<Jack21>
i thought that would be "bat sign" or ( x x) .. the approach with an escape sign and explanatory text is may be a good idea - however if the code looks like ascii emojis also nice .. maybe some cats Λ_Λ
<InPhase>
^_^ was ruled out because it's valid code. :) _=2; echo(2^_^2); Prints 16
<InPhase>
teepee: What do you mean by "current selection"?
<InPhase>
teepee: Like type some text, select it, instantiate a template, and have it spread throughout the template wherever a marker symbol is?
<Jack21>
InPhase: yes e.g. mark a block and it will parenthesized in a union()
<Jack21>
incl /t indent
<knielsen>
cbmuser: thanks!
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<InPhase>
That's reasonable to consider. There are so many issues turned discussions that the ambiguity over when to close them has created more issues than are really being realistically managed.
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<teepee>
in this special case it might help to keep it 2d and only do linear_extrude last, it looks like that would be possible
<teepee>
that should make it essentially instant, although any further CSG operations will be slow again
<ndnihil>
yeah, that makes sense
<ndnihil>
it started out with me deciding to tweak all the settings in KISSlicer v2
<ndnihil>
because I hadn't really done that since importing the v1 settings
<ndnihil>
and noticing I had a shit bed model for the slicer to visualize
<ndnihil>
and I've got a thing for hexagons
<InPhase>
ndnihil: Oh hey, you made a pizza baking tray.
<InPhase>
ndim: I'm mere minutes from getting my pizza baking tray just like that out of the pantry. :) Just waiting for the dough to finish rising.
<InPhase>
Wrong nd... ndnihil.
<ndnihil>
lol
<ndnihil>
we have one of the solid ceramic/stone types
<ndnihil>
I did the packhex thing originally for a headlight guard for one of the motorcycles
<InPhase>
I have that too.
<InPhase>
The metal trays go on top of it.
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<InPhase>
94 seconds to render.
<InPhase>
Not too bad.
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<ndnihil>
yeah, I think I was just being impatient
<ndnihil>
it hit 999/1000 a couple times
<ndnihil>
and I'd close it and try again
<InPhase>
Yeah, the last 1/1000 tends to be the top level union, which takes substantially longer.
<InPhase>
I tried a few times to create a new scaling system, but it's not better. Instead you just get it freezing at something like 10/1000 and then jumping to 1000/1000. This is not clearer, and seems worse.
<ndnihil>
with 30mm long diagonals and 3mm walls it was fine
<ndnihil>
nice and quick
<InPhase>
We would need some sort of way to guess how long a calculation will take, or feedback from the library, to get a better progress bar.
<ndnihil>
pass everything off to the gpu, it'll render fast enough that the progress meter wont matter
<ndnihil>
I have a pair of 2070supers in here that are begging for openscad to hurt them
<InPhase>
The CGAL library would have to run on the gpu for that.
<InPhase>
Or we'd need to replace it, which would be an ordeal.
<ndnihil>
yeah yeah, just patch up cgal real quick
<ndnihil>
shouldn't take more than an evening :)
<InPhase>
I've had the desire to replace it many times, but I'm not sure if I care enough to spend a year on it even if someone donated my salary. :)
<InPhase>
There are many other fish to fry.
<InPhase>
But, your pizza tray render is very aesthetically appealing. :)
<ndnihil>
:)
<ndnihil>
when I'm a bajillionaire, I'll buy up openscad and fund the fuck out of it
<ndnihil>
sure way to get some of my feature requests sorted
<InPhase>
OpenScandnihild.
<ndnihil>
very glad I decided to do a full settings tweak
<ndnihil>
this thing is doing much better
<ndnihil>
and with the new extruder, no more skips
<ndnihil>
why is openscad.net listed on the main page?
<ndnihil>
shit got camped
<ndnihil>
in march
<ndnihil>
er
<ndnihil>
not the main page
<ndnihil>
the about page
<ndnihil>
under related projects
<InPhase>
Uh, yeah, that looks like porn now.
<InPhase>
It is very challenging to render porn in OpenSCAD, so not really related anymore.
<ndnihil>
blank here
<ndnihil>
but I'm blocking garbage on multiple levels
<ndnihil>
oddly, I take extensive steps to not block porn
<InPhase>
I will see if I can successfully edit this.
<InPhase>
It seems I have access, but I didn't try it.
<InPhase>
Thanks for the tip. There's very little reason to go randomly clicking links, so those sorts of errors can stay forever without comments about it.