help on sheet metal script

[shaise]

Are there any news on merging this

All new features are now merged.

shai

[Kunda1]

Awesome! Is there organized documentation somewhere beside this thread?

[shaise]

not for the new features

[easyw-fc]

All new features are now merged.

shai

Hi @shaise,
have you merged also latest @ulrich1a code?
I cannot see it in latest SM WB.

I have updated my script on https://github.com/ulrich1a/sheet_ufo
It produces now profiles, bend lines and labels in Visgroups. These Visgroups can be exported into an Autodesk DXF 2D format and go there into respective layers. Although the export of the text into DXF does still not work due to a bug in the exporter but is maybe also not necessary.
A spreadsheet with the bend data: radius, bend direction and k-factor is generated.

Ulrich

https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic. ... 00#p257892

[shaise]

Hi @shaise,
have you merged also latest @ulrich1a code?
I cannot see it in latest SM WB.

I plan to do that next!

[NormandC]

Awesome! Is there organized documentation somewhere beside this thread?

I just found this. These new sketch-based features are fantastic. The problem is, their discoverability factor is nil. There is no chance an end user will know about them without seeing this forum topic.

I understand it might be complicated to implement, but it would be desirable for the sketch-based wall and guided wall to have their own separate buttons in the SheetMetal toolbar, so that the user does not need to create a simple bend first, then add the sketch to it. It would also be great if the Bend feature claimed the Sketch in the Model tree, so that it looks like:

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Bend
  |__ Sketch

In any case, I think the Sheet Metal add-on deserves a "full-fledged" documentation. I'm willing to help make it happen. The thing I'm pondering, should it be hosted as wiki to shaise's Github repo, or hosted directly in the FreeCAD wiki? There's already a SheetMetal Workbench wiki page on which I put in some work last summer.

The advantage of a SM documentation included in the FreeCAD wiki is that it could be translated in other languages. We could have separate command pages for each tool. It seems that the "WhatsThis?" protocol works with SM tools, so if we create command pages for the SM tools on the wiki, the Std WhatsThis tool would open the appropriate page when the FC documentation is next built (maybe even for v0.18 release). I think it would be pretty cool!

I believe Yorik already said he was in favor of including external workbench stuff in the FC wiki.

ping

What do you think?

[shaise]

I definitely agree there should be more buttons for sketch based bends,
There is another PR pending by jaisejames, with more features I need to look at.
Hopefully I will have time soon.
Regarding documentation I vote for FreeCAD wiki.

shai

[NormandC]

Okay, I had already come to the same conclusion anyway. I've found that command pages for external workbenches already exist in the wiki.

@yorik sorry for the noise

[jaisejames]

Experimenting forming tool.
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[Jee-Bee]

nice!!