irclog2html for #brlcad on 20050131

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01:42.23 EricWilhelm brlcad, are you working on the sketch editor, or is that just a quickfix?
01:46.58 EricWilhelm re: autocad compatibility - I would be interested in getting dwg import/export working (have done some work on this before)
01:48.07 EricWilhelm I've already got an OpenDWG binding, so I might be persuaded to work on that just to get something that runs, but I would prefer to do it via a GPL library (there is something started from the pythoncad project) but this would be a step backwards in functionality right now824
01:48.37 EricWilhelm also, I've done a little research on ACIS (probably of more interest for brlcad usage)
03:26.29 brlcad EricWilhelm: that's just a small fix
03:27.46 brlcad it's been a long time since I've read the full dwg spec, but I'd have to imagine that there are some components of the drawing format missing from brl
03:27.59 brlcad cad's sketch primitive
03:29.33 brlcad that said, it should do most of the actual geometry via the points, lines, curves, splines support that sketch already stores
03:34.43 brlcad quickly glancing over the spec (just now), it looks like pretty much all of it will import/export easily enough directly -- the hardest part might be the layer and styles blocks .. i.e. what does a dashed line mean to a solid modeler? .. could perhaps just make it an attribute, though
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04:09.34 CIA-5 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * 10brlcad/sh/footer.sh: initialize vars and avoid grep error output on unknown files (with an unknown commentchar)
04:11.35 CIA-5 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * 10brlcad/autogen.sh: only copyright 2005 by gov
04:13.07 EricWilhelm brlcad, sketches are one issue, ACIS solids are another
04:13.38 EricWilhelm (the sketch lives within the .g file right?)
04:14.38 EricWilhelm I could certainly see pulling a 2D dxf/dwg into the sketcher, but a lot of people (I used to be one of them) use AutoCAD for solid modeling, which means embedded (and needlessly encrypted) ACIS data.
04:16.35 EricWilhelm the uber-converter is all about resolving the differences between different types of programs, so what to do with dashed lines and blocks is not just an issue for BRLCAD, it's an issue for anything running on a more complicated format than rhizopod
04:16.48 CIA-5 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * 10brlcad/sh/ (8 files): headers and footers
04:16.58 brlcad you could stash the entire file into the .g as a binary object
04:17.37 EricWilhelm no, I mean the sketcher saves the sketch within the .g?
04:18.26 brlcad presently yes, the sketcher saves a "sketch" primitive into the .g just like any other primitive
04:20.29 EricWilhelm dxf-g doesn't add sketches to an existing .g file? (just smashes the output argument?)
04:22.50 EricWilhelm seems like a better usage model might be to import selectively from the sketcher.
04:23.15 EricWilhelm but, you still aren't getting any 3D data that way
04:23.42 EricWilhelm dwg/dxf supports wireframe, solid, and surface data
04:24.32 brlcad it imports POLYLINE, VERTEX, LINE, CIRCLE, ARC, and 3DFACE
04:26.16 CIA-5 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * 10brlcad/src/conv/dxf-g.1: typo
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06:28.43 CIA-5 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * 10brlcad/sh/make_pkg.sh: initial untested implementation that should generate an installer pkg that is compatible with both the old and new Installer
06:30.58 brlcad oooh, almost worked first try
06:32.07 brlcad only missing one " char
06:36.16 CIA-5 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * 10brlcad/sh/make_pkg.sh: cool, only missing a single quote char
06:36.51 CIA-5 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * 10brlcad/Makefile.am: update the pkg target with the args that make_pkg.sh now requires
08:35.10 CIA-5 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * 10brlcad/sh/elapsed.sh: should prevent error messages on malformed input better. args are stashed before proceeding now. checks are made to handle if we were actually passed a familiar date string, defaulting to the current time otherwise.
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21:39.43 polyspin Good afternoon
21:43.26 jano good morning
21:43.28 jano :D
21:53.38 polyspin What time zone are you "living" in ;-)
22:24.52 jano I'm pretending to be in hawaii right now
22:25.15 jano let's se.. it's almost noon there
22:25.25 jano I'd probably be waking up now
22:25.49 jano then have a small tropical juice
22:25.53 jano grab the surfboard
22:26.14 jano but instead, i'm only in california where it's about 80 degrees outside
22:26.17 jano clear skies
22:26.22 jano :P~~~~~~
22:26.38 jano worst part is it's already afternoon
22:26.44 jano i hate that white stuff
22:26.46 jano it's cold
22:27.02 polyspin it's what you can do *with* it that is fun
22:27.05 jano it's fun to look at..
