Curves workbench

[Chris_G]

Hey Chris_G, ... As an example, strictly because I can't find any others, is the Deform tool offered by SolidWorks: https://help.solidworks.com/2017/englis ... 17b5c9#Pg0

I have not been able to watch the videos (need a login ?), but I think I understood what you are looking for.
The tool that could match this goal, to some extent, is the Filling tool of the Surface WB.
What would be lacking is a proper UI workflow on top of that.
That's not easy, especially since this Surface WB has no python binding yet.

[freecad-heini-1]

Please have a look here:
https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic. ... 12#p250912
https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic. ... 27#p196927

https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic. ... 12#p250912
https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic. ... 25#p251525

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[Chris_G]

When Gorgon surface works better a Sweep.
While a Sweep or a PipeShell gives BopAlgo GeomAbs_C0 error, Gordon doesn't carrying out that and allow to do an 3D Offset.
And surfaces are pretty identical.

I think OpenCascade is quite weak in some Nurbs / Bspline areas (Fillet included).
Here your example, if you have a look at the surface structure (tool geominfo) of the 2 faces (Gordon vs Sweep), the Gordon surface is way better (although it has more control points (1280 vs 780)).

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The guys at TiGL did a great job with their Gordon algorithm.

However, there is another way to enable the Offset3D on the Sweep surface.
Offset3D doesn't work on C0-continuity surfaces.
I added a Segment-Surface tool to CurvesWB that breaks a surface along its isoCurves of highest multiplicity :
https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic. ... 78#p315578

All the resulting faces have, at least, C1 continuity.

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[ichiro]

Hi,

I'm Ichiro.
This workbench is really useful.

And i'm trying to make surface via python API.
But there is no information.

Is it possible to use Python API of this workbench?

Best regards,

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[Vincent B]

Surface can be carried out with PipeShell here.

[Vincent B]

Curves WB seems to have some troubles with the new merged freecad (App::link). Isn't it?

[Chris_G]

Curves WB seems to have some troubles with the new merged freecad (App::link). Isn't it?

It's me ! I have a pretty blurry view of how the cascading placements work.
And things don't get clearer with the new App::Links.
I definitely need a little study on this when I get time.

[Vincent B]

An ExtendedCurve doesn't follow his parent curve with a G2 parameter?

[Chris_G]

The Extended Curve work good.
The problem is with the interpolation curve.
Look at its Comb Plot : the curvature is jumping from one side to the other.

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I am afraid there is nothing I can do about it, this is just how the interpolation algorithm work ...
However, when you need a curve fitting a list of points, you should ask yourself if you really need a interpolation curve or an approximation curve.
In my opinion, Interpolation is good if you have very few points.
But if you have a list of many points (if you can "see" the curve just by looking at the points), then you'll probably need an approximation curve.
You can even set a pretty tight tolerance if needed, but, because it is allowed to slightly miss some points, this algorithm will usually produce better (and smoother) curves.

[saso]

this is a very nice and clear explanation and demonstration Chris, thanks