@Dunk-Fordyce I really like this concept of a preconfigured project. It would be a great addition to the JSCAD project.

Probably, there are a few different styles of projects. So, maybe a little repository of starting projects could be created.

Interested?

@hrgdavor yes, the method I used was what was available but any other could replace it. The purpose is to get data from the embedded jscad script and create a pdf file from it that can then be downloaded or directly viewed into the browser.

@platypii Very cool!

The combining of design and JSCAD components is a very clean solution. Kudos!

I especially like the ability to embed the 'assembled' model directly into GitHub CI.

@SimonClark should be interested in the feedback as he is working on a community site for sharing designs / parts.

this will soon be fixed https://github.com/jscad/OpenJSCAD.org/issues/935

@hrgdavor don't panic. i understand just fine. but i wanted to make sure that everything has been tried before making changes.

also, i'm not certain why 'exact' mouse position is important. i'm just fine working with V2, and don't find the inertia to be troublesome.

so, maybe this would be a user preference. no?

@z3dev thank you. For now I would only like create a viewer element within an angular application. Is there a release of v2 on the public npm registry? I've had a look but can't seem to find it. If not, please could you point me to instructions on how to build it? I'd like to host it on my private registry for the rest of the work I intend to do.

Thank you for the Windows fix 🙂 It is working great for me now.

@zorglups there's a bug in the V1 proxy script, remote.pl, and this prevents files to be loaded properly if the file (URL) does not have a proper extention.

a fix has been made, and the V2 website is running the fixed version of remote.pl

but you need to provide a URL which accesses a V2 design, such as...

https://www.jscad.xyz?uri=https://www.thingiverse.com/download:8705160

OR

https://www.jscad.xyz#https://www.thingiverse.com/download:8705160

@z3dev
I am using a rental server of general settings, nothing special, I think.
I did no configuration of the web server.
I did not changed anything on setting when installing the web site.

Thanks to all of you related,
I have uploaded the page.
https://www.fablab-shinagawa.org/archive/index.html
when you click "パラメトリック" - which means "parametric"- tab,
you would see the list of our parametric designs, and again when you click a design,
you would link to the page includes openjscad model.

@z3dev I update the docs with "npm run docs" and now documentation about color is available.

@Dinther said in V2 Update 2021 Jan 02:

@z3dev Thanks for that. I have a few thoughts penned down myself and I see gilboonet posted his ideas too.

Would it be prudent if I start a new topic called "Sketcher" on the forum?

Please. Looking forward to the discussion and ideas.

@rich-27 thanks for the feedback 🙂 ... it is nice see more people join the community. Have fun and create more cool stuff 🙂

@BarbourSmith a very good question.

In V2, the best approach is to make a project folder. And then organize the parts as desired, including sub-directories.

project/ - index.js // this file is the entry point, and exports main - tube.js - subassembly/ - index.js

By the way, if the project works with the CLI, then the same project should work with the WEB UI as well.

@platypii @danmarshall I think both of will be able use your preferred engine, and get specific benefits depending on a task at hand. Actually I am planning to split the necessary code so that it becomes rather easy to use any of the 3 engines I found to be interesting (regl, threejs, babylon)

regl it is the current engine and is compact CON: lack proper WEBGL2 support and there are NO plans for supporting it in the future example for extremely compact page that has jscad script and render and all under 99kb is great example why regl is still very useful 🙂 by @platypii https://paradr.one/ threejs and babylon larger but can be cut down for basic rendering (I managed to get 400k version of threejs that works with jscad) support wegl2 instancing can bring performance regl just will not ever be able with webgl1 are working actively on great next thing: WebGPU WebGPU might be the future for jscad if we can come up with ways to utilize compute shaders for performance having also these big engines as an option is good for when we want build fancy stuff and ake advantage of huge knowhow of their communities

you have likely already seen my instancing demo: http://3d.hrg.hr/jscad/three/threejscad2.html?uri=model.logos.js in threejs

you can track progress of my new prototype that is supposed to provide the mentioned integrations of all 3 engines I found interesting.
https://github.com/jscad/OpenJSCAD.org/discussions/944 ... I will post a topic as soon I have any rendering integrated .. it is still in testing of some ui concepts phase

@William-Adams that is very nice indeed !
Jscad is just a shorter name and less of a mouthful, either is fine 🙂

@benkei it does indeed work like that, the parameter definitions are parsed by the internals of jscad to be displayed in the UI

@gilboonet I finally take advantage of geometries id and class preservation, and created a small js node script that creates a group for all paths having the same class, and at the same time I solve another annoyance that was the impossibility to search by numbers by creating id. That's very nice.

@z3dev You can also change the model, Venus has 1000 triangles and takes 30 sec. on my laptop to unfold (ubuntu with Firefox).

@gilboonet that is excellent, it may be possible later on to integrate that one with jscad or at least take your experience for ideas how to improve 2D use-cases in jscad.

@ajw1970 super!

I'm interested in the final application. Why did you want to use Babylon for rendering? And do you further plans to create some online designs?

@hg42 you might be able to use the regl-renderer module directly. there's a couple of demo applications, which could be tweeked to reload a design.