Vectric Customer

Aspire is lua 5.2 embedded but we still have access to loading libraries from disk thus xml2lua Alibre is python 2.7 embedded parts of the full library is available only ... but there is an xml parser so ... but no JSON ... which was my first reflex for python ... 20 years ago I did a lot of xml-xsl...

I don't have the structure yet ... I was looking for a path from Aspire to Alibre ... I will work on my need now (building the layers that will have what will be saved to disk) and will have something next week (for the xml structure) I did find this : https://github.com/manoelcampos/xml2lua which i...

I am looking tor a library to write data as xml tree ... to output some calculations to an xml file that will be read with Alibre Design Expert 2019. I'm building things to cut in Aspire but want to see the 3D effect of the many pieces that will be cut ... so ... viewing them assembled in Alibre :) ...

Is there a way from the gadgets to read or write xml files ?

Having the Text object accessible into Lua would be easier ...

Michel Trahan
Sainte-Therese, Quebec, Canada, J7E 4E7

I don't follow ... When I build software, I usually organise it ... I always have a code library for code that is not specific to the current problem ... I organise them in types of functionnality it has ... or offers ... a file per concept say ... yours is called EasyGadgetWriter ... self contained...

if you want to include a code library using code like this : -- add the code library path to the package path -- then declare a variable to hold the library (Utils in this case) -- then use the functions in it package.path = package.path .. ";" .. path .. "\\..\\_CodeLibrary\\?.luax" local Utils = r...

I have modified it to manage group ... needed it ... and made it into a LUAX code library

Tell me what you think and thanks again for the great code base ! Saved hours !

Mike.

I just got the code ... sorry for the delay ... life ... I looked at the code and it seems fine, passing it the layer name and all ... super cool ! I will transform it a tad ... to make it a luax file ... I'll post it on the other link you gave me when done ? Having a code library is helpfull someti...

Hi Jim,

Yes I would be interested to look at the code and probably use it in my own to add text to panel shapes which could be "selected" automatically (meaning by code) and then grouped. Is it formatted as a function call ? position, text and size ? How can we go about it ?

Mike.

Because I need to associate it to the panel shape and move both on sheets one per sheet ... the wall is about 8 feet high and 50 feet wide ... each acoustic panel is maximum 4 feet wide and 8 feet high ... so the wall has about 20 panels ... each one a specific size and shape ... so attaching a labe...

I have the same need ... adding text to identify what part was read and built ... I feed a CSV file from Excel which discribes a full wall with sections of angled panels ... the file contains the size of each panel. I need to add the name of the part (which is in the CSV file) to the drawing to iden...

Could you post the code that done it ? It owuld be appreciated

Here is another option. eCabinets from Thermwood. Use it to design your cabinets, do a nesting of all the parts, then you can take the dimensions for the parts and input them into Aspire/V-Carve and cut them on your CNC. Yes, there is a lot of manual work doing the translation, but it would be very...