IRC log for #brlcad on 20070515

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00:43.03 Joely hey, I've been going over tutorials for the past days, and teaching some people how to use BRL-CAD, but I still can't figure out how to make a rectangular prism with given exact dimensions. i think i'm missing something big (i can make really easy precise things like this: http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/35/stereoplugri3.png) but i just cannot figure out how to simply make an arb8 with just putting in the dimensions, rather than playing with vertices..
01:05.54 brlcad hello Joely
01:08.58 brlcad Joely: how are you creating cylinders precisely now?
01:10.10 brlcad you can create a precise arb8 in several ways .. the in command, via edit options on the menu, via text editors, etc
01:11.50 Joely ah, yes, i just tried again (i ate and got some willpower!) with some more vertices..but i'm just wondering if there's certain shortcuts for `regular' shapes (like a rectangular prism...where you only really need to define 4 verts instead of 8)
01:12.39 Joely ok nvm that didn't make sense...
01:13.03 Joely i just thought there would be something for snapping to dimensions
01:13.17 brlcad type "make arb6"
01:14.26 brlcad er, sorry: make prism arb6
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03:07.54 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * 10brlcad/TODO: next minor release release, remove obsolete headers.
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03:48.37 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * 10brlcad/src/libwdb/wdb.c: more compat4 stuff
03:53.27 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * 10brlcad/src/librt/roots.c: bn_poly_ root solver routines have the equation as the second param
04:02.29 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * 10brlcad/src/util/Makefile.am: comment out the bombardier rules since it's not added yet
04:48.15 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * 10brlcad/src/other/ (5 files in 5 dirs): make their AC_PREREQ match ours
06:50.37 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * 10brlcad/bench/run.sh: look a little harder for resources, in case db resources are installed in more conventional share dir, for example.
06:58.38 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * 10brlcad/src/libbu/basename.c: garbage in, garbage out -- but at least prevents it from crashing here.
07:27.44 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * 10brlcad/src/libbu/brlcad_path.c: warn during compilation if we don't know how to get the executable's name. check for null types and values so we at least don't crash.
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13:28.58 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: 03bob1961 * 10brlcad/misc/win32-msvc7/rtg3/rtg3.vcproj: Initially only settings for release mode.
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14:06.46 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: 03d_rossberg * 10brlcad/configure.ac: added test for sys/times.h
14:09.07 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: 03d_rossberg * 10brlcad/misc/win32-msvc/Dll/brlcad.dsp: link with ws2_32.lib (select())
14:14.27 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: 03d_rossberg * 10brlcad/include/config_win.h:
14:14.27 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: added some process management functions
14:14.27 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: removed HAVE_SYS_TIME
14:21.44 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: 03d_rossberg * 10brlcad/src/libbu/backtrace.c:
14:21.44 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: conditional header inclusion
14:21.44 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: no SIGCHLD in MS Windows
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16:15.25 ``Erik hum, that may be the fix
16:42.26 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: 03erikgreenwald * 10brlcad/configure.ac: propogate values of --with-x11 to variables used by XTRA and the rest of configure (re-doing the hack that was undone)
16:54.21 CIA-4 BRL-CAD: 03jlowenz * 10brlcad/src/conv/iges/BrepHandler.cpp: fixed edge extraction/vertex bug
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18:42.39 ``Erik hum, regex.h issue's back on both fbsd and osX :/
18:45.17 ``Erik the -Wl,--rpath issue is with both gcc 4.1 and 3.4.6
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