Your legacy lives on

[mbenkmann]

Hey. Remember me? 3 years ago you kindly merged a few of my pull requests. Until a few days ago I've been using your addon. I've only ever used the STL export button, but I've grown all the more fond of it. When I upgraded to a new version of FreeCAD I wanted it back, of course. But I noticed that you hadn't updated your addon and while the FreeCAD Wiki contains 2 STL export macros for 3D printing, they're both not very good. So I decided to make my own STL export visible macro based on your code with support for the App::Link feature added in newer FreeCADs. In the end not much original code has survived, but the important thing is that I could not have done it, if I hadn'd had your code to start with. So thanks again for writing it. It is still being appreciated after all these years. I'm also still using the Stl.svg icon, which has a cute home-grown charm to it and stands out so much that I can always find it, even when FreeCAD randomly decides to shuffle my toolbars around.

If you want to check it out, here's my new macro:

https://github.com/mbenkmann/FreeCAD-Export-Visible-to-STL