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Re: LPub support for external POV post processors (was Sand Green)
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lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst, lugnet.cad.ray
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Mon, 20 Jan 2003 14:20:25 GMT
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"Kevin Clague" <kevin_clague@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:H90Moo.MrA@lugnet.com...
> Mike,
> I like the external POV post processor idea a lot, although I'll try not
> to use it as a catch all for denying LPub enhancements ;-)
>
> It would be a command line mechanism with command line arguments. I can
> see these things being possibly useful as arguments:
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> POV-name
> dat-name
> step number
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> as well as whatever constant values you'd like to provide. My experience
> with running these external programs (like lsynth) is that you can run • into
> command line length issues, so it is better to create a batch file for
> running these things. The batch file adds the neccessary directory to the
> path, then invokes the post-processor with all the agruments. LPub would
> need to know the path of the program, and any parameters you might want. • I
> could provide magic keywords that mean pov-name, dat-name, step-number, • etc,
> and you could provide any constant arguments you might want as well.
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> Do we want post-processors for the temporary DATs before they are sent to
> L3P, construction images, part list images, and BOMs as well?
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> This seems like a *very* handy concept for power users.
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> Discussion?
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> Kevin
Let's add a Tcl scripting interface! Actually, it isn't a bad idea. I
would think some of the processing steps I am thinking of could be handled
really easily with Tcl.
While I can't think any immediate need to post process .dat files, I am sure
someone else will. I would imagine there will be a desire to do some sort
of user processing on any of the items you mention above.
However, I think your proposal above would address all of the items I can
think of right now. Last night Steve Barile and I were discussing this very
topic. He had a similar need with something he was doing with MegaPOV. He
had to touch all of his POV files to add the necessary edge detect code.
Mike
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