Feature of history

[jakob]

If you use Fusion 360, Solidworks you have a history from your work.
Great feature if you want to go back and edit or want to do a tutorials and show your work.

It was some time I did something in FreeCAD and before I hade to to everything from the beginning every time.
Is this still true?

I have used Fusion 360 for a long time but it seems to be paid in the future, so I plan to go back to FreeCAD.
But the lack of history is bad. A proper history would be very helpful for my tutorials for bigger projekt.

[polymer]

FreeCAD Is abparametric System but the Catia-like feature tree is not the greatest one...

[mario52]

hi

see Preferences > General > Macro

but I did not find the .FCScript file ?



mario

[jakob]

FreeCAD Is abparametric System but the Catia-like feature tree is not the greatest one...

What do you mean?

[jakob]

hi

see Preferences > General > Macro

but I did not find the .FCScript file ?



mario

Have you understand the question?

[mario52]

hi

the code saved in console Python is the history of the project

mario

[freecad-heini-1]

hi

the code saved in console Python is the history of the project

mario

Hi Mario,
I'm not 100% sure what Jakob mean. I guess it's a bit similar to a existing tool from Creo.
It's a kind of keyframe tool from every single feature in seqeunce, at the end you can play it like a movie, step by step. It's nice for demo or training purposes.

The macro you mentioned seems to save this history, but how to play?
Please could you explain a bit more the workflow for this task?

Thank you very much and best regards
Wilfried

[saso]

This is basically what is in catia called ordered and unordered sets. In FreeCAD the new PartDesign is basically working like this (in an ordered way) and its Tip is basically what this topic is about. I don't agree that FreeCAD should change to work only in a fully ordered way, but I do agree that this is a topic that we should talk about more since it is very important topic for proper Part, Body workflows and there are for sure things that needs to be fixed and improved. Following videos show how a single linear (ordered) history tree can be limiting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmLGQxgcSC8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN-mrE1ab3U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k7roFZ4BfY

[mario52]

Hi

open the python console create your project
click right on python console and > Save history as
(or record macro with )

and your total project is saved as macro xxx.FCMacro and execute (reproduce) your project as a normal macro
(not video or didactic)

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mario

[NormandC]

If you use Fusion 360, Solidworks you have a history from your work.

And FreeCAD does too, so I don't understand what's your problem. Please be more explicit.

but the Catia-like feature tree is not the greatest one...

How is FreeCAD's tree Catia-like exactly? I've never used Catia, I'm a long time Solid Edge user at work, and the FreeCAD Model tree when working in PartDesign work flow is very similar to Solid Edge (specifically what is now called "ordained" or "traditional", we don't have a version with Synchronous Technology). But I do know that Jürgen Riegel, the founder of the FreeCAD project, was a big fan of Catia, and it reflects on many things in FreeCAD.