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Re: Curves workbench

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GlouGlou wrote: Sat Feb 22, 2020 10:44 am Gordon and TrimmedFace:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpFor5U ... dex=9&t=0s
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Very nice GlouGlou, but I already know that you are good :) and I like how you have organized your tree ;)

A small notice on tree organization, notice how in the catia video he organizes it sort of per "geometry type", your strategy is more like "per modeling steps", nothing wrong, one can do it in many different ways, some ways can also be better for some models and other for others, just wanted to mention it to show how thinking a bit about this organization structures and strategies can be useful when doing more serious models.

Also, if you open the dependency graph, you can see how everything is nicely connected (associated); how the model nicely grows from the bottom up and how there are no "free leafs" in the graph... It is one way to check how "clean" is the model structure. Free "leafs" (free features) that hang from the bottom can potentially mean an issue in the associativity of the model. Free leafs that hang from the top can potentially mean useless/forgotten features that can be deleted from the model (unless there is a special reason for keeping them). Since this model is clean, check JoinCurve001, Shell and Offset001 in your model SPAD1.FCStd https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic. ... 74#p326324 to maybe get a bit better understanding of this...

Only thing missing from this model, for a more proper "Part" structure, is that the basic sketches would all be based on a CS (should be the CS/Origin of the Part, but one could also "fake" it for such demos with an Local_CS).

IMO you should for sure start looking more in to the next level from Steven and HandleBar, if you are not already :)

As for sharing the models, IMO it would be good if you, and other users that make such nice things would have github and share them there, of course if you/they are willing to do so. One could then also chose a license for the models... hopefully an open one :)
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Re: Curves workbench

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saso wrote: Sat Feb 22, 2020 1:19 pm
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for the last few seconds of the video where you show the surface continuity, you could have turned on the zebra tool :)
For you Saso. :lol:
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wmayer wrote: Sat Feb 22, 2020 11:10 am git commit 883235680
Thank you very much Werner. 8-)
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freecad-heini-1 wrote: Sat Feb 22, 2020 1:53 pm For you Saso. :lol:
https://peertube.mastodon.host/videos/w ... 76b445f6f8
Nice, Thank you! :)
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saso wrote: Sat Feb 22, 2020 1:31 pm Only thing missing from this model, for a more proper "Part" structure, is that the basic sketches would be all based on a CS (should be the CS/Origin of the Part, but one could also "fake" it for such demos with an Local_CS).
I have reworked a bit the model with a Local_CS and changed the Mirror command for the Lattice Mirror, since its Pivot option makes it properly parametric. One can now select the Local_CS and change its placement position and angle, and everything will update nicely, this shows how stable the model really is... Well almost, there are still one two problems, who can find them? :)

https://mega.nz/#!aAATQAYJ!WnqXqO4tKsUP ... 4OFvp9vz3o
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Re: Curves workbench

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… OT but CurvesWB.
Some examples with sweep along mixed_curve => knots
out of https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic. ... 20#p371447

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Re: Curves workbench

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hammax wrote: Wed Feb 26, 2020 3:41 pm … OT but CurvesWB.
Some examples with sweep along mixed_curve => knots
out of https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic. ... 20#p371447


Knot_0_2.png
Wow, that should really go to user showcase or be used to illustrate FC
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hammax wrote: Wed Feb 26, 2020 3:41 pm Some examples with sweep along mixed_curve => knots
very nice. ;)
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Re: Curves workbench

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Need some help: how to run the BlendSurface. :roll:
Trying to make a fillet.
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Blendsurface is a little bit broken currently.
And it was not intended to be a fillet tool : the 2 surfaces are not supposed to be in contact.
The tool creates a curve network between 2 surfaces that you want to join.
And you can build a Gordon surface on top of it.
See attached example.
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