SVN version is 5000 -- Party time???

[jmaustpc]

Hi All

I just noticed svn version has just hit 5000.

I know its petty but.... well I had to say something.

good night

Jim

[wmayer]

SVN version is 5000 -- Party time???

I think we should wait for 10000

[jmaustpc]

Why Werner?

I don't get it. What's so special about 16??

Don't worry I'm not going mad, this is a Binary Joke. Oh whoops I'm not going mad.....I've already gone!

Jim

[jriegel]

mhh, we missed 4096 for celebration!

[jmaustpc]

Hi All

I just compiled it so I thought it deserved a screenshot!

FreeCAD SVN 5000 on Kubuntu 11.04 +KDE4.7.1 + oce-git ..... 32bit

Jim

screenshot FreeCAD_SVN5000_on_Kubuntu11_04_32bit.jpeg (131.32 KiB) Viewed 2812 times

[wmayer]

Too bad you can already throw it away because we're at rev 5001

[NormandC]

Did somebody say party?

Every good party has cake!!!

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And yeah, it's mostly to scale!

Download link: FC_cake_v3.fcstd

Edit: the image comes out a lot nicer when I export to PDF!

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[jmaustpc]

Hi Norm

I've got to say I'm impressed with your cake!

......Which either means your cake is impressive or I've gone mad ....... Oh poor Norm, I nearly forgot we already established the poor state of my mental health in a previous post here.




Jim

[jmaustpc]

Hi again Norm, and everyone else

Now for the serious stuff,

1) "print preferences"
you said that it looks better when printed as PDF, I was going to say you can change the background colour in FreeCAD preferences and that by default FreeCAD uses the display mode (editable in COMBO View) of "Flat Lines". If you change the display mode to "Shaded" then it appears as it does in the PDF. I guess the behaviour is reasonable in that FreeCAD is deciding what to print for what might be called a "display mode" or "output mode", or whatever.

But I could not find anywhere in FreeCAD to adjust "print preferences" for adjusting things like this in the print output.

Should we have a feature request in Mantis for "print preferences"?


2) "print preview"
I just tried "print preview" and after appearing to lock up FreeCAD for a few minutes while the cpu was flat out doing goodness knows what, it finished hogging the cpu and in the "report view" FreeCAD said "C++ exception thrown (std::bad_alloc)".

Is this a bug? I searched Mantis, but did not find anything. Should I enter this into Mantis??


3) Slow Print to PDF
Print to PDF took a while but worked.


4) Should there be an easy "GLOBAL" way to change the display mode???
Should there be an easy "GLOBAL" way to change the display mode from FreeCAD's default display mode (individually or by highlighted items editable in COMBO View) of "Flat Lines" to whatever without having to try to select all items first??


I was doing these tests above with just one standard default box, in Part workbench and my version/platform information is....

FreeCAD svn5000 +oce-git +KDE4.7.1 ..... on Kubuntu 11.04 Linux 32bit




So for anyone who doesn't already know about "display mode", here is a screenshot showing where to adjust the display mode for an item, or "items" if more than one is highlighted at a time when adjusted.

screenshot_display_mode_FreeCAD_SVN5000_on_Kubuntu11_04_33bit.jpeg (126.52 KiB) Viewed 2791 times

[jmaustpc]

Too bad you can already throw it away because we're at rev 5001

Do you want to know something funny Werner? I really did actually check with "SVN up" immediately before posting my SVN5000 screenshot to make sure it had not yet been updated beyond svn5000, and at the time it hadn't.

I just looked at the time stamps, your 5001 comment is 11 minutes later. So I only got "11 minutes of fame and glory"!!!


Hey I was just thinking now that I have added some code into FreeCAD, I want a say in how things are done and a vote etc.

I was thinking to be fair we should establish all voting rights etc. not on skill or knowledge etc. but on the percentage of the code submitted by the individual. I decided that to make my numbers look more impressive, it should be expressed as a percentage and not "floating point value"! So I have personally added I think a total of nearly one half of one character in one line of one page of the code. So that makes my percentage ....ummm... .................0.000000.............0000001%.

Damn it!!! That's less than the default FreeCAD precision value!!!!!

Fine!!!

NEW POLICY!!!

When one's code commit percentage actually reaches FreeCAD's default precision value ............... Norm has to bake you one of his FreeCAD CAKES!!!!