Assembly2 Administration (not the same as maintaining)

[Kunda1]

@Kunda1

For your information: https://github.com/kbwbe/A2plus
Initial commit done. Nothing else.

Awesome. Thank you.

[hamish]

Hi Everyone,

I am glad to hear of A2Plus and all other work being done on FreeCAD's assembly functionality!

kbwbe has been invited as a collaborator to Assembly2.
My motivation is a little selfish though:
I recently upgraded to FreeCAD 0.17, and am still using Assembly2 once every blue moon.
So if kbwbe or any other users, have any patches for migrating Assembly2 to FreeCAD 0.17 I would greatly appreciate it.

Guess I should also try A2Plus one of these days...

[kbwbe]

Thank you very much @Hamish,

will contact you next days via PM.

[kbwbe]

@Hamish,
accepted invitation yet.
Thank you.

[Kunda1]

Hi Everyone,

I am glad to hear of A2Plus and all other work being done on FreeCAD's assembly functionality!

kbwbe has been invited as a collaborator to Assembly2.
My motivation is a little selfish though:
I recently upgraded to FreeCAD 0.17, and am still using Assembly2 once every blue moon.
So if kbwbe or any other users, have any patches for migrating Assembly2 to FreeCAD 0.17 I would greatly appreciate it.

Guess I should also try A2Plus one of these days...

@Hamish,
accepted invitation yet.
Thank you.

[kbwbe]

@Kunda1,

thank you for all your work in background. Next days i will close my current thread with assembly2relaunch and start a new one, related to both assembly 2 and A2plus. Just at moment i am warming a little bit up using GitHub and will first do some small things on A2plus. After that, work on both WB's will start.

Hamish already merged one important PR to assembly2. Very good. Thanks to @Hamish. Due to this, there are some small new issues. I will fix them soon.

P.S. Someone forked already my fresh A2Plus repo !

[triplus]

OK therefore i guess Assembly 2 workbench maintenance is again up an running. Py3/Qt5 porting likely will happen in the future. We now have a new A2plus workbench under active development. Focused on simplicity (basically refactoring Assembly 2) and the solver robustness. A part of Assembly 3 effort is a Python based solver (as an (currently lacking) alternative to C++ SolveSpace solver). All in all not that bad.

Some food for thought. What would i guess be interested to see is some collaboration on Python based assembly solver and adding things like Links to the mix. Such combined effort highly likely would put needed validation to upstreaming the work done after. That is if Assembly 1 effort is still years away from happening.

[kbwbe]

@triplus,

i am open to everyone and everything as they are pushing FreeCAD forward.
Some ideas, code snippets or PR's could help.