Congratulations

[dvd101x]

Hi, this is a great project, I think it is a very valuable project to the future of additive manufacturing as it tends to be complicated to share files created with implicit modeling, sometimes the meshes become unmanageable for the slicing software in commercial printers and computers that are not so powerful.

I've been working on it for a few hours (less than 10) and I have a few suggestions,
Some documentation regarding the use of the GUI, understanding what happens when we drag or double click on an input value. What happens when we right click or drag on the graph, is something that takes a while. How to delete nodes on the graph etc. Maybe a heavier use of tooltips or buttons, some recommendations to make modifications without crashing the system and an easy way to work with functions (copy, rename, edit the code)

Also I'm having a hard time finding the documentation for the API bindings for python. Some indication of how to start using python with gladius would be nice. I imagine a future in which it's possible from a coding environment to create the geometry, view it (without meshing as it happens with gladius) and then exporting either to the new volumetric .3mf or some mesh format. Also I imagine some of other projects that also work with implicits either in python or other languages to use parts of gladius.

Personally I would also like the possibility of a mac version.

Anyways, all very positive and promising, just a few notes in case they might be helpful for the future.

[3dJan]

Thanks for your feedback. You are absolutely right about the usability, the accessibility of the UI and the state of the documentation. Some improvements are already on the develop branch, but it is still very incomplete.

The API is mainly for using Gladius from a slicer (e.g. EOSPRINT), so it offers methods for extracting contours and generating preview meshes. There is an undocumented example . The script generates g-code for my FDM printer at home, I just wanted to print something that was to complex for exporting as *.stl.

If you are interested in creating/modeling or modifying models with implicits from python, lib3mf is your friend.
You can find examples for python bindings here
There is no python example for implicits yet, but one for C++, that should be easy to port to python: implicit example.

Regarding support for Mac: Apple dropped support for OpenCL. I would welcome PR's adding other backends (maybe using vulkan compute).

[dvd101x]

Thank you for your consideration.

I'm glad there is work in progress regarding the GUI and documentation, I'm looking forward to the next release.

Thanks for the clarification regarding the API, I was mistaken.

I will review lib3mf for modeling and try the python bindings.

Thanks for explaining the reason for the lack of support in Mac.