Glad to here you have more FreeCad construction sitesABeton wrote: ↑Sat May 15, 2021 3:12 pm I will focus on some other things now, primarily the BIM Object Library, to improve it a bit. So I will work slowly on the stairs from time to time(it is better to mix things up when coding, working just on one thing gets boring ). But yeah the plan is to make them parametric later and add a couple of more options to them. Also if I manage to make a railing that would be cool.
Here are some of my thoughts for when you will come back to your Curved-Path-Stairs-Macro:
- Although computation time is important let's focus for now on the funcionality aspects of the macro. Optimizations can be done before the stair is converted into a parametric object.
- Playing another bit with your Macro and trying to model the following half-curved stair I failed and so I got convinced that it could be very usefull to introduce another concept in order to imrove the disposition of the steps. Additionally defining a walking path and then generating steps which have a constant width along this path and are perpendicular to it IMHO could be a huge improvement. (See following image for desirable behaviour and current situation).
- Searching on the WEB I found this old FreeCad thread https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?t=23501 and this Github repository https://github.com/wschildbach/FreeCadStairConstructor. Maybe it helps.
Regards