IRC log for #brlcad on 20090905

00:02.46``Erikprobably
00:03.00``Erikpulls up source and kinda hopes someone who knows more than he does answers before he gets too far into it... :D
00:07.11``Erik(CTJ .. is that... paladin?)
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00:08.49``Erikhrm, too much name overlap, makes grep tricky :(
00:13.13Yoshi477does rtcheck make shapes?
00:13.31Yoshi477soemthing keeps making copies of shapes with _01
00:14.13Yoshi477or does oed cause that?
00:15.12``Erikrtcheck shouldn't alter anything, oed shouldn't generate anything new if you don't ask it to, I think?
00:15.16``Erik<-- doesn't know the gui... :D
00:15.31Yoshi477this is command line stuff
00:15.50``ErikI see where the display list is held, now to see if there's something to walk it and return it as a string... O.o heh
00:16.10``Erikum, I don't know much about mged.... if you wanna talk rt or something, or library stuff, I'm there... :D
00:16.22Yoshi477ah ok
00:16.53Yoshi477backend coder, i wish sometimes i could be one, and others not so much
00:18.10``ErikI suppose 'backend' is one way to refer to what I do... I kinda think of myself as more of a system developer... :D closer to the hardware than the user interface... I get my jollies when I get to poke at operating system kernel code :D
00:19.13``ErikI'm not seeing anything that looks like a command to print the display list :/ but I might just be missing it
00:20.20``Erikah, wait, looks like there's a duplicate list held in tcl
00:21.07``Erikhrmph. mged isn't working on my laptop here :(
00:21.20Yoshi477what!
00:21.26Yoshi477you should be ashamed!
00:21.32``Erikbut the 'Display' tcl class has a method called "contents" that might be what you're looking for
00:21.40Yoshi477ok i'll try
00:21.48Yoshi477invalid
00:21.56Yoshi477or is it ls contents
00:21.59``Erikyou have to refer to the instance of display
00:22.20Yoshi477and how my i pretell do that?
00:23.08``Erikstill looking
00:23.21``Erikjabs brlcad or starseeker with something pointy to see if they know
00:24.28``Erikmeh, there're like 3 definitions of 'display list' that confuse things heh :(
00:24.44brlcad'who' shows what is currently drawn
00:24.47Yoshi477well i cause patience plays in here
00:24.54Yoshi477oh
00:25.22Yoshi477what about the individual prims?
00:25.53``Erikthose'd be the things in the display lists
00:28.45brlcadYoshi477: curious that you'd want or need to know the individual prims
00:28.50brlcadbut you can find those with search
00:28.56Yoshi477is there a command to like where used? so enter prim and you get what assemblies it is used in?
00:28.57brlcadsearch whatever -not -type c
00:29.11``Erikbrlcad: ones in the active display list?
00:29.40brlcaddbfind locates uses
00:30.54``Erik(I see where src/tclscripts/lib/Display.tcl defines a "contents" method in the Display class, how do you invoke that from inside of mged?)
00:31.05Yoshi477likes dbfind
00:37.14brlcad``Erik: tclscripts/lib/* is archer guts
00:37.35``Erikohhhhhh, ok
00:37.36brlcador at least old archer guts, some might not be active any longer
00:37.46``ErikI saw some in libged and some in tclscripts
00:37.48brlcadtclscripts/mged is mged guttage
00:38.18``Erik(dead code culling might be a good offsite, too)
00:38.48brlcadit's not used by us, but is used by s2
00:39.05brlcador at least *might* not be by us, but definitely by them
00:39.05Yoshi477s2?
00:39.23brlcadYoshi477: one of various software projects that links against brl-cad libs
00:39.36Yoshi477opensource?
00:39.40brlcadnope
00:39.43Yoshi477ah
00:39.47brlcadthere are lots of analysis codes that use br-cad
00:39.50Yoshi477can i ask what it does
00:40.07Yoshi477mainly?
00:40.25``Erikchews up cpu and keeps button mashers employed
00:40.41brlcadit calculates vulnerability and lethality by performing high-energy ballistic penetration simulations
00:40.51Yoshi477cool
00:41.10Yoshi477so how many hours a day do you code for brlcad?
00:41.17brlcad24? :)
00:41.25brlcadokay, 18
00:41.30Yoshi477really?
00:41.35brlcadgotta eat n' sleep some to sustain
00:41.45Yoshi47718?
00:41.50Yoshi477you get paid 18 too!
00:42.09``Erikbullshit, you code bzflag, too
00:42.11``Erik:D
00:42.11brlcadit fluctuates
00:42.28brlcadyeah, not just brl-cad, a few other open source projects too
00:42.34``Erikis libirc dead? heh
00:42.36Yoshi477i played bzflag for about a week 2 years ago
00:42.44brlcad``Erik: nope, it's just "done" for now
00:43.03``Erikaight, haven't heard of it being used and commits seem very infrequent
00:43.04Yoshi477so the army pays you for every hour you put in?
00:43.15brlcadheck no
00:43.26Yoshi477anything?
00:43.36``Erikthe paperwork to bill more than 80 hours a fortnight would be insane
00:43.38``Erik:D
00:46.04``Eriknever underestimate the insanity of gov't bureaucracy O.o
00:46.27``Erikthe trick is to do what you wanna do and figure out how to get someone to pay you for it
00:46.38brlcadYoshi477: when one enjoys what they do, it doesn't really matter much
00:46.50Yoshi477true
00:47.48``Erik(have I mentioned that I hate gui coding lately?)
00:47.54Yoshi477nope
00:48.20Yoshi477i love gui coding, if i can do it? need lots of training for my small mind
00:48.32``Erikheh, sure, do ya do mac stuff?
00:48.40``ErikI have a side project that I think needs a gui
00:48.47``Erik:D
00:48.51Yoshi477nope don't have a mac just linux
00:48.53``Erikhrm
00:49.02Yoshi477know some qt stuff but not much
00:49.10Yoshi477some xul stuff
00:49.12``ErikI happen to have qt installed on my mac
00:49.41Yoshi477whats the side pro?
00:50.04``Erikum, ya familiar with internet radio? shoutcast/icecast stuff?
00:50.18Yoshi477not much but i know what it is
00:50.24Yoshi477never use it
00:50.36``ErikI want a decent source client that I can modify
00:50.45Yoshi477ah
00:50.54``Erik'muse' is a piece of shit (linux app with a halfassed carbon addon), nicecast is closed source
00:51.11``Erikand those're pretty much the only two that work on the mac :/
00:51.16Yoshi477ah
00:51.29Yoshi477so you need to find a qt one
00:51.43``Erikwell, I'd prefer cocoa, but *shrug*
00:51.58``ErikI was running around the office looking for a cocoa book yesterday heh
00:53.07``Erikbut qt has a native osX port, iirc, so I can't hate on it too much, even if it's c++
00:53.15``Erikgtk+ requires X :(
00:53.31Yoshi477you like gtk better then qt?
00:53.38``Erikcode wise, yes
00:53.44Yoshi477main reason...
00:53.52``ErikI went from loving c++ to hating it in '96 or so
00:54.10Yoshi477what did you replace it with?
00:54.11``Erikit's ugly, excessively verbose, ambiguous, ... (or was in 96 or so...)
00:54.12``ErikC
00:54.27Yoshi477oh even more low level
00:54.45``ErikI can cope with things like function pointers and "advanced" cpp macros...
00:54.50``Erikhm, I'd disagree
00:55.01Yoshi477oh ok
00:55.15Yoshi477i wouldn't know just had basic tutorials on both of them
00:55.43``Erikc++ was dandy if you have to deal with mediocre developers on the team... java takes that role now... if you have a group of competent folk, c++ and java just get in the way, imnsho :)
00:55.50Yoshi477got my level 1 c++ in college thats about it
00:56.11``Erik*sing* anything you can do, I can do better... :D
00:56.33``Erik(early c++ was actually a macro package for C, iirc)
00:56.42``Erikcalled "c with classes" or something
00:56.56``Erikalan kay has an interesting rant on the subject :)
00:57.26Yoshi477ya i knew that,
00:57.28``Erik(he 'invented' object oriented... his observation is that bjarne missed the point)
00:57.46Yoshi477oh well i don't get that stuff that much anyways my head hurts anytime i go into it deep
00:57.48``Erikobjc is sexy is a strange way, though
00:58.06``ErikI'm annoyed at the inability to collapse messages, though
00:58.25Yoshi477see i don't even get that!
