On 14.06.21 20:17, pproj@posteo.de wrote:

In theory that should update automatically after the merge,
but it seems to have a problem with updating the file in the
release:

https://github.com/openscad/openscad-lists/runs/2822568395

There's an error in the "Release JSON" step.

So if that would have worked, the release should update with
the new data at:

https://github.com/openscad/openscad-lists/releases/tag/continous

And the file server should pick it up every hour automatically

http://files.openscad.org/lists/gallery.jsonp

For now I'll delete the release and run that action again
manually, so the web page should update at about 18:05 UTC.

ciao,
Torsten.

ok i understand, will there be a place, where i can see  that i have
made a syntax Error in Yaml and it is not published?

On 14.06.21 20:27, Torsten Paul wrote:

On 14.06.21 20:25, pproj@posteo.de wrote:

We just need to define what data is required and how it
should be displayed. Twitter and Thingiverse are just two
of the places where people tend to put their OpenSCAD
designs. Other than that, reddit comes to mind and we
probably also want to support just generic URLs.

In the end it should be relatively easy to add some other
places if a generic URL is not enough. The main benefit
for knowing specific services is that this will reduce the
needed input, e.g. for Thingiverse it should be enough to
just declare the thing-id.

ciao,
Torsten.

On 14.06.21 20:55, pproj@posteo.de wrote:

Not yet, right now there's only the converter running when
the change is approved and activated.

But it's easy to also add a validation that runs at the
time the PR is created. This could check both format of
the file and also if things like URLs actually exist.

The result would show up as "Check" in the PR and when
failed require to be fixed before it the PR can be
merged.

ciao,
Torsten.

On 14.06.21 21:58, Torsten Paul wrote:

Ok i understand, i just wonder if there is a micro-news service or site
out there,  we could use for news about libraries, which is:

1. not commecially interested vendor-controlled

2. does not practice widespread political censorship of participants
   (this/these ones i would prefer not to use and support its growth).

I really do not see any. Perhas Diaspora?

It looks like i will end up using Thingiverse for that.nit dues not pass
condition 1. though.

I just really wonder why there is so little attention to the
library/update-announcement mechanisms on the list.

Any ideas?

Peter

On 20.06.21 13:27, pproj@posteo.de wrote:

No idea, I've never used it. Mastodon? But that's also just
for posting a short message, it would not allow to fully host
the actual project.

Maybe https://www.freedombox.org/ ?

Who knows, maybe at some point we could even have a nice
https://cadhub.xyz/ module in freedom box.

Anyway, whatever you decide to use for your projects, as long
as it has a public link, we can add it. It simply would need
repeating some summary and maybe a separate image link. That's
all.

The main work remaining is to prepare all the presentation
part for the website. I'll probably start with converting the
gallery as that's the much easier part. If someone with more
CSS know-how would like to help on the news part, that would
be great.

Yeah, I did hope for at least a little bit of a response, but
it's not hugely surprising. It's extra work and most people
are already busy enough. I'm ok with moving that along to a
state where it's actually integrated and useful. It might be
easier to ask people to join the review group then.

There's so much cool stuff happening, like just today I've
seen:
https://twitter.com/3dprinty/status/1406111169010671619
https://twitter.com/caterpillar/status/1406552352165752842

Also in case someone is interested in a talk about by Tam
Hanna who published a book about "Technical Modelling in
OpenSCAD" recently:
https://twitter.com/byte_adventures/status/1405590934759383040

ciao,
Torsten.

On 20.06.21 19:02, Torsten Paul wrote:

Interesting, i will have a look

i am not so much of a font-end guy, and usually with little spare
time..., but how and what do you think to implement? may be i'll gve it
a try, when i find some time

yes i agree, this somehow needs to be consolidated and showcased

On 2021-06-21 06:33, karl.exler@meinklang.cc wrote:

Sure. Make a cylinder() and some text(), then rotate/translate the text
from its default position and orientation to be located on the surface
of the cylinder. This is easy if the text is aligned with the cylinder
axis.

If you want the text to be engraved around the periphery of the
cylinder, you can do it with OpenSCAD if you transform each letter
individually, assuming the letter size is small enough compared to the
radius. Obviously, this is a compromise.

If that is not good enough, you can do something like this
https://gist.github.com/arnholm/de12d1768cc552a416a6f9edebd0a81c

Carsten Arnholm

Just in case the small item is not obvious : text is a 2D object, so you
must use linear_extrude() to make it solid, then you can add it or use it
difference() to engrave
difference() {
translate([0,0,-8]) rotate([0,90,0]) cylinder(h=30,d=20);
linear_extrude(height=3) translate([0,-5,0]) text("Karl");
}

On Mon, 21 Jun 2021 at 08:00, arnholm@arnholm.org wrote: