On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 8:12 PM, Christopher Sean Morrison <brl...@mac.com>
wrote:
>
> On Mar 27, 2015, at 10:27 AM, Kalpit Thakkar <ceasy...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> You gave me a suggestion to add an option to bot_dump command to output
> surface normals. Now, the fact is, it already has one (a flag -n) to output
> the normals when exporting to OBJ. I also found a message regarding it
> pointing to brlcad/trunk/NEWS -- here it is :
> http://ehc.ac/p/brlcad/mailman/message/23913956/
>
>
> It was added for one format, but bot_dump supports many formats. So there
> is/was still more work needed to optionally export normals for the other
> formats.
>
Okay, yes. Face normals are printed for 2 formats right now -- in OBJ and
STL. Okay, I'll work towards adding the option to the remaining two export
formats -- DXF and SAT.
>
> After a lot of journey, searching and running through call hierarchies in
> the code (thanks to Eclipse for that), I found "setup.c" in mged directory
> in src. Phew! I found the cmdtab there and added the command. And it works
> now. :)
>
>
> You can find more details about it here : brlcaddev.wordpress.com
>
> I have uploaded the patch. Hoping to submit as many as I can before
> Monday. :D
>
>
> Kudos for documenting your progress as you explore and go along too. That
> is basically what most open source projects like to see as it gives
> insights into decisions that are otherwise often not apparent. Well done!
>
Thanks a lot. Well, it is after looking at people's development logs from
the past in open source, that I realized the importance. Thanks to
dedicated developers for their logs. :)
>
> Cheers!
> Sean
>
With Regards,
Kalpit Thakkar
PS : I have submitted the second proposal on melange. :)
>
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