00:58.51``Erik-(void)alpha; -(void)beta:(int)i; ... I should be able to [obj alph beta:10] in my mind, but I have to [obj alpha]; [obj beta:10];
00:59.03``Erikknow whut ah mean, vern?
00:59.06Yoshi477ya you lost me
00:59.20Yoshi477way beyond my comprehension
00:59.26``Erikum, message based OO systems .. :) smalltalk ftw
00:59.56``Erik[obj method]; is the objC version of obj.method();
01:00.30``Erik(vs the CLOS "(method obj)")
01:01.21``Erikyes, I'm a language nerd... this is the stuff that interests me, gui's are unfun :D *duck*
01:01.26Yoshi477see you lost me since i haven't use c++ qt since the spring and 2 years before that, i goes out of my mind fast, but im fine with that, got to learn brlcad and then when im done designing my CNC i can continue with FANO
01:01.47Yoshi477FaNO
01:02.26``Erikfano?
01:02.43``Erikan overloaded word according to the almighty g00g
01:03.07``Erika guitar company, a town in italy, a district in austria, ...
01:03.15Yoshi477Food and Nutritional Organizer
01:03.36Yoshi477something like fitday
01:03.45Yoshi477but cross platform
01:03.53Yoshi477and ability to export stuff!
01:04.28``Erikhum
01:04.41``Eriksimilar to http://nut.sf.net ?
01:05.24``Erikcli, but works on *nix and dos
01:06.09``Erikhas been learning common lisp and 'ucw' (and ajax, javascript, css, etc) with the intent of making a web variant
01:06.14Yoshi477ya, but mine has recipe manager built in
01:06.28``Erikheh
01:06.30``Erikamusing
01:06.33Yoshi477and mine a GUI(qt)
01:06.52``Erik<-- thinks he had pretty much the same idea, but decided web was better as a user interface layer
01:07.01Yoshi477mainly going to have recipe first(doesn't suit name at first but it will)
01:07.20``Erikthey say great minds think alike, I guess the correlary is that feeble ones do, as well ;)
01:08.15``ErikI did a fair bit of whiteboard work to come up with ways to come up with targetted recipe recommendation lists based on what ingredients you have available, what your nutritional requirements are, and what your personal preferences are
01:08.44``Erik(and trying to figure out how to maintain a 'pantry' database without being invasive or difficult)
01:09.13``Erikoohhhhhhh, I saw this on hn a bit ago... http://recipepuppy.com/  neat stuff :)
01:09.31``Erika bit meta, but neat
01:10.07Yoshi477oh watch it google's going to buy that site
01:10.22``Erikheh, that'd be cool, the dude would get his payout
01:10.31Yoshi477yep
01:11.12``Erikd'no if google has any interest in the cooking world...
01:12.09``Erikwhen I visited, I got an impression of a culture that viewed food as a 'below them' aspect, the free cafeterias, "snack stations", and interest in going out to eat
01:13.24Yoshi477free cafe? they have it too good
01:14.15``Erik(mebbe the cafeterias were free for the gsoc mentors as a special deal... but when I visited nvidia, the cafeteria/catering was free)
01:14.50Yoshi477nvidia is own by google?
01:14.58``Erikno
01:16.05``ErikI visited nvidia in '01, google in '08
01:16.40Yoshi477oh
01:17.06``Erikwhen I worked at fedex, we had free tea, coffee, popcorn, etc... and vending machines where tv dinners were like a buck
01:23.16Yoshi477cool
01:23.26Yoshi477i would be even fatter!
01:24.02``Erikheh, I gained like 50 pounds
01:24.09Yoshi477ouch
01:24.15``Erikand I'm a little dude
01:24.24Yoshi477ya i have no will power when it comes to food
01:25.56``Erikgraduated college at ~135 (~60kg), boomed up to 180(~80kg) pretty quick, drifting around 150-160(~69-72kg) now
01:26.27``Erikand I'm only 5'8(147cm)
01:26.37``Erik:D
01:27.54louipcI gained like 10lbs when I was in taiwan for a month haha
01:28.04Yoshi477grad 150lbs college 1 year later 180, college 2year after grad 190, greenhouse work for .5 year 185 IT Support/Systems Support Analyst Job 3.5 year after grad 210, now 195 hovering
01:28.11Yoshi477lowest in 3 years was 184
01:28.13louipceverybody kept shoving food in my face
01:28.29``ErikI think quitting soda was a big win for me
01:28.34Yoshi477yep me too
01:28.51Yoshi477quiting most sugars helps, and also six pack abs challenge!
