Assembly 4 workbench

[jmcornil]

Hello Everybody

I have been playing with Assembly4 for a couple of days and I find it great.

But something is annoying me : every time I restart an existing animation, the range of the variable is reset to a single value interval (the last value of this variable). And if the "Pendulum" choice is validate, the program runs into an infinte loop, hard to reset.
Is it not possible to keep the precedent value of the range ? I found no means to do that. Any hint is welcome.

By the way, has somebody any information on the types or variables that we can use in the "Add Variable" window, and how to use them ?

Thanks in advance

Edit :
FreeCAD Assembly 4 workbench
Current version 0.9.13, 2020-12-01

OS: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) (XFCE/lightdm-xsession)
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.19.23141 (Git) AppImage
Build type: Release
Branch: master
Hash: 0eba78d40096720f7a637a9a73c382a08b820bca
Python version: 3.8.6
Qt version: 5.12.5
Coin version: 4.0.0
OCC version: 7.4.0
Locale: French/France (fr_FR)

[Kunda1]

@jmcornil please always add you full About info and the current version of Assembly4 that you are using. Thanks

[mnesarco]

Hi Friends,

I have been learning Assembly4 and I love it. Impressive work. Congrats!!!
I have a stupid question: Is it possible to group items in the assembly model?

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I want to create groups of Screw+Washers+Nut, I know I can create a "sub-assembly" in another file and impor it, but I want to keep everything inside a single file.

Thank you for such a great work. And all my best wishes for the 2021.

Frank.

[project4]

Sub-assembly in a separate file is exactly what you want.
Especially if you have many instances of the same sub-assembly.

[mnesarco]

Sub-assembly in a separate file is exactly what you want.
Especially if you have many instances of the same sub-assembly.

Thank you project4, but iI want exactly the opposite: Everything in one single file. What I want is subassemblies inside the same file. Is it possible somehow?

[project4]

I'm not aware of such option.
Why do you want one file?

[mnesarco]

I'm not aware of such option.
Why do you want one file?

Just a personal preference, but if it is not available, then I will use multiple files. I hate the fragility of multi-file designs in general, not a FreeCAD specific issue, but sharing directories between windows and linux have played bad for me in the past.

[project4]

Just a personal preference, but if it is not available, then I will use multiple files. I hate the fragility of multi-file designs in general, not a FreeCAD specific issue, but sharing directories between windows and linux have played bad for me in the past.

The solution is simple: Don't use windows

In my assemblies every part (every screw and nut) are in a separate file since I import all of them from STEP files provided by the manufacturer.
And everything works well, including syncing the directory between different computers.

[mnesarco]

The solution is simple: Don't use windows

Yes you are right. I have been using linux exclusively for the past 15 years, but I send files to many people... Anyway it's not a big deal, so I will switch to multiple files. I usually have a master Spreadsheet with all the parameters, I will have to write expressions like "Filename.Spreadsheet.my_var".

[Kunda1]

The solution is simple: Don't use windows

Yes you are right. I have been using linux exclusively for the past 15 years, but I send files to many people... Anyway it's not a big deal

It's funny but it's also a pain point. It would be smart to fix these cross-platform issues.