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00:01.37 CIA-5 BRL-CAD: 03lbutler * 10brlcad/src/rt/main.c:
00:01.37 CIA-5 BRL-CAD: When complaining about not getting an MGED database, we now accurately report
00:01.37 CIA-5 BRL-CAD: the name of the program (from argv[0]) being run, rather than pretending that
00:01.37 CIA-5 BRL-CAD: all rtuif programs are called "rt".
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00:04.35 CIA-5 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * 10brlcad/src/libfb/ (fb_obj.c fbserv_obj.c if_4d.c tcl.c):
00:04.35 CIA-5 BRL-CAD: revert the libbu memory management changes to libpkg just to be safe. if
00:04.35 CIA-5 BRL-CAD: someone happens to call bu_semaphore_acquire on a BU_SEM_SYSCALL semaphore, the
00:04.35 CIA-5 BRL-CAD: call will block since libbu utilizes that semaphore internally (and it's
00:04.36 CIA-5 BRL-CAD: expected that callers know this..).
00:07.58 cad665 Hello, I am new to BRL-CAD. Just got current from CVS and noticed the visual studio projects
00:08.37 cad665 I have made a few tweeks to get it most of the executables, but not all working. What is the status of this?
00:09.53 cad665 I was looking to use mged, but it is looking for 'gui'
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00:28.18 brlcad cad665: there are some manual installation steps
00:28.31 brlcad i'm not sure if they've been well documented yet
00:28.47 brlcad but basically you have to install the tclscripts and the binaries that you build before mged will work
00:29.28 brlcad mged uses a vast quantity of external plugin-style resources that it tries to find, and without doing this, you get the gui error or a few others
00:38.53 cad665 thanks
00:39.17 cad665 I noticed that I needed to move iwidgets.tcl. I will look around the makefiles
00:39.39 brlcad most of the src/tclscripts directory as well
00:39.54 brlcad that's the big one, that's where 'gui' lives for example
00:40.13 brlcad the status is that it's about ready to ship out now
00:40.27 brlcad but the automatic-build under windows certainly needs more work
00:40.46 brlcad there has just not been too many windows developers interested in getting involved to date yet
00:44.27 cad665 I have done some porting from *NIX to Win32, but it can be quite an undertaking to port an application this size
00:44.52 brlcad the porting is pretty much done
00:44.58 brlcad it's mostly polish that's remaining
00:45.08 brlcad so that you click, click and have an install, etc
00:45.14 cad665 I may be able to help
00:45.33 brlcad the nix side is pretty turnkey at this point
00:46.01 cad665 I have been working on the FEA application CalculiX, doing that port and built an installer and packaged the HTML help into CHM, etc...
00:46.05 brlcad though of few of the packaging systems are still coming on-line, like debian
00:49.25 brlcad at this point, there are three approaches to getting a windows build -- there are two studio projects (one vc6, another vc7) or building through mingw/cygwin
00:49.46 brlcad the vc6 builds all of the libraries and does an even better automated job than the vc7 project
00:50.08 brlcad the vc7 project, though, builds about a 1/4th of the most useful binaries as well
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00:53.32 Twingy anyone interesting in laying hardwood? :)
00:53.36 Twingy *ed
00:54.02 brlcad you probably wouldn't appreciate my technique
00:54.07 Twingy heh
00:54.13 brlcad involves a nail gun and some glue
00:54.22 Twingy oh
00:54.24 Maloeran Ahah
00:54.26 Twingy I've been using scotch tape, hrm
00:54.45 brlcad doesn't involve wood
00:54.56 Twingy ah, so you found a loop hole
00:55.18 Twingy anti time space wood nailer doodad
00:55.38 Maloeran Sure I'm interested to help, you pay the transportation, right? :)
00:55.56 Twingy I'll pay you in an mp3 player built by the elbonians
00:56.04 brlcad heh
00:56.16 brlcad he'll give you his ipod.. :)
00:56.18 Twingy ...it's a good deal
00:56.45 brlcad that poor poor defenseless ipod..
00:57.56 Twingy it's not engineered to my standards
00:58.34 Twingy I should be able to drive my car over it without so much as a scratch
00:58.51 Twingy military grade man, military grade
01:01.05 Maloeran 642km from Montreal to Baltimore, 8-12 days of bicycle, selling an ipod for food on the way won't be enough
01:01.53 Twingy I doubt somone would give you food for it :)
01:02.36 Maloeran :) Will you be completing the basement next, or you already passed that way?
01:02.56 Twingy I will probably take a break after the hardwood floor
01:03.02 Twingy rest for a month
01:03.13 Maloeran Right, sounds reasonable
01:03.16 brlcad that would be a sweet bicycle ride
01:03.32 Twingy 6 weeks on the ceramic floor, 4 weeks on finishing the office, and 2 weeks on the hardwood floor drains you
01:04.29 Twingy another 4.5 years and I can sell this place and get my dilbert house constructed
01:06.32 Maloeran That's ambitious, brlcad :), I rarely find people willing to join to travel a fraction of that on bicycle... or were you being sarcastic?
