Re: [Pythonocc-users] Draft of the look and feel of a simple pythonic API for CSG

2010-02-22 Thread Jelle Feringa
> curve.tangent(u) would become something like create_tangent(curve, u)... i > have a slight preference for the first. > > I agree, an object oriented approach is definitely better. Its more complex than that; the tangency is an attribute of a curve ( see addons/KBE/Level2API.py : curve.diff_g

Re: [Pythonocc-users] Draft of the look and feel of a simple pythonic API for CSG

2010-02-21 Thread Thomas Paviot
2010/2/21 Henrik Rudstrom > > > Hi Bryan, >>> >>> Hey Thomas. Thanks for the quick reply. >>> >>> > *Very* intersting thread, thank you for opening it. >>> >>> had to be done >>> >> > definetely! > >> >> Hi Bryan, >> >> Just browsed your proposal. It looks like you're starting to develop a >> ST

Re: [Pythonocc-users] Draft of the look and feel of a simple pythonic API for CSG

2010-02-21 Thread Henrik Rudstrom
> > Hi Bryan, >> >> Hey Thomas. Thanks for the quick reply. >> >> > *Very* intersting thread, thank you for opening it. >> >> had to be done >> > definetely! > > Hi Bryan, > > Just browsed your proposal. It looks like you're starting to develop a STEP > parser. Please don't do that! It's a nightm

Re: [Pythonocc-users] Draft of the look and feel of a simple pythonic API for CSG

2010-02-21 Thread Thomas Paviot
2010/2/21 Bryan Bishop > On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Thomas Paviot wrote: > > Hi Bryan, > > Hey Thomas. Thanks for the quick reply. > > > *Very* intersting thread, thank you for opening it. > > had to be done > > > The topic you're talking about is still an open issue in CAD and > > contrib

Re: [Pythonocc-users] Draft of the look and feel of a simple pythonic API for CSG

2010-02-21 Thread Thomas Paviot
2010/2/21 Bryan Bishop > On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Thomas Paviot wrote: > > Hi Bryan, > > Hey Thomas. Thanks for the quick reply. > > > *Very* intersting thread, thank you for opening it. > > had to be done > > > The topic you're talking about is still an open issue in CAD and > > contrib

Re: [Pythonocc-users] Draft of the look and feel of a simple pythonic API for CSG

2010-02-21 Thread Bryan Bishop
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Thomas Paviot wrote: > Hi Bryan, Hey Thomas. Thanks for the quick reply. > *Very* intersting thread, thank you for opening it. had to be done > The topic you're talking about is still an open issue in CAD and > contributions from the open source community would

Re: [Pythonocc-users] Draft of the look and feel of a simple pythonic API for CSG

2010-02-21 Thread Jelle Feringa
> Granted. Here's a link, then, since I can't seem to find it elsewhere > on the internets: Bryan, Please be more careful. Linking to a project's file to your own server, is _bad_ netiquette. I've pointed that out several times. http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/pythonocc/trunk/src/addons/KBE/Level2AP

Re: [Pythonocc-users] Draft of the look and feel of a simple pythonic API for CSG

2010-02-21 Thread Thomas Paviot
Hi Bryan, *Very* intersting thread, thank you for opening it. The topic you're talking about is still an open issue in CAD and contributions from the open source community would certainly be a great thing. However, it's not only a technical problem (in terms of implementation), but rather a scien

Re: [Pythonocc-users] Draft of the look and feel of a simple pythonic API for CSG

2010-02-21 Thread Bryan Bishop
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Jelle Feringa wrote: > On Feb 21, 2010, at 8:28 PM, Bryan Bishop wrote: >> Hey Thomas, >> >> A while ago, you and Jelle were talking about creating an API for >> pythonOCC that would simplify and hide the ugly guts of OCC. I haven't >> seen too much on this front in

Re: [Pythonocc-users] Draft of the look and feel of a simple pythonic API for CSG

2010-02-21 Thread Jelle Feringa
On Feb 21, 2010, at 8:28 PM, Bryan Bishop wrote: > Hey Thomas, > > A while ago, you and Jelle were talking about creating an API for > pythonOCC that would simplify and hide the ugly guts of OCC. I haven't > seen too much on this front in a while, but a few days ago I was > talking with Christia

[Pythonocc-users] Draft of the look and feel of a simple pythonic API for CSG

2010-02-21 Thread Bryan Bishop
Hey Thomas, A while ago, you and Jelle were talking about creating an API for pythonOCC that would simplify and hide the ugly guts of OCC. I haven't seen too much on this front in a while, but a few days ago I was talking with Christian Siefkes, Ben Lipkowitz, and a few others about a potential lo