Known Bugs:
These errors have been noticed by JIPCAD's development team and plans are underway to address them. Start by reading the known bugs before posting a suggested feature to see if your idea has already been discovered.
Loading any file for the first time after creation or an update crashes NOME.
Reloading a scene causes files to load in with default colors.
Upon reloading a scene, past values of parameters are successfully saved, but they can be changed and will affect the current scene.
Attempting to switch between vertex and sharp vertex selection in the UI consistently crashes JIPCAD.
Suggested Features:
Please submit suggested features in the following format:
Line 1: Suggested Feature
Line 2: - Current situation
Line 3: - Why feature should be added
(Line 4): - Any additional notes
Allow values to be typed into sliders:
- Values can be typed in but do not affect actual modeling environment
- Would allow for ease in finding precise values on a slider, for example finding 4427 on a slider from 1-9000 step size 1.
- Typed value could round to the nearest step size to avoid errors.
Use ctrl + R to reload a document:
- Other commands, like opening a document, use ctrl functionality but reload does not.
- Allows modelers to easily see the effect of their new code without closing and reopening file.
Add a greater number of operators to JIPAD:
- floor division(//), modulo(%), and absolute value(| |) do not work within JIPCAD.
- Increased flexibility when defining points, shapes, or time-varying behavior.
Add coordinate axes
- 3-dimensional navigation tools must be coded and included by the user.
- Improves ease of access to a very helpful tool.
- An on/off toggle would be nice, also some kind of way to find the coordinates of a shape or point in space.
Allow [brep brep-type] for mobius strips as in sweeps.
Allow [brep brep-type] for torus knots as in sweeps.
Include Rendering (as in SLIDE):
- All instances to be displayed could be placed in a group “assembly.”
- A render statement would then have an instance of “assembly” and also specify camera type, lights, and windows/viewports. Any number of render statements can be specified in a single file, but there must be at least one for anything to be displayed. This flexible matching of viewport, geometry root, and camera makes the render statement very general. Side-by-side viewports in a single window with slightly disparate views can be used to produce stereo viewing. A multiple window setup can provide different views on the same world. This, for example, could be used in the implementation of a driving simulator, with separate camera specifications and viewports corresponding to windshield, rear-view mirror and side-view mirror views.