easter egg of PartDesign Next: DAG View

[DeepSOIC]

I almost forgot! Tanderson69 made a new model tree in PartDesign Next. And for some reason, he made it extremely hidden.

Tools -> Edit parameters ... -> BaseApp -> Preferences -> DAGView (Enabled true)

And after FreeCAD restart:

View -> Views -> DAG View

Enjoy!

[tanderson69]

And for some reason, he made it extremely hidden.

The idea is that developers and advanced users will turn this on and do good bug reports until it is solid.


as far as the windows DPI, Jurgen pointed it out a while ago viewtopic.php?f=20&t=11276&start=40#p93902 I wasn't experiencing the problem so I just made a parameter hack. Feel free to dig into this.

[chrisb]

And after FreeCAD restart:

View -> Views -> DAG View

Enjoy!

After restart:
View -> Panels -> DAG View

[chrisb]

This view has the additional advantage that it works perfect on a mac and even on a Ubuntu in a virtual machine (otherwise wellknown issues with display overlays).

[pablogil]

How stable is this feature?
It would be great to have it as default as soon as possible, I think regular users will love it.

[chrisb]

It looks to me very stable until now and might well replace the tree at the left. There are two drawbacks for me: 1) At the crossing of lines (red circle) it is not immediately clear if there exists a dependency or not. 2.) In the standard dependency tree I can see expression dependencies as well (red circle again).
(At the left bottom you can see the rest of the annoying overlay window).

[tanderson69]

How stable is this feature?

I had a crash a while ago renaming a feature. I took no time to investigate. There is at least 1 more major bug.

2.) In the standard dependency tree I can see expression dependencies as well (red circle again).

I don't think expressions existed when the dag view was created. I am not sure we should have expressions mixed in with the dag view?

1) At the crossing of lines (red circle) it is not immediately clear if there exists a dependency or not.

Agree it is a little busy, the arc is the clue. We could experiment with the arc radius to help this condition. Selecting features highlights connection lines, which also helps. Why are the DatumPlane and Sketch001 linked to both the box and Pocket001? This seems off to me.

[chrisb]

I attach the file here. It is nothing special, playing with Part WB Next.

[tanderson69]

Not sure what is going on, but I can't even generate a dependency graph with your file.

[chrisb]

I am not sure with which version it was created, but the file was last opened and the dependency graph was generated with this version:

OS: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.17.8594 (Git)
Build type: None
Branch: master
Hash: 3cf036de4cb9615f4443a7708bf7332f72daa94a
Python version: 2.7.6
Qt version: 4.8.6
Coin version: 4.0.0a
OCC version: 6.8.0.oce-0.17