11:13 <Scopeuk> I suppose it might be possible to reach out to them to see if they are willing to provide integration and under which licence. They may have more flexibility when they are pushing through changes

11:48 <J22658> scad lib for handles https://www.nablu.com/2022/03/whose-hands-are-biggest-you-may-be.html

12:00 <J22658> (blog also contain other great scad scripts )

17:33 <potatosal> rendered something that took 20mins on macos, when I click on export to STL, i get the dialog box with the save button disabled and can't click on anything with the mouse, but I can use the keyboard. There is no way to save it. Is this is a known issue on macos? or is it just me?

17:36 <J22> is the render finished .. so you can move the rendered object?

17:37 <potatosal> J22: yes, all done. Console says so and I can interact with the object

17:37 <J22> strange as stl doesn't need much processing  but also 3mf shouldn't freeze that

17:38 <J22> did you have that also with simpler objects?

17:38 <potatosal> J22: well, I don't think it's frozen, it's just I can't use the mouse and the save button is disabled, but i can use the keyboard to rename or TAB to jump

17:38 <potatosal> J22: no I did not, I exported a lot of stuff before without issues

17:40 <J22> i assume loosing the mouse is something with the OS not SCAD .. or is the mouse only gone when SCAD has the focus

17:41 <J22> maybe some memory issue due to the long render?

17:41 <Scopeuk> If you have keyboard f7 is export

17:45 <potatosal> J22: it's not gone, i just can't click on anything in the save dialog. I hit escape to close the dialog and all is fine

17:46 <J22> you can try to export as 3mf maybe that changes something

17:46 <potatosal> J22: https://ibb.co/R4cg21v - A couple of buttons are disabled and nothing can be done

17:46 <potatosal> J22: i'll try that

17:47 <potatosal> J22: same thing with 3mf

17:47 <J22> .. a name plate shouldn't take 20min rendertime   maybe something wrong with the geometry ( normaly this should give an error in the console )

17:47 <potatosal> according to activity monitor, openscad is taking 1.7GB of memory right now, not that high

17:48 <potatosal> J22: yeah, it includes faces and whatnot, it takes a while to render to make it smoother

17:48 <J22> if you like you can share the design and i have a look at it

17:48 <potatosal> sure

17:49 <J22> ( i mean as you said the design seems the reason for the problem)

17:49 <potatosal> J22: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3045130/ - I changed faces_segment = 40

17:49 <othx> potatosal linked to "Sweeping 2-line name plate (text) by makkuro" on thingiverse => 1 IRC mentions

17:51 <J22> renders under 5 seconds

17:51 <J22> (with face_segments=40

17:53 <J22> have you tried  close scad and try without that higher face_segments?

17:53 <potatosal> wow, that's fast

17:53 <potatosal> J22: oh wait, i changed fonts too

17:54 <potatosal> i changed face_segment to 5 and it took 14 secs

17:54 <potatosal> J22: I downloaded and used this one https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Bangers?query=banger

17:58 <J22> could you export it ?

17:58 <potatosal> no, same issue

17:58 <J22> maybe try a standard font.. just to narrow down the issue

18:00 <potatosal> oh crap, i tried another file and it's teh same thing.. looks like a UI bug. I'm monterey btw which I updated to last night

18:10 <J22> so you using 22.3.26 ?

18:36 <potatosal> J22: of what? openscad?

18:36 <potatosal> J22: i see version 2021.01

18:41 <J22> ah ok .. thought you installed the nightly version

18:42 <J22> but you  could check if the problem persists with the nightly build