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Re: Problems with LDView
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lugnet.cad
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Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:59:28 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Don Heyse wrote:
> In lugnet.cad, Kevin L. Clague wrote:
> > In lugnet.cad, Don Heyse wrote:
> > > In lugnet.cad, Michael Horvath wrote:
> > > > In lugnet.cad, Matija Puzar wrote:
> > > > > I too am sorry for the late reply, but I hope I can help with this issue.
> > > > >
> > > > > I experienced the same (I presume) problem with LDView "dying" while
> > > > > rendering bigger models. What I found out is that it is LPub who gives up
> > > > > on LDView if it is not finished within 30 seconds (reported to Kevin a while
> > > > > ago). What I found out, though, is that LDView continues rendering in the
> > > > > background and makes the step after all. So, a dirty solution is to watch
> > > > > the output folder and proceed only after you've seen that LDView has
> > > > > generated the rendering.
> > > >
> > > > Too bad there isn't a command-line only version of LDView for those
> > > > people who need it.
> > >
> > > I'm pretty sure you can run LDView on the command line. Do you mean a
> > > command line only version of LPub?
> >
> > I *know* that you can run LDView from the command line. That is how
> > LPub uses LDView and ldglite as well.
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> Yeah, ok, I knew that too but I was hedging just in case I misunderstood
> what he was talking about.
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> So what's the missing feature? Maybe an option to see the LDView command
> line running in a logging window somewhere? I don't know if LDView prints
> any interesting progress messages to stdout, but it might be useful to see
> LPub log a message that it timed out and gave up on the LDView process.
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> Don
Jaco has already increased the timeout, so he knows where in the code we
timeout. LPub does pop up some dialog, but it could print out the
LDView/ldglite output. It is in the tmp directory somewhere I think.
Jaco, you up for adding that? Its great to have some help on LPub!
Kevin
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Message has 2 Replies:
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| (...) I too have run into this on many occasions and have had to use some pretty ugly workarounds. I've done instructions with not only thousands of parts, but sometimes many more synthesized parts than regular, especially for pneumatic models. LPub (...) (13 years ago, 3-Oct-11, to lugnet.cad)
| | | Re: Problems with LDView
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| (...) Sure, I'll look into it. I think it would be possible to make an error.log file or something when timeout is exceeded and write it in the file. Jaco (13 years ago, 10-Oct-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) Yeah, ok, I knew that too but I was hedging just in case I misunderstood what he was talking about. So what's the missing feature? Maybe an option to see the LDView command line running in a logging window somewhere? I don't know if LDView (...) (13 years ago, 24-Sep-11, to lugnet.cad)
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