What objects to make attachable?

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What objects to make attachable?

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General purpose attachment editor is in pull request, and I hope it's going to be merged.
Now the question comes up. Attachment is pretty handy, IMO. So, what objects need to become attachable?
So far, attachable are:
* sketches
* PartDesign InvoluteGear
* most Draft primitives, e.g. lines, circles, polygons, bsplines, dwires...
* Draft clones (but only clones of abovelisted objects)
In draft, attachment functionality is to some extent incomplete, and I'm busy patching it.

Proposal to make other objects attachable:
* Draft Clones, independently of their source
* Part primitives
* Part simple copies and imported shapes (?)
Objects that beg to be made attachable, but need extra caution/behavior refinement, because this can break compatibility opening old documents
* Draft array (especially the polar version of it)

And after that, we would have a rudimentary assembly workbench spread all over FreeCAD :lol:
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Re: What objects to make attachable?

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Hello,
and what about the arch objects?
They can be attached?
It would be very useful ...
I work with Revit and all objects can be attached to everything and this function is widely used.
I think this could be a revolution in FreeCAD
Congratulations on the work
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Re: What objects to make attachable?

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Renato Rebelo wrote:Hello,
and what about the arch objects?
I have zero experience with arch, so I have no idea. I think that needs attention from Arch expert.
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Re: What objects to make attachable?

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by the way,
how will you make the attachment?
in the Properties window?
in revit you just create a dimension and lock it ...(similar to what is done in sketch)
I know it should not be easy just a suggestion ...
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Re: What objects to make attachable?

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Renato Rebelo wrote:how will you make the attachment?
There will be a command in Part workbench (in the menu).The plan is to add it to global Edit menu, but that turned out to be complicated, so I abandoned it for a while. See viewtopic.php?f=10&t=15679 and viewtopic.php?f=10&t=15738.
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OK
I understand...
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DeepSOIC wrote:I have zero experience with arch, so I have no idea. I think that needs attention from Arch expert.
I haven't played with attachments yet, so I cannot tell in what way it could be useful yet for Arch stuff... But it might be, we need to have a better look at it
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