About

These scripts were written by Jim McNeill using AI tools. I decided it would be a good idea to add them to a git repo.

Using Repository from Github

After cloning the the repository the offviewer can be run from the directory through

uv run offviewer [dir]

This requires that you have uv installed, see uv

Using a Released Version

A released version can be installed by pip install offviewer

The Off File Viewer

When you open a grid window the sort mode will be greyed out while it calculates the metrics for the off files. Once it has done this and you select a sort order, duplicate values of the sort parameter are highlighted in pink. The delete duplicates button will keep the oldest file with any one value. Float parameters have a small tolerance built in.

• Auto rotate is fun but wait until the sort button blacks up or you'll slow it down.
• • (or =) and - will zoom the cells on the grid screen-
• Any polyhedron can be rotated by left dragging with the mouse ot=r by using the arrow keys
• Double click on an image to get to the enlarged screen.
  • The left and right arrows are previous/next file.
  • 'f' on the enlarged screen will cycle through the faces one by one.
  • 'v' does the same with the vertices
  • 'e' does some edge options
  • 'x' to return to the original view
• The grid view also has some functions if you right click.
• The offcheck.py file is also a standalone checker. If you change the metrics that this is calculating they should flow through into offviewer automatically.
• The path and 'search' at the top of the grid screen don't work (yet) and will probably be removed