If you have a complex model, especially with a lot of CSG or a high value
for $fn, this is what you'll see.

On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 8:47 PM Gene Heskett gheskett@shentel.net wrote:

On Thursday 05 August 2021 23:23:06 Father Horton wrote:

The model is getting complex as theres 10 major parts to print, and
around 15 modules declared. $fn varies from 3 to 720 depending on the
module. and in 2 modules its both. I keep thinking of ways to make it
more versatile. If I put in a switch to control the length of the input
armatures extended hub, I can also make is as a direct mount right on
the face of the motor, which should expand its usage to the small to
medium sized cnc machine user for slow but quite accurate angle setting.

I am reminded of a very old saying about a program that says the only way
a program is ever really finished, is when somebody shoots the
programmer.  I think that was written in Dr. Dobb's Journal in about
1979?  Discounting comments, this thing is around 500 active LOC now.
Its been fun but I should post it on my web page and see if you folks
can spot mistakes, cuz there has to be a bunch of them. Over the weekend
maybe. I'll post it and post about it here when its pullable.

[...]

Thanks Father Horton.

Cheers, Gene Heskett

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soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

• Louis D. Brandeis
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In the development snapshots you can turn on vertex-object-renderers in
thePreferences / Features tab. That makes the preview very responsive even
with very complicated models.

On Fri, 6 Aug 2021 at 05:30, Gene Heskett gheskett@shentel.net wrote:

On Friday 06 August 2021 05:23:54 nop head wrote:

Unfortunately:

gene@coyote:~/AppImages$ openscad (Is a softlink to 07.25 86_64 AppImage I just downloaded)
/tmp/.mount_opensc7wmGaY/AppRun.wrapped: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6: version GLIBC_2.27' not found (required by /tmp/.mount_opensc7wmGaY/usr/bin/../lib/libQt5Gui.so.5) /tmp/.mount_opensc7wmGaY/AppRun.wrapped: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version GLIBC_2.25' not found (required
by /tmp/.mount_opensc7wmGaY/usr/bin/../lib/libQt5Core.so.5)
/tmp/.mount_opensc7wmGaY/AppRun.wrapped: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version GLIBC_2.27' not found (required by /tmp/.mount_opensc7wmGaY/usr/bin/../lib/libpulsecommon-11.1.so) /tmp/.mount_opensc7wmGaY/AppRun.wrapped: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version GLIBC_2.25' not found (required
by /tmp/.mount_opensc7wmGaY/usr/bin/../lib/libsystemd.so.0)
/tmp/.mount_opensc7wmGaY/AppRun.wrapped: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.27' not found (required
by /tmp/.mount_opensc7wmGaY/usr/bin/../lib/libsystemd.so.0)

And my stretch libc appears to be 02.24

So I'll move this to a buster install and try it. It runs but isn't any
faster with that first one enabled, AND it freezes this machine while
the new preview render is in progress, which is indeed odd, about 10
secs or more. I'll stop this instance and go run it from its own monitor.

There, I find that all of the vertex-object-renderers must be checked,
and that raising its memory to 500 megs for both buffers brings it down
to about 1 second to update the preview.  Since that machine has 16GB
of dram, I'll raise those work buffers to a couple gigs each, but this
is now a lot more usable.

Thank you nop-head

Cheers, Gene Heskett

"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

• Louis D. Brandeis
  Genes Web page http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene