Opening an .scad file its parts are put to the wrong coordinates on screen

[keithsloan52]

Hi,

Do you guys have any estimated time when a "good enough" solution for the problem will be available?
Thanks ahead,
Infocean

Well my money says its a bug going from OpenSCAD MultiMatrix to FreeCAD Placement Base & Rotation. Anything in a scad script which involves a rotation the CSG process will introduce a MultiMatrix. I am guessing for some rotations it is doing the rotation but omitting the translation to Placement.Base. I don't know if Chris has had any luck tracking things down.
@chennes

[chennes]

I have not had a chance to look at it any further, I'm trying to wrap up this Preference Pack/Themes PR.

[chennes]

Well, I fixed the easy bug anyway (the unhidden 2D geometry on linear extrude): https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/pull/4789

[infocean]

I am not a Github person. Is there, or will be there any file I can add to my installation to be able to test? Is it fix to FreeCad or to OpenSCAD? I guess it is to the OpenSCAd Workbench of FreeCAD, but better to know it from the mouth of the horse.
Thanks Chris !!

[keithsloan52]

I am not a Github person. Is there, or will be there any file I can add to my installation to be able to test? Is it fix to FreeCad or to OpenSCAD? I guess it is to the OpenSCAd Workbench of FreeCAD, but better to know it from the mouth of the horse.
Thanks Chris !!

I have applied Chris fix to the OpenSCAD_Alternate_Importer see https://github.com/KeithSloan/OpenSCAD_Alt_Import
and for rotor_only I get

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Install instructions for the Alternate_Importer are in the README and you can install via Tools | Addon Manager no need for Github
Just have to remember to load file by File | Load and then select which importer when prompted.