Macro version 4.2 multilanguage: helper tools to improve TechDraw documents.
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Macro version 4.2 multilanguage: helper tools to improve TechDraw documents.
Attached find multilanguage version 4.2 of TechDrawTools.FCMacro.
This macro is the current version of the macro first presented in https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=55029
New benefits: Each of the now 32 helper tools has
- an icon
- a button text in your language
- a detailed help text in your language
General use:
- Open a Techdraw document.
- Start the macro once.
- The command-panel will stay open until you quit.
- The macro uses French, German, Italian, Spanish language if FC is currently using one of these languages, otherwise English is used.
- Preselect your linestyle/linewidth/linecolor using the radio-buttons in the underpart of the first tab of the panel.
- Use the 32 helpers (found in three tabs) in any order, as often as you need.
- When ever creating new lines, all helpers use the preselected line attributes.
Many thanks to @domad, who did all the translations, created the icons, tested the macro and gave me many suggestions to improve it.
Also many thanks to @openBrain who showed me the preferred way to create a macro using a permanent opened command-panel.
Please give me further desires and comments.
The macro can be extended adding more helpers following your suggestion.
This macro is the current version of the macro first presented in https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=55029
New benefits: Each of the now 32 helper tools has
- an icon
- a button text in your language
- a detailed help text in your language
General use:
- Open a Techdraw document.
- Start the macro once.
- The command-panel will stay open until you quit.
- The macro uses French, German, Italian, Spanish language if FC is currently using one of these languages, otherwise English is used.
- Preselect your linestyle/linewidth/linecolor using the radio-buttons in the underpart of the first tab of the panel.
- Use the 32 helpers (found in three tabs) in any order, as often as you need.
- When ever creating new lines, all helpers use the preselected line attributes.
Many thanks to @domad, who did all the translations, created the icons, tested the macro and gave me many suggestions to improve it.
Also many thanks to @openBrain who showed me the preferred way to create a macro using a permanent opened command-panel.
Please give me further desires and comments.
The macro can be extended adding more helpers following your suggestion.
Re: Macro version 4.2 multilanguage: helper tools to improve TechDraw documents.
Any possibility to demonstrate some of the features of this macro in a screencast/video?
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Re: Macro version 4.2 multilanguage: helper tools to improve TechDraw documents.
Greetings to the Community!
Here are some examples (related to version 0.3.3 ex development) of the power of the macro developed by @edi that will finally allow us to limit “headaches” during technical drawing, making it fast, simple and pleasant.
I thank @edi in the first place for the great coding work done for the benefit of the whole FreeCad Community, and secondly for giving me the possibility of this fruitful collaboration.
Certainly the macro does not represent a point of arrival for TechDraw as it will be further improved and enriched with other features with the gradual release of subsequent versions.
I urge the developers of TechDraw to carefully study the macro to transfer these tools within the TC interface, I believe that from this point of view @edi will certainly be available to the maximum cooperation for this to happen.
Here are some examples (related to version 0.3.3 ex development) of the power of the macro developed by @edi that will finally allow us to limit “headaches” during technical drawing, making it fast, simple and pleasant.
I thank @edi in the first place for the great coding work done for the benefit of the whole FreeCad Community, and secondly for giving me the possibility of this fruitful collaboration.
Certainly the macro does not represent a point of arrival for TechDraw as it will be further improved and enriched with other features with the gradual release of subsequent versions.
I urge the developers of TechDraw to carefully study the macro to transfer these tools within the TC interface, I believe that from this point of view @edi will certainly be available to the maximum cooperation for this to happen.
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Re: Macro version 4.2 multilanguage: helper tools to improve TechDraw documents.
it's still
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Re: Macro version 4.2 multilanguage: helper tools to improve TechDraw documents.
it's still
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- lock and unlock .gif (886.72 KiB) Viewed 13656 times
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Re: Macro version 4.2 multilanguage: helper tools to improve TechDraw documents.
it's still
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Re: Macro version 4.2 multilanguage: helper tools to improve TechDraw documents.
it's still
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Re: Macro version 4.2 multilanguage: helper tools to improve TechDraw documents.
it's still
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Re: Macro version 4.2 multilanguage: helper tools to improve TechDraw documents.
....the 0.4.2-multilanguage version interface with the integration of two new tools: cosmetic circumference and cosmetic perpendicular
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Re: Macro version 4.2 multilanguage: helper tools to improve TechDraw documents.
......here is what TechDrawTools V 0.4.2 allows to do starting from a single point created with Draft (which had the sole purpose of creating a view in TechDraw): an axonometric drawing created entirely in TechDraw without using any base.
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- axonometric drawing created entirely in TechDraw without using any base.png (123.4 KiB) Viewed 13608 times