To the OpenSCAD developers. Please help the poor guys.
To the OpenSCAD developers.
First of all thanks for your amazing work.
In the past August I started modelling a real delta 3d printer, that I
intend to publish for the community, based on an new idea I had some time
ago. It has been a pain in the ... not because of OpenSCAD of course, debut
because although a have a 6 core processor I do not have a 3D oriented
graphics board. I'm a poor guy... So for the poor guys of this world please
try to help.
My suggestions are:
1 - The scintilla editor should remember on startup the modules, functions,
and instances that were collapsed in the previous session.
2 - Please add a command line to adjust the viewpoint. The lag between the
action of the mouse and the display update drives me crazy.
3 - Automatic backup every time we press «F5» in order to be possible to
kill the process if we are caught in a loop or extreme delay and not loose
the work, recovering the work from the backup.
4 - Better than suggestion 3, would be to have a button to stop CSG tree
compilation like the one for CGAL compilation.
5 - Even better than 4 would be the editor to be independent of the
compilation processes. The CSG tree compilation could be done over an
automatically generated backup copy of the actual file with a process
running in background. If «F5» pressed again the background running process
would be aborted a a new one started. Now I think I'm asking for too much
...
Any help to speed up things to the poor guys of this world is welcome.
Thanks.
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re 3.
FWIW - I get an automatic F5 when I save.
So instead of doing an F5 I do a ctrl-S.
This way my file is always up to date (of course you have to manage
versions on disk).
On 9/11/2015 11:26 AM, jpmendes wrote:
To the OpenSCAD developers.
First of all thanks for your amazing work.
In the past August I started modelling a real delta 3d printer, that I
intend to publish for the community, based on an new idea I had some time
ago. It has been a pain in the ... not because of OpenSCAD of course, debut
because although a have a 6 core processor I do not have a 3D oriented
graphics board. I'm a poor guy... So for the poor guys of this world please
try to help.
My suggestions are:
1 - The scintilla editor should remember on startup the modules, functions,
and instances that were collapsed in the previous session.
2 - Please add a command line to adjust the viewpoint. The lag between the
action of the mouse and the display update drives me crazy.
3 - Automatic backup every time we press «F5» in order to be possible to
kill the process if we are caught in a loop or extreme delay and not loose
the work, recovering the work from the backup.
4 - Better than suggestion 3, would be to have a button to stop CSG tree
compilation like the one for CGAL compilation.
5 - Even better than 4 would be the editor to be independent of the
compilation processes. The CSG tree compilation could be done over an
automatically generated backup copy of the actual file with a process
running in background. If «F5» pressed again the background running process
would be aborted a a new one started. Now I think I'm asking for too much
...
Any help to speed up things to the poor guys of this world is welcome.
Thanks.
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Thanks, its better than nothing. I will try it although my «F5» is already
instinctive.
Regards.
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Just curious... what kind of graphics do you have? Can you go to
help/library-info and paste it on pastebin or somewhere? How big is your
scad file (thousands of lines?).
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On Thu, Sep 10, 2015, at 06:26 PM, jpmendes wrote:
To the OpenSCAD developers.
First of all thanks for your amazing work.
In the past August I started modelling a real delta 3d printer, that I
intend to publish for the community, based on an new idea I had some time
ago. It has been a pain in the ... not because of OpenSCAD of course,
debut
because although a have a 6 core processor I do not have a 3D oriented
graphics board. I'm a poor guy... So for the poor guys of this world
please
try to help.
My suggestions are:
1 - The scintilla editor should remember on startup the modules,
functions,
and instances that were collapsed in the previous session.
2 - Please add a command line to adjust the viewpoint. The lag between
the
action of the mouse and the display update drives me crazy.
3 - Automatic backup every time we press «F5» in order to be possible to
kill the process if we are caught in a loop or extreme delay and not
loose
the work, recovering the work from the backup.
4 - Better than suggestion 3, would be to have a button to stop CSG tree
compilation like the one for CGAL compilation.
5 - Even better than 4 would be the editor to be independent of the
compilation processes. The CSG tree compilation could be done over an
automatically generated backup copy of the actual file with a process
running in background. If «F5» pressed again the background running
process
would be aborted a a new one started. Now I think I'm asking for too much
...
Any help to speed up things to the poor guys of this world is welcome.
Thanks.
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On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 04:26:56PM -0700, jpmendes wrote:
To the OpenSCAD developers.
First of all thanks for your amazing work.
In the past August I started modelling a real delta 3d printer, that I
intend to publish for the community, based on an new idea I had some time
ago. It has been a pain in the ... not because of OpenSCAD of course, debut
because although a have a 6 core processor I do not have a 3D oriented
graphics board. I'm a poor guy... So for the poor guys of this world please
try to help.
A powerful CPU (number of cores doesn't matter because CGAL is single-threaded)
goes further than a powerful graphics card for doing OpenSCAD stuff, actually.
I'm on a Core i7 Ivy Bridge machine with integrated graphics and 16GB of RAM.
My suggestions are:
1 - The scintilla editor should remember on startup the modules, functions,
and instances that were collapsed in the previous session.
2 - Please add a command line to adjust the viewpoint. The lag between the
action of the mouse and the display update drives me crazy.
3 - Automatic backup every time we press «F5» in order to be possible to
kill the process if we are caught in a loop or extreme delay and not loose
the work, recovering the work from the backup.
I use emacs as my external editor and OpenSCAD as merely a viewer. If the F5
frame-rate is too slow, I do F6 instead, which gives me a much better view. If
all else fails, I export it to an stl using the command line (I have Makefiles
for my scad projects, so I can just use my editor's compile function for this)
and use Meshlab to view the part.
