Arch survey tool
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Arch survey tool
Today a friend quantity surveyor gave me this idea, that resulted in this quickly made but, I think, fast and useful tool, now available from the Arch workbench:
The idea is simple: you press the tool, then you pick edges, faces or whole objects (double-click). Each time, a label is added, a line is printed in the output window, and the numeric value is copied to the clipboard, so you can paste it in a spreadsheet. The quantity registered is a length, an area or a volume, depending on the type of object you selected. The value is rounded according to the Draft dimension precision preference.
To finish, double-click on no object or click the toolbar button again. All the labels are then removed.
I know this does the job that other tools do (info WB and macros, etc...) but I wanted something really fast and simple and adapted for quantity surveying, so you can easily select graphically the measurements you need, and keep your spreadsheet open and quickly fill the values.
Hope you'll like!
The idea is simple: you press the tool, then you pick edges, faces or whole objects (double-click). Each time, a label is added, a line is printed in the output window, and the numeric value is copied to the clipboard, so you can paste it in a spreadsheet. The quantity registered is a length, an area or a volume, depending on the type of object you selected. The value is rounded according to the Draft dimension precision preference.
To finish, double-click on no object or click the toolbar button again. All the labels are then removed.
I know this does the job that other tools do (info WB and macros, etc...) but I wanted something really fast and simple and adapted for quantity surveying, so you can easily select graphically the measurements you need, and keep your spreadsheet open and quickly fill the values.
Hope you'll like!
Re: Arch survey tool
Hi Yorik,
It's a pretty cool tool !
I make a french article about it : http://betlibre.wood3dservices.fr/index ... ns-freecad
I see the tool don't like point, perhaps it could give us the Z altitude of point ?
It's a pretty cool tool !
I make a french article about it : http://betlibre.wood3dservices.fr/index ... ns-freecad
I see the tool don't like point, perhaps it could give us the Z altitude of point ?
Formations - Assistance - Développement : https://freecad-france.com
Re: Arch survey tool
Excellent idea! I'll add that.
Re: Arch survey tool
Thanks it's really cool now !
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Re: Arch survey tool
Yes indeed, fast and simple. I like that kind of stuff!yorik wrote:... I wanted something really fast and simple ...
Where in Arch is the tool defined?
Re: Arch survey tool
ArchCommands.py
Maybe I should separate it in its own file...
Maybe I should separate it in its own file...
Re: Arch survey tool
Just making heavy usage of the survey tool. It is really pretty cool. It seams it is not included in the unit system or am I missing something?. It doesn't matte which units [mm] or [m] edges and vertex uses [m] and face uses [mm2]
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Indeed... I must fix that, thanks for reminding
Re: Arch survey tool
the draft array does not use units for the increments either.
Re: Arch survey tool
That is more complicated, since it uses vectors... I'd prefer to wait to see where it'll be going. Other things such as placements also use vector properties, they will also need a solution some day