Omitting one or more sides when contouring/profiling

[chrisb]

In case somebody has some time for testing,

Sounds great! Is this a pure python solution, so that I could just replace the Mod/Path directory?

[mlampert]

In case somebody has some time for testing,

Sounds great! Is this a pure python solution, so that I could just replace the Mod/Path directory?

Not quite, it loads the dialog from the tresource file - so you would have to regenerate the Path, or edit PathDressupPathBoundaryGui.py to load the file directly. If you do the latter it is a pure python only implementation.

[chrisb]

Thanks for the (slightly disappointing ) answer. If you are only halfway confident, I vote for just including it in 0.19. After all it is a development version.

[mlampert]

I hope this demonstrates how it works and what it does:

boundary-dressup.gif (924.89 KiB) Viewed 334 times

[chrisb]

I guess the position of the box is controlled by its placement? And non-rectangular areas can be defined via existing solid? Then it is exactly what was needed since long time.

[mlampert]

It's probably not that obvious from the gif but Stock002 in this example is a regular box, you can resize it, rotate it, move it around. And like the regular Job.Stock it can be a Box, a Cylinder, an extension of the model's BoundBox or an arbitrary solid.

EDIT: It was @schnebeck who provided the foundation - so all beers should go his way!

[chrisb]

Schnebeck, I owe you indeed a beer. Markus, I owe you at least a crate of beer.

[sliptonic]

Awesome work guys! This is great.

[RatonLaveur]

That is awesome! I just played with it and cut random areas of a complex profile with the laser.

Look it even brought Sliptonic back from the land of the living!

[schnebeck]

In case somebody has some time for testing, I did a POC for the "Boundary Dressup":
https://github.com/mlampert/FreeCAD/tre ... nt-dressup

It was @schnebeck who provided the foundation - so all beers should go his way!

Cool stuff! I donate my beer if this gets merged into the main devel tree soon

Thanks a lot

Thorsten