<whitequark>
the nurbs backend has a number of known bugs no one has the will to fix
<whitequark>
because it is an enormous amount of work
<whitequark>
i have no good answer, sorry
<castaway>
I see
<castaway>
is there a bug list for it? is that a separate project?
<whitequark>
there are no current plans to improve the nurbs backend.
<whitequark>
this will never happen unless there is a lot of political will and significant funding
<whitequark>
several full-time positions for at least a year.
<castaway>
still curious tho ;)
<whitequark>
there's no specific bug list because it has no specific bugs
<castaway>
more likely to move to / create a different one?
<castaway>
or is solvespace stuck?
<whitequark>
there is no other option except opencascade
<whitequark>
and opencascade is a piece of shit
<whitequark>
so, yes, it would involve writing a new backend
<whitequark>
to replace opencascade
<whitequark>
this is a project that is probably larger than solvespace itself
<whitequark>
most people give up and use mesh or brep
<castaway>
i dont know those..
<whitequark>
those = ?
<whitequark>
brep is boundary representation. mesh is just triangle meshes
<whitequark>
both are not suitable for STEP export
<whitequark>
which is industry standard
<castaway>
ahh
<whitequark>
brep is very easy to work with, it's algebraic
<whitequark>
but then you have to do ray tracing
<whitequark>
and conversion to even triangle mesh is diffiult
<whitequark>
conversion to nurbs is impossible
<castaway>
I'm using it for stl mostly
<castaway>
solvespace that is
<whitequark>
sure
<whitequark>
sounds like you're fine with triangle mesh then?
<castaway>
yup
<castaway>
turning nurbs off is fine for me.. just wondered about the state
<whitequark>
it's kind of sad, but solvespace is a very small project
<whitequark>
and it cannot pull off a major achievent in foss computer graphics
<whitequark>
sadly
<castaway>
iindeed
<castaway>
cos it seems quite useful
<whitequark>
it is
<castaway>
yup
<castaway>
while I'm at it..;)
<castaway>
can one do text in any installed font? if I install a new font, it doesnt appear in the list (in openscad I can just name the font and that works)..
<castaway>
on linux that is.. where install == dump in .fonts dir
<whitequark>
that should work
<whitequark>
i ask freetype
<whitequark>
i have fonts in ~/.fonts that get loaded...
<whitequark>
maybe try strace?
<castaway>
hmm, lemme retry
<castaway>
heh you're right.. I probably had to restart for it to reload the cache or summat