Classes (types) for OpenSCAD?
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Hello OpenSCAD community! :)
When using OpenSCAD, I find myself missing things from other standard languages: * The ability to throw exceptions, and be informed where in the code the exception occurred (like a stack trace) * Modularity: the ability to tie things together (data for sure, but also functions) in objects. * Type safety, a compiler or type checker could prevent me from making lots of mistakes. I wrote some stuff (https://github.com/ben-horner/scad-primitives), and was planning to try to get run-time type checking into OpenSCAD. It includes: * Hacky way of throwing exceptions (using infinite recursion) which echos a string which you can search for in the source. * Full featured map (aka dictionary) functionality (can't speak to performance...) through global functions. I've iterated a few times using (nested) maps to define the data members of objects, and tried to get type checking working, but what I have to work with seems too thin. I've started writing some Scala code, which could turn into a DSL (domain specific language) which compiles to OpenSCAD for rendering. My question(s) are: * Are there other things out there that can give me some of what I want already? * Development complexity versus performance: If I continue down my current path, would it be necessary to support all of OpenSCAD's current syntax? i.e. "intersect_for()"? I could build code which produces an intersect_for() statement, but I could also write code which produces one big "intersect()" with all of the intersected elements explicitly present. Could there be a render-time benefit to keeping things more concise with intersect_for()? There are many other cases where if you were writing in OpenSCAD you'd want to write for reuse (modules and functions), but is there any performance benefit to doing it that way? It would be easier to write my Scala code to just write sprawling huge OpenSCAD files, is there a downside to this? -- Sent from: http://forum.openscad.org/ _______________________________________________ OpenSCAD mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.openscad.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.openscad.org |
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The following are parts of my lib Scadx :
https://bitbucket.org/runsun/scadx/src/master/ >>> Full featured map (aka dictionary) functionality (can't speak to performance...) through global functions. A hash based on search() could be very efficient: https://github.com/runsun/OpenSCAD_Tips/blob/master/snippets.md#hash This hash is heavily used though out the entire lib. For more hash-related functions, see: https://bitbucket.org/runsun/scadx/src/master/scadx_hash.scad >>> Type safety, a compiler or type checker could prevent me from making >>> lots of mistakes A lot of type-checking functions (including geometric type like point etc): https://bitbucket.org/runsun/scadx/src/master/scadx_inspect.scad >>> The ability to throw exceptions, and be informed where in the code the exception occurred (like a stack trace) I haven't visited this file for a long time: https://bitbucket.org/runsun/scadx/src/master/scadx_error.scad The stack tracing doesn't seem to be possible in OpenSCAD. But, a tree-structure logging system might help: https://bitbucket.org/runsun/scadx/src/master/scadx_log.scad Check this out for demo: https://bitbucket.org/runsun/scadx/src/master/demos/demo_log.scad Also check these for your other interests: https://bitbucket.org/runsun/scadx/src/master/scadx_array.scad https://bitbucket.org/runsun/scadx/src/master/scadx_range.scad >>> Modularity: the ability to tie things together (data for sure, but also functions) in objects. I've tried to construct some data structures to represent objects, packed with all object properties and steps required to move/modify it, then use a Make(data) module to draw it. The packaging makes it feel like a class in OOP obj and allows it to be passed around, but since everything is packed, it's extremely difficult to debug. The codes are still there: https://bitbucket.org/runsun/scadx/src/master/scadx_make.scad but I've walked away from it. I do applied some data "packaging" (in a hash) to represent func/mod arguments. This allow users to design a mod: module Mymod( len,w, opt ) { ... } then use it anyway like: Mymod( len=3, w=4 ); Mymod( opt=["len", 3, "w",4] ); Mymod( w=5, opt=["len", 3, "w",4] ); // 5 would replace 4 and the opt can be passed around and updated at RT: Mymod1( opt ); Mymod2( w=8, opt ); Mymod3( len=10, opt ); It also allows users to set/modify the properties of a sub-unit of an object: module Arm( len, d, opt ) { ... }; Arm( len=10, d=1 ); module Body( leg, arm, opt ) { ... } ; Body( arm = arm_opt ); // where arm_opt = ["len",10, "d",1] In this case, you can't do Arm( len=10, d=1) any more because Arm is inside the Body. The code : https://bitbucket.org/runsun/scadx/src/master/scadx_args.scad ----- $ Runsun Pan, PhD $ libs: scadx , doctest , faces ( git ), offline doc ( git ), runscad.py ( 2 , git ), editor of choice: CudaText ( OpenSCAD lexer ); $ Tips ; $ Snippets -- Sent from: http://forum.openscad.org/ _______________________________________________ OpenSCAD mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.openscad.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.openscad.org
$ Runsun Pan, PhD
$ libs: scadx, doctest, faces(git), offline doc(git), runscad.py(2,git), editor of choice: CudaText ( OpenSCAD lexer); $ Tips; $ Snippets |
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runsun wrote
> tree-structure logging system might help: > https://bitbucket.org/runsun/scadx/src/master/scadx_log.scad > Check this out for demo: > https://bitbucket.org/runsun/scadx/src/master/demos/demo_log.scad The logging system in action: <http://forum.openscad.org/file/t602/2018-07-27_19_25_46-Planter_Bench_187q.png> ----- $ Runsun Pan, PhD $ libs: scadx , doctest , faces ( git ), offline doc ( git ), runscad.py ( 2 , git ), editor of choice: CudaText ( OpenSCAD lexer ); $ Tips ; $ Snippets -- Sent from: http://forum.openscad.org/ _______________________________________________ OpenSCAD mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.openscad.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.openscad.org
$ Runsun Pan, PhD
$ libs: scadx, doctest, faces(git), offline doc(git), runscad.py(2,git), editor of choice: CudaText ( OpenSCAD lexer); $ Tips; $ Snippets |
Re: Classes (types) for OpenSCAD?
