Hi thomas, sorry for the slow reply... my internet has been down the last several days :x I started working on a line tool a while back, but don't have anything useable at the moment. I had put it on hold to experiment with making a constraint-based interface since the point code was becoming diffic...

A couple of observations after starting to implement the new SelectionGate: 1) After activating a SelectionGate, hovering over blank 3D space initially shows a normal cursor. But after hovering over a not-allowed object, and then back over to blank 3D space, it shows a not-allowed cursor. I thought ...

Wow, that was fast! So basically, if the the "allow" function returns True then the selection is allowed, and if it returns False then the selection is prevented. Yes, that should give a lot of flexibility and is more straightforward, at least from a python perspective. Thanks!

I just came across the addSelectionGate function and I think it's exactly what I want, but I'm not quite sure how to implement it. I have a number of combinations I would like to filter for: -Point/Vertex -Line or Plane (to indicate direction) -Wire only -Wire or Surface Does anyone know of examples...

should be moved to the Initialize() method because otherwise you already load a lot of modules at startup time which slows down this process. Thanks for pointing that out. I updated the code. I really like how fast FreeCAD starts up, so I don't want to ruin that! And is it intended to use PyQt4 and...

I uploaded my work in progress for a Point tool which would be part of a workbench I am currently calling Reference (maybe there's a better name?). The tool creates points that can be parametrically linked to other geometry. Currently, it can only do coordinates from a selected reference point, but ...

Thanks for posting this! In regards to the setEdit and unsetEdit functions, what is "mode"? def setEdit(self,vobj, mode ): def unsetEdit(self,vobj, mode ): In the involuteGear.py code (https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD_sf_master/blob/master/src/Mod/PartDesign/InvoluteGearFeature.py), line...

I've been continuing work on the tools I described in this previous post: http://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=5211 I now have a point tool working that can create a point with coordinates from a reference point and as you can see more options are in the works: point_dialog02.png I wi...

I also have this issue. My max available resolution is 1366x768 (a cheap laptop). One thing I noticed is the preferences window fits fine until Draft is loaded. OS: Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS Platform: 64-bit Version: 0.14.3085 (Git) Branch: master Hash: fa33bcae4a0fcaea0aee4d32a5578b4f6c03509e Python versi...

I'm curious why your father would have used visual basic!? But I'm also not familiar with musical instrument design, so maybe he needed to it to size everything with the correct ratios? Sounds like a very interesting project!