help on sheet metal script

[jaisejames]

Some Improvements to Sheetmetal.py script attached.

[jaisejames]

Some Bug fix & New Command Sketch Based Wall [ Create Sketch on Face with Edge as reference as shown in the pic ]

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[Kunda1]

Some Bug fix & New Command Sketch Based Wall [ Create Sketch on Face with Edge as reference as shown in the pic ]

Just wondering if you'd be interested in using git in your development process to show your development (and possibly inspire others to contribue) ?
You can read more about this at: Github

[easyw-fc]

I did experiment with the new features to create drawings. Exporting the Visgroups into a DXF-file is no problem. It turns out, that it is difficult to put the bendlabels into a Techdraw drawing. The bendlabels are Draft-text. The bendlabels can be put into a Techdraw drawing by inserting a DraftView. But they need to be aligned manually, which is only possible, when the are inserted as last element into the Drawing. And it is tedious, because the labels do not move with the mouse, but show only up at the correct position after updating the drawing view by scaling it.

It looks like, there is some tweaking necessary.

Ulrich

You may consider to add 'Annotations' in TechDraw instead of Draft-text.
Annotations can be placed with coding and moved later with the mouse.
from this thread
https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic. ... 78#p261662

Code: Select all

#https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=31478&p=261679
#bestfit.py
templateFile = App.getResourceDir() + "Mod/TechDraw/Templates/A3_Landscape_ISO7200TD.svg"
for obj in FreeCAD.ActiveDocument.Objects:
    #for each part, techdraw 1 drawing with 3 views
    page = FreeCAD.ActiveDocument.addObject('TechDraw::DrawPage','page')
    page.Label=obj.Label
    
    template = FreeCAD.ActiveDocument.addObject('TechDraw::DrawSVGTemplate','Template')
    template.Template = templateFile
    page.Template = template
    page.ViewObject.show()

    featName = obj.Name
    feat = FreeCAD.ActiveDocument.getObject(featName)

    #first view
    view = FreeCAD.ActiveDocument.addObject('TechDraw::DrawViewPart','View')
    rc = page.addView(view)

    view.Source = [feat]
    view.Direction = (0.0,0.0,1.0)
    view.Scale = (3.0)
    view.X = 225
    view.Y =150.0

    FreeCAD.ActiveDocument.addObject('TechDraw::DrawViewAnnotation','Annotation')
    FreeCAD.ActiveDocument.page.addView(App.activeDocument().Annotation)
    FreeCAD.ActiveDocument.getObject("Annotation").Text = [u"My note", ]
    FreeCAD.ActiveDocument.getObject("Annotation").X = 172.0
    FreeCAD.ActiveDocument.getObject("Annotation").Y = 161.0
    FreeCAD.ActiveDocument.recompute()

[ulrich1a]

You may consider to add 'Annotations' in TechDraw instead of Draft-text.
Annotations can be placed with coding and moved later with the mouse.

I made this Draft-text objects in order to correlate bend lines in the automatically created unbend object with the automatically created bend table in a spreadsheet. Ideally both objects could be used to create a TechDraw page. The Draft-text objects could be exported in a DXF-file, if the fix for this would be done properly. It worked for me, with the applied fix in the DXF exporter. The whole point is, you can create easily a drawing in LibreCAD from the exported DXF. But it is not possible to create a proper drawing from the same objects in TechDraw due to current limitations. See here: https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic. ... 21#p259192

Ulrich

[UR_]

Some Bug fix & New Command Sketch Based Wall

Are there any news on merging this

Can't find something on Github

[jaisejames]

sheetmetal with auto mitering added

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[jaisejames]

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[shaise]

sheetmetal with auto mitering added

As Kunda1 mentioned, can you use git to fork from https://github.com/shaise/FreeCAD_SheetMetal
It will be much easier to merge your changes, which are very good features.

shai

[jaisejames]

I need to learn git. I will try.