@kevinos no problem. so, JSCAD designs are actually Javascript functions which perform calcuations, create geometry, perform operations with geometry, and finally return the geometry of interest. const {primitives} = require('@jscad/modeling') const main = () => { let object1 = primitives.circle({radius: 22, segments: 36}) object1.color = [1,0,0,1] return object1 } module.exports = {main} The return of object1 from main() is a 2D geometry, i.e. a geom2 object. In the WEB UI, this object is passed to the 'rendering' function, and shows up on the screen as a red circle. The Vue component requires 2D/3D geometries as well. And as a Vue component, it can live inside another Vue component (or application). This is the rendering piece only. The JSCAD WEB UI is doing a whole lot more underneath. It loads all the code, evaluates (compiles?) each piece of code, and finally executes the main() function. If you want this functionality then there's some more plumbing required.

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

@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

@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.

There was only a very small difference ... diff main.jscad /Users/wf/source/scad/testinclude/main.jscad 6c6 < return myLib().b(2); --- > return myLib.b(2); I 'v fixed the dockerized github repo and will try to fix the wiki now, too. Thanks for all the help finally I am going to work on my own designs now ...

@wolfgangfahl To make it work without having to move examples folder, you can run it from your local webserver. I did so from my local apache http server

@gilboonet thanks for the links... When I find some free time, I will definitely dig into it. Currently, I have too many projects in parallel, to add another fascinating one

Roger Clark Thanks Eduard for the link to the voronoi sphere I've been looking at stuff like http://toxiclibs.org/2011/12/metworks-workshop-facade/ and also Radiolarians e.g. http://i.materialise.com/gallery/radiolarian-lamp which can be generated proceduarlly

@z3dev for my purposes the type of api doesn't matter much, because I use a preprocessor (currently python, may be something like livescript in the future) that can generate whatever I need. Ideally I would use the lowest level. That said, I could eventually use javascript as a frontend directly. It's a whole different situation with jscad compared to openscad as a backend. My preprocessor generates a tree internally (which seems to be very similar to the vtree). So, the transition to jscad could also be from my tree to vtree... btw. I already created a new thread for further discussions, because I thought it would not fit well under "V2 hulls"): v2-status-and-testing-environments

*Project ID: M0302 OpenJSCAD.org Thank you for applying for Maker Faire Tokyo 2019. We are glad to notice that your exhibit is accepted. We are looking forward to meeting you in Tokyo!* So, it’s now official! Let me know if anyone wants to attend.

@kaosat-dev At first I tried to use a 10K triangles model but as it didn't render I downscaled to 5K, 3K, 2K then 1K. And after, I made another model with 2x more slices that this script was unable to render even with a 1K model, so I changed the script to make it render chunks of slices, and it was ok. I suppose it could work with higher resolutions models.

@z3dev Hello, I didn't open an issue because it's V1, but I will do it so we could keep track of the solution I used. Yesterday I tried my little html5 app on my android tablet with Firefox and it works perfectly even the PDF creation part

@kaosat-dev thanks for your reply i haven't test it yet (I just saw it today). i will tell you if it's works for me. Best regards

Nevermind, I fixed everything simply by using triangles instead of polygons.

@z3dev said in Additions for consideration...: @simonclark cool. FYI, there's a bezier function as part of path2 geometry which is based on the SVG algorithm. See src/geometry/path2/appendBezier() Thanks! I'm taking a look at this, and try to make sure the interfaces are similar. My goal was to create something that I could use as an easing function in scaling, rotating, etc. I've also updated the algorithm to support n'th dimensions, and n'th order polynomials (control points).

OK. I archived what I could down load using the crappy tools from Google. I’m pretty peaved at the results. Obviously, Google thinks that a bunch of monkeys can write software to download web content. SIGH

@torejorg that is a very good point that we did not consider like that, but perhaps instead of having it as a parameter for cylinders we could (emphasis on "could") have a 'skew' operation (like translate & co), or even just leverage the transform (transformation by a 4x4 matrix) to achieve a similar result ? I am not aware of how limiting/acceptable that would be to be honest

@viktor-hedefalk said in Vanilla js/npm in browser?: Or does it resolve those at upload time? Gonna test that… No, it can't do that? That would be the worst security thing ever on a browser to allow… Just watched the tutorial series to the end of part 4 - and the cliffhanger for part 5: https://youtu.be/hnLLNmP_mzA?t=646 "In the next part we will get to how you can split up your design into multiple files…"

thanks @z3dev. I made some bad assumptions about what docs were relevant

My code (obj2jscad) only reads a very simple OBJ file (only triangular without normals or textures) and take use of its facets materials groups. Materials are described into another file that I don't use but it could be done to read colors as materials simplest expression can be colors. True OBJ format is much more complex than that.