On Wed, 26 Apr 2023, Jeroen via ntg-context wrote:
> I am using OpenSCAD to create drawings with the filter module with the
> following MWE:
>
> \usemodule[filter]
> \defineexternalfilter[openscad]
> [filtercommand={/context/openscad/openscad -o \externalfilteroutputfile},
> output={\externalfilterbasefile.png},
> cache=force,
> readcommand=\ReadImage]
> \define[1]\ReadImage{\externalfigure[#1]}
>
> \starttext
> \startopenscad
> square(4,2);
> \stopopenscad
> \stoptext
>
> This works fine. I now want to use the following options added to the
> command line: --view axes,edges,scales --viewall
>
> When I create an Openscad file test.scad, I can run it fine with the
> following command line at a CLI window:
>
> openscad.com test.scad -o test.png --view axes,edges,scales --viewall
>
> When I add this to the filtercommand as following
>
> [filtercommand={/context/openscad/openscad -o
> \externalfilteroutputfile --view axes,edges,scales --viewall}
>
> I cannot get it to run. Is there anything I am missing?
My guess is that you need:
[filtercommand={/context/openscad/openscad -o \externalfilteroutputfile\space
--view axes,edges,scales --viewall}
this is because any macro \something gobbles the space after that.
Aditya
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