22:27.14 jano but make it part of an entire season
22:27.17 jano hmm
22:27.19 jano shoveling
22:27.20 jano scraping
22:27.25 jano freezing
22:27.39 jano i prefer brushing warm sand off my feet, thank you :)
22:27.41 polyspin days off
22:27.56 jano ask learner/brlcad i have my surf days off :D
22:27.58 polyspin snowmen & snow angels with my 3-yr old
22:28.09 polyspin Because the surf is up?
22:28.24 polyspin Gosh, I didn't think busineses did that
22:28.31 jano mine does :D
22:28.36 polyspin I can imagine that you *take* those days off
22:28.43 jano oh, I do
22:28.48 jano adn the business supports it
22:28.55 jano they're like, sure, go ahead!
22:29.02 jano in fact, they were wondering why I wasn't out today
22:29.20 jano i can't begin to describe what a marvelously beautiful day it is today
22:29.45 jano santa ana winds came in last night and cleared everything.. i could see the hollywood sign on my way to work
22:29.54 jano every face was visible on catalina island
22:29.59 jano :D
22:30.37 jano all right, i should get back to work
22:30.39 jano :P
23:28.41 brlcad howdy folks
23:28.51 polyspin Evenin
23:29.01 polyspin Got another one up and running this afternoon
23:29.21 brlcad another what? :)
23:29.40 polyspin Another site.
23:29.45 brlcad ahh
23:29.57 polyspin Folks trying to build without the --prefix have had ... problems
23:30.08 brlcad I know, I fixed that yesterday
23:30.19 brlcad prefix is "NONE" if you don't define it
23:30.34 polyspin JRA said something about libraries not getting ".so" the other day.
23:30.43 brlcad so the root was getting set to that along with a variety of TCL vars
23:30.49 brlcad yeah, he told me
23:31.00 polyspin OK, so you've heard. I haven't had time to look.
23:31.45 brlcad the --prefix one took most of the weekend to figure out, but it should be all better now
23:31.58 polyspin how did you fix?
23:32.02 brlcad now configure will complain if brlcad_root is set too, and abort if it doesn't match prefix
23:32.21 brlcad and recommend to not use it period
23:33.53 brlcad almost have the make_pkg.sh working
23:34.17 polyspin yow!
23:34.20 brlcad it builds it all up quite nicely now, but there's a few fixes it needs, and I need to feed it resources for things like the readme
23:35.08 brlcad there's a make_*.sh for various build systems that hook into the top level make file too
23:35.32 brlcad so you can "make dmg" or "make tgz" etc to make the binary distribution
23:35.52 polyspin I like!!
23:36.01 brlcad dmg, pkg, deb, tgz, tbz, zip, and rpm for now
23:36.33 brlcad pkg and rpm are the only working ones for now, but the structure is in place
23:36.44 polyspin as my son would say... awesome!
23:36.47 brlcad heh
23:37.49 polyspin I've just patched the old pkgen engine enough to work. Just got my first clean run.
23:38.02 polyspin I'm counting the hours I have to work on this thing now.
23:38.08 brlcad as your son would say... awesome :)
23:39.59 polyspin it sure is pretty under cooca though.
23:41.40 brlcad gah.. no wonder wireless is all screwy now..
23:41.57 brlcad there's like 3 nodes I'm competing with ..
23:42.13 brlcad looks like some folks got wireless for christmas
23:42.26 polyspin heh, just use one of the others 8-)
23:43.00 jano hahah
23:43.11 jano we often get virus emails here at work
23:43.22 jano i look through the headers and logs and figure out where they come from
23:43.33 jano then.. just try to telnet in to the ip
23:43.53 jano from there, sometimes I accidentaly turn off the dsl modems :o
23:44.46 jano although I'm no longer affiliated with computers, I maintain an unofficial knowhow :D
23:44.53 jano sssshhhhh

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