freedman wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2020 2:34 pm I'm a little confused about the pulley pictures I see posted, I'm sure I missed something.

Pulley is likely for a flat (leather?) drive belt. If there is a little crown on the middle part of the pulley, the belt will self-centre.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_(mec ... Flat_belts

I'm trying to make a half of a pulley to use to repair a broken one. I have sketched what is basically the top half of an octagon (6 sides) in the xz plane, with the bottom line on the y axis. The sketch is fully constrained. I need to revolve this 2d sketch into a 3d object. I created a body, with...

uwestoehr wrote: ↑Sun Mar 15, 2020 2:14 pm result: you get a centerline with grey color. So the "Center Line" color setting is not used

Bad key name in TaskCenterLine. Will include fix in next change.

uwestoehr wrote: ↑Sun Mar 15, 2020 2:11 pm result: for both hatch types you get a red hatch. So the "Geometric Hatch" color is never used.

Bad key name in ViewProviderGeomHatch. I'll include fix in my next change.

microelly2 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 14, 2020 9:25 pm Please use #hashtags in your next posts to get them found by the scanner.

Do you need the #hashtag in a particular place in the post (top, bottom, title, etc) or can they go anywhere?

#hashtag
#forum

DeepSOIC wrote: ↑Sat Mar 14, 2020 3:25 pm

Perfect. Thank you.

Is there a call that a Task Dialog widget can use to close the Task View? I can close the widget with "this->close()", but that only closes the lower part of the view, not that view itself.

Thanks.

Error - Could not load hatch into SVG renderer for C:/Users/USti/AppData/Local/Temp/FreeCAD_Doc_4bc93e96-36b9-404a-86c2-bfdc9403634a_3aac3f_3668/FreeCAD_Doc_4bc93e96-36b9-404a-86c2-bfdc9403634a_3aac3f_3668SectionView002SvgHatch.svg I seen this one before with all of the PropertyFileIncluded items, ...

- select the View "Right001" - add a section view - keep the task dialog open and delete the section view you just created - press in the task dialog on the button to create a section view This sounds very familiar. Is it the same as this one? https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=...

Lazlow wrote: ↑Fri Mar 13, 2020 2:31 pm Macros might prove very helpful. I assume that I could record a macro to handle the entire export svg process? Make page, insert object, export svg.

Yes, that sounds like a typical macro use case.