Screw Maker Macro

[lemonbug]

Hi-

Does anyone have experience with the screw macro? I didn't want to email Ulrich directly and bother him.

I have used this in the past with no issues but I can't get my screw placement working now. I thought if I just selected the hole I wanted it would automatically add the screw there. However, in this case, it only adds it to the center.

thanks,

OS: Mac OS X
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.17.13519 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: (HEAD detached at 1a8b868)
Hash: 1a8b868018f45ea486c0023fdbfeb06febc1fb89
Python version: 2.7.14
Qt version: 5.10.1
Coin version: 4.0.0a
OCC version: 7.2.0
Locale: English/UnitedStates (en_US)

[ulrich1a]

I have used this in the past with no issues but I can't get my screw placement working now. I thought if I just selected the hole I wanted it would automatically add the screw there. However, in this case, it only adds it to the center.

This is a really difficult problem for me. The version available in the Addon Manager was adapted to work under Mac OS X by galou_breizh. The Addon-Manager-version seems to have a problem to locate the screw but I can not find by a simple comparison, what caused this. My original version worked for me. See here for a link: https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic. ... 00#p262859

Ulrich

Edit: The original version works only at selecting the top edge and not the inner cylinder.

[lemonbug]

Thanks. I made a new macro and pasted the text in there. This is the version I am using now from the link you provided. I tried clicking just the edge, nothing at all etc.

# screw_maker2_2.py
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However, I get this error message. Is there something I did incorrectly when setting up the new macro? Thanks

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[NormandC]

Rather than post a screenshot of the bottom of your FreeCAD window, please make the report view visible (View --> Panels menu) then you'll be able to copy-paste the error message.

Have you tried the Fasteners add-on? If I recall correctly, it's based on Ulrich's Screw Maker macro. It creates parametric screws.

[lemonbug]

Rather than post a screenshot of the bottom of your FreeCAD window, please make the report view visible (View --> Panels menu) then you'll be able to copy-paste the error message.

Have you tried the Fasteners add-on? If I recall correctly, it's based on Ulrich's Screw Maker macro. It creates parametric screws.

Thanks, that was the one window I didn't try for some reason, I was picking through those for a while today wondering where it was. Also, I will take a look at the fasteners add-on tonight if I can.

Code: Select all

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/brucewayne/Library/Preferences/FreeCAD/Macro/SM2.FCMacro", line 5461, in <module>
    class ScrewMacro(object):
  File "/Users/brucewayne/Library/Preferences/FreeCAD/Macro/SM2.FCMacro", line 5464, in ScrewMacro
    d.ui.setupUi(d)
  File "/Users/brucewayne/Library/Preferences/FreeCAD/Macro/SM2.FCMacro", line 1777, in setupUi
    self.retranslateUi(ScrewMaker)
  File "/Users/brucewayne/Library/Preferences/FreeCAD/Macro/SM2.FCMacro", line 1787, in retranslateUi
    ScrewMaker.setWindowTitle(QtGui.QApplication.translate("ScrewMaker", "Screw-Maker 2.2", None, QtGui.QApplication.UnicodeUTF8))
<type 'exceptions.AttributeError'>: type object 'PySide2.QtWidgets.QApplication' has no attribute 'UnicodeUTF8'

[lemonbug]

Wow, fasteners WB is amazing! Got that working. But just curious at this point if someone sees what I did wrong off-hand.

[NormandC]

File "/Users/brucewayne

Wow! Didn't know we had such lofty people on the forum.

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[lemonbug]

Oops, forgot to redact that : )

[chrisb]

Thanks, that was the one window I didn't try for some reason

I have added code tags </> to the output listing. Makes it easier to read and keeps the indentation.