Michael

1. > I think the issue refers to this thread on the mailing list: http://forum.openscad.org/Using-D-in-the-command-line-tc5483.html > > The example there is: Wrong example, the right one is further down: ```...

Note that there are issues with .com in 64bit Windows. As .com is a memory image, it works for 32 bit, but not 64bit, it must be handled by the...

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The .stl is bad, it has self-intersections (red lines) and degenerate faces (white):  

@sissi-luaty care to share the 'fixed' STL. CGAL only (99.99%) does `CGAL error in CGAL_Nef_polyhedron3(): CGAL ERROR: assertion violation!...` when there is a problem with the STL, the 'assertion' is...

> mystrings=import(mytext.txt); You can include a file, provided you can control it's layout, you just need to have variables, eg ``` t=[" first line\n second line\n etc "]; u=[ "item...

> I don't see this happening very soon, but this is covered by the OpenSCAD2 proposal by @doug-moen (https://github.com/doug-moen/openscad2). Evolving by cherry-picking ideas or design from that document is possible,...

If you're gonna do that, make it $ft= rather than tessellation=, allowing $ft to be set globally or passed as a parameter, (and saves typing).

@donbright ATM they cant tessellate other polyhedrons. (your same argument goes to $fn etc for a sphere v's a circle or cylinder) What I was getting at is usability. For...