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by silopolis
Thu Apr 26, 2018 2:52 pm
Forum: Help on using FreeCAD
Topic: Bounding box/Spaces driven parametric design for woodworkers/cabinet makers, and the others
Replies: 2
Views: 774

Re: Bounding box driven parametric design for woodworkers/cabinet makers, and the others

If you use only planar faces for your cabinets it should be possible to create a datamodel of all faces, edges,vertexes with the topological properties and relations. https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=25092 the next step can be a list of constraints between related subobjects. Th...
by silopolis
Thu Apr 26, 2018 7:49 am
Forum: Help on using FreeCAD
Topic: Bounding box/Spaces driven parametric design for woodworkers/cabinet makers, and the others
Replies: 2
Views: 774

Bounding box/Spaces driven parametric design for woodworkers/cabinet makers, and the others

Hi, Still looking for an improved/the best cabinet design methodology, I'm know thinking (inspired by other specialized softwares, I must admit !) it would be nice to have a kind of bounding box driven design system like in: * draw a box (Arch Space, I'm looking at you !) * select the box and run co...
by silopolis
Thu Apr 19, 2018 7:04 am
Forum: TechDraw
Topic: Hard time creating a Detail View
Replies: 6
Views: 2740

Re: Hard time creating a Detail View

The thing is that the detail viewport is not visible at view creation and on ly appears when moved (not even resized), seems it's what lost me on first try. I get the circle on the source view right away, unless there is nothing visible in the detail. I guess DVDetail should update the Source view ...
by silopolis
Wed Apr 18, 2018 7:26 am
Forum: TechDraw
Topic: Hard time creating a Detail View
Replies: 6
Views: 2740

Re: Hard time creating a Detail View

Hi, The cryptic error messages are trying to say that there is nothing in the detail view. It doesn't have anything to do with what you selected. With the default values of radius=10 and anchor = (0,0) the detail viewport is right in the middle of the central "hole" in the sketch. If you s...
by silopolis
Mon Apr 16, 2018 6:13 pm
Forum: TechDraw
Topic: Hard time creating a Detail View
Replies: 6
Views: 2740

Hard time creating a Detail View

Hi, Writing this message because I'm struggling with the creation of a detail view. Whatever I select first (a part view, part view + page, an object in the part view to try to center the "focus"), I get a "Bnd_Box is void" error and "INFO - DVD::execute - testBox is void&qu...
by silopolis
Mon Apr 16, 2018 5:56 pm
Forum: Help on using FreeCAD
Topic: Using properties of the same object in expressions
Replies: 4
Views: 1436

Re: Using properties of the same object in expressions

Hi fellows !

Thank you all for answers and videos :-)
It's amazing/depressing how sometime you can pass by the obvious simplicity...

Have a very nice week

Bien à vous
by silopolis
Thu Apr 12, 2018 10:40 am
Forum: Help on using FreeCAD
Topic: Using properties of the same object in expressions
Replies: 4
Views: 1436

Using properties of the same object in expressions

Hi, Maybe this is an obvious one but, is it possible/how to set properties of an object with expressions using other properties of the same object ? Examples: * I'd like to position an object with expressions using it's own dimensions; something like x = self.Length / 2 * I'd like to use a "Thi...
by silopolis
Sat Mar 31, 2018 3:06 pm
Forum: Open discussion
Topic: Feature #5780 - X-ray draw style
Replies: 18
Views: 7177

Re: X-ray draw style

chrisb wrote: Sat Mar 31, 2018 9:52 am Wow! The concise code has approximatly the same size as a ticket would have.
Indeed, my ticket is much longer actualy ! :D

Wonder if this could be combined with wireframe display to get click access to "background geometries" ?
by silopolis
Sat Mar 31, 2018 9:43 am
Forum: Open discussion
Topic: Feature #5780 - X-ray draw style
Replies: 18
Views: 7177

#3414: Add X-ray draw style

... Agreed, but who will do it? ;) Please search the tracker first, it may exist already... Politeness made me leave this for the OP ;) Made a few searches with what I thought to be relevant keywords but couldn't find existing issues, so here it is https://freecadweb.org/tracker/view.php?id=3414 Co...