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janek

Weird behaviour of commandline parameters

Hi all,

I am generating a set of tiles and I am using the (windows) commandline to do it. My typical cmd command is:

"c:\Program Files\OpenSCAD\openscad.com" -o stl\tile_6_3.stl -D "x=6" -D "y=3" cmdline_tile.scad

The cmdline_tile.scad file contains this code:

$fn = 30;
use <tile_module.scad>;

// dQ
midHeight = 38;
slopeN = [-95 / 12 * y, -57 / 12 * x, 32];
tile (slopeN, h = midHeight);

And this produces an error:

WARNING: Ignoring unknown variable 'y', in file cmdline_tile.scad, line 6.
WARNING: undefined operation (number * undefined) in file cmdline_tile.scad, line 6
WARNING: Ignoring unknown variable 'x', in file cmdline_tile.scad, line 6.
WARNING: undefined operation (number * undefined) in file cmdline_tile.scad, line 6

And of course the result is empty...

If I add echo before the slopeN = […] assignment, the variables show themselves to be existent:

echo (x=x, y=y);

which produces this output line:

ECHO: x = 6, y = 3

again followed by the error claiming that variable 'y' is unknown etc.

What is, however, unexplainable for me, is the fact that the command on last line works, if I build the slope vector inline:

tile (n = [-95 / 12 * y, -57 / 12 * x, 32], h = midHeight);

This does not raise any warning and builds the expected tile. Why? And why I cannot build the vector and then use it?

(OK, I have a workaround now but I am not happy with the path)

Jan

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MichaelAtOz

Re: Weird behaviour of commandline parameters

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'-D' adds that text to the end of the file (in memory).

so you get this

$fn = 30;

use <tile_module.scad>;

// dQ

midHeight = 38;

slopeN = [-95 / 12 * y, -57 / 12 * x, 32];

tile (slopeN, h = midHeight);

x=6;y=3;

Try that in the GUI

The magic source is

$fn = 30;

use <tile_module.scad>;

// dQ

midHeight = 38;

x=0; y=0;

slopeN = [-95 / 12 * y, -57 / 12 * x, 32];

tile (slopeN, h = midHeight);

x=6;y=3;

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From: Discuss [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Jan Koupil
Sent: Fri, 14 Aug 2020 17:32
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Subject: [OpenSCAD] Weird behaviour of commandline parameters

Hi all,

I am generating a set of tiles and I am using the (windows) commandline to do it. My typical cmd command is:

"c:\Program Files\OpenSCAD\openscad.com" -o stl\tile_6_3.stl -D "x=6" -D "y=3" cmdline_tile.scad

The cmdline_tile.scad file contains this code:

$fn = 30;

use <tile_module.scad>;

// dQ

midHeight = 38;

slopeN = [-95 / 12 * y, -57 / 12 * x, 32];

tile (slopeN, h = midHeight);

And this produces an error:

And of course the result is empty...

If I add echo before the slopeN = […] assignment, the variables show themselves to be existent:

echo (x=x, y=y);

which produces this output line:

ECHO: x = 6, y = 3

again followed by the error claiming that variable 'y' is unknown etc.

What is, however, unexplainable for me, is the fact that the command on last line works, if I build the slope vector inline:

tile (n = [-95 / 12 * y, -57 / 12 * x, 32], h = midHeight);

This does not raise any warning and builds the expected tile. Why? And why I cannot build the vector and then use it?

(OK, I have a workaround now but I am not happy with the path)

Jan

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Re: Weird behaviour of commandline parameters

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On 14.08.20 09:32, Jan Koupil wrote:
> This does not raise any warning and builds the expected tile.
> Why? And why I cannot build the vector and then use it?

Variables are initialized in order, modules called afterwards,
so if you want to use -D variables to calculate others, you
need to give them some initial value in the script before use.

a = 3;
b = a + 2;
echo(a, b);

openscad -Da=1 ...

ciao,
Torsten.

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