Re: [itom-discussions] MacroSim installation on Itom 4.0

[Marc G. <mar...@gm...>]

Hi Nicolás,

thank you for your email and your interest in itom and MacroSim.

At first, I have to tell you that the MacroSim project itself is not under
active development any more. It was a project, that was created
during a PHD thesis a couple of years ago. Of course the sources are all
available in its bitbucket repository, however it is not assured
that Macrosim works for instance with the newest CUDA toolkit.

Macrosim itself is a command line tool (the tracer project), that depends
on CUDA and the ray-tracing engine OptiX from Nvidia.
In order to compile this tracer, you would need the CUDA SDK as well as the
OptiX SDK.
Additionally, there is a plugin for itom, which brings the GUI for Macrosim
and links against the tracer.
The binaries, provided at the website, will only work with the indicated
version 1.0.14 of itom (availalbe from
https://sourceforge.net/projects/itom/files/).
You could try this old version out together with the Macrosim binaries,
that you already downloaded.
If you like it and think that it could be useful for you, you would
probably need to compile Macrosim by yourself, such that it links to the
current
plugin interface of itom 4.0.

For detailed information about the working principle of Macrosim, you
should check the papers, that are linked in the wiki page of the Macrosim
project.

Best regards
Marc Gronle


Am Mo., 10. Aug. 2020 um 23:57 Uhr schrieb Nicolás Soto Muñoz <ns...@np...
>:

> Hello:
>
> First, I would like to thank you all for the great software you are
> developing. I recently discovered Itom and I'm amazed by its functionality,
> which fits perfectly with our metrology tasks in the production of
> composite mirrors that we are developing at NPF (with a veery low budget,
> so commercial software is out of our reach for the moment).
>
> Now, regarding the subject of this mail, I've tried to install MacroSim
> (unsuccessfully), as an Itom plugin following the instructions from the
> wiki <https://bitbucket.org/itom/macrosim/wiki/Home> (i.e. installing
> cuda, downloading the .zip file and extracting the folders and .dll's in
> the Itom plugins and lib folders accordingly).
>
> After adding the .py to the startup and restarting itom, MacroSim doesn't
> appear in the plugin tree as expected. I've tried the 1.04 and 1.1.0
> versions of MacroSim with no success. My Itom version is 4.0 and I'm using
> the latest Cuda toolkit on Windows 10.
>
> [image: imagen.png]
>
> I've haven't tried with a previous version of Itom/Windows/Cuda, first I
> wanted to ask if there is something wrong with my current installation
> (sorry if it is obvious! I'm very new to Itom).
>
> Any suggestions? I'm looking for a simple/fast installation if possible,
> but would be glad to try more involved approaches if needed.
>
> Thank you in advance for your help. Best regards!
>
> --
> Nicolás Soto Muñoz
> Metrology assistant
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