01:29.04louipc:O
01:29.52``Erikheh
01:30.38``Eriksee, I quit drinking soda, but I drink a fair amount of beer, and like my big greaseburger and fries at lunch... and a major aversion to physical exertion, so I'm not exactly.... 'fit' :D
01:31.25``Erikmonitoring intake using 'nut' has changed my choices in food a fair bit, though... *shrug* mortifying looking at what ya actually shovel into your body
01:33.00Yoshi477i know what you mean
01:38.13Yoshi477yeah finally got all my overlaps delt with!
01:39.43brlcadwoo hoo
01:40.32Yoshi477hey brlcad if i had 6 of those hex bolts in my window wireframe would that slow down the rotation and zoom in and out, or is it just a problem on my machine?
01:42.04Yoshi477maybe i need a quadro?
01:42.11Yoshi4775400
01:42.14Yoshi477lol
01:42.34brlcaddepends just how complicated the geometry is, how many objects, how many segments, your video card, whether it's x11 or ogl, etc
01:42.45brlcadin general, no it shouldn't really, but certainly could
01:43.00brlcadespecially with a lot of deep copies (from clone) instead of references
01:43.37Yoshi477one sec
01:45.01Yoshi477here try it out http://ej.nijenhuis.pixi.me/d/2441-1/sweetspot_g?g2_GALLERYSID=8d870d26847034d67e6a9b58f984d434
01:45.04Yoshi477B sweetspot.c
01:45.10``Erikquatro will not help you
01:45.19Yoshi477really?
01:45.35Yoshi477a gaming card better
01:45.45``ErikglLine is not really any faster on even a good GL card than a simple svga card
01:46.04Yoshi477i guess i don't know
01:46.06``ErikopenGL does not really buy BRL-CAD any speed at the moment
01:46.19brlcadgetting a few fps here
01:46.39Yoshi477im at .82
01:46.40``Erik% delta?
01:47.20Yoshi477.74 when zooming
01:47.46``Erikcrap, it's september, isn't it
01:47.48Yoshi477GeForce 8500 GT
01:47.50Yoshi477yep it is
01:47.58``Erik2 months of paperwork :(
01:48.25Yoshi477paperwork for what? two month to go?
01:48.47``Erikgotta write up reports on what I have done and what I intend to do
01:49.06Yoshi477for the two summer months or it will take you two months
01:49.56Yoshi477don't you keep svn with ci -m" everytime you can just concat those and your done!
01:50.11``Erikprobably about ten hours of real work, but the annoyance kills time like a mofo, so 2 months of dev is blown
01:50.37Yoshi477ah
01:50.44``Erikyes, the svn logs are an important part, extracting pertinant data from it is a hassle
01:51.16``ErikI can't say "svn log -user erikgreenwald -dates 200810010000:200909312359"
01:51.26``Erikthe 'user' part is the bitch
01:51.27Yoshi477why not
01:51.48``Erikit's not an option in svn
01:52.01``Erik(unless I'm missing it)
01:52.02Yoshi477when you add a cooment you should put erik:your comment then you can easily
01:52.33``Erikbut when I leave a comment, I comment on what I did, not who I am...
01:52.42Yoshi477you can do both
01:53.01Yoshi477that way you get it out of svn
01:53.10``Erikgimmea  time machine so I can go back a year and inform myself to encode user information superfluously in the log message.
01:53.13``Erik:D
01:53.15Yoshi477thats what i do at work for my task logs
01:53.36Yoshi477time machine only work for future
01:53.39``ErikI got data, it ain't got that encoding, I gotta generate info...
01:53.50``Erikso, y'kow,
01:53.53``Erikknow
01:53.58Yoshi477gives shotgun to ``Erik
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01:56.26Yoshi477wait a minute
01:56.36Yoshi477don't you svn commit under your username
01:56.59``Erikyes, I do
01:57.01``Erikthat's my issue
01:57.11Yoshi477why is that your issue?
