Just as an update, I'll be staying at same place as @sliptonic at the following hostel from Thursday 30/1 to Sunday 2/2. https://www.meininger-hotels.com/en/hotels/brussels/hotel-bruxelles-city-center/ My main objective is to find a proper home for my laserplacer application I wrote in Javascript an...

I'll be arriving in Brussels on the Thursday, so I'll have all of Friday there. (Brad says he's there all that day too.) Now I have 2 weeks to get back up to speed, having been distracted by all my other projects. My understanding, though, is things get rather beery Friday afternoon, which is why my...

Hey, I just heard about this FOSDEM thing. I need to get back up to speed with this FreeCAD thing, among all my other projects. I can get there a day early to Brussels for all of January 31, if there's going to be anyone else there too. Is this likely? One thing we ought to talk about is how to esta...

That policy (of not changing the user's installation) only makes sense if all the users are Python developers and actually know what an "installation" is. Most people who use FreeCAD are going to think: "What the heck is this Python thing? If it's part of the FreeCAD installation, why...

I've made a debug change to the Conversion/DxfToSketchLayers.FCMacro so that it works under Python3. https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD-macros/pull/43 I also had another go at some kind of automated import/install for a missing module: def tr(context, text): return QtGui.QApplication.translate(conte...

A small update in trying to work around this: Python console on built-from-sources FC: Python 2.7.15rc1 (default, Nov 12 2018, 14:31:15) [GCC 7.3.0] on linux2 Type 'help', 'copyright', 'credits' or 'license' for more information. >>> (Here the pip install hack from within the macro works.) Python co...

I had a work-around in my DxfToSketchLayers.FCMacro (that @galou_breizh @galou edited and committed to the FreeCAD macros repository here: https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD-macros/blob/master/Conversion/DxfToSketchLayers.FCMacro ) to handle the missing module "ezdxf". I had originally pos...

As the guy who wrote most of the CAM algorithms in Fusion (when it was done by a company called HSMWorks), and who has gone deeply into the path workbench code, like here https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=33188&p=280958 , I've encountered some fundamental issues with the path...

Hi there. I'd like to get my macro included in the library of macros. It says at https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD-macros that I need to clear it with this forum first, before forking and issuing a pull request. My macro separates out the different layers/colours from the DXF file and injects the c...

It would be useful if the frustrating "Failed to validate broken face" error message, also included the words: "Try using the 'Validate sketch' command". It's also counter-intuitive that the "Validate sketch" command is greyed out when you have a sketch open. It's only ...