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<ohsix>
whitequark: uah, i might be training some people how to use solvespace, or at least getting a room full and walking them through the bracket tut
<ohsix>
whitequark: but the guy i've been chatting with the most the last few days, while we both figured out how to operate the 3d printer at the haxor space said the colors were hard to read for his old ass eyes
<ohsix>
i changed the modelling bg to white and he said it was better, but the tool window fonts and stuff all stay dark
<ohsix>
i've got more than one meetup group with techies where solvespace is germane to their work, dunno if i'll teach a 'class', but it might end up being that
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<ohsix>
ok nevermind, i forgot there are git submodules in here
<ohsix>
... i forget that generally
<ohsix>
whitequark: very very weak request, a menu item that would download an update and restart (so i don't have to tell people how to update it :)
<ohsix>
hrm on second thought, you'd have to add another dep that would be a drag just for an update check
<ohsix>
i was editing a feature this afternoon that intersected an arc, i had to break the arc to do it, there was no good way to constrain that arc to keep the arc similar to the larger unbroken arc
<ohsix>
slash i don't know the proper way to do it :]
<ohsix>
whitequark: actual bug though, on linux the text tool doesn't show anything until you change the font if it is missing (arial.ttf)
<ohsix>
font missing message (like the closed contour warnings,) or picking a different font (fallback to first font in list? have a candiate list?) would help
<ohsix>
the handles on the text tool is kind of weird with different fonts, some are much higher than the top control
<ohsix>
i was able to add the constraint back to the circle after the intersection, and it seemed to work
<ohsix>
trying to arrange for the screencast pointed out that the two H constraints on the rectangle went away when i did intersect, cuz i had to re-add them for the dimesion to do what i expected
<ohsix>
going to try with arcs now
<whitequark>
yeah the intersection operation removes many constraints
<ohsix>
if i delete an edge of a rectangle when i have symetric constraint on the related vertices, those go away too, are those rules generally consistent? i guess i didn't notice before
<ohsix>
k i see where i messed up, i used I on one arc and ended up with 2 with no constraints, i can add the constraints right back and it DTRT
<ohsix>
can you link constraints? so say to arcs that are related by style or whatever change when you modify any of them
<ohsix>
related to that, but i just remembered i'd thought to ask last night; is the solver able to handle constraints like X=Y (if you could relate constraints by name or some lable) or X/2, or X=y/2 etc, so you can keep a relationship between a set of constraints
<ohsix>
basically, if i split the arc and add dimensions back, can i link them so i don't have to update n*splits when i want to change curvature