01:57.42``ErikI don't believe that svn log has any username filter
01:58.19Yoshi477well we use redmine at work and when i use the svn cli after that i go to the svn section in redmine and it has what user did what commit!
01:58.21``Erikdorks with it, sees a 'username' global option and may soon have egg on his fcea
01:59.03``Erikno, even specifying the username, it gives me all deltas
01:59.03Yoshi477so ya found it?
01:59.16Yoshi477deltas?
01:59.55``Erikyeah, --username seems to be ignored in log O.o
01:59.59``Erikeffin' r-tarded
02:00.10Yoshi477umm i wonder how redmine does it
02:01.43Yoshi477yep i am looking at it right now under repository in redmine i can see who the author is of the latest revision
02:03.14starseeker``Erik: does this help?  http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2005-02/0738.shtml
02:04.14Yoshi477well im off for the nite, cya later
02:04.27``Erikhasta, yoshi
02:04.38``Erikstarseeker: why can't svn do this by itself?
02:04.59``Erikit has a fucking --username argument, why the fuck doens't it fucking work? goddamn piece of sit
02:05.02``Erikshit
02:05.26``Erik"lets do cvs, but better! oh, wait, lets take all the fuckups of cvs and MAKE THEM WORSE! YES! TEH WINZ!"
02:05.32``Erik:D
02:06.00``Erikeyeballs darcs some
02:06.08brlcadthat's the username to use to log in
02:06.25brlcadfor rev in `svn log configure.ac | grep erik | awk '{print $1}'` ; do svn log -$rev configure.ac ; done
02:06.29``Erikdamnit, don't de-rail my drunken rant
02:07.34Yoshi477lol
02:07.38Yoshi477ok im gone now
02:08.02``Erikhasta
02:08.13louipcerm --username is meant for authentication, not filtering
02:33.49starseeker``Erik: could you import our repository into git?  would that help?
02:34.08starseekerhttp://www.metaskills.net/2009/2/1/git-subversion-user-commit-reports
02:39.21louipcheehee :D
02:40.08louipcI would have said that, but brlcad would accuse me of preaching.
02:50.57``Erikstarseeker: ur m0m
03:30.56starseeker``Erik: eh?
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11:59.16ThingymebobMake fails, can anyone help http://pastebin.com/d58247d7f
12:02.06``Erikthe actual failure seems to be omitted
12:02.10``Erik?
12:03.18Thingymebob``Erik: My error, It just hung at that point, back to life now
12:04.08``Erikif there is a failure in there, ya might try re-running configure with "--enable-all"
12:04.39``Erikthe tcl/tk check probably needs some lovin' to make sure the system variant is recent enough :/
12:43.57CIA-28BRL-CAD: 03jdoliner * r35852 10/brlcad/trunk/src/proc-db/surfaceintersect.cpp:
12:43.57CIA-28BRL-CAD: Fixed illegal coersions of ON_BezierCurves * into ON_Curve * which was causing
12:43.57CIA-28BRL-CAD: segfaults. WalkIntersection now returns its result as an ON_NurbsCurve cast as
12:43.57CIA-28BRL-CAD: an ON_Curve instead of as ON_BezierCurves, the curves are still identical
14:46.03``Erikteh fux? a billy mays commercial? heh
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16:28.16kanzurehi all
16:28.26kanzureanyone know of any open source assembly planner?
16:38.17``Erikthat sounds... awfully specialized?
16:45.01``Erikhuh, this tv show thinks the bismark was scuttled
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17:26.16kanzureis there a way to figure out the regions in a dot g file? is there a shell utility that will list them for me?
17:27.16brlcadmged -c test.g search / -type r
17:27.53kanzureinvalid command name "search"
17:28.10brlcadyour version is too old
17:28.22kanzure7.8 ?
17:28.42brlcadwow, that is ancient
17:28.55kanzurethat's what's on the download page
17:29.05kanzuregets the svn version
17:29.12brlcadbinary platforms aren't updated very frequently (you
17:29.20brlcad(you're more than welcome to provide an update)
17:29.53kanzureokay
17:30.36kanzuremaybe I should just ask before I bother, but,
17:30.46kanzureI'm trying to convert from DXF to STEP or IGES. is this going to happen?
