Visibility automation in Sketcher

[DeepSOIC]

0.17.7794:

(screenshot says it all!)

[ehb]

Those are awesome features!

Now what would remain missing would be a transparency value next to the "Show Objects.." checkboxes.

Nonetheless, this is much better to work with already, thanks!

[DeepSOIC]

Now what would remain missing would be a transparency value next to the "Show Objects.." checkboxes.

Point taken. May implement at some point...

[bejant]

Pretty handy - I just tried it - thanks DeepSOIC!

[NormandC]

Restore camera position after editing

Man, with just that one you made my day.

Thanks DeepSOIC!!!

[ickby]

That works very nicely, well done. One minor thing I found: The reset of the camera after editing is not done with an animation even if animations are enabled in the preferences. This is also does not happen when starting to edit the sketch, so it is not really a bug. But it would be nice if it would work as I personally find the animated movement way more intuitive: you know where your scene is rotated to. Very important for automatic changes.

[DeepSOIC]

That works very nicely, well done. One minor thing I found: The reset of the camera after editing is not done with an animation even if animations are enabled in the preferences. This is also does not happen when starting to edit the sketch, so it is not really a bug. But it would be nice if it would work as I personally find the animated movement way more intuitive: you know where your scene is rotated to. Very important for automatic changes.

I tried to make animation, but failed to find the way to do it in Python. I may give it another try.

[DeepSOIC]

Another thing I wanted to address here was the resetting of scale when creating a new free-standing sketch (not in PartDesign). But I have not decided on how exactly to tell if the scale should be reset or not, so I skipped that.

[ickby]

I tried to make animation, but failed to find the way to do it in Python. I may give it another try.

Ah ok. I suppose the viewer should provide a method for setting the camera which does handling of animations if available. Maybe this is a good time for extending the interface

[wmayer]

This is also does not happen when starting to edit the sketch, so it is not really a bug.

Sure? For me the animation still works when starting to edit the sketch.

Then there is another issue that should be fixed, too: as you can see in the screen shot the preferences page got many additional widgets which now causes a scroll bar to appear. In the past we got multiple complaints about this. So, it would be good to split this page into two pages. We could e.g. even have an own group (i.e. a new item in the list view on the left) for sketcher specific settings.