Not working

[flegall2014]

Hello,

I was able to finally build hobl3l on Windows. Tried hob3l with one of my SCAD file. Hob3l cannot generate an STL with following error (whereas it is working just great in OpenSCAD).

$ ./hob3l.exe d:/tmp/test.scad -o d:/tmp/test.stl
d:/tmp/test.scad:6:7: Error: Expected '(', found '='.
Unexpected token, found '='.
pi=3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209;
^
Here is an extract of the SCAD file:

//WELCOMEATS3DKEY
//include <newdata.txt>

/////////////////WRITE
//Write
pi=3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209;
pi2=pi*2;

//default settings
center=false;
h = 4; //mm letter height
t = 1; //mm letter thickness
space =1; //extra space between characters in (character widths)
rotate=0; // text rotation (clockwise)
font = "D:/projects/keymanager_new/bin/profiles/letters.dxf"; //default for aditional fonts

module write(word){

rotate(rotate,[0,0,-1]){
for (r = [0:len(word)]){ // count off each character
// if the letter is lower case, add an underscore to the end for file lookup
if ((word[r] == "a" ) || (word[r]== "b") || (word[r]== "c")
|| (word[r]== "d") || (word[r]== "e") || (word[r]== "f")
|| (word[r]== "g") || (word[r]== "h") || (word[r]== "i")
|| (word[r]== "j") || (word[r]== "k") || (word[r]== "l")
|| (word[r]== "m") || (word[r]== "n") || (word[r]== "o")
|| (word[r]== "p") || (word[r]== "q") || (word[r]== "r")
|| (word[r]== "s") || (word[r]== "t") || (word[r]== "u")
|| (word[r]== "v") || (word[r]== "w") || (word[r]== "x")
|| (word[r]== "y" )|| (word[r]== "z")){
if (center == true) {
translate([0,-h/2,0]){
scale([.125h,.125h,t]){
translate([ (-len(word)5.5space/2) + (r5.5space),0,0])
linear_extrude(height=1,convexity=10,center=true){
import(file = font,layer=str(word[r],"_"));
}

[moehriegitt]

Hob3l does not support variables. Use openscad to output .csg format, which is simpler Scad format with all variables resolved. This is ad very fast step and the output is readable by Hob3l.