3D Surface - Face Selection (New feature) [Merged]

[chrisb]

What "OP" stands for?
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Again, please explain what "PR" stands for?

OP = Original Post, the first post in the topic. Sometimes also used for the Original Poster, i.e. the creator of the topic. Alas, in the following post OP seems to be used as an abbreviation for Operation.

PR=PullRequest. This means providing the changes made in the FreeCAD master sources. This will make them available with the next build of the development version.

[freman]

Thanks for the latest fix Russ. I've updated and removed any old paths. Looks better.

Look at the attached file. If I change the pad to "reversed" I seem to get return paths INSIDE the stock.

[Russ4262]

Afternoon Sir,

... Look at the attached file. If I change the pad to "reversed" I seem to get return paths INSIDE the stock.

Due to unknown and prolonged issues with the Windows nightly builds, I cannot get paths extracted from FreeCAD files half the time. I don't know what the bug is...

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Path workbench activated
Reading failed from embedded file: Job.nc (7236 bytes, 850 bytes compressed)
Reading failed from embedded file: Operations.nc (7236 bytes, 850 bytes compressed)
Reading failed from embedded file: Surface.nc (7236 bytes, 850 bytes compressed)

Nonetheless, what you are experiencing sounds familiar. If a user has a Job based on a source solid, as you do, and updates the source solid, as you did with the reversing of the Pad, then the Job will update the operations in the Job. However, there exists a bug in this process. The Job update fails to update the Stock as well.

So, your fix is to double click on the Job object and click the `Refresh` button in the Stock section of the Setup tab. This should do the trick, re-calculating the Stock, placing it properly around the updated source solid.

Have a great afternoon.
Russ

[zohozer]

You will also need OCL for 3D Surface usage - see the wiki at OpenCamLib.

According to OpenCamLib Wiki: Mac (No entry)

To understand that there it is no support for this module on the MacOS platform?

[freman]

I got that same error msg when I opened the previous version of the FCStd file after updating the script.

Having just got what looks like a clean path file , I saved out and restarted FC. I get the same error. So not windows specific.

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Wizard shaft module cannot be loaded
Reading failed from embedded file: Job.nc (8002 bytes, 951 bytes compressed)
Reading failed from embedded file: Operations.nc (8002 bytes, 951 bytes compressed)
Reading failed from embedded file: Surface.nc (8002 bytes, 951 bytes compressed)

[freman]

You will also need OCL for 3D Surface usage - see the wiki at OpenCamLib.

According to OpenCamLib Wiki: Mac (No entry)

To understand that there it is no support for this module on the MacOS platform?

No, no entry means "no entry" , ie no one has written an entry about it for MacOS. Maybe refer to the OCL project to see if you have something there.

[zohozer]

I do found a compiled OCL library for MacOS, seems to be the 3.7 version. It is this version good enough or I need to compile myself the latest source-code? I am not enjoying compiling stuff as always they are failing for various reasons.

How to install this library on MacOS and how to activate-it in FreeCAD?

[chrisb]

How to install this library on MacOS and how to activate-it in FreeCAD?

You don't have to install anything. It's all in the dmg. I have a Mac, and it all works out of the box - after replacing the three files.

[zohozer]

You don't have to install anything. It's all in the dmg. I have a Mac, and it all works out of the box - after replacing the three files.

I can't find any .dmg file. I have found only a "ocl.37.darwin.so" file. Experimenting now. I just dropped this library into the "/Applications/FreeCAD.app/Contents/Resources/lib" folder.

How I can know if it is loaded by freeCAD?

[chrisb]

I can't find any .dmg file.

https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/rele ... g/0.19_pre

How I can know if it is loaded by freeCAD?

Try in python console

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 import ocl

if it works, ocl is available.