strange preset for arch walls

[jeno]

Hello,

I hope this is the right place for my topic.
Actually I started to play a bit with the arch workbench. If I want to create a wall from scratch I saw that the presettings for the wall are very strange
As shown in my attachement I got as preset a height of 30 km (30000 m) and a lenght of 2000 m. Furthermore the terms are swapped.
I expect that the thickness of a wall is the width ("Breite") and the length ("Länge") is the length of the wall. At the moment it is the other way around.
Can anybody please check and confirm this.

OS: Ubuntu 15.10
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.16.6055 (Git)
Build type: None
Branch: master
Hash: e71787d37adef54d19401330de5e3078c9debbeb
Python version: 2.7.10
Qt version: 4.8.6
Coin version: 4.0.0a
OCC version: 6.8.0.oce-0.17

[yorik]

The translations seem in the correct order to me (length, width,height). I don't know why your presets are like that, but you can change them in edit -> preferences -> arch

[jeno]

Hello,

thanks for your reply. I changed the preferences in arc to 2500 mm height. Now my default wall is only 25 km tall
I assume there ist something wrong with the use of the decimal separator (in german it is the point where in the english langugage area it is the comma)

The translations seem in the correct order to me (length, width,height)

Probably I expressed myself mistakable but it is not an translation issue. Please take a look at the attached picture. Beside the fact that the Length shows 0 mm which is obviously wrong (it is 100mm), would you say that this wall has a width of 3000 mm and a length of 100 mm?
My personal point of view is that this wall has a height of 2500 mm, a length of 3000 mm and width of 100 mm. Maybe I am unique but I associate the width with the wall thickness.

[yorik]

Hm there is something very wrong there indeed... Here for me all seems to work normally, though. What units scheme are you using? (preferences -> units)
The length = 0 is normal, when the wall is based on a line, the length property is not used. But it should be set correctly and not set to 0, I agree. This is done in git commit 19fd2c3

[jeno]

Hm there is something very wrong there indeed... Here for me all seems to work normally, though. What units scheme are you using? (preferences -> units)

My unit system is metric in mm/kg/s/Grad (degree)

The length = 0 is normal, when the wall is based on a line, the length property is not used. But it should be set correctly and not set to 0, I agree. This is done in git commit 19fd2c3

As mentioned I tried this without any line/wire/sketch, just pressed the wall button and set it on the x/y-plane and give it a width respectively a length. By the way I have the same issues with windows. The preset size is 100m by 100m! Interestingly for stairs the preset works.

My freecad info
OS: Ubuntu 15.10
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.16.6066 (Git)
Build type: None
Branch: master
Hash: 24c60199cce8c8def9b67d17cf7569b57fcb3aed
Python version: 2.7.10
Qt version: 4.8.6
Coin version: 4.0.0a
OCC version: 6.8.0.oce-0.17

[gleam]

As far as I am concerned to this thread I can add these contribution:

Although the program gets the right information

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    if FreeCAD.GuiUp:
        _ViewProviderWall(obj.ViewObject)
        obj.ViewObject.ShapeColor = ArchCommands.getDefaultColor("Wall")
    if baseobj:
        obj.Base = baseobj
    if face:
        obj.Face = face
    if length:
        obj.Length = length
    if width:
        obj.Width = width
    else:
        obj.Width = p.GetFloat("WallWidth",200)
    if height:
        obj.Height = height
    else:
        obj.Height = p.GetFloat("WallHeight",3000)
    obj.Align = align
    if obj.Base and FreeCAD.GuiUp:
        if Draft.getType(obj.Base) != "Space":
            obj.Base.ViewObject.hide()
    return obj

when opening the GUI the entry are completly nonsence
length 0 mm
width 200 m
height 30 Km

I purged the whole program three times and also all configuration.
I should mention that the program crashed several times and no lod did show why.
And from one time on no wall could be built any longer
when it was made one time before absolutely perfect.

When the wall should be built above one line from being made by scratch
it could not be seen, neither the line nor the wall,

A little help would make me absolutely happy :->

OS: Debian GNU/Linux testing (stretch)
Word size of OS: 32-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 32-bit
Version: 0.15.4671 (Git)
Branch: releases/FreeCAD-0-15
Hash: 244b3aef360841646cbfe80a1b225c8b39c8380c
Python version: 2.7.10+
Qt version: 4.8.7
Coin version: 4.0.0a
OCC version: 6.7.0

[JAndersM]

Actually I started to play a bit with the arch workbench. If I want to create a wall from scratch I saw that the presettings for the wall are very strange

Looking at the printscreen you added I noticed that there seems to be a both decimal . (dot) and decimal , (comma) for the numbers. Maybe some language (locale) setting that is confusing things.

[jeno]

Actually I started to play a bit with the arch workbench. If I want to create a wall from scratch I saw that the presettings for the wall are very strange

Looking at the printscreen you added I noticed that there seems to be a both decimal . (dot) and decimal , (comma) for the numbers. Maybe some language (locale) setting that is confusing things.

According the post of gleam it doesn't seem to be a locale problem.
The dot (.) is the thousands digit and the comma (,) is the decimal point, which is usual setting for de-locale.

cheers
jeno

[JAndersM]

The dot (.) is the thousands digit and the comma (,) is the decimal point, which is usual setting for de-locale.

Ok, just trying to figure out what is causing the problem.
Looking at your printscreen:
Point has Globales Y 365,(comma)00 mm
Optionen Wand has Länge 365.(dot)00 mm
That was what I thought was strange.

[jeno]

good catch...didn't saw that until now
Should be in both cases a comma as decimal delimiter.

cheers