Correct. There are several reasons but in general any kind of fetching has security issues. Be careful what you wish for.

If you believe that designs are secure then a fetch/evaluate could be performed. But there should be an option to 'believe'.

For those wondering what should be allowed. Create a project (with multiple source files or external formats), and drag-n-drop to the website. In this case, you control the content 100%.

https://openjscad.xyz/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=en:design_guide_anatomy

@Jason-Sprouse hmm...

The website doesn't have a backend service/process. Everything is handled by the browser, including loading designs.

The only trick is for designs provided an a URL parameter. In this case, the URL is posted to a little script that reads the contents, stores the file locally, and returns the URL to the local file.

Of course, some other backend service could be added.

@Jason-Sprouse Not a problem. As you mentioned, the engine has to be taught first. How can we make that happen?

FYI, if the results are saved and made available on the web, then the design can be posted to the JSCAD website. I do this for my designs at Thingiverse.

https://www.openjscad.xyz/?uri=https://www.thingiverse.com/download:9621826

@Jason-Sprouse Love the idea! There are lots of reasons to use AI, and most are for research or learning purposes.

You might want to start with some examples. Such as "show me how to use JSCAD circles?" Or even more complex examples.

@Jason-Sprouse what you installed was the WHOLE project, which requires NODEJS, NPM, etc. you will find the code for the CLI and the WEBUI. Once setup, you can change the code, run tests, add new functionality, etc. The packages are linked together.

The CLI can be installed directly from NPM. See the README for the CLI.

https://github.com/jscad/OpenJSCAD.org/tree/master/packages/cli

We (developers) have been pounded by new requests, improvements, and bugs. So, there must be something happening out there.

Does anyone have a new design to share?

Release : 2023 JUN 27

There's a new release of JSCAD, including changes from several pull requests.

Bug Fixes

• modeling: add missing extrudeHelical typing definition
• x3d-serializer: added specular highlights and conversion of shape names

Features

• cli: added options to output designs as individual parts, and create zip archive of parts
• modeling: allow zero size in primitives

Performance

• modeling: performance improvements for retessellate as part of booleans

BIG THANKS to @achirita for the performance improvement to the booleans
BIG THANKS to @tsdexter for the cool improvements to the CLI (command line interface)
THANKS to @andreasplesch for the nice improvements to the X3D serializer.
THANKS to @Loosetooth for the TS corrections
And of course, thanks to @platypii for the nice changes to the primitives

Successfully published:

• @jscad/cli@2.3.0
• @jscad/core@2.6.7
• @jscad/3mf-serializer@2.1.9
• @jscad/amf-deserializer@2.3.5
• @jscad/amf-serializer@2.1.15
• @jscad/dxf-deserializer@2.3.22
• @jscad/dxf-serializer@2.1.15
• @jscad/io-utils@2.0.25
• @jscad/io@2.4.6
• @jscad/json-deserializer@2.0.26
• @jscad/json-serializer@2.0.25
• @jscad/obj-deserializer@2.0.25
• @jscad/obj-serializer@2.1.15
• @jscad/stl-deserializer@2.1.22
• @jscad/stl-serializer@2.1.15
• @jscad/svg-deserializer@2.5.6
• @jscad/svg-serializer@2.3.13
• @jscad/x3d-deserializer@2.2.5
• @jscad/x3d-serializer@2.4.5
• @jscad/modeling@2.12.0
• @jscad/regl-renderer@2.6.7
• @jscad/vtree@2.0.26
• @jscad/web@2.6.5

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@rozek hope that you are still using JSCAD.

there are some changes to vectorChar and vectorText, which will become part of V3 JSCAD. if you have time then please take a look.

https://github.com/jscad/OpenJSCAD.org/pull/1252

@RelatingData Cool stuff! I'm sure there are a few robot fans in the user group.

And hopefully, JSCAD can help to put together some cool tools. Please let us know of anything needs to change, or if some extra functionality would be helpful

Release : 2023 APR 30

There's a new release of JSCAD, including changes from several pull requests.

Bug Fixes

• cli: corrected CLI help messages
• svg-deserializer: fix conversions of quadratic bezier paths
• x3d-serializer: corrected color and transparency conversions
• x3d-serializer: corrected colors, orientation of scene to Y up, and added new option for smoothing
• modeling: added length and arcLengthToT functions to bezier curves
• modeling: export retessellate from modifiers
• modeling: fix line2.closestPoint

BIG THANKS to @andreasplesch for the nice improvements to the X3D serializer.
BIG THANKS to @achirita for the nice improvements to bezier curves.
And of course, thanks to @platypii for the fixes to CLI, modeling and SVG deserializer.

