solvespace/wishlist.txt


grid
better text
right-click menu
faster triangulation
interpolating splines

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copy and paste
loop detection
IGES export
incremental regen of entities
associative entities from solid model, as a special group
rounding, as a special group
Improve convergence of constraints involving parallel vectors, by using the initial numerical guess of whichever vector is already known to choose our projection planes. And add a mechanism to defer showing the text window or regenerating, in order to simplify dependencies on valid actives. Also yes/no/cancel when about to abandon an unsaved file, and a bugfix when rotating a rot/trans point. [git-p4: depot-paths = "//depot/solvespace/": change = 1772] 2008-06-04 02:28:41 +08:00
Add beginnings of marching surface intersection; I can find all the boundary points, at least. That required some changes to what gets passed around (for example because to project a point onto this inexact curve, we need to know which two surfaces it trims so that we can do a Newton's method on them). And fix stupidity in the way that I calculated edge normals; I just did normal in uv space, and there's no particular reason why that would be normal in xyz. So edges in long skinny surfaces failed, for example. [git-p4: depot-paths = "//depot/solvespace/": change = 1990] 2009-06-19 15:56:33 +08:00			`grid`
Change how step and repeat works: now I build the union of all the steps in thisShell or thisMesh, and then let the Boolean proceed as usual. If everything works, then this is equivalent. And it's less code, and it makes stuff like stepping the step and repeat work. Also begin to work on line/entity/constraint styles, but no real work yet. [git-p4: depot-paths = "//depot/solvespace/": change = 2018] 2009-07-20 09:47:59 +08:00			`better text`
Now actually export the line styles, for PDF, EPS, and SVG file formats, with the proper color and width. This may need a bit of cleanup for stuff like the hidden line removal, which currently loses the style. Also fix a bug in the test for arcs of a circle. A second-order Bezier with collinear control points really is an arc, but it's an arc with infinite radius so stuff tends to blow up. So return false for that one. [git-p4: depot-paths = "//depot/solvespace/": change = 2030] 2009-09-22 13:46:30 +08:00			`right-click menu`
Change how step and repeat works: now I build the union of all the steps in thisShell or thisMesh, and then let the Boolean proceed as usual. If everything works, then this is equivalent. And it's less code, and it makes stuff like stepping the step and repeat work. Also begin to work on line/entity/constraint styles, but no real work yet. [git-p4: depot-paths = "//depot/solvespace/": change = 2018] 2009-07-20 09:47:59 +08:00			`faster triangulation`
Add ability to set export canvas size (paper size for PDF, bbox size for EPS, etc.). This can either be fixed, with a given width and height and offset, or automatic, by the left right bottom top margins. And draw nicer dimensions for length, with arrows and more extension lines. Add code to trim those lines against the (rectangular, axis-aligned) box that contains the actual number, and use that (instead of the elliptical interpolation, which was only approximately right) for diameter dimensions too. [git-p4: depot-paths = "//depot/solvespace/": change = 2027] 2009-09-03 16:13:09 +08:00			`interpolating splines`
Add a special constraint type for comments; no equations, just user-visible text. And make points hoverable/selectable even when GW.showPoints is false, and zoom to fit before regenerating on file open, because then we're at the right zoom level (and will use the right pwl tolerance). [git-p4: depot-paths = "//depot/solvespace/": change = 1788] 2008-06-12 16:58:58 +08:00
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Add support for the 3dconnexion six degree of freedom input devices (in my case, a SpaceNavigator). I can transform the view of the part, or transform a part in an assembly. Also fix up mouse wheel input, so that it works even if it comes in chunks of less than 120 units. [git-p4: depot-paths = "//depot/solvespace/": change = 2019] 2009-07-21 03:05:33 +08:00			`copy and paste`
Add code to subdivide (with de Castljau's algorithm) a surface, and use that for surface-line intersections. That has major problems with the heuristic on when to stop and do Newton polishing. There's also an issue with all the Newton stuff when surfaces join tangent. And update the wishlist to reflect current needs. [git-p4: depot-paths = "//depot/solvespace/": change = 1925] 2009-03-08 18:59:57 +08:00			`loop detection`
Show a progress message when regenerating is slow. And update the version number to 1.4, don't include force-hidden entities when building the loops, and don't show force-hidden entities when that entity gets copied. [git-p4: depot-paths = "//depot/solvespace/": change = 1983] 2009-06-14 12:36:38 +08:00			`IGES export`
			`incremental regen of entities`
Change how step and repeat works: now I build the union of all the steps in thisShell or thisMesh, and then let the Boolean proceed as usual. If everything works, then this is equivalent. And it's less code, and it makes stuff like stepping the step and repeat work. Also begin to work on line/entity/constraint styles, but no real work yet. [git-p4: depot-paths = "//depot/solvespace/": change = 2018] 2009-07-20 09:47:59 +08:00			`associative entities from solid model, as a special group`
			`rounding, as a special group`
Add routines to remove T intersections from the mesh, which are introduced by the bsp routines. It's usually, though not always, possible to generate a watertight mesh. The occasions where it's not look ugly, floating point issues, no quick fix. And use those to generate a list of edges where two different faces meet, which I can emphasize for cosmetic reasons (and some UI to specify whether to do that, and with what color). And make the right mouse button rotate the model, since that was previously doing nothing. [git-p4: depot-paths = "//depot/solvespace/": change = 1821] 2008-07-06 15:56:24 +08:00
Improve convergence of constraints involving parallel vectors, by using the initial numerical guess of whichever vector is already known to choose our projection planes. And add a mechanism to defer showing the text window or regenerating, in order to simplify dependencies on valid actives. Also yes/no/cancel when about to abandon an unsaved file, and a bugfix when rotating a rot/trans point. [git-p4: depot-paths = "//depot/solvespace/": change = 1772] 2008-06-04 02:28:41 +08:00