01:08.43 brlcad no, being serious
01:09.11 Maloeran Very nice, I wouldn't mind joining
01:09.20 brlcad it would take about two-three weeks I imagine
01:09.39 brlcad i believe lance does it every year in two with a group
01:10.29 Maloeran It depends if you actually want to stop by some places for a day or two
01:10.43 brlcad true
01:10.53 brlcad and if there are any breakdowns or injuries
01:11.43 brlcad would be easy to rip a muscle without good distance training
01:12.26 brlcad at least with a decent pace, i like to keep at least a 20mph pace if not better on flat
01:12.47 Maloeran I do 35km daily to go to work at the moment, I wouldn't mind personally
01:12.56 Maloeran Right.
01:13.02 brlcad ~convert 20 miles to kilometers
01:13.16 brlcad sounds about right, do that within an hour
01:13.53 brlcad is that 70 a day, or 35 total?
01:14.02 Maloeran It's a bit slower due to traffic, but yes. 35km total
01:14.06 brlcad 70 is a pretty long commute
01:14.07 brlcad ahh, k
01:16.06 brlcad i used to have a 50 km route to work and back a couple years ago when I was starting
01:16.09 Twingy I think erik makes that many trips to the fridge in a week
01:16.13 brlcad that was hard to do more than 2 days back to back
01:16.40 brlcad course mostly because I had a horrible seat at the time.. geared for racing not distance
01:16.42 Maloeran So 100km total daily?
01:16.55 brlcad no 50 total
01:16.59 brlcad 25 each way
01:17.26 Twingy mal, how far are you from boston?
01:18.07 Maloeran 890km
01:18.16 brlcad since then i've rode 160km across 2 days easily enough
01:18.17 brlcad heh
01:18.21 Maloeran 50km daily is fine, but you may arrive rather tired at work
01:18.22 brlcad that would be one hard trip
01:18.27 Twingy you're closer to baltimore than boston?
01:18.47 Maloeran Or so some air traverl website says, yes
01:18.53 Maloeran Ack, wrong city
01:18.53 Twingy erm
01:19.00 Maloeran 356km to Boston
01:19.05 Maloeran I thought it didn't make sense too
01:19.06 Twingy can you bike that?
01:19.12 brlcad yeah, it was fine.. actually wasn't too tired, just my joints couldn't take more than two days before I had to let them recover
01:19.21 Maloeran Well sure, give me ~5 days
01:19.34 brlcad heh, that's about 200 miles
01:19.35 Twingy if you can do it, we could hook you up with room :)
01:19.37 brlcad you could do that in two days
01:19.46 brlcad depending on the terrain.. :)
01:20.20 Maloeran Depending if I don't get completely lost, and so on :), 5 days is playing it safe
01:20.28 Twingy 3 days :D
01:20.40 Twingy don't you have a gps? :)
01:21.07 brlcad Twingy: what's his name is interested too, he's looking into it I think
01:21.09 Maloeran I could get that... :)
01:21.15 Twingy david?
01:21.20 brlcad yeah
01:21.27 Twingy well, more the merry :)
01:21.36 brlcad not necesarily to bunk, but at least in going
01:21.46 Twingy ah
01:21.51 brlcad dunno what his plans are
01:21.57 brlcad too far out for him
01:22.06 brlcad mm.. could bike to boston..
01:22.15 brlcad then i wouldn't get any coding done
01:22.27 brlcad heh
01:22.39 brlcad can just imagine having a suitcase strapped to my back
01:22.48 Twingy and what if the airplane crashes? HUH?! :)
01:22.56 Twingy nah
01:23.00 Twingy buy your cloths at siggraph
01:23.16 Twingy show up to the siggraph mechandise booth all sweaty
01:23.18 Maloeran Arriving at Siggraph after a 3 days ride on bicycle with a tent and portable computers strapped on the back sure would be elegant
01:23.19 Twingy buy a change of cloths
01:23.33 Twingy we can provide computing power :)
01:23.39 Twingy you could send encrypted files :)
01:23.41 brlcad and then ride home with 50 lbs of proceedings on your back :)
01:23.51 Twingy proceedings can be mailed
01:23.59 brlcad where's the fun in that
01:24.15 Twingy riding to siggraph on a bike isnt fun enough?
