Ok, so I had an idea to try hiding any shapes, drawing only the
shape-of-interest, then editing it... and it seemed to work!

But that still begs the question, why did I get variable outcome when
feeding the same script in, via command-line vs copy-paste into GUI?

On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 4:31 PM, Nathan McCorkle <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a BRLCAD TCL generator I wrote in Python, which generated some
> TCL for MGED... but it seems when I run the script on mged from the
> command-prompt, it looks bad... but when I run it from the MGED GUI
> (open a new database, then open the script in a text editor and
> select-all, copy, then paste into MGED and press enter) it looks fine.
>
> This is really weird. I even just now tried instead of passing the
> script like this (mged newg.g < my_script.tcl) to (mged -a attach -c)
> then (opendb newg.g) and then feeding the text. But that still gives a
> weird output.
>
> Here are two images of the output, first the weird, then the expected:
> http://imgur.com/a/NogyN
>
> Here's the TCL:
> http://pastebin.com/ZyLTRU57
>
> Could it be something about not having a carriage return??? or mixing
> between using a decimal and not using a decimal? This is really
> stumping and annoying :/
>
> Maybe I should try upgrading to 7.26
>
> --
> -Nathan



-- 
-Nathan

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