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In reply to this post by ben
Heretical question: why not use JavaScript/ES6 with an import of OpenSCAD functions?
import { scad } from '/modules/openscad.js'; [1,5,7,8] .filter(x => x>2) .forEach(x => { scad.translate(x, x*100, 0); scad.circle(x); }); On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 9:30 PM ben <[hidden email]> wrote: Hello OpenSCAD community! :) _______________________________________________ OpenSCAD mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.openscad.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.openscad.org |
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> Heretical question: why not use JavaScript/ES6 with an import of OpenSCAD
functions? I've been musing on writing an OpenSCAD interpreter for blender since it seems to have a more suitable interaction with the geometry engine than OpenSCAD does. -- Sent from: http://forum.openscad.org/ _______________________________________________ OpenSCAD mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.openscad.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.openscad.org |
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I think your approach to create a DSL in Scala is a good one. You can't get very far by trying to "fix" OpenSCAD using libraries. There are too many limitations in the language. If I were you, I would try to use the smallest possible subset of OpenSCAD for your code generator. The language is full of weird, inconvenient behaviour, and this minimizes the pain of dealing with the mismatch between Scala and OpenSCAD semantics. Do not output variable definitions, function definitions, module definitions, if statements, or for statements. Do all of this in Scala code, and just output nested calls to primitive modules like cube, union, etc. If you are worried about performance, try measuring it. My guess is that it will be fine. The OpenSCAD interpreter is slow, so by doing as much computation as possible in Scala, you will more likely be speeding things up. You are reinventing the wheel -- SolidPython is occasionally mentioned on the list, and probably already does what you want, if you are okay with using Python. But that's okay, because building these kinds of systems is fun. On 23 July 2018 at 00:29, ben <[hidden email]> wrote: Hello OpenSCAD community! :) _______________________________________________ OpenSCAD mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.openscad.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.openscad.org |
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On 07/31/2018 01:52 AM, doug moen wrote:
> There are too many limitations in the language. > Or just another crazy thought... > Help improving OpenSCAD itself Some features that are mentioned in the initial post are already implemented, like assert(). ciao, Torsten. _______________________________________________ OpenSCAD mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.openscad.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.openscad.org
-- Torsten
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In reply to this post by benjaminhill
I don't know if it's heretical, but I wouldn't be able to lean on the
language for type checking right? I'd have to implement type checking myself, like I tried to in pure OpenSCAD. Were you describing a javascript library that already exists? -- Sent from: http://forum.openscad.org/ _______________________________________________ OpenSCAD mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.openscad.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.openscad.org |
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In reply to this post by tp3
I got the version with assert on my Mac, but it died, now on my linux box I
think it wasn't available. I did like having it though. I thought that trying to make a large change to a program that people depend on would take a lot of bullet-proofing, and corner-case coverage than writing something separate. I guess I could check out the actual OpenSCAD code to see about adding a type system, do you really think that's a good path to take? -- Sent from: http://forum.openscad.org/ _______________________________________________ OpenSCAD mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.openscad.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.openscad.org |
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In reply to this post by doug.moen
I just looked at SolidPython a bit, and will look some more. (Seeing the
word 'right' used for positive X made me think there could be lots of stuff I didn't like in there.) Being based on python would mean no static type safety right? -- Sent from: http://forum.openscad.org/ _______________________________________________ OpenSCAD mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.openscad.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.openscad.org |
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There are a lot of projects like this out there, embedding openscad in a programming language.
For Scala specifically, I found https://github.com/dzufferey/scadla/blob/master/README.md
On Wednesday, 1 August 2018, ben <[hidden email]> wrote: I just looked at SolidPython a bit, and will look some more. (Seeing the _______________________________________________ OpenSCAD mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.openscad.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.openscad.org |
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That looks almost perfect, thanks very much for the link!
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In reply to this post by ben
Those projects look really interesting.
As I'm "designing" adapters from a PCB to another PCB, from an enclosure to a PCB, and so, I do lots of ugly work, because I don't know how to design a beautiful but useful skeleton. <http://forum.openscad.org/file/t2607/router-support.png> In fact, I just have a few constraints (holes placement, holes sizes, a few dimensions). That's why I thought of generative design that could give a much better looking adapter than what I do by myself. That's why those tools you gave pointers to sound really great. I'm not day-dreaming of something like DreamCatcher <https://www.autodeskresearch.com/projects/dreamcatcher> , just thinking of a tool that with a few constraints could generate OpenSCAD code. -- Sent from: http://forum.openscad.org/ _______________________________________________ OpenSCAD mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.openscad.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.openscad.org |
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