01:24.24 Twingy you're almost as nuts as I am
01:24.26 Maloeran I'm seriously considering it :)
01:24.32 Maloeran I'll see when the time comes
01:24.44 Twingy talk about die hard siggraph fan :)
01:25.06 Twingy "Hey Gordon, just rode my bike here from boston"
01:25.35 Twingy I'd prefer hiking over biking though
01:25.39 Twingy I can hike 20 miles a day
01:25.52 Twingy would take a good 2 weeks advance start
01:25.54 Maloeran And you can ride 5 times that easily
01:26.06 brlcad 375mi from aberdeen to boston
01:26.06 Twingy I'm not a big fan of bike riding
01:26.21 Twingy I prefer to not use mechanical devices
01:26.31 Maloeran Hiking is slow, I tend to run whenever outside as walking is just too slow
01:26.43 Twingy I cannot run more than 8 miles at a span
01:26.53 Maloeran Good enough
01:26.56 Twingy speaking of which
01:27.00 Twingy soon as hardwood floor is done
01:27.06 Twingy I'll start my 50 days of running again
01:27.18 Twingy by the end of that I'll be able to run 8 miles again
01:27.37 brlcad the appalachian trail would get you there
01:27.39 Twingy hiking from edgewood to aberdeen would take me like 6 hours
01:27.59 brlcad you might want to get started in june
01:28.03 Twingy hehe
01:28.14 Twingy if I had the leave available
01:28.18 Twingy I would do it in a heart beat
01:28.18 Maloeran Did you try riding a bicycle lately, Twingy? Really, it's much more pleasant
01:28.30 Twingy I rode my bike all the time before I moved to maryland
01:28.40 Maloeran Ah nice.
01:28.40 Twingy little 15 mile rides
01:28.49 Twingy I prefer running though
02:34.19 tegtmeye arggg...papers suck. going home:(
02:36.33 ``Erik heh
02:36.36 ``Erik it's due friday?
02:44.40 CIA-5 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * 10brlcad/m4/cache.m4: if the compiler or preprocessor flags we're using for the current configure are different from when we last cached values, invalidate the configure cache.
03:13.32 ``Erik that's not smog, that's smug!
04:03.23 Twingy http://js.cx/~justin/images/livingroom/floor_08.jpg
05:25.39 Twingy damn, tsp is rockin
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05:59.21 pra5ad go go i-fund
05:59.46 Twingy the lack of g-code references on google is profund
05:59.51 Twingy *profound
06:02.33 Twingy niehgbors house is going for $342,900
06:03.35 Twingy my house type just sold for $325k
06:03.46 Twingy that's $30k more than I paid
06:11.15 CIA-5 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * 10brlcad/src/other/URToolkit/tools/ (rlecomp.c rleinterp.c): quell icc warnings
06:15.41 brlcad i had/have a copy of the g-code specification around here somewhere
06:22.43 Twingy with parameters?
06:22.53 Twingy finding without parameters is easy
06:23.07 Twingy with parameter grammar is not so easy
06:42.08 brlcad beats me
06:42.21 brlcad it just was some official specification
06:44.21 brlcad it's an ISO standard (like STEP..)
06:48.56 brlcad mm.. snippet example on wikipedia
06:48.57 brlcad http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNC
06:51.56 brlcad ISO 4342
07:03.38 brlcad is the overview, apparently ISO 6983 is the actual gcode codes
07:03.51 brlcad even better example: http://www.dsic.upv.es/~jsilva/cnc/index.htm
07:29.43 CIA-5 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * 10brlcad/include/raytrace.h: peculiar ifdef WIN32 commenting on three ifree functions for dsp, ebm, and vol primitives, enable them but recommend nobody rely on them till it gets sorted out
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13:55.14 cad328 hi
13:56.06 cad328 I got some initial install issues.. can anyone help?
13:57.51 cad328 I untarred the binary for linux in /usr/brlcad.. performed export BRLCAD_ROOT="/usr/brlcad/" and executed mged
13:58.49 cad328 but now when I try to open anything I get: No database has been opened!!!
14:10.32 brlcad cad328: what's your exact command line for invoking mged?
14:14.46 brlcad for starters, you should not need to set BRLCAD_ROOT
14:15.08 brlcad that is only needed if you relocate the binaries to a location that they weren't compiled for
14:16.00 brlcad the No database has been opened message should only be given if you start mged without a .g and try to perform modeling commands
14:22.23 cad328 Thanks.. tried that out.. and now it starts okay... another little issue
14:22.39 cad328 I try to import a .IGES file with iges-g
14:22.57 cad328 iges-g -t -N gallery -o gallery-iges.g ../galeria.IGS
14:23.02 cad328 and I get a segfault
14:23.28 cad328 Number of entities checked: 1670Summary of entity types found: 8 Circular Arc (type 100) 230 Composite Curve (type 102) 516 Line (type 110) 2 Surface of Revolution (type 120) 24 Transformation Matrix (3X4) (type 124) 520 Rational B-Spline Curve (type 126) 112 Rational B-Spline Surface (type 128) 115 Curve on a Parametric Surface (type 142) 114 Trimmed Parametric Surface (type 144) 12 S
14:24.03 cad328 I do apologise if I seem rather newbie... it's because I am..
14:30.03 ``Erik is galeria.IGS something that can be shared?
15:16.18 brlcad apparently not
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15:49.25 alrbn Galeria.iges is something that can be shared
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15:52.50 alrbn Hi.. hope this client works better
15:56.48 ``Erik okie, unless brlcad sees an issue with your call line, it might be useful for you to go to http://sourceforge.net/projects/brlcad and submit a bug report, including info on how you got the source, the kind of machine, the command you ran, attach the file, ... and mebbe crank up gdb and try to get a backtrace :)
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