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giulioandrea  
#1 Posted : Saturday, November 10, 2007 4:19:56 PM(UTC)
giulioandrea

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it would be great to be able to model something without the GUI.
Macosx is UNIX.. which makes things great when combining several programs together... imagine something like:

you have an optimization program which runs in the terminal,
a FEM solver which runs in the terminal
and... (missing)
the possibility to access the CAD potential by scripting!!!!!!


this would be 5 in's setting up.
Please make kernel open to scripting and accessible from terminal
:-)
g.

PS this is possible with Blender for instance... but CU is far too cool to miss it!
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Dan Falck  
#2 Posted : Monday, November 12, 2007 12:39:16 PM(UTC)
Dan Falck

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I would also love to have scripting added to the CU/viaCad/Shark family.
I would love to be able to set up scripts to draw out common parts that I do almost every day here. These parts are easily defined and not very complex. Having a dialog box that allows me to input the dimensions quickly would be wonderful. I have been working on this with some open souce projects and have had encouraging results.

Thanks,
Dan

P.S. Python is my scripting language of choice.
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API  
#3 Posted : Monday, November 12, 2007 1:10:20 PM(UTC)
API

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Can you make them as symbols?

Patrick
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jol  
#4 Posted : Monday, November 12, 2007 1:52:17 PM(UTC)
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yep .. then you can just type in a scale value and orientation ?
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Dan Falck  
#5 Posted : Monday, November 12, 2007 2:22:21 PM(UTC)
Dan Falck

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Tell me more about using symbols in CU/Viacad.

Let's say that I have an adapter bushing that has these features that change from part to part:

the shank can vary in diameter
the shank can vary in length
there is a head on the bushing that can vary in diameter
the head on the bushing can vary in length
there might be 1, 2, or 4 tapped holes through the head (they lock onto the drill or boring bar that is placed in the bushing)
the tapped holes could be anything between a 6-32 to 1/4-28 thread
there may or may not be a coolant hole in the end of the shank

Could these variables be captured with symbols?

Thanks,
Dan
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jol  
#6 Posted : Monday, November 12, 2007 2:25:40 PM(UTC)
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OK - gotcha !

you need to write to Tim

he'll put it on his list right behind a thousand other things including fixing the display performance and so on !
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