option was added.

It seems a bit odd to me placing your cursor in the editor and then going
to a menu that pastes to the cursor. I often ended up pasting it to the
wrong place and then moving it. More natural to copy to the clipboard and
then paste whereever you want. I can't think of another application that
pastes for somewhere other than the clipboard, but lots of applications can
copy different things to the clipboard.

On Sun, 9 Dec 2018 at 21:27, MichaelAtOz oz.at.michael@gmail.com wrote:

nophead wrote

I rarely use these functions, so not fussed apart from the don't change UX
unless you have to principle.

You also have the external editor focus. I haven't been doing a lot of that
lately.
With OpenSCAD GUI as your editor, it could make sense, particularly of you
already had something in the clipboard.

I doing the devils work here. We probably need comment from people who
actually use it often.

But as I said, not fussed.

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I use it to pose views for exporting as png files. Rather than specifing
unique camera parameters on the command line I realised I only need the
angle as the command line can now just do autocenter and viewall. I use
imagemagick to trim the excess blank around the edges as viewall is
conservative.

I use this pose module in the code and fill it in from the viewing angle I
find looks best on the GUI.
//
// Pose an assembly for rendering to png
//
module pose(a)
if(is_undef($pose))
children();
else
let($pose = undef, $posed = true) // only pose the top level
rotate([0, 0, 25 - a.z])
rotate([0, -a.y, 0])
rotate([a.x - 55, 0, 0])
children();

The pose module is a no op while I am viewing in the GUI. The command line
sets $pose and then pose rotates its children to the angle pasted from the
GUI. E.g.

module main_assembly() pose([210, 0, 180]) {
....
}

With this I now have scipts than can automatically generate images of all
the assemblies in my project from the BOM information emitted by echos. I
do them at four times the final resolution and downsample them in
imagemagick to get antialised images like this:

[image: image.png]

On Sun, 9 Dec 2018 at 22:14, MichaelAtOz oz.at.michael@gmail.com wrote:

On 12/9/2018 2:02 PM, MichaelAtOz wrote:

In Windows, Alt+X opens the menu that has an underlined X in its name. 
Thus, typically, Alt+F opens the File menu, Alt+E opens the Edit menu,
et cetera.

Overloading this seems undesirable.

What do the ampersands in menu names mean? E.g. <string>P&aste viewport
translation</string>

On Mon, 10 Dec 2018 at 09:13, Jordan Brown openscad@jordan.maileater.net
wrote: