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On Sun, 2024-03-03 at 19:59 +0100, Guenther Sohler via Discuss wrote:
John, I am not used to using libraries either.
If you depend on the tools internal functions, they are just there
and not worrying about it (PLUS: they have very descriptive names,
are intuitive and come with lots of tutorials and documentation
which is really easy to digest.
Can't claim that from BOSL2 ...
While I can understand your wish to use only native code, I have to
point out that BOSL2, for the most part, has descriptive and intuitive
names, as well as a wealth of documentation, including a huge number of
examples that often allow cutting, pasting, and making a few minor
changes to get exactly what you want.
My opinion only, of course.
I'm fairly new to OpenSCAD, and this discussion is the first I had run
across BOSL2. Look very full-featured, and you have given me plenty of
reading to do.
One thing I wish it had right off the bat is all the examples, tutorials,
and others had images associated with the scad files (so I could get an
idea of what the code snippets are doing while I am reading and learning
about them). I have a couple of initial projects I think I need to revisit
in light of some of what I am learning here.
EBo --
On Sun, Mar 3, 2024 at 2:18 PM larry via Discuss discuss@lists.openscad.org
wrote:
On Sun, 2024-03-03 at 19:59 +0100, Guenther Sohler via Discuss wrote:
John, I am not used to using libraries either.
If you depend on the tools internal functions, they are just there
and not worrying about it (PLUS: they have very descriptive names,
are intuitive and come with lots of tutorials and documentation
which is really easy to digest.
Can't claim that from BOSL2 ...
While I can understand your wish to use only native code, I have to
point out that BOSL2, for the most part, has descriptive and intuitive
names, as well as a wealth of documentation, including a huge number of
examples that often allow cutting, pasting, and making a few minor
changes to get exactly what you want.
My opinion only, of course.
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On 3/3/2024 5:31 PM, John David via Discuss wrote:
One thing I wish it had right off the bat is all the examples,
tutorials, and others had images associated with the scad files (so I
could get an idea of what the code snippets are doing while I am
reading and learning about them).
Hmm? You're looking at https://github.com/BelfrySCAD/BOSL2/wiki/ , right?
Basically all of the functions have examples with images and code
snippets that generate the image.
Yep, as a noob github user I got caught by that same thing. It wasn't
obvious to me that the link on the right of the github page was the
documentation. A simple title of HERE'S THE DOCUMENTATION would have
helped a lot.
On Sun, Mar 3, 2024 at 8:16 PM Jordan Brown via Discuss <
discuss@lists.openscad.org> wrote:
On 3/3/2024 5:31 PM, John David via Discuss wrote:
One thing I wish it had right off the bat is all the examples, tutorials,
and others had images associated with the scad files (so I could get an
idea of what the code snippets are doing while I am reading and learning
about them).
Hmm? You're looking at https://github.com/BelfrySCAD/BOSL2/wiki/ , right?
Basically all of the functions have examples with images and code snippets
that generate the image.
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Interesting. I had not noticed the pane on the upper right. I mistakenly
assumed that the docs would be in the same repository. I should not have
made that assumption. My apologies. I'll try to spend some time with the
wiki and the library sans updates to the examples.
On Sun, Mar 3, 2024 at 10:00 PM Leonard Martin Struttmann via Discuss <
discuss@lists.openscad.org> wrote:
Yep, as a noob github user I got caught by that same thing. It wasn't
obvious to me that the link on the right of the github page was the
documentation. A simple title of HERE'S THE DOCUMENTATION would have
helped a lot.
On Sun, Mar 3, 2024 at 8:16 PM Jordan Brown via Discuss <
discuss@lists.openscad.org> wrote:
On 3/3/2024 5:31 PM, John David via Discuss wrote:
One thing I wish it had right off the bat is all the examples, tutorials,
and others had images associated with the scad files (so I could get an
idea of what the code snippets are doing while I am reading and learning
about them).
Hmm? You're looking at https://github.com/BelfrySCAD/BOSL2/wiki/ ,
right?
Basically all of the functions have examples with images and code
snippets that generate the image.
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Another Github tidbit: on that opening page,
https://github.com/BelfrySCAD/BOSL2 , scroll to the bottom, below the
list of files. That's where, on any Github project, you'll find the
README, which in this case has another link to the documentation, and
has installation instructions.