The PartDesign features need a body to live in. You can use PartDesign to work on an object created outside of PartDesign by using it as a BaseFeature, but I am not familiar enough with the Arch workbench and its workflow to recommend this.Erich96 wrote: ↑Sat May 15, 2021 3:11 pm I could do the same thing in the appartment, create a new sketch, design an rectangle to host the arch, create on the rectangle the design of the hole ... but when I try to create a pocket, I get an error message which says I must have an active body ... no idea what is going wrong ...
Designing an arch using the arch workbench
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Re: Designing an arch using the arch workbench
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Re: Designing an arch using the arch workbench
Thank all you very much for your help on this. The roman archs are phantastique, really great stuff.
What I did now was the approach with the window, I design my arch on the wall, putting it on a sketch anchored at the wall, after that I can make disappear completely the door or make it transparent. Only disadvantage, the door is not a hole, as it happens under the arche. I do not know if I explain myself well.
The other solution is hard for me to integrate, since it requires a body. I created successfully a solid with exact the arch I would have, but I do not succeed in putting this in my slab.
My last question: how can I use pieces from other documents in a project ? Example: I have base.FCStd which holds all walls, and arch.FCStd which holds my arch. How can I use pieces from arch.FCStd in base.FCStd ? Simply copy&paste ? Just putting together:
in the arch tutorial I read: "Any solid object can always become any architectural object. Very complex things, usually hard to define in other BIM applications, like a floor slab curving up and becoming a wall (yes Zaha Hadid, it's you we're talking about), present no particular problem at all in FreeCAD."
So how can I convert the solid object "arch" I created in a wall and insert it into my plan ?
thx again for any help on this
Yours,
Erich
What I did now was the approach with the window, I design my arch on the wall, putting it on a sketch anchored at the wall, after that I can make disappear completely the door or make it transparent. Only disadvantage, the door is not a hole, as it happens under the arche. I do not know if I explain myself well.
The other solution is hard for me to integrate, since it requires a body. I created successfully a solid with exact the arch I would have, but I do not succeed in putting this in my slab.
My last question: how can I use pieces from other documents in a project ? Example: I have base.FCStd which holds all walls, and arch.FCStd which holds my arch. How can I use pieces from arch.FCStd in base.FCStd ? Simply copy&paste ? Just putting together:
in the arch tutorial I read: "Any solid object can always become any architectural object. Very complex things, usually hard to define in other BIM applications, like a floor slab curving up and becoming a wall (yes Zaha Hadid, it's you we're talking about), present no particular problem at all in FreeCAD."
So how can I convert the solid object "arch" I created in a wall and insert it into my plan ?
thx again for any help on this
Yours,
Erich
Re: Designing an arch using the arch workbench
as Thomas wrote before:
in my opinion, part gets along better with arch than partdesign. yorik the programmer from arch doesn't use partdesign either.
I am reading the wonderful tutorial about scripting with Python including the Part Workbench https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Part_Module, now I understand much better what Thomas means.
I can design everything I need with the part workbench. Once I have a solid I can use this as wall. I even created a wall from a bottle. The arch example can be done more easier with python scripting than with the GUI.
Now I am playing around with python which gives simply phantastic possibilities with no limits ... great stuff, really.
in my opinion, part gets along better with arch than partdesign. yorik the programmer from arch doesn't use partdesign either.
I am reading the wonderful tutorial about scripting with Python including the Part Workbench https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Part_Module, now I understand much better what Thomas means.
I can design everything I need with the part workbench. Once I have a solid I can use this as wall. I even created a wall from a bottle. The arch example can be done more easier with python scripting than with the GUI.
Now I am playing around with python which gives simply phantastic possibilities with no limits ... great stuff, really.