Anyone tried MakerSCAD? (formerly ScratchyCAD?)
Available at:
https://makerscad.com/ https://makerscad.com/index.html
of course.
Adds a lot of complexity I don't want to deal with, but looks as if it may
be more workable.
William
/*******/
Compiling design (CSG Products normalization)...
WARNING: Normalized tree is growing past 200000 elements. Aborting
normalization.
WARNING: CSG normalization resulted in an empty tree
Normalized CSG tree has 0 elements
/*******/
I'm worried about this limitation of OpenSCAD. The code for the drawings
in my program is generated by my design software, still in development.
This problem, by now, only occurs when I create, by mistake, complex
very absurd and complex instructions caused by software errors in my
product.
But my software is going to have the power to create really complex
draws. And I need to improve the resulting code to avoid this error as
many as possible.
First question: I know that OpenSCAD has a section of OpenCSG options.
It's recommendable change default options? and what are de consequences
of doing it?
Second question: Are there some code tricks I need to know to maintain
these CSG products in a low limit? By example: fewer brackets, fewer
lines of code, some type of instructions that are a bigger resources
consumer?
Thank you in advance!
I change the default to 1,000,000 in the settings and never worry about it.
You can use render() to compute the geometry with CGAL to make life easy
for OpenCSG.
On Thu, 4 Jul 2019 at 10:06, Juan C.Cilleruelo juanc.cilleruelo@gmail.com
wrote:
/*******/
Compiling design (CSG Products normalization)...
WARNING: Normalized tree is growing past 200000 elements. Aborting
normalization.
WARNING: CSG normalization resulted in an empty tree
Normalized CSG tree has 0 elements
/*******/
I'm worried about this limitation of OpenSCAD. The code for the drawings
in my program is generated by my design software, still in development.
This problem, by now, only occurs when I create, by mistake, complex very
absurd and complex instructions caused by software errors in my product.
But my software is going to have the power to create really complex draws.
And I need to improve the resulting code to avoid this error as many as
possible.
First question: I know that OpenSCAD has a section of OpenCSG options.
It's recommendable change default options? and what are de consequences of
doing it?
Second question: Are there some code tricks I need to know to maintain
these CSG products in a low limit? By example: fewer brackets, fewer lines
of code, some type of instructions that are a bigger resources consumer?
Thank you in advance!
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Mine is set to 1000000000 without any apparent affects.
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/*******/
Compiling design (CSG Products normalization)...
WARNING: Normalized tree is growing past 200000 elements. Aborting normalization.
WARNING: CSG normalization resulted in an empty tree
Normalized CSG tree has 0 elements
/*******/
I'm worried about this limitation of OpenSCAD. The code for the drawings in my program is generated
by my design software, still in development.
This problem, by now, only occurs when I create, by mistake, complex very absurd and complex
instructions caused by software errors in my product.
But my software is going to have the power to create really complex draws. And I need to improve
the resulting code to avoid this error as many as possible.
First question: I know that OpenSCAD has a section of OpenCSG options. It's recommendable change
default options? and what are de consequences of doing it?
Second question: Are there some code tricks I need to know to maintain these CSG products in a low
limit? By example: fewer brackets, fewer lines of code, some type of instructions that are a bigger
resources consumer?
Thank you in advance!
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On 04.07.19 11:05, Juan C.Cilleruelo wrote:
First question: I know that OpenSCAD has a section of
OpenCSG options. It's recommendable change default options?
and what are de consequences of doing it?
That configuration is mostly a safe guard against very
slow preview drawing times. Even with OpenSCAD not using
much of the power of new graphics cards, they are more
capable by the minute, so increasing that config for a
normal desktop machine is no problem.
Second question: Are there some code tricks I need to
know to maintain these CSG products in a low limit?
By example: fewer brackets, fewer lines of code, some
type of instructions that are a bigger resources consumer?
This tries to explain (not very well, I suppose) the reason
why that "normalized tree" can explode:
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSCAD_User_Manual/FAQ#Why_is_the_preview_so_slow?
The best option that help against that is what nophead
said - use render() to force geometry calculation at
specific points (like complete modules of an assembly).
ciao,
Torsten.