Warnings while testing example text_on_cube.scad

[da9l]

Hi!

I've got the latest OpenSCAD http://files.openscad.org/OpenSCAD-2014.03-x86-64-Installer.exe
I've put the latest version of text_on_cube.scad and text_on.scad in the same directory and changed the reference like this:

use <text_on.scad>

When I open it in OpenSCAD I get:

Loaded design 'C:/Users/daniel/Dropbox/3DModels/Toys/MinecraftChest/text_on_cube.scad'.
  compiled module: 0xb426c30
Module cache size: 1 modules
Compiling design (CSG Tree generation)...
WARNING: Ignoring unknown module 'text'.
WARNING: Ignoring unknown module 'text'.
WARNING: Ignoring unknown module 'text'.
WARNING: Ignoring unknown module 'text'.
WARNING: Ignoring unknown module 'text'.
WARNING: Ignoring unknown module 'text'.
WARNING: Ignoring unknown module 'text'.
WARNING: Ignoring unknown module 'text'.
WARNING: Ignoring unknown module 'text'.
WARNING: Ignoring unknown module 'text'.
WARNING: Ignoring unknown module 'text'.
WARNING: Ignoring unknown module 'text'.
WARNING: Ignoring unknown module 'text'.
WARNING: Ignoring unknown module 'text'.
WARNING: Ignoring unknown module 'text'.
Compiling design (CSG Products generation)...
ERROR: CSG generation failed! (no top level object found)
PolySets in cache: 4
PolySet cache size in bytes: 2000
CGAL Polyhedrons in cache: 0
CGAL cache size in bytes: 0

What am I doing wrong here?

I'm running OpenSCAD on a 64 bit Windows 7.

[brodykenrick]

Hi @da9l,

This was built against a development version of OpenSCAD that includes the text module. That code is still working its way into a release.

See openscad/openscad#512 and openscad/openscad#633 for the progress on the addition of that code.

Until the text module is added into a release version build a development version from the code at https://github.com/t-paul/openscad/tree/text-module to use this feature.

Building the development versions is not too difficult - but it depends on how much your system is setup for development. If you don't want to set up a development environment for OpenSCAD then I suggest using the oroginal write.scad module (it has most of the functionality of this module - unicode and a few additional surfaces are supported here but no in write.scad).

Cheers,
Brody

[da9l]

Thanks Brody!
Den 15 mar 2014 22:53 skrev "Brody" notifications@github.com:

Hi @da9l https://github.com/da9l,

This was built against a development version of OpenSCAD that includes the
text module. That code is still working its way into a release.

See openscad/openscad#512https://github.com/openscad/openscad/issues/512and
openscad/openscad#633 openscad/openscad#633 for
the progress on the addition of that code.

Until the text module is added into a release version build a development
version from the code at
https://github.com/t-paul/openscad/tree/text-module to use this feature.

Building the development versions is not too difficult - but it depends on
how much your system is setup for development. If you don't want to set up
a development environment for OpenSCAD then I suggest using the oroginal
write.scad module (it has most of the functionality of this module -
unicode and a few additional surfaces are supported here but no in
write.scad).

Cheers,
Brody

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[brodykenrick]

The text() module code is now in the main branch of OpenSCAD. It will make it into the next release.

[yannlossouarn]

@brodykenrick I followed http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSCAD_User_Manual/Building_on_Linux/UNIX on my Ubuntu setup, and I get the infamous "WARNING: Ignoring unknown module 'text'" error message. The OpenSCAD version is 2014.08.20. Any idea ? :/

[brodykenrick]

Hi yann,

I haven't built OpenSCAD (and tested/updated this module) since the text
module was added into master.

If you don't have text() in your build then it seems that it must not have
been built probably because something is missing in your environment - it
has a few dependencies that may not be met (and may not be mandatory) and
so the overall build succeeds but text is not included.

Try having a look at your build logs or pre-requisite check script
outputs to see if you can determine if that is the case.

Cheers,
Brody

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@brodykenrick https://github.com/brodykenrick I followed
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSCAD_User_Manual/Building_on_Linux/UNIX
on my Ubuntu setup, and I get the infamous "WARNING: Ignoring unknown
module 'text'" error message. The OpenSCAD version is 2014.08.20. Any idea
? :/

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[yannlossouarn]

In fact the solution was to enable use "CONFIG+=experimental" as a parameter for the qmake step : I thought the text module had been integrated in the mainstream version for a few months, but it had not, at least on the Linux version (stock Windows executables come with it activated). Thanks a lot ! :)