Progress thread of New Design456 Workbench - FreeCAD's Direct Modeling workbench

[mario52]

hi

here two macros in rapport with your workbench Copy a sliced of part

1: Macro_D_Un_Jour_Raccord_2_Objects_By_Its_Faces raccord 2 objects by faces selected (without touch the original objects)

2: Macro_D_Un_Jour_Common_Substraction_Intersection create Common Substraction Intersection Fusion (without touch the original objects)



mario

[mariwan]

Updating 2D cut, common, join
some bug fixed

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[chrisb]

In your approach I am missing the parametric part. All objects seem to be "dumb" objects where you cannot make later changes based on previously set parameters. Is this correct that you treat objects like e.g. a historyless simple copy starting every change from scratch?

[hyarion]

In your approach I am missing the parametric part. All objects seem to be "dumb" objects where you cannot make later changes based on previously set parameters. Is this correct that you treat objects like e.g. a historyless simple copy starting every change from scratch?

Isn’t this like the definition of direct modeling?
Not being constrained by history and parameters and free to do changes to the model directly instead of doing them on the feature tree.
It doesn’t need to be either or, they are good at different things. For some, direct modeling can be utilized for rapid prototyping and parametric design for configurable designs.

As a programmer, I prefer to think and design parametricly but direct modeling could be nice for adjusting step models where the model already is “dumb”.

[chrisb]

Isn’t this like the definition of direct modeling?

From a user's point of view yes, but that's not how it has to be in the model. I am not familiar with PTC/Creo, but I think they have direct modeling just as a user interface. That has the advantage that you can switch at any time to parametric modeling.
It is like drawing in Paint, but underneath you get a vector drawing.

[mario52]

Hi

parametric

with the two macros you have one option:

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#### Config Begin ####
switchRemoveConstructionObject = 0    # if 0 not removed creation objects 1=remove objects
#### Config End ####

if the switch = 0 you conserve the total construction + the single object
if the switch = 1 the construction is deleted for conserve uniquely the single object

mario

[chrisb]

Thanks for the explanation!

[mariwan]

You all please,
Don't discuss any things here. This thread is just for announcing my progress.

[mariwan]

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[mariwan]

Many new commands added.