I really recommend using an external editor because at least for me, OpenSCAD
hangs while rendering complex objects, and it really drives me nuts to not be
able to do anything while waiting for the render.
4 - Better than suggestion 3, would be to have a button to stop CSG tree
compilation like the one for CGAL compilation.
5 - Even better than 4 would be the editor to be independent of the
compilation processes. The CSG tree compilation could be done over an
automatically generated backup copy of the actual file with a process
running in background. If «F5» pressed again the background running process
would be aborted a a new one started. Now I think I'm asking for too much
[...]
TL;DR: An external editor goes a long way to retaining your sanity while using
OpenSCAD.
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Loong Jin
If the F5 frame rate gets too low I add render() to the top level objects
to get the speed back. The first F5 takes longer but after that it is
faster as it simply uses the cached CGAL mesh.
On 11 September 2015 at 11:45, Chow Loong Jin hyperair@debian.org wrote:
On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 04:26:56PM -0700, jpmendes wrote:
To the OpenSCAD developers.
First of all thanks for your amazing work.
In the past August I started modelling a real delta 3d printer, that I
intend to publish for the community, based on an new idea I had some time
ago. It has been a pain in the ... not because of OpenSCAD of course,
debut
because although a have a 6 core processor I do not have a 3D oriented
graphics board. I'm a poor guy... So for the poor guys of this world
please
try to help.
A powerful CPU (number of cores doesn't matter because CGAL is
single-threaded)
goes further than a powerful graphics card for doing OpenSCAD stuff,
actually.
I'm on a Core i7 Ivy Bridge machine with integrated graphics and 16GB of
RAM.
My suggestions are:
1 - The scintilla editor should remember on startup the modules,
functions,
and instances that were collapsed in the previous session.
2 - Please add a command line to adjust the viewpoint. The lag between
the
action of the mouse and the display update drives me crazy.
3 - Automatic backup every time we press «F5» in order to be possible to
kill the process if we are caught in a loop or extreme delay and not
loose
the work, recovering the work from the backup.
I use emacs as my external editor and OpenSCAD as merely a viewer. If the
F5
frame-rate is too slow, I do F6 instead, which gives me a much better
view. If
all else fails, I export it to an stl using the command line (I have
Makefiles
for my scad projects, so I can just use my editor's compile function for
this)
and use Meshlab to view the part.
I really recommend using an external editor because at least for me,
OpenSCAD
hangs while rendering complex objects, and it really drives me nuts to not
be
able to do anything while waiting for the render.
4 - Better than suggestion 3, would be to have a button to stop CSG tree
compilation like the one for CGAL compilation.
5 - Even better than 4 would be the editor to be independent of the
compilation processes. The CSG tree compilation could be done over an
automatically generated backup copy of the actual file with a process
running in background. If «F5» pressed again the background running
process
would be aborted a a new one started. Now I think I'm asking for too much
[...]
TL;DR: An external editor goes a long way to retaining your sanity while
using
OpenSCAD.
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Kind regards,
Loong Jin
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Thank you all for the suggestions.
I have an ASUS motherboard M5A78L-M/USB3 with embedded graphics ATI Radeon
HD3000 and 8 GB of RAM. The ram allocated to the graphics is the maximum
that the bios allows, 1 GB.
Code now is 1.2k lines with 60 modules.
Regards.
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Some thoughts:
- What 6 core CPU do you have which doesn't have an integrated GPU? If
it does, and you are not using it, it may be better than the video board
you have. - I use an external editor and tell OpenSCAD to watch a file. Every
time I save the file, it reloads the model. Then you can use whatever
editor you like.
On 09/10/2015 07:26 PM, jpmendes wrote:
To the OpenSCAD developers.
First of all thanks for your amazing work.
In the past August I started modelling a real delta 3d printer, that I
intend to publish for the community, based on an new idea I had some time
ago. It has been a pain in the ... not because of OpenSCAD of course, debut
because although a have a 6 core processor I do not have a 3D oriented
graphics board. I'm a poor guy... So for the poor guys of this world please
try to help.
My suggestions are:
1 - The scintilla editor should remember on startup the modules, functions,
and instances that were collapsed in the previous session.
2 - Please add a command line to adjust the viewpoint. The lag between the
action of the mouse and the display update drives me crazy.
3 - Automatic backup every time we press «F5» in order to be possible to
kill the process if we are caught in a loop or extreme delay and not loose
the work, recovering the work from the backup.
4 - Better than suggestion 3, would be to have a button to stop CSG tree
compilation like the one for CGAL compilation.
5 - Even better than 4 would be the editor to be independent of the
compilation processes. The CSG tree compilation could be done over an
automatically generated backup copy of the actual file with a process
running in background. If «F5» pressed again the background running process
would be aborted a a new one started. Now I think I'm asking for too much
...
Any help to speed up things to the poor guys of this world is welcome.
Thanks.
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Hi, the biggest problem with my preferred editor Notepad++ (I'm using
windows) is that it do not recognize the opening and closing of curly braces
correctly and do not collapse the entities correctly also. Even with
OpenSCAD extension, that I found on Thingiverse, enabled it doesn't work
well.
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is your scad file publicly available? it could help with testing...
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On Fri, Sep 11, 2015, at 10:16 AM, jpmendes wrote:
Thank you all for the suggestions.
I have an ASUS motherboard M5A78L-M/USB3 with embedded graphics ATI
Radeon
HD3000 and 8 GB of RAM. The ram allocated to the graphics is the maximum
that the bios allows, 1 GB.
Code now is 1.2k lines with 60 modules.
Regards.
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