192a935972Just went for it! Added an experimental quarter version with registration notches in the quarters. Will experiment securing with locktite and determine how waterproof the joins are. Currently having a difficult time getting the spirals to print on the Ender 5 Plus in PETG. Had it work a few times then a whole lot of variables changed and now it's jamming consistently in the same places. Made some more changes to test but while I wait I wanted to make a quartered 50ft spiral I can print on my Tiertime printer with a 130mm bed.mmcwilliams2020-07-09 09:10:15 -0400
c429f57a94Trying spiral with thicker threads. TODO: run admesh on all stls, write out to ascii still (compare sizes to binary for distribution, though).mmcwilliams2020-07-08 14:02:51 -0400
e05b6cfc8dRan benchmark script on spiral_6 and spiral_7 on vpsmmcwilliams2020-05-26 01:27:02 -0400
f7fe5b3c39Tired of burning cpu hours on tests I know will fail, forced script to run spiral_7 tests. WOW. Also, using more recent OpenSCAD on Linux desktop I am not seeing limits on the $fn for 60 rotation spirals. No overflow errors with path_extrude tested up to $fn=450 (250 is limit on mac tests). Render times go up to 1min+ but that is over 100x speed improvements. Wow again.mmcwilliams2020-05-25 23:18:07 -0400
93e4a3d1edNext-gen spiral is ready to benchmark. Generates 60 rotation spiral in 7 seconds on laptop. Wow. Hitting limits at which the spiral module overflows in the path_extrude() module. Seems to be an issue where if length of path vector array exceeds ~8500, program throws. Will test this module on newer builds to see if the 2019.05 version is the issue.mmcwilliams2020-05-25 23:01:10 -0400
56cee0fb3fAdd verbose comments, trying to figure this spiral generation out. Ahhhh!mmcwilliams2020-05-25 22:28:12 -0400
17afd6b5a6Add comments to spiral generation code (surrounding v3, which is where the most significant performance is gained). Change gnal_v2 to use library gnal_v2.scadmmcwilliams2020-05-25 19:07:02 -0400
6f4eb31f92V2 build process complete and run on laptop. Rerun on desktop with later OpenSCAD. Issue: render preview fails on spirals. Could be use of --preview flag in command but I don't want to just re-render an entire spiral to take a screenshot. Will test method of writing a scad file with an import statement referencing a rendered .stlmmcwilliams2020-05-25 01:35:51 -0400
ef5a29812ainsert modules named correctly in gnal libmmcwilliams2020-05-25 01:30:58 -0400
e9ea4d1993V1 has been fully rendered, including 100ftmmcwilliams2020-05-25 01:30:32 -0400
002874282dComplete and render v2. Process is runningmmcwilliams2020-05-23 21:47:47 -0400
459bcecaeaPublish v2. Work needs to be reconstructed and refactored from out-of-repo sources. Trying to maintain naming consistency, but work is needed to restore a complete render process for all partsmmcwilliams2020-05-23 19:45:35 -0400
c501ccba5cComplete section of benchmark script was brokenmmcwilliams2020-05-23 16:58:01 -0400
c495ff6168Render not compile (though they may mean the same thing in this case)mmcwilliams2020-05-23 15:15:03 -0400
ceb7580f8bSet filenames to variables in v1 scriptmmcwilliams2020-05-23 14:26:18 -0400
c677099742Use ADMesh to calculate facets and volume of resulting models. Look for significant differences in render time and size between spiral approaches.mmcwilliams2020-05-22 19:09:02 -0400
5f592661baRun benchmark script on 6 spiral approachesmmcwilliams2020-05-22 19:00:32 -0400