Hello all
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Hello Bayesian,
thanks for your input and your thoughts!!
i personally will focus on this importer for now - i am already on good way
and its working for me right now
Thanks to yorik for the hard work of reactivating and porting it to 2.80!
i have added:
- 'App::Parts' (the yellow Part 'group' thing) - they are currently imported as blender 'collection'
- 'App::Link' (the new Link button) (similar as Parts → the get collections and an 'collection instance' is created)
- 'Part::FeaturePhyton' Arrays (the Linked Array Button from the Draft WB) similar to Link: instances are created
TODOs left:
- import 'updated' mesh for the above..
- add automatically parenting (for this we will need Blender Empties for the group objects like Parts/Links/..)
both of the points i am working on
additionally the only thing missing is the import of 'PartDesign::Body' objects -
and here is just the problem as described earlier - currently i can not access them from the script..
(or at least currently i don't know how
)
Bayesian wrote: ↑Wed Oct 09, 2019 7:40 am
Optionally a script inside Blender can refresh the meshes without screwing up anything else.
that is my goal for this importer if the 'update' option is set
(and yorik prepared this really well!!)
you can import multiple FreeCAD documents right now -
every import gets its own blender collection - named after the imported file.
the only limitation is: every object needs a unique name.
in blender all objects are at the root level of the document - and are only 'linked' to one ore multiple scenes -
the collections are only a visual helper...
so if one file contains a object with the same name as an earlier file the later will overwrite the earlier one..
it would be easy to add an
'unique name' option. for example just add the document name in front of the object name. (i have already an internal option for a pre string in front of the object names
)
other option would be to import every FreeCAD file as one Blender File and then use Blenders 'inter file linking' to create a combined file...
this way it would be possible to recreate the full FreeCAD linked document tree as Blender Files..
i posted this as
an idea issues
i love if you find a way to get things like this running smoother / more user friendly!
so pleas keep your ideas flowing
or/and just create a pull request
sunny greetings
stefan
