Bounty to fix Topo-renaming (poking bears with sticks)

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Re: Bounty to fix Topo-renaming (poking bears with sticks)

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bejant wrote: Sun Jan 06, 2019 4:49 am To me that analogy in the subject title is especially disrespectful and offensive.
It means no disrespect, it is an expression that probably does not translate well if one is in a different country and I failed to consider that.

"Origin of Poke the Bear
This expression comes from the imagery of what would happen if a person literally poked a bear.

Imagine if someone found a sleeping bear. That bear would remain harmless if the person left it alone. However, if the person walked over, poked the bear, and woke it up, it would start a big problem.

This expression gained popularity in the latter half of the 1900s."


By using that term, I had hoped to raise some interest in the idea of fixing the Topo mess.
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Re: Bounty to fix Topo-renaming (poking bears with sticks)

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NormandC wrote: Sun Jan 06, 2019 9:01 am You'll get credibility with actual coding and pull requests. ;)
Umm, we have been down this path before and my response is still the same. I am not interested in coding and pull request to fix someone else's programming code. Ask any good programmer and they will assure you that fixing other's poor code is a certain recipe for disaster.

For me, a re-write would be the only option and I do not have the time, skill nor inclination for that. I am very impressed with the coding of the good parts of FC but it is well outside of my area of coding expertise. So, pull-requests from me will have to remain in the shadow of "cheap talk" then.
I'll give you this, I really miss Jürgen Riegel, the project's founder - he disappeared a few years back. He had the moral authority to assume the leadership position and resolve development issues.
In my early days of programming I was a regular contributor to many projects including the Netscape Navigator browser (the what? {grin}) but I quickly fell foul of the consensus notion for "good" software. Direction decisions were being made by the loudest participant and eventually wore people down where they conceded just for a quiet life, or even chased them off. Invariably a lot of great programming skills were lost as good programmmers left the fold. I suspect that might be what happened with Mr. Riegel.

I am reminded of a wise old phrase, "A camel is a horse designed by a committee." A camel is a very useful animal for travelling long distances at a slow and steady pace, but if you are designing a racehorse, ending up with a fast camel is not a good solution. :)
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Re: Bounty to fix Topo-renaming (poking bears with sticks)

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In a search I found this.
Postby DeepSOIC » Sun Sep 02, 2018 2:19 pm
realthunder has implemented proper toponaming in his LinkStage3 branch, I think this issue is likely solved there. https://github.com/realthunder/FreeCAD_ ... 3/releases
Using Assy3 I tried my "three_blocks" test and it passed. See pic. I create 3 blocks (using face attached sketches) and constrain horiz/vert with external geo to the previous block. Then to test; using the properties of the sketches (sketch001 & sketch002) I change the angle from 0 to 180 incrementaly and watch the constriants. It's a brutal test, as I change sketch angles the constraints modify the attached block because of the external geo constraints. I do get some multiple solid errors because of stuff getting out of range, they heal right back once the solid gets back together.

If I try "three_blocks" in normal FreeCAD it has topological errors in just a few degrees of angle change of the middle block.

Wow! That is cool. I still have an issue with Assy3, for some reason it won't highlight faces, I will bring that to a post in Assy3.

oldDraftsman, this might be your fix. You can spend your money on fixing something else. :)
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Re: Bounty to fix Topo-renaming (poking bears with sticks)

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I just installed Assy3 on my workstation and I couldn't draw hardly anything. I reset my config files and everything seems to work fine, something to keep mind. It could be that Assy3 has some added data in the configs.
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Re: Bounty to fix Topo-renaming (poking bears with sticks)

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freedman wrote: Sun Jan 06, 2019 11:46 pm You can spend your money on fixing something else. :)
Or, if this implementation is working well, you can make the donation to realthunder, there is a donate button https://github.com/realthunder/FreeCAD_assembly3, if you are unsure about it yet, maybe then when it gets in to the master. :)
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Or, if this implementation is working well, you can make the donation to realthunder, there is a donate button https://github.com/realthunder/FreeCAD_assembly3, if you are unsure about it yet, maybe then when it gets in to the master. :)
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Re: Bounty to fix Topo-renaming (poking bears with sticks)

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For whoever is interested in improving TopoNaming situation. Whenever you experience TopoNaming issues in FreeCAD download latest Assembly 3 build and test your use case again:

https://github.com/realthunder/FreeCAD_ ... 3/releases

Whenever results are worth discussing, open a separate thread, explaining your use case and the detected differences between FreeCAD and Assembly 3 builds. Providing an example file usually helps too.
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Re: Bounty to fix Topo-renaming (poking bears with sticks)

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I am also willing to throw some money in to help the person who finally solves the topo issue.

I would like to point that time ago I tried to push fordward discussion about how to organize funding for FC in a more "institutional" way in the thread https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=12242

I would like to encourage people in this thread to help find viable solutions and ideas in order to make this process better for everyone.


Thanks!
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