Successfully published:

• @jscad/cli@2.2.26
• @jscad/core@2.6.6
• @jscad/3mf-serializer@2.1.8
• @jscad/amf-deserializer@2.3.4
• @jscad/amf-serializer@2.1.14
• @jscad/dxf-deserializer@2.3.21
• @jscad/dxf-serializer@2.1.14
• @jscad/io-utils@2.0.24
• @jscad/io@2.4.5
• @jscad/json-deserializer@2.0.25
• @jscad/json-serializer@2.0.24
• @jscad/obj-deserializer@2.0.24
• @jscad/obj-serializer@2.1.14
• @jscad/stl-deserializer@2.1.21
• @jscad/stl-serializer@2.1.14
• @jscad/svg-deserializer@2.5.5
• @jscad/svg-serializer@2.3.12
• @jscad/x3d-deserializer@2.2.4
• @jscad/x3d-serializer@2.4.4
• @jscad/modeling@2.11.1
• @jscad/regl-renderer@2.6.6
• @jscad/vtree@2.0.25
• @jscad/web@2.6.4

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@Richard-Rouse Welcome to the user group.

Looks like you have integrated parts of the V1 website into your custom website. It must have been a fun project.

V1 is still available, but this version is not being maintained any more. If you really need it then check out the V1 branch.

V2 is the currently available, and maintained version. This is totally different and you will have to start again. Sorry.

There's a super small viewer available in the regl-renderer directory. Please see the README for additional information.

Let us know if you have questions. There are several people who have created custom websites.

@tjw25425 here's one of the most advanced websites. And very cool too.

https://rcplanediy.com/

@gilboonet geom2.toSides() should be called to obtain the sides. however, the sides are not ordered like a path. if you need ordering then a better option is calling toOutlines() which will provide each outline as a set of ordered points.

@tjw25425 Welcome

There are numerous websites using JSCAD, using the modeling library to create models, and then rendering. At this point, I haven't seen a website that interacts with the model via touch/mouse. Most websites use a custom built script to control the rendering and modeling.

@gilboonet the example looks fine. You can create, rotate, transform all the math objects..

Now comes the fun part... curves, distances, etc. There are little tidbits of logic throughout the library. You can find some of the basic calculations in the primitives, I.e. arc, circle, sphere, etc.

And of course, let us know if you have questions.

For those looking for support for fonts, there's a little library that can be used in projects.

https://github.com/jscad-community/jscad-text

@TerryGeng WOW! Thanks for the really nice introduce to Jupyterlab, and the new JSCAD plugin.

Hopefully some of the members will try this out. I know there are some members using VSCode, and Jupyterlab may be a nice alternative.

Just a question... can existing designs be imported into Jupyterlab easily?

Release : 2023 JAN 09

There's a new release of JSCAD, including changes from several pull requests.

Bug Fixes

• regl-renderer: corrected rendering of overlapping transparent solid objects
• web: add render hotkey message in editor

Thanks to @Loosetooth and @hrgdavor for the fixes.
As well as @ntrrgc for the document improvements.

Successfully published:

• @jscad/regl-renderer@2.6.5
• @jscad/web@2.6.3

lerna success published 2 packages

Release : 2022 NOV 26

There's a new release of JSCAD, including changes from several pull requests.

Features

• modeling: added extrudeHelical

Bug Fixes

• modeling: added TS definitions for missing measurement functions

Thanks to @Loosetooth for the new extrudeHelical() functionality.

Thanks to @atkinchris for the TS definition fixes.

Thanks to @Jamesgt for some documentation improvements.

AND THANKS TO EVERYONE FOR THE GREAT FEEDBACK AND SUPPORT. IT'S BEEN A SUPER 2022!!!

Successfully published:

• @jscad/cli@2.2.25
• @jscad/core@2.6.5
• @jscad/3mf-serializer@2.1.7
• @jscad/amf-deserializer@2.3.3
• @jscad/amf-serializer@2.1.13
• @jscad/dxf-deserializer@2.3.20
• @jscad/dxf-serializer@2.1.13
• @jscad/io-utils@2.0.23
• @jscad/io@2.4.4
• @jscad/json-deserializer@2.0.24
• @jscad/json-serializer@2.0.23
• @jscad/obj-deserializer@2.0.23
• @jscad/obj-serializer@2.1.13
• @jscad/stl-deserializer@2.1.20
• @jscad/stl-serializer@2.1.13
• @jscad/svg-deserializer@2.5.4
• @jscad/svg-serializer@2.3.11
• @jscad/x3d-deserializer@2.2.3
• @jscad/x3d-serializer@2.4.3
• @jscad/modeling@2.11.0
• @jscad/regl-renderer@2.6.4
• @jscad/vtree@2.0.24
• @jscad/web@2.6.2

lerna success published 23 packages

Release : 2022 SEP 23

There's a new release of JSCAD, including changes from several pull requests.

Bug Fixes

• svg-deserializer: corrected logic to allow path start == end point

Thanks to @hrgdavor for the nice fixes.

Successfully published:

• @jscad/cli@2.2.24
• @jscad/core@2.6.4
• @jscad/io@2.4.3
• @jscad/svg-deserializer@2.5.3
• @jscad/web@2.6.1

lerna success published 5 packages

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