Will get back to you but I have tinkered with a previous version and love it! What did you use to code it? Vb? I’m learning programming now and have so many ideas! Nice to see someone doing this for surfing!
I strongly advace against using VB. If you want to learn .NET, I advice to learn C# since the syntax is closer to Java, C++ and other C-like languages. C# is a very nice language, but I would never use it for any of my personal projects because it is too tightly bound to Microsoft.
I would advice you to start using linux, create a github account and learn Ruby on Rails (web dev) and Javascript. Interactive web applications is where it is happening today. Qt and C++ is also very nice but it is very hard as a starting language.
The added features for the bottom side: flat, symetrical, asymetrical are incredible. Very nice!
I found myself having two session running side-by-side in Windows so I could see top and bottom at the same time, making the same changes in both windows and looking at the results.
Long term, I am looking forward to see how your plans unfold with the abilities to open/import/save/print/export. I enjoyed our previous discussion in the PM’s, not sure if those are working right now.
Short term…would it be possible to add options for the main (top and bottom view) such as grid on/off and colors on/off ?
The screenshot with inside and outside together is great! How do you like it?
I ask about turning those features on/off to make it easier to use a captured/exported bitmap or jpeg to import into other programs for CAD/CAM work. I got to demo MeshCAM+Art and all it needed to set tool heights were the colors-so in that case the grid and black contour line were not needed. Another version of that program keys off black and white instead of color, so no color or grid needed there. And there is the old standby of placing the image in a plain old 2D drafting package for tracing or accurate 1:1 printing. If controlling the various elements within finFoil view could be done (easily, somewhat easily - you know better than us how difficult that is) it would be a nice feature. Anyways, it will be fun to see what happens next from your short list.
For the linx users who are almost smart enough… You compile in c make or something? I’m a linux noob, so I’ve been trying to figure that out. I tried to c make something else and failed. I’ll read up on that when I have the time, but that’s generally in the right direction?
But this is cool. I’ve had it running on my linux boot (ocassionally), and my os x boot too. When I’m home for the winter I’m gonna try using this to make fins. I have baltic birch plywood, it’s 3 plies, so 3 layers of it would give 9 layers. So setting the layers to 9 would give me a really good image to foil off of. Was there a way you could print each layer or something? You could trace them I suppose, in real life or in photoshop or something.
If you’re taking suggestions, maybe numbers on the graph? You could count I suppose, but, that would be easier. More so on the fin template area.
@jrandy: Good points. However I will not implement this for v1.0. But you can definately expect functionality that will make you able to do these kind of things.
@drzoidberg: I just thought that there would be no linux users on swaylocks, but I develop finfoil mainly on linux, so it is not that hard for me to upload binaries. But if you are able to compile from source, you can track the changes way quicker. To compile the project you have to use qmake-qt4. Make sure to install the qt4 dev libs (libqt4-dev on debian based distros). Navigate into the finfoil directory, the one with the finfoil.pro file, and execute “qmake-qt4 finfoil.pro” and “make” to compile finfoil. After running these two commands you will find the executable in the ./src/app/ directory. (You are without doubt smart enough, I just didn’t expect linux users here )
@gedgetuk: v1.0.0.203 has a bug wich make finfoil hang when you make the top profile too small. I fixed it and uploaded v1.0.0.207.
Or do you mean that finfoil doesnt show contours for a profile crossing the horizontal axis? I’m aware of that, but that’s a tricky issue. Don’t know if I will fix that in the long run, since it is only a display issue, a 3D export would still be correct.