Geometrical tolerances

[Thomn78]

Hello everyone,

I was using the Drawing Workbench (for the first time), and tried every tool of that Workbench.
Actually there is still something a can't do. I can't put on my views geometrical tolerances like that :

Geometric Tolerances.png (16.28 KiB) Viewed 3794 times

So did I miss a tool or it is just FreeCad wich don't propose that tool ?
I also have some difficulties in the understanding of the "Unfold Faces" tool (Still Drawing Dimensioning Workbench. I can't found out how this tool works... help

Thomas

OS: Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.16.6698 (Git)
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Branch: master
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Python version: 2.7.6
Qt version: 4.8.6
Coin version: 4.0.0a
OCC version: 6.8.0.oce-0.17

[r-frank]

Hello.

Yes, at the moment a tool for adding geometric tolerances in FreeCAD is missing.

You could manually draw your rectangles/symbols and add your text in the draft workbench and then project that
to the drawing sheet as a workaround ...

Roland

[jmaustpc]

I n the FreeCAD Drawing WB ...I not talking about the 3rd party plug in that you also mentioned.... You can a I think it's called a symbol? Which is just a small SVG file, so as a work around, perhaps you could use that.

Also note that the new substantially updated FreeCAD Drawing WB will hopefully be pushed to master over the next few weeks.

[cwstirk]

When GD&T gets added to FreeCAD, it would be useful to be compatible with the CAX-IF recommended practices for future interoperability with other applications.
https://www.cax-if.org/documents/rec_pr ... es_v23.pdf
https://www.cax-if.org/documents/rec_pracs_pmi_v40.pdf
The OpenCasCade translators for STEP include a very early version of the GD&T information, but will need significant work to bring it up to date with the current recommended practices and STEP schemas.

[NormandC]

One former forum member had created SVG symbols for GD&T and published on Github. Unfortunately he closed the repo some time ago. I don't remember his name, but I think he's the guy who made the Multiple views tool in the Drawing workbench. I wonder if he attached his work to a forum post.

[r-frank]

One former forum member had created SVG symbols for GD&T and published on Github. Unfortunately he closed the repo some time ago. I don't remember his name, but I think he's the guy who made the Multiple views tool in the Drawing workbench. I wonder if he attached his work to a forum post.

Hi Normand.

I found the post but it does not look like that the files still exist.

But starting from here and here we may be able to draw some svg-examples and upload them to the FreeCAD-symbols-library.

Maybe we can also add something for bevels and something for surface finish ...

Edit: found another useful site with pictures ...

Roland

[Thomn78]

Thank you all for your answer and suggestions !

Roland, I downloaded the FreeCad library, and installed it, but can't find it in the Workbench, maybe because it's not there ahah, but then where could i find it because I looked (I think) everywhere i coul find it

[r-frank]

The FreeCAD-Library is meant to be a collection of svg-files, not an extra workbench.

Each svg can be imported into the drawing workbench on its own.

[Thomn78]

All right thank you !

[yorik]

The FreeCAD-Library is meant to be a collection of svg-files, not an extra workbench.
Each svg can be imported into the drawing workbench on its own.

also, both the freecad library and the symbols library have a macro (that must be copied to the macros folder) that launch a handy "browser" in freecad from where you can easily insert components...