Hi! > Hello, everyone. I have uploaded to Melange a rough draft of my > proposal on improving DXF import to OpenSCAD. It is also at > http://brlcad.org/wiki/User:Hcurtis0010/GSoC2014Proposal > > ANY comments (positive or negative) would be welcome. > I do like the idea of actually sharing code between the projects so we don't need to re-invent the wheel for every project again (which did not get very round as the OpenSCAD DXF import goes).
Some comments from the OpenSCAD point of view... I still would recommend to have a look around what other DXF projects are existing and to do a comparison against available features, supported file formats, license, ... I suspect the requirements for the actual DXF import might differ in a way that will reflect on the API, so I think the start should probably also include some time to find out what the different programs will expect. That may not need to go very deep into the details at that point but a rough understanding should help to get the right direction from the start. (That's basically thinking from the OpenSCAD internals that are right now based on closed polygons which does result in some limitations regarding the handling of 2D primitives; or tl;dr: OpenSCAD does not support lines ;) The project idea page only references the DXF import, but it would be nice if export could be supported too. As the goal of this proposal is to be cross application, it could include a list of target platforms as a library would not be useful if it does not support all the platforms the applications are running on. (For OpenSCAD the minimum is: Linux, MacOS and Windows; where the Windows version is built via MinGW on Linux) ciao, Torsten. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/13534_NeoTech _______________________________________________ BRL-CAD Developer mailing list brlcad-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-devel
