[Feature Request] Assign Material property to ‘Make Compound of Several Shapes’

[regis]

Hello everyone who is in this cool community, I have a few features to request that I think to make a great enhancement to Freecad.

It would be great for the “Make Compound of Several Shapes” to have at least the “material” property option. Highlighted in Yellow, but if possible to have the other options in pink aswell.
https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Part_Compound

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This is useful when organizing the project for documentation to group objects and assign the grouped(combined) objects a specific manterial that can apply to all the objects inside that group. Currently the combine object only has a base option

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[carlopav]

Hey there!
You can add whatevery property you want to FC objects.
Just right click on the property panel, show all, and add property.
Of course the object will just have the property, how this property is handled by the object and by modifiers/exporters entirely depend on them...

[regis]

Hey there!
You can add whatevery property you want to FC objects.
Just right click on the property panel, show all, and add property.
Of course the object will just have the property, how this property is handled by the object and by modifiers/exporters entirely depend on them...

This is good news,
but when i do the show all i don't see the add property

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[fc_tofu]

but when i do the show all i don't see the add property

RMB again and find fantasy.

[paullee]

This is good news,
but when i do the show all i don't see the add property
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One good news and one bad probably to my understanding

Good news 1st - You right click around the Data Tab area of the Combo, you see the ShowAll again (Fedora 31 won't let me capture this dialog, it disappear when i do), and below are an additional list amongst which the 1st one is 'Add Property'.

Bad news - You can add properties you like e.g. Remarks, Tag ...etc. good, But there are not codes to handle them e.g. if you add Material (like those in Arch Object, the colour assigned will be used if you assign a material), whatever material you selected, nothing will change.

(fc_tofu just explain )

[regis]

regis wrote: ↑Tue May 12, 2020 1:17 pm
This is good news,
but when i do the show all i don't see the add property
Snipaste_2020-05-12_14-15-58.png
One good news and one bad probably to my understanding

Good news 1st - You right click around the Data Tab area of the Combo, you see the ShowAll again (Fedora 31 won't let me capture this dialog, it disappear when i do), and below are an additional list amongst which the 1st one is 'Add Property'.

Bad news - You can add properties you like e.g. Remarks, Tag ...etc. good, But there are not codes to handle them e.g. if you add Material (like those in Arch Object, the colour assigned will be used if you assign a material), whatever material you selected, nothing will change.

(fc_tofu just explain )

NO luck fellows,

RMB again and find fantasy.

Thanks Alice in wonderland, is it really that hard for a experienced user to find your rabbit friend?

[paullee]

Nothing ?

When you find the dialog 'Show all' by RMB, you have only this option right?

You select it, and you got a longer list in the Properties....

Now, you RMB again as you find the dialog when show 'Show all', and you find the 'Show all' list become much longer - it includes 'add property'....


Maybe you try another object - I test it with Part Cube.

Good luck.

[vocx]

This is good news,
but when i do the show all i don't see the add property

See the information on Actions in the Property_editor page. You need to select a property, and right click again to open the "Add property" dialog.

By the way, what you want, a compound with "Arch properties", I think could be implemented by selecting the existing compound and turning it into an Arch Component, which is the generic Arch object underneath all Arch objects.

[regis]

thanks a bunch guys, i see it now, it works for structure object i tested and for a part object, but it doesnt work for "make a compound of serveral shapes" or the "create simple non parametric object" in BIM WB and Part WB

[regis]

I testing to add material property, im not too sure what i'm not doing well