Embedding a design in a website

[platypii]

@z3dev said:

Also, please take a look at the minimal viewer, which is really compact.
https://github.com/jscad/OpenJSCAD.org/blob/master/packages/utils/regl-renderer/demo.html

This is exactly what I was looking for! Talk about an under-hyped feature

I'm now able to render my design in the browser, live, in less than 300kb total, using the regl-renderer! Even less bytes when gzipped.

And what's cool is these are my actual CAD files used in production, rendered in the browser super efficiently.

THANK YOU!

[hrgdavor]

@platypii that is excellent news. If you could share the code in some way, so other jscad users could make use of it

regl has an advantage over threejs as it has less features, so can easily be more compact.

I was also able to reduce threejs to 420k (minimized, not gzipped) for the needs of rendering jscad models.

Some may need full set of features form threejs and maybe already have included full threejs in their website, but others will also likely want a small optimized version of any of those libs (regl, threejs), so sharing both types of examples will benefit the community. We will just need to see where to put links to them.

[platypii]

@hrgdavor all my code will be open source. Technically it already is, but I haven't completed PRs yet. [1] [2]

Really I just took the regl-renderer demo.html that @z3dev linked to and used it for my models. The only things I changed:

• Include from unpkg.com
• Remove the axes and grid
• Added auto-rotate code so that it would spin
• Some code style cleanup, mostly object value shorthand {camera, controls}
• Fought with CommonJS vs ES6 module differences.

The CommonJS vs ES6 module issue is preventing me from using the exact same jscad code for development and rendering. Right now I'm converting jscad CommonJS into ES6 for use in the browser. I might need to use babel or requirejs or something.

This is how I'm looking to show off the designs in my site:

[hrgdavor]

@platypii yes, jscad has moved from custom syntax to require from V1 to V2, but in menatime ES6 import is becomming more and more popular, and is looking to take over require in the long run .

I am putting not because I dont like import/export, as it has plenty of advantages(easy tree shaking...). I am because it is also another layer of confusion for new users ... especially those unfamiliar with javascript and if it takes over require completely, then jscad will need refactoring in the future.

[OrganicPanda]

Hey @hrgdavor! Well I'm loving your work anyway - where is good to follow you for updates on those efforts?

[hrgdavor]

@OrganicPanda thanks ... I will post it on the forum,

I am preparing a branch on jscad to experiment, and will open a discussion page for it. That branch will contain whatever code, so it will not be added to jscad directly, but serve as starting point for proper implementation after I am satisfied with the prototype.

One cool thing that was easy to make in threejs was 3d view: anaglyph(red,blue) and stereo side-by.side .. so it will also be part of the exepriments.

http://3d.hrg.hr/jscad/three/threejscad2.html?stereo=Anaglyph&uri=model.logos.js
http://3d.hrg.hr/jscad/three/threejscad2.html?stereo=SideBySide&uri=model.logos.js
http://3d.hrg.hr/jscad/three/threejscad2.html?stereo=ParallaxBarrier&uri=model.logos.js

This idea was pushed by one of users that likes to do VR stuff. I also trid to enable VR, but that experiment was not as easy, somethig got messed-up

[z3dev]

@platypii said in Embedding a design in a website:

This is exactly what I was looking for! Talk about an under-hyped feature

Cool! Nice to know that your going full speed again.

So, there are many ways to put together applications now. Any good suggestions on where to put this information?

[platypii]

Final update, I have a solution I am happy with.

I use browserify plus a small script to combine my designs + jscad modeling + regl-renderer into a single bundle.js. Then all I just include that script via standard <script> tag on my page.

Final size of bundle.js: 99.9kb gzipped

Less than 100kb for a fully draggable, zoomable 3d design, directly from CAD files! That's smaller than a screenshot would be.

Design is live here if you're curious (but the rest of the project is still work-in-progress).

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@z3dev not sure where it should go in docs. But there's a couple cool things I've done with JSCAD that would be hard to do with any other CAD software.

• From the same source files, I can generate both the colorized "assembled" model above, and a "print version" that has the parts arranged for 3D printing.
• Integrated into github CI/CD so that I know immediately if I broke my designs. Could easily write tests for things like bounding box size.
• Use eslint to enforce style rules. Browserify to bundle with any other javascript.
• Able to put the design in a website super efficiently. Directly from the source CAD files, without rendering to a huge mesh file format.

[hrgdavor]

@platypii that is great for situations where only one model is shown webpack must be doing some tree shaking, because when I tested jscad/modeling package is 150k minimized.

Your case is really extreme size optimization, great job.

A demo project on git that does this for some simple model would be cool

another use case is a minimal build to run a model, but one that is reusable, it would be bit bigger as it would include whole 150k modeling package, but would be reusable for multiple scripts/models.

@z3dev maybe we could create an md or wiki page to list interesting projects done using jscad.

[z3dev]

@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.

[cdub]

Hi Folks. There hasn't been much activity on this topic, but I was hoping to kick this around some more. I'm very interested in the idea of embedding the JSCad viewer into a webpage. More specifically with dynamic user parameter implementation like the current JSCad web implementation.

@z3dev wrote the Vue wrapper and was extremely helpful in dissecting this stuff. Tutorial6 gets me most of the way,

With the tutorial6 code, I was able to add a numeric spinner to change a radius value (z3dev implemented already). This works o.k. and the new geometries are added to the view after 'compile'.

My question is: After the new geometries are added to the JScad viewer, how do I refresh the render to only show the newly added geometries? I don't fully understand the rendering code to know how to approach this. Any help is appreciated.

[hrgdavor]

@cdub I have been slowly working on providing bits and pieces to create different apps/websites with jscad embeded in different ways here
https://github.com/hrgdavor/jscadui/ ... contributors are welcome

one of demos is about making a new version of jscad web https://jscad.app that was actually made by @platypii

Although my progress is slow there, that is also one place where you could find useful stuff.

[cdub]

@hrgdavor and @platypii. Thank you for your contributions and for sharing the repos. The work completed here is certainly impressive. I look forward to digging into the code to learn other creative and productive ways of using the JSCAD viewer. The https://jscad.app has a fresh modern cad application feel. Especially with the addition of the orientation cube.