Generally the work flow I use is to paramaterise everything, but make the edits in the code. The customiser is useful in this case to try different values to see how they look, and when I find some that seems worth trying, I set the value in the editor and save it On Tue, 13 Apr 2021, 06:56 Terrypin via Discuss, <discuss@lists.openscad.org> wrote: > <Wrapped message - DMARC mitigation> > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Terrypin <T.pinnell@btinternet.com> > To: discuss@lists.openscad.org > Cc: > Bcc: > Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2021 03:56:06 -0700 (MST) > Subject: [OpenSCAD] Re: Novice, confused about saving files > OK, I'm clearly on my own about this then. So I'll defer to the experts > rather than press my case further! > > However I'd appreciate suggestions on how to overcome the minor > frustration that prompted this thread. Six weeks into this hobby I'm > working with several types of SCAD file and workflow differs between them. > Files for simple learning exercises are irrelevant in the present context. > If there are any parameters, or I add them, I don't use Customizer but edit > directly. > > There are also more complex models that I'm impatient to use to get stuff > printed, even before fully understanding the code. Take the current example > of nophead's 'Polygonal hole test'. I downloaded the SCAD from > https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6118 to > C:\Users\terry\Dropbox\3D Printer\PROJECTS\Polygonal_hole_test\nophead > original\polyholes.scad > and opened it in OpenSCAD then gave it the new name and location of > C:\Users\terry\Dropbox\3D > Printer\PROJECTS\Polygonal_hole_test\polyholes-e1.stl > where the '-e1' suffix indicates my first edit. > > It's not parameterised so I customised it by editing the code as shown. > (This was to get a much smaller 'test template', as I mainly want holes for > the lids of small project cases, with size M2, M3 or M4 screws/bolts.) > > I then saved the STL as polyholes-e1.scad, opened that in Cura for > slicing, where I saved an image including settings as polyholes-e1.jpg, and > then saved the result as polyholes-e1.gcode and printed it. > > All four file types have identical names for fast access. > > Suppose I then decided that I'd like to add a seventh hole. I could simply > open my latest edit and proceed to make that further change. > > If the model had been parametrised, at this stage of my ignorance I might > have impatiently sacrificed the learning opportunity and used the > Customizer. But that would not have allowed me to save an appropriately > named new SCAD file. My intuitive workflow - one I'm used to in just about > every other application, such as those I listed earlier - would then be > broken. > > Terry (who doesn't know an AST from an elbow! ) > ------------------------------ > Sent from the OpenSCAD mailing list archive <http://forum.openscad.org/> > at Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > OpenSCAD mailing list > To unsubscribe send an email to discuss-leave@lists.openscad.org >