I was constructing this object in OpenSCAD http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:476845/#files I downloaded the code and got the deprecation msg so I tried to remove the assign statements. Unfortunately the end results does not match. It appears the Assign allows a sweep to occur and simple variable assignment creates discrete objects. Please compare these two images. Is there a way to get the same result without using the Assign statement ? <http://forum.openscad.org/file/n12966/OpenSCAD-bridging_spiral-Assign-statement.png> Original code with Assign statement Test-bridging_spiral-orig.scad <http://forum.openscad.org/file/n12966/Test-bridging_spiral-orig.scad> My attempt to remove it Test-bridging_spiral-noassign.scad <http://forum.openscad.org/file/n12966/Test-bridging_spiral-noassign.scad> Debug variable info is echo'd - and appears identical. -- View this message in context: http://forum.openscad.org/Assign-statement-seems-neccessary-tp12966.html Sent from the OpenSCAD mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

If you simply replace the assigns with assignment statements it works fine but you also made other changes and broke it by adding a semicolon after the hull on line 85. Note there was no need to change the variable names. On 1 July 2015 at 08:24, Neon22 <mschafer@wireframe.biz> wrote: > I was constructing this object in OpenSCAD > http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:476845/#files > I downloaded the code and got the deprecation msg so I tried to remove the > assign statements. > > Unfortunately the end results does not match. It appears the Assign allows > a > sweep to occur and simple variable assignment creates discrete objects. > Please compare these two images. > Is there a way to get the same result without using the Assign statement ? > < > http://forum.openscad.org/file/n12966/OpenSCAD-bridging_spiral-Assign-statement.png > > > Original code with Assign statement > Test-bridging_spiral-orig.scad > <http://forum.openscad.org/file/n12966/Test-bridging_spiral-orig.scad> > My attempt to remove it > Test-bridging_spiral-noassign.scad > <http://forum.openscad.org/file/n12966/Test-bridging_spiral-noassign.scad> > > Debug variable info is echo'd - and appears identical. > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://forum.openscad.org/Assign-statement-seems-neccessary-tp12966.html > Sent from the OpenSCAD mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > OpenSCAD mailing list > Discuss@lists.openscad.org > http://lists.openscad.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.openscad.org >

You also broke the hull on line 66 but that makes little visual difference. It just fill in some small gaps at the end of the spokes. On 1 July 2015 at 10:40, nop head <nop.head@gmail.com> wrote: > If you simply replace the assigns with assignment statements it works fine > but you also made other changes and broke it by adding a semicolon after > the hull on line 85. > > Note there was no need to change the variable names. > > On 1 July 2015 at 08:24, Neon22 <mschafer@wireframe.biz> wrote: > >> I was constructing this object in OpenSCAD >> http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:476845/#files >> I downloaded the code and got the deprecation msg so I tried to remove the >> assign statements. >> >> Unfortunately the end results does not match. It appears the Assign >> allows a >> sweep to occur and simple variable assignment creates discrete objects. >> Please compare these two images. >> Is there a way to get the same result without using the Assign statement ? >> < >> http://forum.openscad.org/file/n12966/OpenSCAD-bridging_spiral-Assign-statement.png >> > >> Original code with Assign statement >> Test-bridging_spiral-orig.scad >> <http://forum.openscad.org/file/n12966/Test-bridging_spiral-orig.scad> >> My attempt to remove it >> Test-bridging_spiral-noassign.scad >> <http://forum.openscad.org/file/n12966/Test-bridging_spiral-noassign.scad >> > >> >> Debug variable info is echo'd - and appears identical. >> >> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://forum.openscad.org/Assign-statement-seems-neccessary-tp12966.html >> Sent from the OpenSCAD mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenSCAD mailing list >> Discuss@lists.openscad.org >> http://lists.openscad.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.openscad.org >> > >

Thanks nophead. Looks like I'm the knobhead. Those pesky semicolons... The names were changed to hepl me to undestand what the code was doing (of course). Cheers... -- View this message in context: http://forum.openscad.org/Assign-statement-seems-neccessary-tp12966p12973.html Sent from the OpenSCAD mailing list archive at Nabble.com.