Fasteners workbench based on screw-maker

[Kunda1]

Any volunteers to write a step-by-step section on how to add Fasteners to the workbench?
I opened a FR on github: https://github.com/shaise/FreeCAD_FastenersWB/issues/95

[bambuko]

...step-by-step section on how to add Fasteners to the workbench?...

It's not the adding in itself that is the biggest problem.
At least for existing types of thread?
I have managed some (where .csv where reasonably self-explanatory):
https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic. ... 06#p485643

It is a guide to data on .csv (or the lack of it) for other threads (which I didn't have a clue as to what was what) that prevented me doing much more...

[Evgeniy]

An real convenient tool.

[Evgeniy]

Shaise How do you think about the idea of one type of fastener = one *.csv file?
Remove all meta data from python code.
For easy create and import new fasteners.

[ferdymercury]

In https://github.com/shaise/FreeCAD_FastenersWB/issues/67 I posted a FreeCAD file where you can create threads of custom pitches, just by editing the spreadsheet parameters.

[Roy_043]

I have a situation where Fasteners_ChamferHole hangs:

1. Open the attached file.
2. Select Extrude001.
3. Call the Fasteners_ChamferHole command.
4. Click the top face of Extrude001 to select all holes.
5. Result: FC hangs.

If you select Extrude instead things work fine.

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OS: Windows 8.1 (6.3)
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.20.25429 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: master
Hash: acce57a25d82b0408fa07b9452ed31c8a06c7a1b
Python version: 3.8.10
Qt version: 5.12.9
Coin version: 4.0.0
OCC version: 7.5.2
Locale: Dutch/Netherlands (nl_NL)

[Shalmeneser]

Result: FC hangs.

I confirm

Fastener version : today

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OS: Windows 10 (10.0)
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.20.25311 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: master
Hash: c5524bb58a7126fa2242d6137eb82ee9d54e82d4
Python version: 3.8.10
Qt version: 5.12.9
Coin version: 4.0.0
OCC version: 7.5.2
Locale: French/France (fr_FR)

You can select with boxes in the menu but not graphically.

[carlopav]

Hello, following several topic of UI improvements, there is an ongoing effort to offer some more comfortable user experience for newbies joining FC.
In this context there will soon be the possibility to define some default preferences in the UI and save and distribute them (thanks to @chennes!).

Currently Fasteners workbench have the absolute record of the longest toolbar (see here on 4k display of user @Petrikas):

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but luckly it also offer the possibility to split the buttons into several toolbars. Can we consider the option to make this choice the default?

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[Kunda1]

lol
<facepalm>

[alex_55]

Hello, following several topic of UI improvements, there is an ongoing effort to offer some more comfortable user experience for newbies joining FC.
In this context there will soon be the possibility to define some default preferences in the UI and save and distribute them (thanks to @chennes!).
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I can change the default really easily (just change a 0 to a 1), but it'll only affect new installations of the workbench. pull request: https://github.com/shaise/FreeCAD_FastenersWB/pull/98

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FreeCAD.ParamGet("User parameter:BaseApp/Preferences/Mod/Fasteners").SetInt("ScrewToolbarGroupMode",1)

This one-liner sets the group mode to "seperate toolbars". It can't be easily added to the workbench codebase, as we would have to check whether the user has changed the preference manually. But it can still be useful for a UI configuration macro, for example.