I downloaded the Windows ZIP and tried to run the EXE, and my
anti-malware software (AVG) quarantined the EXE because of
FileRepMalware, whatever that is.

Jon

On 8/4/2022 10:49 AM, William F. Adams via Discuss wrote:

I guess this "problem" may be because the file/exe is seen so rarely by
the AVG software

https://appuals.com/what-is-filerepmalware-and-should-you-remove-it/

Jon

On 8/4/2022 11:19 AM, jon wrote:

I glanced at the manual, and I cannot imagine creating anything complex
using this technique.  It is cute, and may be educational, but I feel
that it would be useless for a real world application. Perhaps someone
will show me an example proving me wrong.

Jon

On 8/4/2022 11:22 AM, jon wrote:

I downloaded the the .zip file from GitHub.  I didn't see any exe file
which wouldn't matter since I'm running Linux.  When I expanded the .zip
file, there was a lot of C# source files, but no instructions on
compiling it. I tried to delete the folder and it failed.  The only
thing left in the folder was a file named something like .nfs00000
something.  I tried deleting it from root.  It failed because it was in
use!  I rebooted and managed to remove it.

Now I'm going to have to run diagnostic programs to see if it left
anything behind.

I did download the Linux executable.  It looks like all those other 3D
CAD programs which I threw out when I discovered OpenSCAD.

I suppose that it might seem familiar to people used to AutoCAD or the like.

After finding that .nfs000 whatever file in the source, I wouldn't trust
it.  It probably does have the FileRepMalware code.

--
Bob

1980: movie industry went to the Supreme Court to try to ban the VCR.
2002: 46% of their income is from rentals.

On 8/4/22 11:22, jon wrote:

Looking at the example on github, (I'm not wasting time downloading it)
it looks as if it is renamed openscad commands/script, linked together
in a similar way as other visual programming methods, e.g. ibm visual
age. It seems a very convoluted way of creating objects, far too much
granularity. I started reverse engineering the graph into openscad, and
it was tedious verbose code. Probably, that three hole plate would be 5
or 6 lines in openscad. I suppose it saves learning openscad syntax, but
that has been replaced by something which on the face of it looks more
complex. I suppose it may be useful for some, (the cylinder presents a
list of options which can be selected, for instance) but the graphical
representation defeats one of the main benefits of openscad, - text code
that can be easily shared.

That is the problem with freecad and other software. (except freecad
will at least generate huge multi-matrix code.)

Best wishes,

Ray

On 04/08/2022 18:14, Bob Ewart wrote:

Here's some code to create the plate, using the same variable names as
the example, but some values i guessed.

size=[50,40,8];
h_dm=4;
h_num=3;
margin=7;

module plate()
{
  difference(){
    cube(size);
      for (j=[1:1:h_num]){
           d=(size[0]-margin-margin)/(h_num-1);
           translate([margin+((j-1)d),size[1]/2,-size[2]])
           cylinder(d=h_dm,h=3size[2],$fn=18);
                         }
             }
}

plate();

for me, that is more understandable than the graphical method which has
some weird symbols. Familiarity breeds, etc.

On 04/08/2022 20:57, Raymond West wrote: