Hello friends, I'm currently experimenting with Custom Properties, DynamicData objects and Spreadsheets to hopefully devise some sound and and stable usage pattern of these parametrization tools. Current state of thinking is: * Use DD containers for non-tabular shared data between objects, specially...

yes, sounds possible and until I know there exist different methods. "My" solutions to this are: * adding the properties to the Body's origin as "next built-in solution" to avoid circular dependency, or * Use the DynamicData (DD) workbench to create a property container into the...

Hi, A quick request to ask for the super handy SmartSelect macro to be available through Addons Manager... if not included into Master :-) https://github.com/wayofwood/FreeCADScripts/tree/main/smartselect SmartSelect-Capture.png Opened a corresponding issue here https://github.com/wayofwood/FreeCADS...

I can see the use of preference packs to export your settings and import your settings or someone else settings. Solidworks has a complete separated program for specific that, and I use it every-time I do a fresh install or start to work somewhere new. I even used it last week. That would be freaki...

Hello, if you have the FreeCAD 0.19 the function is already implemented with many options I created an additional length property in two Part Design parts and then tried to use a simple equality expression in the second one to reference the first but this doesn't works :/ Also tried with spreadsheet...

Very nice indeed !

Hello Eivind, [...] Visibility is selected by a property in the document object's gui part, and expressions are not supported for any of these properties (internally they only work for objects derived from the DocumentObject class). IIRC there was a technical reason for this, so this is not easy to ...

Hi,

Just a quick post to link to forum post and corresponding feature request I opened for this

https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?p=232665

Have a nice day

Hi This would be valuable in many cases as witnessed by users interest in the following threads: * https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=18681 * https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=18065 EDIT: forgot link to issue https://freecadweb.org/tracker/view.php?id=3466 AFAIC...

Ah I see. My use case is cutting holes in an enclosure based on the parts that are in the assembly. I found this really nice macro , but it becomes difficult to use with Parts containers. Is there a way to group several objects to be moved together, without using the Part container? Make a compound...