Cube menu

[pablogil]

Awesome!!

I can't wait till the PR is merged

[fc_tofu]

There is now a pending PR against navigation cube and later in the day some changes will get added to cube menu module. Once cube menu module is installed, navigation cube menu gains a few additional commands by default:

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Cannot see the full setting dialog. But it seems that the font family and label text can be customized now?
If true, that's marvellous!

[-alex-]

Nice improvements, thanks a lot!

[dxp.dev]

wow!
I have a question triplus: you have been working a lot on FreeCAD UI. And AFAICS you always created wonderful external modules. I am just asking myself: why some of them (like this one for the navicube) don't go into the FreeCAD Master? They are obvious enhancements from all points of view.

Agreed ! This should be in master

[czinehuba]

Really nice work. Well done.

[triplus]

Thanks for all the positive feedback

Cannot see the full setting dialog. But it seems that the font family and label text can be customized now?

Yes, as discussed here:

wow!
I have a question triplus: you have been working a lot on FreeCAD UI. And AFAICS you always created wonderful external modules. I am just asking myself: why some of them (like this one for the navicube) don't go into the FreeCAD Master? They are obvious enhancements from all points of view.

At minimum i need to tackle AccessoriesMenu module first. After some mature modules, such as the CubeMenu, could be upstreamed (Tux module) if desired.

[pablogil]

Hi triplus,

Would it be easy to add support for visible buttons like the unique dropdown one? something like the following (in my mockup I have added the buttons horizontally and vertically but, of course, it would only be visible one option):

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It would be very handy and it's something that other software already uses (2 fast examples: Blender and Solidworks):

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Cheers

[Kunda1]

Would it be easy to add support for visible buttons like the unique dropdown one? something like the following (in my mockup I have added the buttons horizontally and vertically but, of course, it would only be visible one option)

This sounds like combining some PieMenu features with Navicube. Good idea!

[fc_tofu]

Version: FreeCAD_0.19.20310-Win-Conda_vc14.x-x86_64.7z
OS: Windows 10 x64

I just tested Navicube (r20200324) on latest Freecad build, and found marvellous new enhancements, such as,
- toggle off cordinated axis
- offset between axis and cube
- offset between cube and viewport border
- cube size
- stretch size
- colors

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@triplus, you coders, are making NaviCube a piece of art. Thank you.

New param "font weight" help enhance sharpness of cube label, but still not completely.
Below is Chinese label text on default size (132 px) NaviCube. Font fallbacks from default "Helvetica" to SimSun (a Serif-style Chinese character font, Win 10 pre-installed).
When font weitght is set as maximun 99, there is still a stroke missing.

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So, I'm still waiting for good news from font selector and font hinting improvement.
In this build, running font selector cause error msg and failure.

Code: Select all

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "E:\WINAPP_B\FreeCAD_0.19.20310-Win-Conda_vc14.x-x86_64\Mod\CubeMenu\CubeMenuPreferences.py", line 1666, in onBtnFontString
    pCube.SetString("FontString", font.toString())
AttributeError: 'bool' object has no attribute 'toString'

Just tiny and humble proposals for Cube Menu's UI.
1.

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How about,
"Face color" for "Front color",
"Frame color" for "Back color",
"Hover color" for "Hilite color",
for easier understanding?

2. Cordinate axis name (letter X, Y, Z) scale propotionally with cube size.

[Kunda1]

"Hover color" for "Hilite color",

Should be 'Highlight'