openscad/openscad — Issue #64: Feature Request: Progressive display of rendered components
Author: brad
Created: 2012-01-10 19:18:40+00:00
State: open

I would love it if I could press F6 and the OpenSCAD render pane would graphically show each element of my model as they are rendered. It would be cool to see my model get built piece by piece, and seeing how long different parts of the design take to render would help discover inefficiencies in the design. Of course, if it would slow down the render much, I immediately rescind my request because rendering is already slow enough.

Thinking long term, maybe OpenSCAD could eventually have step-by-step debug rendering. A user could render one line at a time and see each piece get added. I would find this very helpful to debug issues in the design.