or should i say this? linear_extrude() text(“Hello World”); Les

It is definatly time OpenScad had built in text handling, i generaly have to resort to exporting polygon sets from inkscape via the superb path to Openscad exporter. Bringing across text fragments as includable modules, But its time openscad had a standard way to do this itself, which had access to the OS font engine, instead of dxf files with exported fonts in them. It one of the three things that still piss me off about openscad 1. No text 2. No android app, and before people say thats stupid, i have a 12.2 inch 8 core android tablet. But some touch capabilities would be cool, like being able to move , rotate and pitchzoom (scale) the preview window would make the app double up as a viewer. There is a great port being done called scorchcad, but its a reimplementation rather than a port. Its in beta in the play store. 3. Weak STL import (it never seems to work, and when it does, it never renders right, even with stl's produced by openscad itself), at the very least it should be able to eat its own dogfood. I dont know if a foreign mesh is considered as a first class primitive object or not. On Dec 5, 2014 1:17 AM, "Les Hall" <thingsofrings@icloud.com> wrote: > or should i say this? > > linear_extrude() > text(“Hello World”); > > Les > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenSCAD mailing list > Discuss@lists.openscad.org > http://lists.openscad.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.openscad.org >

On Dec 4, 2014, at 12:33 PM, Tim Hawkins <tim.thawkins@gmail.com> wrote: > 1. No text Text has been enabled in the development snapshot for a number of months. Will make it into the next official release. > 2. No android app Not planned, but I’d be happy to support development initiatives. > 3. Weak STL import We’re working on this. It’s not trivial due to our solid constraints. -Marius

Le 4 déc. 2014 à 18:33, Tim Hawkins a écrit : > It is definatly time OpenScad had built in text handling, i generaly have to resort to exporting polygon sets from inkscape via the superb path to Openscad exporter. Bringing across text fragments as includable modules, But its time openscad had a standard way to do this itself, which had access to the OS font engine, instead of dxf files with exported fonts in them. > > It one of the three things that still piss me off about openscad > > 1. No text > 2. No android app, and before people say thats stupid, i have a 12.2 inch 8 core android tablet. But some touch capabilities would be cool, like being able to move , rotate and pitchzoom (scale) the preview window would make the app double up as a viewer. There is a great port being done called scorchcad, but its a reimplementation rather than a port. Its in beta in the play store. > 3. Weak STL import (it never seems to work, and when it does, it never renders right, even with stl's produced by openscad itself), at the very least it should be able to eat its own dogfood. I dont know if a foreign mesh is considered as a first class primitive object or not. > > On Dec 5, 2014 1:17 AM, "Les Hall" <thingsofrings@icloud.com> wrote: > or should i say this? > > linear_extrude() > text(“Hello World”); > > Les > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenSCAD mailing list > Discuss@lists.openscad.org > http://lists.openscad.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.openscad.org > _______________________________________________ > OpenSCAD mailing list > Discuss@lists.openscad.org > http://lists.openscad.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.openscad.org