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Ok…. Downloaded and compiled and fresh copy of heekscad.  Time to get that morning cup of coffee. Last time I did something similar to this I hunted down the extrude icon which is stored as “extrude.png” .    Need to search … Continue reading →

I had downloaded heeksCAD using SVN and had recopied the project to hack it up. I want to start playaround with rapidSVN a little bit more and see if I can stay in-sync with the changes. I don’t know if … Continue reading →

There is a features request for revolving a sketch into a solid. I thought I might try googling a little to see what I could come up with. http://lignumcad.sourceforge.net/doc/en/HTML/SOHTML/TechnicalReference.html http://www.opencascade.org/org/forum/thread_8675/ Ok…. I think I found the magic term. BRepPrimAPI_MakeRevol And … Continue reading →

This is me just having my version of fun here. I downloaded a dxf of a bridge, and I thought it be interesting to see if I could figure out what all is going on when the program loads this … Continue reading →

I starting to feel more comfortable with the C::B ide. But I still not very versed in C++ debugging techniques. I remember in the Paul Kunz course he mentioned some technique that could track some routines called. It was one … Continue reading →

Ok… My main goal in looking at Heekscad is to gain and understand on how opencascade goes from the OCC code to a OpenGl graphics window.  It has been very frustrating to me to see a simple makebottle example OCC … Continue reading →

This is a little sample Code::Blocks project file that I got to work for Heekscad.  HeeksCAD is evolving pretty quickly.  There is discussion on the the heekscad about a option under development RUNNINPLACE which will be far more interesting that … Continue reading →

It’s way too late and I should be in bed…. but this is way to0 fun… Anyway… I downloaded the source for HeeksCAD has was able to get it to compile with the existing makefile.  (So… I know what I … Continue reading →

This is a note to self.  This stuff looks very interesting to me.  I wonder if I could apply it to some of my Stirling engine stuff research… That is after I get the other million and one things done … Continue reading →