GSOC 2020 has been Green Lit! (GSOC is over, thanks to everyone involved!)

[microelly2]

develop the node library for freecad pyflow to get a toolset with the power of the grashopper gui.

https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=36299
https://www.grasshopper3d.com/page/tutorials-1

writing the nodes is not to complicated but there is a lot of functionality which can be wrapped by graphical nodes.

it's a time consuming job, so some help is welcome.

[saso]

develop the node library for freecad pyflow to get a toolset with the power of the grashopper gui.

+1

[Kunda1]

develop the node library for freecad pyflow to get a toolset with the power of the grashopper gui.

writing the nodes is not to complicated but there is a lot of functionality which can be wrapped by graphical nodes.

it's a time consuming job, so some help is welcome.

If you make up a detailed proposal for this, I bet it would attract students. If you need help with that, let me know.

[keithsloan52]

I would like to see the following facility added to FreeCAD

Mesh and Polyhedron to Surface

There seems to be software to do this but so far have not found any open source offerings.

Commercial programs that seem to have this function

Rhino ( Mesh2Surface plugin )
Grasshopper https://www.grasshopper3d.com/forum/top ... to-surface
TrueGrid http://www.truegrid.com/geometry.html

[keithsloan52]

I would like to see a Nurbs importer for FreeCAD i.e. making use of OpenNurbs https://www.rhino3d.com/opennurbs

I made a start a long time ago, like 3 years ago see https://github.com/KeithSloan/FreeCAD_ImportNurbs
but it was only a start and as Yorik did CADexchanger, https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?t=22227 I stopped.

But as CADexchanger uses a comercial product it would be good to have an open source solution.

I would be happy to mentor but not in 2020 as I am fully commited on a MSc until Oct 2020. Maybe 2021?

[adrianinsaval]

This feature request about a centralized place for parameters and expressions

[Pauvres_honteux]

Make a prestudie on how to make a new light weight file format for the upcoming assembly situation.
I've already put forward an unexplored way: the file header can hold quite some information.
This is really pressing: the computer that can open up a big assembly, without lightweight file format, isn't invented yet. This must be started a.s.a.p. but it is a BIG undertaking, so a proper prestudie must be done. But isn't that what students are for?

Light weight file format
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[lalberts]

hello,

not aware what can be done in this GSOC, but I am still waiting for faster BIM imports in Arch-WB.
May have to do with ifcopenshell or with parallisation. No clue..
Another idea is to bring up this open-modelica and node-editor (pyflow) together to have some MEP stuff.
Like Water calculations or Electrical calculations for buildings in the background of modeling some architecture.
But this should not go parallely to what Blender is doing..no need to have this twice,since Blender is importing/exporting BIM too.
Anyway FreeCAD has to mark/define its position between Blender, Salome, Elmer and co.

Lukas

[freecad-heini-1]

For GSOC 2020. Please have a look how great the Ironcad triball tool is:

phpBB [video]

Please upgrade / expand the Freecad transform-tool, that it can be possible to move and rotate Body's, Pocket, Pad's, imported part's, primitives and other stuff. Please in combination with draft snap, draft-clone, draft array and placement. Please make the tool usable for single parts, features as well as for assembly's.
After - no other tool is needed.

Blender has a similar tool, called manipulator.

[chrisb]

Good idea to combine Transform and Placement.