Dogbone dressup

[sliptonic]

Created path pocket from face
- Looks good
- Editing and opening the Depths tab changes the previously good looking
values to unusables, it multiplies the values by 10 everytime it is opened.

Noted. Will check it out.

I haven't been able to reproduce. Can you provide some more details and a file?

[chrisb]

I haven't been able to reproduce. Can you provide some more details and a file?

- open the attached file
- double click on :TC001
- click on Depths
it shows 100 mm start depth (instead of 10), 90 mm end depth (instead of 9)

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- click ok
the new values are applied

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Perhaps it's the units? I use mm throughout the model and as standard.
Hope this helps.

[herbk]

Hi Sliptonic, hi Chris,

that's an Error since an half a jear or more.... You will find some post reporting that in the forum.

[GeneFC]

Chris,

I downloaded your file, and I do not see the problem of 10x scaling. I repeatedly opened the TC001, and it never changed. I am working in US customary units, but the translation is exactly 10 mm Start Depth and 9 mm Final Depth. I suspect the long-standing problem of "." vs "," for the decimal separator could be the problem.

In my case the Step Down is always metric, ignoring my choice of units. (I am thoroughly bi-lingual in units, since I spent my entire career working only in metric. My machine tools have US units, however.)

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OS: Windows 7
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.17.8761 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: master
Hash: 96e9b7ee5b5728d859c1f0dc3e76d7fd4d137c7d
Python version: 2.7.8
Qt version: 4.8.7
Coin version: 4.0.0a
OCC version: 7.0.0


Gene

[mlampert]

In my case the Step Down is always metric, ignoring my choice of units. (I am thoroughly bi-lingual in units, since I spent my entire career working only in metric. My machine tools have US units, however.)
Gene

I have a fix for that which should be coming soon. It was recently introduced - in essence none of the post processor scripts currently sets the unit in the g-code (G20 vs. G21).

[GeneFC]

I have my own post processor, which works correctly to convert all units and to assign G20 to my G-code files. The FreeCAD internal storage of G-code is only metric, so the conversion is easy.

This quirk is not really a function of the post processor in any case. This is within the FreeCAD display, before any post processing. There are many, many places throughout FreeCAD where a similar thing happens. Not really a big problem for me.

Gene

[chrisb]

I suspect the long-standing problem of "." vs "," for the decimal separator could be the problem.

I tried to change my system settings but I don't know how. (I am pretty sure that used to use the dot as decimal separator)
The system uses this environment:
GDM_LANG=en_US
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_US

The FreeCAD settings use English as language
Nevertheless, my decimal separator is still the comma ",".

However it is not really a big deal for me either. Is this handled in C++ or in python? If it is the latter I would try to trace it down. Any hints?

[flopsy]

chrisb

hi, one question:
is it noticed that dogbone do not work on "ccw"-cutting direction?
i did some quick research about it, but can't find anything about it till now. (I'm new on it to learn about Mantis/bugtracker. Still trying to figure out...maybe it's my browser, or my fault, can't really sort the entries at moment )
UPDATE: It was my fault with Mantis..


OS: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.17.13217 (Git)
Build type: None
Branch: master
Hash: 89275766de909a5c1f36e962806dc7b4a0b0f47b
Python version: 2.7.12
Qt version: 4.8.7
Coin version: 4.0.0a
OCC version: 7.1.0
Locale: German/Germany (de_DE)

[flopsy]

Ups, it was fault again..., sorry!
didn't notice that there is an Option "Side" in dogbone-dressup that have to be set correctly....