Assembly 2 workbench for FreeCAD v0.15

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confrey
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Re: Assembly 2 workbench for FreeCAD v0.15

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Thanks man for your reply, I think I understood what you mean to solve this problem, but I can't figure out how to reate a constraint with a plane and a single vertex; I'm very new in FreeCad, I'm learning it to model 3d printer pieces ( with succesfull, i have one already printed and assembled), but I need to come to a real full simulation of the project, to avoid error and to not waste time; so , I made an endball in two separate parts, an outer body, and an inner sphere,with a cylindir hole; to do what you mean, I added a cone in the rod hole, I used - of course - freecad in the Part Workbench, so the cone has a cylindric side, and an edge terminating - I think - with a vertex; and here I stop because my knowledge is not enough, I ahve used your planar and axial constraints well, but I don't know how to select a single vertex to constrain it with a plane; I hope you might help me

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confrey (you can find me in G+ as dario marrini)

p.s. here you can access the files we are speaking about : https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B83dBS ... sp=sharing
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Re: Assembly 2 workbench for FreeCAD v0.15

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Some nice ideas for the assembly from the latest Onshape update, the "gear relation" and a "rack-and-pinion relation"... http://www.onshape.com/cad-blog/whats-n ... rsion-1.27 (last video) and the referenced page from the video https://woodgears.ca/gear/planetary.html :)
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Re: Assembly 2 workbench for FreeCAD v0.15

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When I have installed both the "Assembly 2" and "Drawing dimensioning" I get the following error and Assembly 2 WB will not open... Is this a known issue or am I doing something wrong?

('invalid syntax', ('C:\\Users\\saso\\Desktop\\FreeCAD_0.15.4664_x64_dev_bin\\Mod\\FreeCAD_drawing_dimensioning-master\\lineSearches.py', 1, 1, '../FreeCAD_assembly2/lineSearches.py\n'))

OS: Windows 7
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.15.4664 (Git)
Branch: master
Hash: 4e41e535ff01d39b650add123f42629e1a8d6b05
Python version: 2.7.8
Qt version: 4.8.6
Coin version: 4.0.0a
OCC version: 6.7.1

Edit: Ok, it's a symbolic link and the solutions is to simply copy the file lineSearches.py from Assembly 2 WB to Drawing dimensioning WB... Would be good if it gets fixed also on GitHub.
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Re: Assembly 2 workbench for FreeCAD v0.15

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I solved it by renaming FreeCAD-drawing-dimensioning to drawing dimensioning
and renaming FreeCAD-assembly2 to assembly2
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Re: Assembly 2 workbench for FreeCAD v0.15

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Indeed this must be because python refuses to import module names with "-" inside...
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Re: Assembly 2 workbench for FreeCAD v0.15

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Hi everybody,
after the insertion of spheric constraint, I tried to create a assembly test (without spheric at athe moment); I put all files here :

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id= ... sp=sharing

I made a rod, a rod support and a 2 rod cursor; I put 2 rods, two rod support and a rod cursor in the guida lineare.fcstd, aligning al by planar and axial constraints; while trying to test the animation (expecting to see the cursor sliding uo and down) nothing happen and I get some rederror messages in status bar, so I run the app form terminal, redirecting the output to freecad_output.txt (too much long to post here, it's avalaible in the same shared google drive directory); I hope someone may help me about; besides I need to learn how to set some limits to cursor movements; later, I'll want to implement the spheric constraints too, setting, if it is possible, angular movements' limits too

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Re: Assembly 2 workbench for FreeCAD v0.15

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Hi all,

Great job this Assembly 2 workbench!
I was playing around with it and I got an issue : I created 2 cubes to put together (see screenshot below) using 3 planar constraints. Location of Cube 1 was then modified and both cubes updated in the Assembly2 workbench using 'Update parts imported into the assembly'. The constraint solver then failed to satisfy the constraints. I was expected the second cube automatically moved.
Is it a bug or did I miss something ?

Thanks for your help
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Re: Assembly 2 workbench for FreeCAD v0.15

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Hi gsn,

Your difficulties result from a bug in Assembly 2.
See https://github.com/hamish2014/FreeCAD_a ... 2/issues/2 for details.
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Re: Assembly 2 workbench for FreeCAD v0.15

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Hello hamish,

Just FYI, forum member CkwA and I are currently working on a new PPA repository that provides external python modules as daily built packages for Ubuntu. The files are copied in /urs/lib/freecad/Mod just like FreeCAD's native modules.

FreeCAD_assembly2 is already available, and got its first automatic update today. We're working on Drawing Dimensioning next. :)

https://launchpad.net/~freecad-communit ... ubuntu/ppa

The forum topic where the project is discussed: [Proposal] debian/ubuntu packages of community modules

To anyone using FreeCAD on Ubuntu: without a doubt this is the easiest way to install hamish's Assembly2 module, and it updates itself!

Simply:
  1. Add ppa:freecad-community/ppa to your software sources (What are PPAs and how do I use them?)
  2. Update your software sources the regular way (automatic with the Ubuntu software center)
  3. Install the [url=apt://freecad-extras-assembly2]freecad-extras-assembly2[/url] (apt link) package.
And be on the lookout for more good stuff. :)
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Re: Assembly 2 workbench for FreeCAD v0.15

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Thank you NormandC and CkwA, I am honoured :D
I will add your PPA instructions to Assembly 2's README.md
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