On Tue, 2024-09-10 at 16:16 -0400, L Michael Fraser wrote: > OpenSCAD 2024.8.30 is the latest build available for Windows. > > When I click on either the icon or the Menu's, absolutely nothing > happens.  Is there some precursor required in addition to Render? I don't think so. I'm sort of waiting to see what the dev team folks say about it. I don't see anything in preferences. As for a screen shot, (thanks Gene) here's one showing two red dots and a box with the distance between them. This was obtained by the exact sequence: clicked on 'measure' icon clicked on lower left corner of 20mm cube clicked on upper right corner of 20mm cube > On Tue, Sep 10, 2024 at 3:14 PM larry <lar3ry@sasktel.net> wrote: > > On Tue, 2024-09-10 at 12:51 -0400, L Michael Fraser wrote: > > > > My test was post-rendering: > > > >   > > > > > > Parsing design (AST generation)... > > > > > > Compiling design (CSG Tree generation)... > > > > > > Rendering Polygon Mesh using CGAL... > > > > > > Geometries in cache: 20 > > > > > > Geometry cache size in bytes: 19189280 > > > > > > CGAL Polyhedrons in cache: 4 > > > > > > CGAL cache size in bytes: 78830208 > > > > > > Total rendering time: 0:00:01.970 > > > > > > Top level object is a 3D object (Nef polyhedron): > > > > > >    Simple:     yes > > > > > >    Vertices:     9984 > > > > > >    Halfedges:   46550 > > > > > >    Edges:       23275 > > > > > >    Halffacets:  26588 > > > > > >    Facets:      13294 > > > > > >    Volumes:         2 > > > > > > Rendering finished. > > > > > > > > Where should I find results if it works? > > > > Should be right on the picture in a little pop-up box. > > When you click on the measure icon, then click on a part, you will > > either get a line on an edge or a dot on a vertex. Then clicking on > > another feature should show a pop-up box. > > > > ESC will exit the measuring state. > > > > I would give you a screenshot, but when I try, the box goes away. > > > > Maybe try a later dev snapshot. > > > > > > > > On Tue, Sep 10, 2024 at 11:27 AM larry via Discuss > > > > > <discuss@lists.openscad.org> wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, 2024-09-10 at 11:55 +0000, mike.fraser.1945+osc--- > > > > > > via > > > > > > > > Discuss > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > Well, I still get no results with Measure in Build > > > > > > > > 2023.08.30 by > > > > > > > > either <Design><Measure> or clicking the buttons in the > > > > > > > > 3D > > > > > > > > > > > toolbar. > > > > > > > > Is there any documentation? > > > > > > > > > > > > You need to render it first. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > OpenSCAD mailing list > > > > > > To unsubscribe send an email to > > > > > > discuss-leave@lists.openscad.org > >

On 9/10/24 23:30, larry via Discuss wrote: > On Tue, 2024-09-10 at 16:16 -0400, L Michael Fraser wrote: >> OpenSCAD 2024.8.30 is the latest build available for Windows. >> >> When I click on either the icon or the Menu's, absolutely nothing >> happens.  Is there some precursor required in addition to Render? > > I don't think so. I'm sort of waiting to see what the dev team folks > say about it. I don't see anything in preferences. > > As for a screen shot, (thanks Gene) here's one showing two red dots and > a box with the distance between them. This was obtained by the exact > sequence: > clicked on 'measure' icon > clicked on lower left corner of 20mm cube > clicked on upper right corner of 20mm cube > Couple comments, 1. probably due to cheap spastic mice. I cannot seem to place, with my nearly 90 yo hands. the red dots as precisely as shown below. My system needs a sloewer mouse. 2. the red dots do not disappear even after a fresh render. 3. I think I just found the slow render of F5. It writes to /tmp. F6 does not. And this bookworm system, re-installed 35 times or more, has at least a 30 second lag while asking for write perms for anything, anyplace on the system. Apparently the guy's in charge of the installer use a test script, so it falls thru bang, bang, bang, but, it the person doing the install pauses to read the next step, a timeout is triggered and orca and brltty are installed and activated whether your want them or not. Then if you try to silence this PITA yelling every keystroke at you, by turning off the exec perms, it won't reboot, sitting there forever waiting for them to come alive, so the only way you can reboot is to re-install yet again. But this is not the place or list to go ballistic on, so now I'll shut up. Thanks for reading. > >> On Tue, Sep 10, 2024 at 3:14 PM larry <lar3ry@sasktel.net> wrote: >>> On Tue, 2024-09-10 at 12:51 -0400, L Michael Fraser wrote: >>>>> My test was post-rendering: >>>>> >>>>>>> Parsing design (AST generation)... >>>>>>> Compiling design (CSG Tree generation)... >>>>>>> Rendering Polygon Mesh using CGAL... >>>>>>> Geometries in cache: 20 >>>>>>> Geometry cache size in bytes: 19189280 >>>>>>> CGAL Polyhedrons in cache: 4 >>>>>>> CGAL cache size in bytes: 78830208 >>>>>>> Total rendering time: 0:00:01.970 >>>>>>> Top level object is a 3D object (Nef polyhedron): >>>>>>>    Simple:     yes >>>>>>>    Vertices:     9984 >>>>>>>    Halfedges:   46550 >>>>>>>    Edges:       23275 >>>>>>>    Halffacets:  26588 >>>>>>>    Facets:      13294 >>>>>>>    Volumes:         2 >>>>>>> Rendering finished. >>>>> >>>>> Where should I find results if it works? >>> >>> Should be right on the picture in a little pop-up box. >>> When you click on the measure icon, then click on a part, you will >>> either get a line on an edge or a dot on a vertex. Then clicking on >>> another feature should show a pop-up box. >>> >>> ESC will exit the measuring state. >>> >>> I would give you a screenshot, but when I try, the box goes away. >>> >>> Maybe try a later dev snapshot. >>> >>> >>>>> On Tue, Sep 10, 2024 at 11:27 AM larry via Discuss > >>>>> <discuss@lists.openscad.org> wrote: >>>>>>> On Tue, 2024-09-10 at 11:55 +0000, mike.fraser.1945+osc--- >>>>>>> via >>>>>>>>> Discuss >>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>>> Well, I still get no results with Measure in Build >>>>>>>>> 2023.08.30 by >>>>>>>>> either <Design><Measure> or clicking the buttons in the >>>>>>>>> 3D >>>>>>>>>>>> toolbar. >>>>>>>>> Is there any documentation? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> You need to render it first. >>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>> OpenSCAD mailing list >>>>>>> To unsubscribe send an email to >>>>>>> discuss-leave@lists.openscad.org >>> > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenSCAD mailing list > To unsubscribe send an email to discuss-leave@lists.openscad.org Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis