Draft.downgrade and upgrade in python is not working

[freecc]

I am trying to use these commands on two 2D wires. I want to cut or fuse. I get these messages:

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No more downgrade possible

and:

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Unable to upgrade these objects.

The wires show in the document and I can use both commands in the GUI with the buttons for downgrade and upgrade. It creates two faces and in the other case one wire disappears. This is not what I want but one step at a time. Why doesn't it work in python?

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wireList=[W,W1]
wd=Draft.downgrade(wireList)

I have tried experimenting with the other variables in downgrade() to no avail

[brst]

I am also facing that problem right now.
Did you find a solution in the meantime?

Greetings brst

[vocx]

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The wires show in the document and I can use both commands in the GUI with the buttons for downgrade and upgrade. It creates two faces and in the other case one wire disappears. This is not what I want but one step at a time. Why doesn't it work in python?
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Upgrade and downgrade accept a parameter to control exactly what type of operations are done, see Draft_Upgrade#Scripting, Draft_Downgrade#Scripting.

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addList, deleteList = Draft.upgrade(objects, delete=False, force=None)

# If force is given, it is the internal function to call to force a certain way of upgrading. It can be: "makeCompound", "closeGroupWires", "makeSolid", "closeWire", "turnToParts", "makeFusion", "makeShell", "makeFaces", "draftify", "joinFaces", "makeSketchFace", "makeWires", or "turnToLine".

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addList, deleteList = Draft.downgrade(objects, delete=False, force=None)

# If force is given, it is the internal function to call to force a certain way of downgrading. It can be: "explode", "shapify", "subtr", "splitFaces", "cut2", "getWire", or "splitWires".

[Mark81]

Have you ever find a solution?
I'm facing the same problem: from GUI the downgrade works fine (without any force argument), but when executed in my script it just tells "No more downgrade possible". Here my script:

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c = Part.makeCircle(radius, p, tg)
f = Part.Face(Part.Wire(c))
section = target.section(f)
Part.show(section)
doc.recompute() # not sure if it's needed
obj, foo = Draft.downgrade(section, delete=True)

Both obj and foo lists are empty.
The weird thing is if I send the very same command using the Python console, i.e.:

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Draft.downgrade(App.ActiveDocument.getObject('MyShape'))

it still works.
What should I do in my script in order to get downgrade to work?

[Chris_G]

Draft.downgrade needs a Document object.
You are passing a shape.
fixed code example :

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c = Part.makeCircle(radius, p, tg)
f = Part.Face(Part.Wire(c))
section = target.section(f)  # section is a shape
section_obj = Part.show(section)  # section_obj is a document object built from the shape
doc.recompute() # not sure if it's needed
obj, foo = Draft.downgrade(section_obj, delete=True)

[Mark81]

Yeah, it works, thanks!
I RTFM but it wasn't clear enough to me it requires a Document object:

objects: Part::Feature or list
A single object to downgrade or a list
containing various such objects.