17:31.04kanzureHeeksCAD doesn't seem to do it at all, so I'm trying brlcad
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17:43.00Yoshi477kanzure, you can get a 30day trial from varicad
17:45.53brlcaddepends on what is in the dxf file, but you should be able to run dxf-g and g-iges to convert
17:45.53brlcadwe don't have a step exporter yet
17:46.33Yoshi477kanzure, or you can upload and someone here might offer to do it for you
17:47.39kanzurehttp://adl.serveftp.org/belt-clamp.3d.DXF that would be awesome :)
17:47.47Yoshi477i'll give it a shot
17:49.03kanzurethank you :)
17:50.18brlcadwhat is in that dxf?
17:50.28Yoshi477i only got a 2d profile of something
17:51.08kanzureit's supposedly a 3d model
17:51.16brlcadyeah, export of non-solid entities isn't going to fly
17:51.21kanzurewhen I open it up in HeeksCAD, it's a "3d sketch" whatever the hell that is
17:51.24kanzurehrm
17:51.32kanzurewell the other option here is for me to extrude an svg file
17:51.37kanzureheekscad crashes when attempting to do that, however
17:51.40Yoshi477one sec
17:51.43kanzure(there's a common theme)
17:51.45Yoshi477my varicad might not be expired
17:52.04kanzurethe svg is located here: http://contraptor.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/contraptor/tags/contraptor-1.5.0/components/belt-clamp/
17:52.25brlcadyeah, it is a 3d sketch .. that's just a planar object
17:52.35kanzuregrr
17:52.41kanzurethe author made it originally in google sketchup
17:52.47kanzurewhich is completely useless as far as I'm concerned
17:53.47Yoshi477varicad imported it as a 2d just like brlcad did, are you sure its a 3d file?
17:54.01kanzureno not at all
17:54.01brlcadit's not a valid extrusion sketch
17:54.03kanzurecan it be extruded?
17:54.07kanzurehm
17:54.10Yoshi477yeah
17:54.25brlcadi extruded it in brl-cad, but it's got non-closed loops
17:54.26Yoshi477but it look like there is a gear on the one side
17:54.39kanzurehmph.
17:54.45kanzuremaybe this isn't worth our time
17:54.48kanzuresorry to bug you guys
17:54.55Yoshi477np
17:55.06Yoshi477kinda was curious to see the 3d
17:55.09kanzure"contraptor" is an "open hardware" project that has dimensions/specs for various components like beams and angled brackets
17:55.19Yoshi477ah
17:55.20kanzurebut since it doesn't provide any usable CAD models, screw it
17:55.29kanzurewhat's the point?
17:55.34kanzurewhy would you put effort into something completely unusable
17:55.42kanzuream I missing something?
17:56.09kanzureanyway, I was asking earlier today about writing an assembly planner
17:56.13kanzurewas wondering if anyone in here has experience with those
17:57.17Yoshi477nope
17:57.27Yoshi477but i work with people who use pro/e
17:57.34kanzuredoes pro/e do that?
17:57.56kanzureassembly planners are used to generate instructions and sequences of operations for physically moving around parts to a CAD model to make it happen in the shop
17:58.08kanzuresometimes spitting out human readable instructions
17:58.12kanzuresometimes spitting out robot crap
17:58.40Yoshi477oh, i think it does that but they don
17:58.42Yoshi477t use it
17:58.47kanzurethe trick though is somehow avoiding order n**2 collision detection between all of the parts
17:59.17kanzure(to check for collision-free insertion motions)
18:00.47Yoshi477what would boost the usage of brlcad would be integrated g-code exporter
18:01.13kanzureyeah I can't read g-code much heh
18:01.40Yoshi477wel anyways im off for the afternoon, cya  guy tonight maybe
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19:26.46starseekerkanzure: at a guess, the contraptor project looks like it's not mature yet
19:27.05starseekertheir web page appears to be a default sourceforge page, for the most part
19:27.48starseekergenerally speaking, open source CAD tools have a ways to go
19:41.21starseekerwonders how he can justify buying an N900...
19:52.44kanzurestarseeker: nah the real web page is somewhere else apparently
19:52.53kanzuregoes back to hating everything and everyone
19:53.33starseekerthese guys?  http://www.garagefab.cc/contraptor/what-is-it
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