1) What did you do in the past week?
- I have done detection of planes and points on the plane. I can now select a Cube, click a point on it and add another solid on that point.
- Corrected all problems of rendering and picking objects. Had problems rendering and picking objects earlier because of the different coordinate systems used by FreeCAD and Croquet. It took me a while to figure everything out but its all fixed now.
-Completed a window UI to place a solid precisely on a specified point.
2) What do plan to do this week?
-Create more UI windows to manipulate solids
-Enable markers to be referenced by Joints for animation/simulation purposes
3) What can possibly stand in the way of your work?
Nothing much except that my internet connection is no set up yet due to very very slow services by my ISP. Doing online research and replying mails in a cyber cafe nearby at the moment.
Monday, June 30, 2008
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Week 4 of GSOC - FreeCAD/Croquet
1) What did you do in the past week?
-Coded in picking methods for cubes and cylinders, not 100% working but I'm able to move things relative to their plane
-Combined all solids under one main class & trying to make rendering more efficient
2) What do plan to do this week?
-Continue to implement the face/plane detection for polygons and ellipses.
-Fix some rendering bugs
-Other minor fixes for better rendering efficiency
3) What can possibly stand in the way of your work?
-No internet connection at my new place yet (still waiting for my ISP)
-Coded in picking methods for cubes and cylinders, not 100% working but I'm able to move things relative to their plane
-Combined all solids under one main class & trying to make rendering more efficient
2) What do plan to do this week?
-Continue to implement the face/plane detection for polygons and ellipses.
-Fix some rendering bugs
-Other minor fixes for better rendering efficiency
3) What can possibly stand in the way of your work?
-No internet connection at my new place yet (still waiting for my ISP)
Week 3 of GSOC - FreeCAD/Croquet
1) What did you do in the past week?
Played with FreeCAD and learning the tutorials so that I can replicate most of the interactive stuff on replicate. Still trying to implement the face/plane detection.
2) What do plan to do this week?
Face/plane detection for the 3D solids
3) What can possibly stand in the way of your work?
I just moved to a new place, trying to settle down ASAP.
Played with FreeCAD and learning the tutorials so that I can replicate most of the interactive stuff on replicate. Still trying to implement the face/plane detection.
2) What do plan to do this week?
Face/plane detection for the 3D solids
3) What can possibly stand in the way of your work?
I just moved to a new place, trying to settle down ASAP.
Week 2 of GSOC - FreeCAD/Croquet
1) What did you do in the past week?
-Cleaning up some code and solved an initialization problem of the Croquet world.
-Also released a working version of FreeCAD/Croquet using Monticello.
2) What do plan to do this week?
-Implement face detection of 3D solids starting with the cube first.
3) What can possibly stand in the way of your work?
-Might not have enough time because I'm moving to another place this week.
-Croquet keeps crashing on me in debug mode due to asynchronous processes thus slowing down progress.
-Cleaning up some code and solved an initialization problem of the Croquet world.
-Also released a working version of FreeCAD/Croquet using Monticello.
2) What do plan to do this week?
-Implement face detection of 3D solids starting with the cube first.
3) What can possibly stand in the way of your work?
-Might not have enough time because I'm moving to another place this week.
-Croquet keeps crashing on me in debug mode due to asynchronous processes thus slowing down progress.
Thursday, June 5, 2008
FreeCAD/Croquet first release
Guys,
I have released the first version of FreeCAD/Croquet (Project that I'm working on).
You can get it here which is the version loaded into Cobalt. After downloading it, launch Cobalt and drag KayefFreeCAD out from the parts bin and it should load.
If you already have a Croquet image then just use the Monticello package. Please follow the instructions in this link on how to install the package.
Once you get that running, follow this link for tutorials on how to use it. Currently, you can create 3D solids and also load sample assemblies. Watch some of these videos too if you have the time.
I have released the first version of FreeCAD/Croquet (Project that I'm working on).
You can get it here which is the version loaded into Cobalt. After downloading it, launch Cobalt and drag KayefFreeCAD out from the parts bin and it should load.
If you already have a Croquet image then just use the Monticello package. Please follow the instructions in this link on how to install the package.
Once you get that running, follow this link for tutorials on how to use it. Currently, you can create 3D solids and also load sample assemblies. Watch some of these videos too if you have the time.
Week 1 of GSOC
1) What did you do in the past week?
I have already implemented the tree view menu before this but it is not interactive yet. I have just added in a feature that enables the user to select an item on the tree by clicking on it. I have also added a window that controls the simulation of the assembly with options to start,pause and stop and in the same time display the frame rate and a few other info that will be added in time. I have also uploaded my work on Croquet Source but its not quite ready to be installed yet as I still need to configure it to be easily installed by normal users. Should be done in 1 or 2 days.
2) What do plan to do this week?
I will implement the picking and selecting of objects with the mouse pointer and moving them in the Croquet world. I currently have done a bit of work on this but its very buggy with inconsistent results. I will need to fix this and also come up with a good way to move things in a 3D environment.
3) What can possibly stand in the way of your work?
Specifying the TBoundSphere for an object in Croquet seems to be a bit of a problem because it works sometimes but other times it does not. Also, it causes the rendering of the objects to go wrong (occasionally disappearing in different viewing angles). I should study more on this stuff to understand it fully or else the whole click and drag feature will be flawed. Anyone care to shed some light on this?
I have already implemented the tree view menu before this but it is not interactive yet. I have just added in a feature that enables the user to select an item on the tree by clicking on it. I have also added a window that controls the simulation of the assembly with options to start,pause and stop and in the same time display the frame rate and a few other info that will be added in time. I have also uploaded my work on Croquet Source but its not quite ready to be installed yet as I still need to configure it to be easily installed by normal users. Should be done in 1 or 2 days.
2) What do plan to do this week?
I will implement the picking and selecting of objects with the mouse pointer and moving them in the Croquet world. I currently have done a bit of work on this but its very buggy with inconsistent results. I will need to fix this and also come up with a good way to move things in a 3D environment.
3) What can possibly stand in the way of your work?
Specifying the TBoundSphere for an object in Croquet seems to be a bit of a problem because it works sometimes but other times it does not. Also, it causes the rendering of the objects to go wrong (occasionally disappearing in different viewing angles). I should study more on this stuff to understand it fully or else the whole click and drag feature will be flawed. Anyone care to shed some light on this?
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