Announce first iteration of NaviCube for FreeCAD

[ickby]

As to why I did not use the python commands was that I could not find
python commands for the "left_rear","top_right_front" etc commands...
If the python commands are available I would like to change this
of course.

That would indeed be something we could add to the python interface. But not a super high priority IMHO, your way is fine too for now.

So you mean it should look more like the navigation cube itself?

No, I mean the exact view that the 3d view is rotated to when one hits the navicube corner. The view angle is different to what happens when you hit the navigation toolbar axiometric view. There is a sight mismatch in view angle. Is this intentional?

[nyholku]

As to why I did not use the python commands was that I could not find
python commands for the "left_rear","top_right_front" etc commands...
If the python commands are available I would like to change this
of course.

That would indeed be something we could add to the python interface. But not a super high priority IMHO, your way is fine too for now.

Ok with that.

So you mean it should look more like the navigation cube itself?

No, I mean the exact view that the 3d view is rotated to when one hits the navicube corner. The view angle is different to what happens when you hit the navigation toolbar axiometric view. There is a sight mismatch in view angle. Is this intentional?

Ah, well yes and no, I tried to match the Onshape angles, if there are more or less similar but more standard angle I'm fine with that too.

[f3nix]

Hi @nyholku!

Is it supposed to move the FPS counter under it?

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Cheers,
Mateusz

[nyholku]

No, sorry, I don't have that on, so it moves along ? That is unintentional side effect. Thanks for reporting.

[nyholku]

BTW you can drag the cube to a desired position, took me months to notice that too ...

[sgrogan]

Hello nyholku,
It seems, on win, the bin directory isn't created in the build folder?

[nyholku]

Hi,

I can't test this as I'm MacOs only as far compiling FreeCAD is concerned.

However, I very much doubt this has anything to do with my changes as all I did to the
the code in 'master' branch was add to lines to an existing .cpp file, added the
dependency to library that is already used in the project and added couple of
files. Should have had no effect on weather the output is produced or not.

To verify you could download the 'master' branch and see if that compiles for you
and produces the code in 'bin'.

wbr Kusti

[yorik]

looks great nyholku! Have you tried when using a white background in the 3D view? Some arrows might be difficult to see...

[pablogil]

Really cool!
would it be possible to pack it as an plugin or the final idea is to merge it into master?

[pablogil]

looks great nyholku! Have you tried when using a white background in the 3D view? Some arrows might be difficult to see...

I would recommend adding an option inside Preferences to set the color of the NaviCube so that it could be set in contrast with the custom background...