Path module development

[cox]

I would never tire of reading uppdates like this Daniel.

This looks amasing, thank you all for your efforts.

[onekk]

Things are becoming interesting, now I'm compiling Freecad from the github path page, I aoppreciate the great explanation of sliptonic, but I'm a newbie in Freecad and the make a sketch part is a bit problematic, where could i find a tutorial to learn it, I know it's a bit off-topic here.

Regards

Carlo

[quick61]

There are several important scripts that get copied to Mod/Path/PathScripts during installation. If these aren't found, you'll still be able to launch the Path WB but many things may not work.

Now I understand why nothing was quite adding up with this branch. It has to be installed to work. I hope this will NOT be the case by the time this gets to master. Kind of complicates things trying to maintain multiple installs.

Comparing to the screenshots, there is a lot of stuff missing due to it not being installed. Paths generate completely differently, there are missing functions and icons, etc.

So, can anyone give a quick rundown on what needs to be done to successfully make a local, (home directory) install of this branch? A simple "make install DESTDIR=/home/me/" doesn't work for the build. Can it be done that way? If you all are maintaining multiple installs, how are you doing it?

Thanks, and from the screenshots, this is really looking good. Other than the install thing, great work!

Mark

[quick61]

Things are becoming interesting, now I'm compiling Freecad from the github path page, I aoppreciate the great explanation of sliptonic, but I'm a newbie in Freecad and the make a sketch part is a bit problematic, where could i find a tutorial to learn it, I know it's a bit off-topic here.

Regards

Carlo

Basic Part Design Tutorial should provide you with the basic concept of Sketches and the Part Design Workbench.

And please feel free to ask any other questions like this in the Help section of this forum. We're here to help get you going.

Mark

[peterl94]

You need to set CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX to the directory you want it installed to.

[quick61]

You need to set CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX to the directory you want it installed to.

Ok, is that all? Thanks for the info! I'll be giving it a shot tomorrow, as it's getting a bit long in the tooth to be messing with it tonight.

Oh, and I just made a fresh build and there are more things included, but I'm sure some of what isn't there/working is due to the missing scripts.

Mark

[onekk]

I've managed to install the Freecad in git with path active, the online help on compiling on Unix is a bit messy (I have to do a lot of copy paste for the single library needed) but now after some hours of compiling (slow E-350 machine) it is up and running, many thanks to all.

Regards
Carlo

[yorik]

Now I understand why nothing was quite adding up with this branch. It has to be installed to work. I hope this will NOT be the case by the time this gets to master. Kind of complicates things trying to maintain multiple installs.

Actually things should work correctly now. Everything gets correctly copied to the build folders when compiling, and I can run FreeCAD from the build folder, everything works correctly... No need to be installed anymore. What problem do you have?

[medju]

Hello, I followed your instructions on how to compile FreeCAD. I tried to compile but unfortunately I return 19 errors on the part of the module PATH.

