In software sometimes we want to separate out some code that we may want to use over and over again, or maybe we want to share it with other people. In JavaCAD we are going to refer to this as a “Factory”.
You can create and share factories just by posting a script in a git repository.
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| CSG referencedThingy = (CSG)ScriptingEngine | |
| .gitScriptRun( | |
| "https://gist.github.com/d0a4fcda488a8958095b.git", // git location of the library | |
| "FactoryToBeLoaded.groovy" , // file to load | |
| null// no parameters (see next tutorial) | |
| ) | |
| println "Loading factory CSG "+referencedThingy | |
| return referencedThingy |
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| return new Cube(20,40,80) | |
| .toCSG() |