IRC log for #brlcad on 20191105

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03:14.15 brlcad hey Freso, not opposed to dropping py2 support -- most of the scaffolding in there was simply written to match Robert's other API scripts
03:14.58 brlcad TheJollyRoger: that's awesome. please let me know if you have questions or are interested in getting involved in contributing to the project
03:19.18 brlcad BRL-CAD was apparently on Hacker News a month ago, front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21148247
03:31.42 TheJollyRoger Hi hi!
03:31.55 TheJollyRoger Hi brlcad!
03:32.49 TheJollyRoger Well... I'm er... I'm er not much for programming yet, at this moment, not yet. I'm hoping to learn Java although I don't know how useful this will be at this very moment. But I'd really really like to learn brl cad since it would be great to have something open source and portable that could run on non-x86 PCs.
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04:33.42 brlcad testing
04:33.55 cadzulip_zulip @**Sean**: woot
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04:40.23 brlcad cad_zulip: ping
04:43.31 brlcad testing2
04:47.48 TheJollyRoger Ahoy!
04:48.09 TheJollyRoger brlcad/Sean, I can see your pings and testing posts, what's up there?
04:49.23 cad_zulip @**Sean**: Hi TheJollyRoger! I'm working on setting up a bridge to our Zulip chat.
04:49.40 TheJollyRoger Ahoy! :D
04:49.47 TheJollyRoger Woah, wow! A bridge to another chat, that's awesome!
04:50.01 brlcad TheJollyRoger: that way, messages are bidirectional
04:50.08 TheJollyRoger That'll be great to reach out and meet more people, I'm looking forward to it ^_^!
04:50.23 TheJollyRoger Ooh. They can see us, and we can see them?
04:50.32 brlcad a tiny bit clunky with the way it has to relay nick names, but looks like it's working well.
04:50.57 TheJollyRoger Woohoo!
04:51.24 brlcad think they can only see people that talk
04:51.44 TheJollyRoger Got it, and us, likewise? We only see them if they say something?
04:55.03 brlcad yes
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04:55.47 TheJollyRoger Got it.
04:58.10 TheJollyRoger Sometime when I have more time I'm going to dig into the BRL CAD documentation. I'll have a ton of questions, I just want to make sure I get up to date on the knowledge base so I can ask the right ones.
04:59.47 brlcad Sure thing, ask away.
05:00.42 TheJollyRoger THanks ^_^. I don't have any particular questions at this moment, I've just been fooling around with MGED so far and wondering if there's anything like a graphical frontend to it, since I'm used to doing sketching and extrusion and sweep operations in Creo and NX.
05:00.52 TheJollyRoger Heh, okay, I guess that is a question XP.
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05:09.49 brlcad TheJollyRoger: MGED's graphical side is drastically different from Creo and NX. You can do many of the same things, but usually not as easily and often not as interactively with a mouse.
05:10.12 TheJollyRoger Ooh, yipes, got it. That's good to know it's still possible, even if it won't be as convenient or interactive.
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05:15.35 brlcad BRL-CAD also focuses on 3d solid modeling techniques, and sketching comes from the 2d drafting realm. That said, you can check out the Sketch Editor on the menu for basic editing. They can be extruded with an "extrude" object, revolved with a "revolv" object.
05:15.55 TheJollyRoger Oh perfect.
05:16.11 brlcad *revolve
05:16.37 brlcad this is a non-GUI overview of sketch: pip install -r zulip/integrations/bridge_with_irc/requirements.txt
05:16.40 brlcad Configure the bridge
05:16.48 brlcad oop, this link: https://brlcad.org/wiki/Sketch
05:16.57 TheJollyRoger reads
05:17.01 brlcad and extrude: https://brlcad.org/wiki/Extrude
05:18.46 TheJollyRoger MGED almost reminds me a little of using APT for tool paths.
05:18.53 TheJollyRoger Almost. Kinda. A little bit maybe.
05:19.29 brlcad yeah, that's a very low-level overview. There's a graphical tutorial somewhere where you don't hit the command line, but I don't have it handy.
05:19.48 TheJollyRoger Got it. I'll search around then!
05:20.58 brlcad the "ebm" extruded bitmap primitive is a distant cousin. it's definitely covered in the Principles of Effective Modeling at https://brlcad.org/wiki/Documentation
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05:24.06 TheJollyRoger Whew. I'll have to study this, then!
05:24.14 TheJollyRoger Ehehe. I'm kinda nervous.
05:25.23 TheJollyRoger Not gonna lie, the tools and UI do look kinda intimidating. I generally use the commandline for most of my day-to-day tasks on the OS but trying to fly blind is a little... I dunno, it's gonna mean I'll have to really think the design through up front instead of just throwing down a sketch and then adjusting it to size later.
05:26.27 brlcad Yes, it's conceptually quite a different method altogether.
05:26.56 TheJollyRoger Yeah.
05:27.22 brlcad Expert modelers tell me they're just as proficient if not more proficient as they are in other CAD, but the learning curve is definitely steep and the methods are different, often incompatible.
05:28.13 brlcad We're working on usability and core features that affect it, but it's going to be a process and it takes time to implement every (seemingly little) feature.
05:28.48 cad_zulip @**Sean**: Testing from #**general**
05:29.09 gci_zulip @**Sean**: Testing from #**Google Code-in**
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05:30.53 brlcad Testing
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05:34.11 brlcad all done testing, this looks like a usable bridge even if it is limited to individual streams. added one on the gci channel just in case since chatter on that will be kicking up real soon.
05:34.18 TheJollyRoger Woohoo!
09:11.32 Freso brlcad: Alright. I probably won’t touch the script again before January now though, so we’ll see. :p
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12:32.29 brlcad Freso: that's a really cool patch; didn't even occur to me to use it for the inverse
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23:28.27 Freso brlcad: :)

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