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3>------ Build started: Project: Path, Configuration: Release Win32 ------
3>Linking...
3>   Creating library C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\free-cad-codePATHv0001\src\Mod\Path\App\Release\Path.lib and object C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\free-cad-codePATHv0001\src\Mod\Path\App\Release\Path.exp
3>AppPathPy.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "public: static class KDL::Rotation __cdecl KDL::Rotation::Quaternion(double,double,double,double)" (?Quaternion@Rotation@KDL@@SA?AV12@NNNN@Z)
3>FeaturePathShape.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "public: static class KDL::Rotation __cdecl KDL::Rotation::Quaternion(double,double,double,double)" (?Quaternion@Rotation@KDL@@SA?AV12@NNNN@Z)
3>FeaturePathProject.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "public: static class KDL::Rotation __cdecl KDL::Rotation::Quaternion(double,double,double,double)" (?Quaternion@Rotation@KDL@@SA?AV12@NNNN@Z)
3>PathPyImp.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "public: static class KDL::Rotation __cdecl KDL::Rotation::Quaternion(double,double,double,double)" (?Quaternion@Rotation@KDL@@SA?AV12@NNNN@Z)
3>AppPath.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "public: static class KDL::Rotation __cdecl KDL::Rotation::Quaternion(double,double,double,double)" (?Quaternion@Rotation@KDL@@SA?AV12@NNNN@Z)
3>Path.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "public: static class KDL::Rotation __cdecl KDL::Rotation::Quaternion(double,double,double,double)" (?Quaternion@Rotation@KDL@@SA?AV12@NNNN@Z) referenced in function "protected: class KDL::Frame __thiscall Path::Toolpath::toFrame(class Base::Placement const &)" (?toFrame@Toolpath@Path@@IAE?AVFrame@KDL@@ABVPlacement@Base@@@Z)
3>PropertyPath.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "public: static class KDL::Rotation __cdecl KDL::Rotation::Quaternion(double,double,double,double)" (?Quaternion@Rotation@KDL@@SA?AV12@NNNN@Z)
3>FeaturePath.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "public: static class KDL::Rotation __cdecl KDL::Rotation::Quaternion(double,double,double,double)" (?Quaternion@Rotation@KDL@@SA?AV12@NNNN@Z)
3>FeaturePathCompound.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "public: static class KDL::Rotation __cdecl KDL::Rotation::Quaternion(double,double,double,double)" (?Quaternion@Rotation@KDL@@SA?AV12@NNNN@Z)
3>AppPathPy.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "public: void __thiscall KDL::Rotation::GetQuaternion(double &,double &,double &,double &)const " (?GetQuaternion@Rotation@KDL@@QBEXAAN000@Z)
3>FeaturePathShape.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "public: void __thiscall KDL::Rotation::GetQuaternion(double &,double &,double &,double &)const " (?GetQuaternion@Rotation@KDL@@QBEXAAN000@Z)
3>FeaturePathProject.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "public: void __thiscall KDL::Rotation::GetQuaternion(double &,double &,double &,double &)const " (?GetQuaternion@Rotation@KDL@@QBEXAAN000@Z)
3>PathPyImp.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "public: void __thiscall KDL::Rotation::GetQuaternion(double &,double &,double &,double &)const " (?GetQuaternion@Rotation@KDL@@QBEXAAN000@Z)
3>AppPath.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "public: void __thiscall KDL::Rotation::GetQuaternion(double &,double &,double &,double &)const " (?GetQuaternion@Rotation@KDL@@QBEXAAN000@Z)
3>Path.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "public: void __thiscall KDL::Rotation::GetQuaternion(double &,double &,double &,double &)const " (?GetQuaternion@Rotation@KDL@@QBEXAAN000@Z) referenced in function "protected: class Base::Placement __thiscall Path::Toolpath::toPlacement(class KDL::Frame const &)" (?toPlacement@Toolpath@Path@@IAE?AVPlacement@Base@@ABVFrame@KDL@@@Z)
3>PropertyPath.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "public: void __thiscall KDL::Rotation::GetQuaternion(double &,double &,double &,double &)const " (?GetQuaternion@Rotation@KDL@@QBEXAAN000@Z)
3>FeaturePath.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "public: void __thiscall KDL::Rotation::GetQuaternion(double &,double &,double &,double &)const " (?GetQuaternion@Rotation@KDL@@QBEXAAN000@Z)
3>FeaturePathCompound.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "public: void __thiscall KDL::Rotation::GetQuaternion(double &,double &,double &,double &)const " (?GetQuaternion@Rotation@KDL@@QBEXAAN000@Z)
3>C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\free-cad-codePATHv0001\Mod\Path\Path.pyd : fatal error LNK1120: 2 unresolved externals
3>Build log was saved at "file://c:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\free-cad-codePATHv0001\src\Mod\Path\App\Path.dir\Release\BuildLog.htm"
3>Path - 19 error(s), 0 warning(s)

• OS: Windows 7
  Word size of OS: 64-bit
  Word size of FreeCAD: 32-bit
  Version: 0.15.4676 (Git)
  Branch: path-module
  Hash: 208bfdb52a2929f0fac03099ef6d32d098426d8e
  Python version: 2.7.8
  Qt version: 4.8.6
  Coin version: 4.0.0a
  OCC version: 6.7.1
  CMake: 2.8.12.2
  VS: 9 2008
  LibsPack: 11.0_x86_VC9

[yorik]

Hm I should provisorily disable the KDL stuff anyway.. It's not used in the current code, it's just there for "someone" to develop further later on...