material preferences
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material preferences
I would like to introduce some material preferences in FreeCAD. How is this done? Material module has no GUI workbench.
Mainly I would like to move the material directory preferences from FEM, see screen attached into materials and use it in the material editor here to have a smart choice between various material directories. https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/blob ... py#L79-L89
bernd
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Mainly I would like to move the material directory preferences from FEM, see screen attached into materials and use it in the material editor here to have a smart choice between various material directories. https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/blob ... py#L79-L89
bernd
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Re: material preferences
This looks good...
I would leave it in FEM fow now, then we can think of something better. Maybe both FEM and Arch could fire that page up?
I quite like the fact that the material module has no WB, so it is directly integrated in all workbenches that use it...
I would leave it in FEM fow now, then we can think of something better. Maybe both FEM and Arch could fire that page up?
I quite like the fact that the material module has no WB, so it is directly integrated in all workbenches that use it...
Re: material preferences
It's not forgotten The Materials framework is very simple and made to work with the entire FreeCAD. It would just be a matter of implementing something in PartDesign. But I guess this requires some deeper discussion as how it should be implemented.
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a part can be alive without a material, but FEM without material is imposible! ATM we try to normalise material system between FEM and Arch which are there allready. Material in Part Design really needs some thinking first, since this is under FEM and Arch.
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My idea was to make a wb for the material module which has the material editor as tool and this page as pref. Mhh but we could go the other way around and use this page in arch and fem. No matter which way we gone itneeds a separate tab in prefs. I will move these prefs inside Fem in a separate tab and than we will see ...
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Re: material preferences
I like the idea of a material wb too. Path will need more material data in the future for setting feed/speed values on operations. A simpler material wb would be more intuitive than a set of features buried in FEM.bernd wrote: ↑Mon Jun 04, 2018 3:32 pmMy idea was to make a wb for the material module which has the material editor as tool and this page as pref. Mhh but we could go the other way around and use this page in arch and fem. No matter which way we gone itneeds a separate tab in prefs. I will move these prefs inside Fem in a separate tab and than we will see ...
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git commit 05bee3aa1 and git commit 7c316ba0 ATM one needs to change the resource directories of the MaterialEditor in FEM pref.
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That means you will have totally different material properties than FEM needs (mainly Young's modulus and poisons ratio, ATM) ?
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Re: material preferences
Yes, things like Brinell hardness that will factor into calculating material removal rate. But since I'm no where near needing that stuff yet, I was really just reacting to the UI discussion.