Re: [brlcad-devel] nmg command design

2015-07-22 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Jul 20, 2015, at 5:03 PM, Brad Hollister wrote: > I assume there isn't any functionality that does this, even in a > related form? If not, this could be easily handled with a field such > as: That is a correct assumption, though one that has been discussed before. We also need some means f

Re: [brlcad-devel] nmg command design

2015-07-22 Thread Brad Hollister
Hi, > Instead of creating a stateful description in terms of ?selections", > an action could be encoded as nmg metadata where subentities are > ?marked? and you can perform actions on things marked. Basically, > this would change the nmg ? writing the marked data to disk just like > any other cha

Re: [brlcad-devel] nmg command design

2015-07-15 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Jul 15, 2015, at 10:58 PM, Clifford Yapp wrote: > Brad, > > Started looking over http://brlcad.org/wiki/MGED_CMD_nmg - like how > you're laying out the design. Ditto Brad, though I’m still yearning to focus on a higher-level abstraction, not directly exposing all the complexity and termino