[Merged] Working plane proposal

[Roy_043]

The human will only appear if BIM is installed...
https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/blob ... s.py#L1108

[carlopav]

The human will only appear if BIM is installed...
https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/blob ... s.py#L1108

good catch. what do you think about?
Edit: to me it's not so good that a core module modify it's behaviour according to an external workbench. Expecially if this happens without any user warning. So at least i'd vote for an option to disable it (by default).
"[x] Enable human figure at grid center (requires BIM workbench installed)."
We'd also should solve that if you disable "show grid borders" the human figure will be disabled as well.

[ragohix769]

good catch. what do you think about?
Edit: to me it's not so good that a core module modify it's behaviour according to an external workbench. Expecially if this happens without any user warning. So at least i'd vote for an option to disable it (by default).
"[x] Enable human figure at grid center (requires BIM workbench installed)."
We'd also should solve that if you disable "show grid borders" the human figure will be disabled as well.

This is, IMHO, a good solution/proposal.

And by default too it's not bad at all, to have, only for Draft and Arch, for new project an XY plan view, rather then a 3D, as you said in the beginning of the thread. For the BIM wb, IMHO, it's not so bad to have the actual default 3D view.

[cad1234]

@Carlopav, ragohix 769
fully agree. Good idea, to have the option, to switch the human symbol off if needed, with no other effect.

@Thomas: Thanks for sharing the workaround!

[Roy_043]

I agree that the current situation is a bit cryptic.
A related, and IMO bigger, issue is that Std_ViewFitAll does not ignore the grid.

[carlopav]

I agree, but I do not have any idea on how to hack that... I should check how Std_ViewFitAll works...

[yorik]

indeed that human figure was a kind of test, and i like it.. it shows instinotively the size of your grid. but it needs further options, ex: enable/disable, where you want it, etc.

also obviously it should be there only if the WP normal is up in the Z direction.

About the default WP mode (xy vs auto), you can set that in both draft preferences and the bim setup panel. i have a feeling that if we change, we'll get the same amount of complaints (why isn't it auto by default). i think it's more a matter of making it clear to the user that the option is there

[carlopav]

I see. Ok!

I think we should have a look at the default setup: That's what I experienced (with a bit of disappointment) when I reseted the cfg file:

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Hey, what's that strange line over the small grid?

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let's try to draw something... hey! why the view got changed to TOP?

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let's rotate it again axonometric... oh no, it was not the view, it's the grid that got rotated!

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Hey, why that figure is horizontal?


I imagined this could have been a common startup experience with Draft of a newbie...

So, let's try a new proposal:
- add an option to display the human figure (on by default );
- check if the wp normal is up and if not auto hide the human figure;
- i still think the default mode of the grid should be xy if the default view is axonometric*;
- the default size of the grid, if the display the human figure check is on by default should be bigger;
- (if you want to keep the figure, can we change it to have it's feets on the ground and not perspective? out of curiosity, did you draw it by your own?);

Edit:
* Maybe I'm wrong. I'll try to explain Better what i find strange: I do like that the auto mode aligns with the view while you are on TOP, FRONT, RiGHT, ecc, but I find really unconfortable when the grid aligns with a random axonometric view... Perhaps Is this behaviour that Need to be changed?

[carlopav]

I've created a draft PR to share the proposal implementation: https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/pull/4998

[carlopav]

PR updated with the suggested behavior.

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The silhouette is displayed only if:
        - BIM Workbench is available;
        - preference BaseApp/Preferences/Mod/Draft/gridShowHuman is True;
        - the working plane normal is vertical.