Project faces onto curved surfaces

[GlouGlou]

Hi, and thanks for your tool. It's very helpful to use it. It was a lack in Freecad.
I found a bug during trying a projection on sphere or cylinder:
Some wires are missing. And projections are made on 2 faces.
Request improvements:
1.Could you turn projection objects into parametric objects? (following parents objects).
2.Could make possible to project a curve onto the whole object (not only a face: see the facebinder)
Thanks a lot.

[apeltauer]

Thanks for your feedback. I will have a look during the week why edges are missing.
to 1. --> parametric would be a very cool addition. Can someone point me to a forum topic or a how to where i can find info to make it parametric?
to 2. --> When i started i decided to just go on a single face. Reason: The underlying 3d kernel (OCC) is not able to always create a face out of wires or edges if the are lying on several faces. If you have a projection laying on more the one face, it can no create a face out of the edges proper.

[TheMarkster]

Thanks for your feedback. I will have a look during the week why edges are missing.
to 1. --> parametric would be a very cool addition. Can someone point me to a forum topic or a how to where i can find info to make it parametric?

In this commit part refine shape was made parametric:

https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/commit/787f5184e

[saso]

1.Could you turn projection objects into parametric objects? (following parents objects).

yes, this is the main reason why I have modified your "multisection" example, I wanted to make it fully parametric and stable,
- one problem are the non parametric projections (fixed in my model with extrusions)
- second problem is the non parametric mirror, that I have posted about here https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=38388
- third is the Curves TrimedFace, its "picked point" does not stay fully parametric, so when you move or rotate the model you get wrong trimmed faces (fixed in my model with facebinder)

Update: Chris_G improved the Curves TrimedFace "picked point", so it should be more stable now

testing FreeCAD with such example models from other fully parametric cad programs and reporting the problems that break the fully parametric workflow or make it too hard, is IMO the best way how we can improve and fix FreeCAD to make it work properly and also for users to learn and start better understanding how to do fully parametric models.

[saso]

Thanks for your feedback. I will have a look during the week why edges are missing.
to 1. --> parametric would be a very cool addition. Can someone point me to a forum topic or a how to where i can find info to make it parametric?

here is another example, where Chris_G updated the trim face tool to make the pick point parametric... but I don't know if it is really helpful for your case https://github.com/tomate44/CurvesWB/co ... a5696618b3

[drmacro]

Is this supposed to work with a shapestring?

If so, how?

I just get a projection object in the tree.




OS: Ubuntu 19.04 (XFCE/ubuntustudio)
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.19.
Build type: Release
Python version: 3.7.3
Qt version: 5.12.2
Coin version: 4.0.0a
OCC version: 7.3.0
Locale: English/United States (en_US)

[drmacro]

Ok, so I'm not that familiar with using the shapestring. I thought that previously when I created a shapestring I got the outline and a face. But, for whatever reason I only get the outline.

So if I use the explode object on the shapestring, I get a face of each letter. (If I'm doing it wrong please let me know... )

Then I can use the faces with this projection tool.

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[chrisb]

So if I use the explode object on the shapestring, I get a face of each letter. (If I'm doing it wrong please let me know... )

I remember the same. It seems that Preferences->Draft->GeneralSettings->"Fill objects with faces when possible" is no longer working. Regression?

[Kunda1]

I'm working on the Part ProjectionOnSurface wiki page
Can we make an SVG of the icon for this feature ?

[apeltauer]

The icon is attached

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