Helix machining for circular holes

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Re: Helix machining for circular holes

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sliptonic wrote:I want to make sure we end up with a consistent and intuitive UI.
I might do a once-over on the icon too ;-) Expect a proposition by next week.
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Re: Helix machining for circular holes

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I was able to drop the requirement of scipy, see my commit 1edc151c5.

Maybe a windows user could test this before I submit another pull request?
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Re: Helix machining for circular holes

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Here's a retouched version of the new icon in 16,24,32 and 64px on light, gray and dark backgrounds, original on left, proposal on right.
Any feedback or ideas before I submit a pull request?
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Re: Helix machining for circular holes

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Looks good!

One comment, not sure if that's applicable for your current phase though. It's a bit hard to recognize the zig-zag as a spiral because the tool is always in front of it. Not sure how to make it clearer that this is a perspective view of a circular motion, not a zig-zag. But if you can make it more "spirally" ... that would be just wonderful :)
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Re: Helix machining for circular holes

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lorenz wrote:I was able to drop the requirement of scipy, see my commit 1edc151c5.

Maybe a windows user could test this before I submit another pull request?
Win x64 build https://github.com/sgrogan/FreeCAD/rele ... /0.17_path
I'm not familiar enough with Path to test but if there are no other win testers I can follow a procedure.
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Re: Helix machining for circular holes

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agryson wrote:Here's a retouched version of the new icon in 16,24,32 and 64px on light, gray and dark backgrounds, original on left, proposal on right.
Any feedback or ideas before I submit a pull request?
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Could you put a flat bottom on that tool so that it's an end mill- not a drill? Drills can't do that operation :)
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Re: Helix machining for circular holes

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mlampert wrote:... a bit hard to recognize the zig-zag as a spiral because the tool is always in front...
Looks like a zig-zag or a skid mark to me!
Possibly; try a helix with line angles as follows in the attachment:

Try for end mill icon basic-shape/guideline.

Just suggestions!

Besides that, the new icons look good!
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Re: Helix machining for circular holes

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@mlampert, @danielfalck, @bill : no problem, I'll switch out the tool to be an endmill and see if I can turn the line into something that resembles a downward spiral.
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Re: Helix machining for circular holes

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Away from my dev machines, so would take too long to do a version on all backgrounds, but here's a version with a mill tool and using a spiral.

This is less 3D than what many of you have suggested, but I found that the 3D aspect of a downward helix was too rich in detail for anything below 32px, so I went with a slightly more abstract spiral representation which works better at low resolutions.

I'm showing it here at 16,24,32 and 64px respectively:
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Re: Helix machining for circular holes

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+1 End mill :D

A spiral is a bit to abstract in my mind, it is a helix after all.

Could it be that a 1 or 1,5 turn helix would be less rich in detail.?

The helix also looks like it does not have a constant slope, giving a sawtooth look, maybe a constant slope could improve this?

My 2 cents, keep up the grate work :D
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