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by saso
Mon Dec 11, 2023 3:44 pm
Forum: Open discussion
Topic: Sketcher Toolbars
Replies: 91
Views: 1025932

Re: Sketcher Toolbars

Another imho... IMO what you are describing here is however mostly the ribbon style, and we have it as an addon... But as an additional side note, for sure all projects with a more diverse user base and a more complex set of functionality have these issues with the UI/UX, I remember when AutoCAD we...
by saso
Mon Dec 11, 2023 1:10 pm
Forum: Open discussion
Topic: Sketcher Toolbars
Replies: 91
Views: 1025932

Re: Sketcher Toolbars

Not actually a suggestion, more just a side note, in Catia all grouped tools can be pulled out as separate toolbars, this way everyone can set up for themself to have as many or as few tool icons directly accessible as they need/prefer, so obviously we are not the first ones to this discussion about...
by saso
Mon Nov 27, 2023 6:44 pm
Forum: UX/UI Design
Topic: Dark or light theme for Windows?
Replies: 16
Views: 5827

Re: Dark or light theme for Windows?

Windows systems these days have the Light and Dark system style and most applications now have also the option to adapt to the system style...
by saso
Sat Nov 25, 2023 6:44 pm
Forum: Help on using FreeCAD
Topic: Import SolidWorks (sldprt) to FreeCAD
Replies: 85
Views: 136499

Re: Import SolidWorks (sldprt) to FreeCAD

From academic research on features (eg. design history) translation between different parametric feature-based CAD systems... http://macro-parametrics.org/ * https://www.youtube.com/@transcadmacro-parametrics2828/videos https://github.com/Macro-parametrics?tab=repositories * unfortunately, a lot of ...
by saso
Mon Nov 20, 2023 1:21 pm
Forum: Help on using FreeCAD
Topic: Import SolidWorks (sldprt) to FreeCAD
Replies: 85
Views: 136499

Re: Import SolidWorks (sldprt) to FreeCAD

Just a few related links... Project by https://www.documentfoundation.org/ that is also behind LibreOffice https://www.documentliberation.org/ https://github.com/renyxa/re-lab Some general file/data structure format projects https://kaitai.io/ https://formats.kaitai.io/ https://www.youtube.com/watch...
by saso
Fri Nov 17, 2023 1:58 pm
Forum: FEM
Topic: FEM constraint : select all faces
Replies: 4
Views: 2810

Re: FEM constraint : select all faces

Check the posts in the following topic and see if some of the macros there can be useful to you... ?

viewtopic.php?p=672608#p672608
by saso
Tue Nov 14, 2023 10:35 pm
Forum: Help on using FreeCAD
Topic: Curves workbench
Replies: 1839
Views: 443854

Re: Curves workbench

Unrelated to the latest posts and just FYI, a writeup about the Gordon surface by @Quaoar

https://quaoar.su/blog/page/stroim-poverhnost-gordona How to construct a Gordon surface

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by saso
Tue Nov 14, 2023 5:44 pm
Forum: Help on using FreeCAD
Topic: Sheet Metal Workbench
Replies: 675
Views: 234465

Re: Sheet Metal Workbench

FYI a series of posts on sheet metal unfolding by Quaoar Part 1 gives an introduction to unfolding and reviews the software packages for solving similar tasks https://quaoar.su/blog/page/on-sheet-metal-unfolding-part-1 Part 2 explains how bends can be unrolled precisely https://quaoar.su/blog/page/o...
by saso
Sun Nov 12, 2023 10:26 pm
Forum: Help on using FreeCAD
Topic: Toggle Visibility (Std Toggle Objects) not as expected
Replies: 6
Views: 1680

Re: Toggle Visibility (Std Toggle Objects) not as expected

This functionality, to switch between the visible and hidden "space", has been requested a few times in the past and I like and support the idea of having this also in FC. I was at one time also hoping to be able to develop it with realthunder while we were discussing the implementations o...
by saso
Sun Nov 12, 2023 2:31 pm
Forum: Open discussion
Topic: Improvements of Clipping Planes
Replies: 5
Views: 1841

Re: Improvements of Clipping Planes

maxwxyz wrote: Sun Nov 12, 2023 1:23 pm Ok, didn't know that.
So the suggestion is to just use RT instead of improving main?
More like to check his implementation since it can be ported to main and then improved if needed, instead of starting to develop the N-th implementation of the same thing...