Re: [brlcad-devel] nmg command design

2015-07-22 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Jul 20, 2015, at 5:03 PM, Brad Hollister wrote: > I assume there isn't any functionality that does this, even in a > related form? If not, this could be easily handled with a field such > as: That is a correct assumption, though one that has been discussed before. We also need some means f

Re: [brlcad-devel] nmg command design

2015-07-22 Thread Brad Hollister
Hi, > Instead of creating a stateful description in terms of ?selections", > an action could be encoded as nmg metadata where subentities are > ?marked? and you can perform actions on things marked. Basically, > this would change the nmg ? writing the marked data to disk just like > any other cha

Re: [brlcad-devel] nmg command design

2015-07-15 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Jul 15, 2015, at 10:58 PM, Clifford Yapp wrote: > Brad, > > Started looking over http://brlcad.org/wiki/MGED_CMD_nmg - like how > you're laying out the design. Ditto Brad, though I’m still yearning to focus on a higher-level abstraction, not directly exposing all the complexity and termino

[brlcad-devel] nmg command design

2015-07-15 Thread Clifford Yapp
Brad, Started looking over http://brlcad.org/wiki/MGED_CMD_nmg - like how you're laying out the design. My first comment (and this may warrant discussion) is that we want to avoid statefulness in the command. So we don't want the behavior of running nmg a second time to depend on what was run th