As a general heads-up, I'd like to announce that I've factored out two
support-like OpenSCAD libraries into their own repositories and made them
publicly available. You might find them useful.
The first is a library for creating and managing object-like lists,
providing a series of functions that act as accessor methods against a
single list, letting you treat it within your .scad as an object
instantiated from a class (well, nearly). "Objects" can be passed about
across your model modules, extended without examining every module arglist,
and have built-in data type checking. A lot of the heavy lifting for
openscad_objects is done through the BOSL2 lists library, which made
constructing this oddity possible.
The openscad_objects library is available at
https://github.com/jon-gilbert/openscad_objects
The second is a library for simple and consistent logging to the OpenSCAD
console. If you've ever used python logging, it's a little like that. Log
messages can be placed throughout your model or model libraries, and the
noise level can be (globally) used to filter away debug messages, or
errors, or some level in between.
The openscad_logging library is available at
https://github.com/jon-gilbert/openscad_logging
Both libraries are available for public use, and both have library
documentation and HOWTO quickstart docs to provide what may be suitable
examples of use. I have absolutely no idea if they'll work for you in your
model, but if you opt to try them and have questions, I think the
respective Github Issues section for each project is the right place to get
help.
(I haven't seen anything or anyone say announcing new library availability
here is not allowed, though to be fair I've only been on this list proper
for a short while, so please LMK if this is not the right place for such
announcements and I'll refrain in the future.)
--
As a general heads-up, I'd like to announce that I've factored out two
support-like OpenSCAD libraries into their own repositories and made them
publicly available. You might find them useful.
The first is a library for creating and managing object-like lists,
providing a series of functions that act as accessor methods against a
single list, letting you treat it within your .scad as an object
instantiated from a class (well, nearly). "Objects" can be passed about
across your model modules, extended without examining every module arglist,
and have built-in data type checking. A lot of the heavy lifting for
openscad_objects is done through the BOSL2 lists library, which made
constructing this oddity possible.
The openscad_objects library is available at
https://github.com/jon-gilbert/openscad_objects
The second is a library for simple and consistent logging to the OpenSCAD
console. If you've ever used python logging, it's a little like that. Log
messages can be placed throughout your model or model libraries, and the
noise level can be (globally) used to filter away debug messages, or
errors, or some level in between.
The openscad_logging library is available at
https://github.com/jon-gilbert/openscad_logging
Both libraries are available for public use, and both have library
documentation and HOWTO quickstart docs to provide what may be suitable
examples of use. I have absolutely no idea if they'll work for you in your
model, but if you opt to try them and have questions, I think the
respective Github Issues section for each project is the right place to get
help.
(I haven't seen anything or anyone say announcing new library availability
here is not allowed, though to be fair I've only been on this list proper
for a short while, so please LMK if this is not the right place for such
announcements and I'll refrain in the future.)
--
- Jon Gilbert
jong@jong.org / jgilbertsjc@gmail.com
