Need Some Help
October 21, 2009 · Filed Under MeshCAM Development
I’m trying to get V3 R7 ready for release on Friday and I need some help on a dialog. I’ve added an option to save reliefs as STL files quickly rather than using the painful, and somewhat broken, polygon reduction code that I have now. I have the dialog below as a placeholder but the text is not good and I’m out of ideas. Any suggestions on how to label everything?
Also, I haven’t gotten many bug reports on the last version and I’m sure there are bunches of bugs lurking. Please let me know what you’re finding with the last release.
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5 Responses to “Need Some Help”
Robert, can your dialog boxes have the little “?” box up next to the “X” box? I always check the “?” to look for explanations when available. In that case you could write a couple of sentences about what the choices mean. In that case, the current wording could be fine.
As it is, I’m not sure that I understand what the choices are. Are you talking about the current, iterative face fitting as the “slower and smaller” and the new technique which is faster but makes more triangles than necessary?
I’m assuming your button labels mean “faster creation but larger file” and “slower creation but smaller file”.
Randy
I think it would be good in a Windows type context.
Select File Type
STL (recommended) Polygon
Randy-
Those are basically the choices, 1 triangles for each pixel or the iterative approach. The current iterative code will go away after V3.
Dave-
Good thought on putting a recommended choice in there.
-Robert
I like Daves idea but also have the ? and a short explantion.
Steve
Robert,
No good suggestions on the stl names.
But a possible bug in v6… I work in mm (rabid mode to set everything to mm) and the generated code sure looks like it is in inches.
V5 works just with the same stl.
jeffD