somebody submitted a changeset for a second set of axes. I can't locate it
:(

Edmund

On Sat, Jan 15, 2022 at 11:18 PM Jordan Brown openscad@jordan.maileater.net
wrote:

If you can replicate it, and list the steps so someone can confirm, I'd say that is a bug that needs fixing.

It could also be a Mac thing. I don't think my original 128K Mac will run OpenSCAD, so I can't test.

From: Bob Carter [mailto:caggius@gmail.com]
Sent: Sun, 16 Jan 2022 10:15
To: OpenSCAD general discussion
Subject: [OpenSCAD] Re: Autosave/Recovery

Not on Mac - there is the “*” in the file title - the problem arose because I opened the second file from finder which opens it in a separate window and not in a tab - so I had two windows open and not two tabs.

I went to OpenScad-> Quit Openscad on the active window which had no changes expecting it to quit that window and it quit both windows simultaneously without a save prompt for all of the changed data in the other window….

thanks

Bob.C

On 15 Jan 2022, at 23:01, MichaelAtOz oz.at.michael@gmail.com wrote:

Do you se something like this when you F5 or F6 with unsaved changes?

Parsing design (AST generation)...

Saved backup file: C:/Users/MeB/Documents/OpenSCAD/backups/unsaved-backup-ncSSIhWS.scad

Also closing with unsaved changes should get:

<image001.jpg>

Do you?

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On Saturday, January 15, 2022 5:15:42 PM EST Raymond West wrote:

I have several bltouch equipt printers, but I've never seen a grub screw.
Is there more than 1 style?

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As you state this is clearly a doctrine issue because a reasonably accurate
measurement system can be integrated in the interface without modifying the
engine - I actually had to use a physical ruler to measure the projections
on the screen for my last design.

Edmund

On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 8:31 AM Verachten Bruno gounthar@gmail.com wrote:

It is easily replicated and is definitely a Mac only thing, as only a Mac has a separate menu bar at the top of the screen shared by multiple windows.

Basically whilst distracted by my partner I hit the Quit Openscad from the Menu Bar instead of using the close button on the title bar of the second OpenSCAD window, .

Instantly closing all open windows is consistent with other MAC applications.

Not checking for unsaved changes when Quit’ing seems to be the default in OpenSCAD even for a single window with changes in it.

However most Mac applications such as Mail, will on Quit Mail save the contents of all open windows (e.g. the 'Compose new Message” window that I am currently using to type this note in. It will then recreate this second window when the application is restarted.

Similarly the Brave Browser will on Quit Brave remember the open tabs and reload them but it will not do so when it has been closed via the close button.

So there is a case to argue that Mac needs the extra save check function as it is possible to Quit and loose all of your design changes - but this is totally unique to the Mac interface and it looks like I am the only one to have fallen foul of it to date and admit to my stupidity - so I would not put a high priority on it.

cheers
Bob.C

I sometimes use Ruler.SCAD when I want to see how my design compares to
an object of a known length.  I also temporarily add a cube or cylinder
of the desired length.  I have to do that only occasionally.  For me,
this is only a minor annoyance.

On 1/16/2022 3:32 AM, edmund ronald wrote:

For me, the lack of a measurement tool is most apparent when using
libraries such as Round-Anything.scad, or most gear-producing libraries
since they do not provide bounding-box info.

On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 6:12 AM jon jon@jonbondy.com wrote:

Isn't there a possibility to get a distance by using Crosshair?
[image: Bildschirmfoto 2022-01-16 um 16.40.57.png]
like:

1. Place the crosshair to the start point (p0)
2. Press a (new) button "measure" to start measuring
3. now Place the crosshair to any other position
   • while moving, a line is shown and always updated from p0 to the
     current position
   • and it always shows the distance from p0 to the current position
4. when done Press the "measure" button again = back to normal (no
   measuring)

I know: Wishes are written very quickly but to build that in correctly is a
whole other effort. But the Crosshair certainly has a defined point... so
it's not quite so complicated. But I am a user, I can not write the code.

Am So., 16. Jan. 2022 um 13:12 Uhr schrieb jon jon@jonbondy.com:

How do you place a crosshair in 3D with a 2D mouse and a 2D screen? In
NetFabb it always snaps to a 3D feature such as a point or a line or an arc
but that is only possible with an F6 render, which is basically the same as
a mesh viewed in Netfabb.

It could be done but it is quite a lot of work. I don't think anybody
objects to it being added, just nobody wants to do it. Probably because
programmers capable of coding probably don't need it. I never need to
measure the geometry I create. I only measure other people's STLs
occasionally to make my own model to replace them. I don't need OpenSCAD to
do the measurements because NetFabb does it very well with an interface
that has 13 extra buttons to determine what measurement to make and what
features are selected when you click near to them.

On Sun, 16 Jan 2022 at 15:47, dpa sc@pankd.de wrote: