Creating a cross section view in Drawing

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triplus
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Re: Creating a cross section view in Drawing

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wandererfan wrote:Quite probably. There are only 2 minor changes in /App/Material.h, the rest is all contained in /TechDraw. We'll stay out of the way until 0.16 is released, then we'll try a merge.

wf
I guess now would be the ideal time to do that?
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Re: Creating a cross section view in Drawing

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Yes that would be great, even with a separated workbench. I'm not so good at compiling Freecad (far too complicated for my computer skills :S) and that cross section view is exactly what I need... or is it possible to download the already compiled Module (like for the drawing dimensioning workbench)?

Thank you very much!
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Re: Creating a cross section view in Drawing

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SebLiss wrote:or is it possible to download the already compiled Module (like for the drawing dimensioning workbench)?
Regrettably, no. TechDraw is a C++ module and need to be built-in, while drawing dimensioning is a Python add-on module and can be added after the fact.

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Re: Creating a cross section view in Drawing

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Okay, I suppose this allow to use more powerful functionalities than just python scripting. I will try again to compile it with :
http://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/index.ph ... ith_VS2013

That way sound easier than with minGW
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Re: Creating a cross section view in Drawing

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Great! I succeeded to compile the Freecad techdraw module I found on :
https://github.com/WandererFan/FreeCAD-TechDraw

Not so easy but the tutorial for Freecad compilation was well explained. Had a little problem with boost_regex-vc120-mt-1_55.dll, but after copying the Libpack/bin to BUILD/bin, it started.

My problem is : where is the technical drawing module now? I can't see any difference in module list, and can't find some dimensioning neither. Is there something to do to activate it?

http://postimg.org/image/nwqx4q1bf/
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Re: Creating a cross section view in Drawing

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Did you checkout the TechDraw branch? if you just cloned the repository with git you build the master branch, wich does not contain the new workbench. Than you should do:

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git checkout TechDraw
and recompile. This should give you the workbench. If you use annother method than git you should elaborate a bit more, without that information it is hard to provide detailled help.
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Re: Creating a cross section view in Drawing

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Ok thanks I will do it;

EDIT : works well, thank you very much!!
(For the report, crashes when trying to add a section, but the workbench is in development, sounds normal)
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Re: Creating a cross section view in Drawing

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SebLiss wrote:(For the report, crashes when trying to add a section, but the workbench is in development, sounds normal)
You can report issues with TechDraw here: https://github.com/WandererFan/FreeCAD-TechDraw/issues. Are you able to post the fcstd file that crashed and give step by step on how to reproduce?

Thanks,
wf
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Re: Creating a cross section view in Drawing

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No problem, I'll do it tomorrow.
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Re: Creating a cross section view in Drawing

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Ok it's done :
https://github.com/WandererFan/FreeCAD- ... /issues/53

Thanks for the development, I really like FreeCad v0.16 and found it perfect for designing prototypes at my work! (electronic engineering, only need to design boxes for PCBs).
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