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by robertw
Tue May 30, 2023 3:18 am
Forum: Stella Forum
Topic: Stella Course?
Replies: 1
Views: 34205

Re: Stella Course?

Yeah it would be good, but alas I haven't made a course. Best I have for now is the tutorial page here:

https://www.software3d.com/Tutorials.php

But there's not a lot on it. The main thing is the first link on that page which goes to an introductory tutorial:

http://youtu.be/W1PdTbphxP4

But I ...
by robertw
Tue May 30, 2023 3:08 am
Forum: Stella Forum
Topic: Is there a way to flip a convex group of faces to concave?
Replies: 3
Views: 39509

Re: Is there a way to flip a convex group of faces to concave?

Glad to help. Now you can do similar for various other Archimedean duals too.
by robertw
Mon May 29, 2023 3:53 am
Forum: Stella Forum
Topic: Is there a way to flip a convex group of faces to concave?
Replies: 3
Views: 39509

Re: Is there a way to flip a convex group of faces to concave?

It can be done, but there's not a specific operation for it. Here's what I'd do...

Cut off one of the convex peaks using faceting mode. First, drop to the "3-fold pyramidal" subsymmetry group, so we can concentrate on just one peak. Show the original shape in one view, and the faceting preview in ...
by robertw
Mon May 01, 2023 2:51 am
Forum: Stella Forum
Topic: Opening tour, Stella closes
Replies: 6
Views: 51423

Re: Opening tour, Stella closes

Just to follow this up for anyone else reading, melograno has fixed their issue now.

It was related to moving the .tour files to a new folder. Probbaly because the full path of the new folder was just too long, and Stella has a limit on this.

Also if you move a .tour file, it may not be able to ...
by robertw
Sun Apr 16, 2023 8:24 am
Forum: Stella Forum
Topic: Opening tour, Stella closes
Replies: 6
Views: 51423

Re: Opening tour, Stella closes

The screenshot doesn't tell me much.

Here are two example .tour files which work for me. Can you load these?

https://www.software3d.com/StelFiles/Assorted.tour
https://www.software3d.com/StelFiles/Compounds.tour
by robertw
Fri Apr 14, 2023 12:23 pm
Forum: Stella Forum
Topic: Opening tour, Stella closes
Replies: 6
Views: 51423

Re: Opening tour, Stella closes

Is it all tours, or just one particular tour? Sounds like just one. Tours contain references to other .stel files, so I'd check that those files still exist and haven't been renamed. It still shouldn't crash of course, but worth checking.

Send me the .tour file and any .stel files it refers to (if ...
by robertw
Wed Mar 29, 2023 6:34 am
Forum: Stella Feature Requests
Topic: math/latex symbols
Replies: 7
Views: 55757

Re: math/latex symbols

Hmm, you're right. I'll look into that too.
by robertw
Wed Mar 29, 2023 4:15 am
Forum: Stella Feature Requests
Topic: math/latex symbols
Replies: 7
Views: 55757

Re: math/latex symbols

You're right, it's not working for some reason. Don't know why but I'll put it on my to-do list.

The font does appear in the list for me, but you can't read the name because it's written in the font, so it's made of math symbols.


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by robertw
Mon Mar 27, 2023 10:33 am
Forum: Stella Feature Requests
Topic: math/latex symbols
Replies: 7
Views: 55757

Re: math/latex symbols

Here's one I found, for example.

https://www.wfonts.com/font/math-symbol

But you'd have trouble arranging LaTeX-style equations which are arranged more in 2D than left-to-right.
by robertw
Mon Mar 27, 2023 10:31 am
Forum: Stella Feature Requests
Topic: math/latex symbols
Replies: 7
Views: 55757

Re: math/latex symbols

Just to reply here as well, you may be able to do it already because you can choose different fonts. It does limit which characters it renders from the font, but if there's a font with math symbols in place of standard ASCII characters it could be done that way.
by robertw
Mon Mar 27, 2023 10:29 am
Forum: Stella Forum
Topic: Is there a way to label elements with math/laex symbols?
Replies: 3
Views: 40036

Re: Is there a way to label elements with math/laex symbols?

You might actually be able to do it already, because you can choose different fonts. If there's a font that has math symbols, you could access them that way.
by robertw
Mon Mar 27, 2023 8:16 am
Forum: Stella Forum
Topic: Is there a way to label elements with math/laex symbols?
Replies: 3
Views: 40036

Re: Is there a way to label elements with math/laex symbols?

You can't use any math symbols aside from standard ASCII. But the text can handle some simple HTML markup, which can be used to change colour, bold, italics, and change the resolution used to make text clearer when zoomed in. The details are here:

https://www.software3d.com/StellaManual.php?prod ...
by robertw
Thu Feb 23, 2023 2:06 pm
Forum: Stella Forum
Topic: BUG: excavating a cuboctahedron with an octahedron locks up the net algorithm
Replies: 3
Views: 43836

Re: BUG: excavating a cuboctahedron with an octahedron locks up the net algorithm

I found a fix, but it won't be available until the next major release, which will be a while
by robertw
Thu Feb 23, 2023 12:03 pm
Forum: Stella Forum
Topic: BUG: excavating a cuboctahedron with an octahedron locks up the net algorithm
Replies: 3
Views: 43836

Re: BUG: excavating a cuboctahedron with an octahedron locks up the net algorithm

You're right, I can replicate it. Happens when only excavating a single octahedron. By the way, if you turn off tabs it works, so it's an issue when creating tabs. Weird because this has been tested against so many cases. I'll try to figure out what's happening.
by robertw
Sun Feb 12, 2023 3:46 am
Forum: Polyhedron Models
Topic: Cricut paper cutting machine
Replies: 10
Views: 93914

Re: Cricut paper cutting machine

Unfortunately it won't be any time soon, as I have some work to get Stella back to a releasable state, and have been working on other things too. But next major release will definitely have ability to export nets to SVG.

I already have this working. I have a Cricut Explore Air, which can hold two ...