Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️ugh. the good news is that I can write some clever xpath that makes this SVG-manipulation trivial
the bad news is that I'm having to use ElementTree, which has "limited support for XPath expressions", so NOPE! my xpath won't work
it has been zero days since I crashed fusion360
ooh it's repeatable. that's fun
currently engaging in crash-oriented programming. the docs are incomplete and unclear, so I'm trying different things and seeing if they crash, work, or give me an error
one part of the python API for Fusion 360 is undocumented and just assumes you recognize that it's backed by a certain C++ object and that you know how STL std::vector's work
well I can do it one way, which crashes, and another way, which silently does nothing.
quality software and/or documentation
well I searched the docs for the function that's failing, and got two result:
the lying docs
and a forum post from 4 months ago saying that the function may have a bug that makes it not work
no replies
the lying docs
and a forum post from 4 months ago saying that the function may have a bug that makes it not work
no replies
ahh, I figured out it was generating the wrong kind of operation. so I switched it to the correct operation!
and it still crashes
I'm assigning an array to another array, and it's throwing a null pointer error in Iron::CadCurvesBase::setInputs. Weird.
I am trying SO HARD to not open ghidra right now
I have apparently crashed fusion360 so hard that it won't open again. uh-oh
oh my god
it WAS ghidra!
I didn't even try to open fusion360 in ghidra, but I had ghidra running in the background for my duke nukem project.
when I closed ghidra, fusion360 finally opened
it WAS ghidra!
I didn't even try to open fusion360 in ghidra, but I had ghidra running in the background for my duke nukem project.
when I closed ghidra, fusion360 finally opened
and I crashed it again
good news!
it didn't crash.
it instead hung.
welcome to the future:
where even your CAD program is actually chrome
where even your CAD program is actually chrome
I'm looking at screenshots from July and they're not matching my current program
and I can't tell if something has gone wrong or if they've updated the program in the background
and I can't tell if something has gone wrong or if they've updated the program in the background
it could easily be both
fusion360 is the king of code that looks like it contains obvious typos but doesn't:
op.parameters.itemByName('tool_coolant').value.value = "'disabled'"
that last bit is a little easier to see if you have your mastodon set to a monospaced font but who would do such a thing?
even better, it turns out this code DOES contain a bug!
despite the saved templates storing the value as "'disabled'" (that's double-quote-single-quote-disabled-single-quote-doublequote) and the list of values clearly saying single-quote-disabled-single-quote, and you assigning a value, not a name... it wants no single quotes.
the name would be Disabled, btw, but apparently the correct value is disabled, no quotes.
fusion360 interprets programmers trying to use their API/docs as damage and routes around them
Serophos@foone that gave me a headache 😂
slaeshjag@foone @slaeshjag yep, bitlbee through irssi
Jernej Simončič �@foone Your instance doesn't support
markdown for inline code blocks?@jernej__s if it does, I have no idea how to activate it.
@foone For me it's on by default, but can be changed to plain text or HTML in the toolbar below the text entry box:
John Vilk
genstar.service@foone Wait, if so, then what happens to the precise placement? Who takes care of that?
shac ron ₪@foone The new Fusion360 UI is really bad. It being a chrome Frankenstein kind of makes sense
Ursidinoj/The Bjornsdottirs@foone chromeCADst?
baloo@foone hate fusion360, onshape is actually kinda great though. I wish there was a Linux version of solidworks.
s0 Is Not A Sysadmin@foone yeah they decided to make web version of it and then of course replaced the native one with a shell to that afaict. awful
Zoarial94 
@foone have you seen onshape.com?
hare_ware@Zoarial94 @foone I thought they were poking fun at Onshape at first.
Flynn Mandrake@foone Found the electron app
Bee O'Problem 
@foone I thought this was going to be about sketchup until I scrolled up 😳
Hempuli@foone Oh no, not my Control-Alt-Delete program!!
TSSaloic@foone Google. We somehow turned Apple and Microsofts OSes into ChromeOS. FTC Please ignore us.
Philip Mallegol-Hansen@foone I want off this ride.
saoirse@foone god I hate this so much lmfao
iComputer7@foone Software carcinization, everything becomes chrome
🇺🇦 haxadecimal 🚫👑@foone Chrome was the only program to survive the Applicatio Wars. Now all applications are Chrome.
Neko May
JacobRPG 🫘@foone is this like the cake thing?
Ame Shortail@foone Where every app is Electron, even when it doesn't need to be (and probably shouldn't be).
Joey Rees-Hill@foone what if all programs were just chrome
MyFairJulie
EV3@foone I don't like this future we're heading
@foone Fusion 360, running on your PC in CEF:
(Btw, isn't it funny that Fusion 360 is running in Chromium Embedded Framework and yet can only be locally installed on Windows and macOS?)
Felice@foone Not just Chrome. It wouldn't be AS bad if it were just Chrome. But everything is a separate INSTANCE of Chrome. UGH. It's no wonder 64GB doesn't feel like 64GB.
soil_dirt@foone
Fusion 360 makes me want to cry
Fusion 360 makes me want to cry
millionsofplayers 
@foone Electron ruined desktop apps
Peter Bindels@foone Does it have a ghidra detection?
@dascandy42 it can't have, I'm basically always running ghidra
the vessel of morganna@foone gonna get permbanned from fusion360 for hacking
@astraleureka I'm using wallhacks!
Matti Redsky@foone autodesk moment
mmu_man
★ Amy Star ★@foone I decided this year that I'd rather deal with the jank of literally any other CAD app than deal with Autodesk anymore
the second someone programs a KiCad<->Blender(+manufacturing mod) connector, it's pretty much over for Fusion360
Amos@foone A couple months ago I tried to write a simple plugin to drill holes along a cylinder in a helical pattern. Quickly learned Fusion's API documentation is poor quality and the error handling is S level awful. Even though what I wanted should be a trivial task, it was pulling teeth to get anywhere.