Visualizing edge or face from GUI based on memory adress

[FreeMake]

As I am scripting I often use print statements to debug. This tells me for example that the following edge objects are causing an issue:

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[<Edge object at 000001B20F821FA0>, <Edge object at 000001B20F822820>, <Edge object at 000001B20F8224A0>, <Edge object at 000001B20F821B60>, <Edge object at 000001B20F821E60>]

However, visually that does not tell me a lot. Is there someway to visualize this? Or is there an inspect tool or something that if you click on an edge or a face that it gives the memory adress?

[Joel_graff]

The easiest approach is to print out the edge vertices:

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for edge in edge_list:
  print(edge.Vertexes[0].Point, edge.Vertexes[1].Point)

You could try selecting them in the GUI, but that would require knowing the edge's index in it's parent shape, which gets a bit more complicated:

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for index in range(0, len(my_obj.Shape.Edges)):
    cur_edge = my_obj.Shape.Edges[index]
    
    for edge in edge_list:
        if edge.Vertexes[0].Point == curEdge[0].Point and edge.Vertexes[1].Point == curEdge[1].Point:
            Gui.Selection.addSelection(my_obj, 'Edge' + str(index))

Note that 'Gui' is a common alias for 'FreeCADGui' (i.e., 'import FreeCADGui as GUI').

I don't think you can rely on comparing memory locations, though I could be wrong about that...

[naxq0]

If you run it as macro within the FreeCAD GUI or directly in the python interpreter, you can just plot them:

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Part.show(edge_that_you_are_interested_in, "some_nice_name")

[FreeMake]

Thanks naxq, that was exactly what I was looking for!