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by reox
Wed Apr 12, 2023 4:45 pm
Forum: Announcements & Features
Topic: Interlocking modules
Replies: 27
Views: 18527

Re: Interlocking modules

What is currently (FC 0.20) the best method to add (ideally sketcher based) cut-out features on parts generated with this workbench? For example, I created a box with the workbench and then I need some holes on the pieces. I'm used to PartDesign and the sketcher, but for those Parts, it is not easy ...
by reox
Fri Feb 10, 2023 9:31 am
Forum: Help on using FreeCAD
Topic: [solved] Align ShapeString on a Circle
Replies: 19
Views: 1642

Re: [solved] Align ShapeString on a Circle

For other consideration about angles they are not weird, you have to see how macro apply angles yaw-pitch-roll have a precedence ZYX so they are applied with an order. I'm aware that rotation in general are "problematic" as so many definitions exists, with all their specialities and so on...
by reox
Thu Feb 09, 2023 3:30 pm
Forum: Help on using FreeCAD
Topic: [solved] Align ShapeString on a Circle
Replies: 19
Views: 1642

Re: Align ShapeString on a Circle

In this case, yes, the x and y. I was too lazy to write the expression to get the center of the bounding box. :mrgreen: I see, thanks! There are of course small deviations in width of each character but overall they are small. Or is the bounding box the same for all single characters in the Strings...
by reox
Thu Feb 09, 2023 3:17 pm
Forum: Help on using FreeCAD
Topic: [solved] Align ShapeString on a Circle
Replies: 19
Views: 1642

Re: Align ShapeString on a Circle

Uhm okay, but there is then still an offset. The arrow base is at the correct position, but not the arrow tip and thus the center of the text itself: Screenshot 2023-02-09 150534.png Is there another thing I have to set? Simply change the Placement property of the [Strings]. That looks perfect, but...
by reox
Thu Feb 09, 2023 3:04 pm
Forum: Help on using FreeCAD
Topic: [solved] Align ShapeString on a Circle
Replies: 19
Views: 1642

Re: Align ShapeString on a Circle

onekk wrote: Thu Feb 09, 2023 2:59 pm Each shape has a boundingbox and you could find the center one of the property of the BoundBox is Center.
It seems like the FCCircularText does exactly that
by reox
Thu Feb 09, 2023 2:55 pm
Forum: Help on using FreeCAD
Topic: [solved] Align ShapeString on a Circle
Replies: 19
Views: 1642

Re: Align ShapeString on a Circle

There were around some example as clock faces, probably searching the forum for clock and face will give some results. Thanks! There seems to be also this macro: https://wiki.freecad.org/Macro_FCCircularText I'll try that as well. Lattice2 has the issue, that the text is still not aligned at the ce...
by reox
Thu Feb 09, 2023 2:06 pm
Forum: Help on using FreeCAD
Topic: [solved] Align ShapeString on a Circle
Replies: 19
Views: 1642

Re: Align ShapeString on a Circle

Uhm okay, but there is then still an offset. The arrow base is at the correct position, but not the arrow tip and thus the center of the text itself:
Screenshot 2023-02-09 150534.png
Screenshot 2023-02-09 150534.png (15.82 KiB) Viewed 835 times
Is there another thing I have to set?
by reox
Thu Feb 09, 2023 1:54 pm
Forum: Help on using FreeCAD
Topic: [solved] Align ShapeString on a Circle
Replies: 19
Views: 1642

Re: Algin ShapeString on a Circle

Thanks! Lattice2 can indeed do that. The trick is to use Orient Mode = Vortex.
by reox
Thu Feb 09, 2023 1:03 pm
Forum: Help on using FreeCAD
Topic: [solved] Align ShapeString on a Circle
Replies: 19
Views: 1642

[solved] Align ShapeString on a Circle

I want to create a circular scale, where each scale tick has a number above it. I sketched the principle in Inkscape: Screenshot 2023-02-09 134938.png Each number should be centered above the tick mark and the lower part of the number should be a defined distance away from the tick mark. The part sh...
by reox
Sun Jan 29, 2023 2:44 pm
Forum: FEM
Topic: [solved] Uniaxial Stress in cylinder using TRANSFORM
Replies: 7
Views: 1662

Re: [solved] Uniaxial Stress in cylinder using TRANSFORM

It was just that I got an unexpected result first and then blamed the input deck :D But with the MWE, it is obvious that it works as expected.
Thanks again for the explanation!