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Re:Show HN: 100x Faster Slicing of SCAD Files for 3D Printing by jepler on Sunday November 11, 2018 @05:51PM (#18429215)
This looks real cool, and the logic behind treating OpenSCAD files this way in a 3d printing workflow is impeccable.

I stumbled at first because all my scad files use language features not supported in hob3l. It might help to call more attention to the .scad → (openscad) → .csg → (hob3l) workflow.

Blew right past my notebook's 8GB RAM trying to slice a complex fractal model at 6 levels of recursion. This is a "favorite" model of mine because I've never gotten openscad to slice it right: https://emergent.unpythonic.net/files/sandbox/flake6.csg.gz

Slicing level 5 only took about 4GB RAM so maybe level 6 needs around 24? https://emergent.unpythonic.net/files/sandbox/flake5.csg.gz

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Re:Show HN: 100x Faster Slicing of SCAD Files for 3D Printing by tinkersleep on Monday November 12, 2018 @05:50AM (#18431786)
Author here. Thank you for providing the file, I will debug it. I must admit that I spent almost no time to think about memory management, and my test files are way smaller. I guess this will be a debugging session. :-)
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