Re: [Emc-developers] Solid model from gcode (was Re: Interpreter/axis question)

2011-01-05 Thread Anders Wallin
> There are a few other people working on the problem of modeling material > removal. Unfortunately it seems that our approaches are different enough > that merging the projects would be difficult. hi all, I've done a bit of work modeling the stock as a signed-distance field. I'm using the classi

Re: [Emc-developers] Solid model from gcode (was Re: Interpreter/axis question)

2011-01-05 Thread Mark
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 6:56 PM, EBo wrote: > On 4 January 2011 22:48, Mark wrote: > >> I was assuming (from a position of ignorance) that there was > >> something > >> built in to OpenCascade that dod sweeps. My experience is purely in > >> 3D > >> CAD, and in those packages you can only sweep

Re: [Emc-developers] Solid model from gcode (was Re: Interpreter/axis question)

2011-01-05 Thread Mark
On Jan 5, 2011 6:09 AM, "Anders Wallin" wrote: > > > There are a few other people working on the problem of modeling material > > removal. Unfortunately it seems that our approaches are different enough > > that merging the projects would be difficult. > > hi all, > > I've done a bit of work model

[Emc-developers] Considering branching 2.5

2011-01-05 Thread Chris Radek
I'm going to be the release manager for 2.5. I'd like to make a v2_5_branch some time soon, to start testing/stabilizing for the eventual 2.5.0 release. I'd like to use the same git workflow we used for 2.4: bugfix and stabilizing changes will be made on v2_5_branch and merged periodically into m

Re: [Emc-developers] Considering branching 2.5

2011-01-05 Thread andy pugh
On 5 January 2011 15:23, Chris Radek wrote: > If you have incomplete work in master, or work in a branch waiting to > be merged into master, please respond here and we can figure out what > to do.  GladeVCP and pncconf are two areas where I know work is > ongoing that I don't know much about. Sm

Re: [Emc-developers] Solid model from gcode (was Re: Interpreter/axis question)

2011-01-05 Thread EBo
On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 06:10:04 -0500, Mark wrote: > On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 6:56 PM, EBo wrote: >> >> What does it use? If it only uses a 2D projection, then use the >> silhouette. > > Yes, that's what I'm trying to do with occ's hidden line removal. > However, I > ran into problems with the data

Re: [Emc-developers] Considering branching 2.5

2011-01-05 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
On 01/05/2011 08:37 AM, andy pugh wrote: > My main concern with the sserial driver is that Seb expressed concerns > about something I was doing, but I am not clear exactly what he didn't > like. ("ioport munging scares me" was the phrase) Sorry, that was vague. I just reacted to the sserial sub-d

Re: [Emc-developers] Considering branching 2.5

2011-01-05 Thread Jeff Epler
On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 03:37:33PM +, andy pugh wrote: > The bldc component is an interesting quandry as to how it should be > released, as it completely replaces both bldc_hall and bldc_sine. I see that bldc_hall3 is in v2.4_branch, while bldc_sine is not. We must keep compatibility with v2.

Re: [Emc-developers] Considering branching 2.5

2011-01-05 Thread Jeff Epler
Thanks for taking the task of release manager this time around, Chris! I see that Chris wrote a draft changelog for v2.5. Here are some more ways to look at the differences between v2.4 and master: The number of files and lines changed: $ git diff --shortstat origin/v2.4_branch 575 files ch

Re: [Emc-developers] Considering branching 2.5

2011-01-05 Thread andy pugh
On 5 January 2011 16:45, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: > Sorry, that was vague.  I just reacted to the sserial sub-driver messing > with the registers of another module (ioport in this case).  That kind of > cross-module dependency is something i tried to avoid. Would it be preferable to move those

Re: [Emc-developers] Solid model from gcode (was Re: Interpreter/axis question)

2011-01-05 Thread EBo
While poking around I came a cross some interesting papers that I thought I would point out: Campen, M. & Kobbelt, L. Polygonal Boundary Evaluation of Minkowski Sums and Swept Volumes Computer Graphics Forum, 2010, 29, 1613-1622 Bommes, D. & Kobbelt, L. Accurate computation of geodesic dis

Re: [Emc-developers] Considering branching 2.5

2011-01-05 Thread Chris Morley
> > I'm going to be the release manager for 2.5. I'd like to make a > v2_5_branch some time soon, to start testing/stabilizing for the > eventual 2.5.0 release. > Thanks to Jeff for his release managing up to this point! > I'd like to use the same git workflow we used for 2.4: bugfix and > s

Re: [Emc-developers] Considering branching 2.5

2011-01-05 Thread Matt Shaver
On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 15:37:33 + andy pugh wrote: > Smart Serial (8i20 and 7i64) support and the linked-but-separate > combined bldc driver are ready to be distributed for wider testing. > I would quite like to see both in 2.5 if possible. (There seems to be > a fair few people keen to use the 8

Re: [Emc-developers] Considering branching 2.5

2011-01-05 Thread Chris Radek
On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 01:39:40AM +, Chris Morley wrote: > Thanks to Jeff for his release managing up to this point! Agreed! I forget how many in a row he's done. It's about my turn again. We couldn't seem to get anyone else suckered, er, talked into doing it. > Pncconf for 2.5 is in a

Re: [Emc-developers] Considering branching 2.5

2011-01-05 Thread Pavel Shramov
On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 09:23:35AM -0600, Chris Radek wrote: > If you have incomplete work in master, or work in a branch waiting to > be merged into master, please respond here and we can figure out what > to do. GladeVCP and pncconf are two areas where I know work is > ongoing that I don't know