Easy Reflections in FreeCAD - A macro to quickly setup environment textures

[Jimmy84]

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The python script and files are hosted on Github :
https://github.com/Athanaze/Freecad-easy-reflections

[chrisb]

Hi and welcome to the forum, this looks very promising!

Would you mind explaining it a bit? Things such as prerequisits required, how to use, ...

[Jimmy84]

Hi and welcome to the forum, this looks very promising!

Would you mind explaining it a bit? Things such as prerequisits required, how to use, ...

Thanks !
There are no specific prerequisits as far as I know, it's a very simple python script with a bunch of .jpg so it should work just fine on any installation / OS. I have only tested it on Linux (Manjaro) and with FreeCAD 0.18 & 0.19, so your mileage may vary.

For the installation, simply put the "easy_reflections.FCMacro" file and the "easy_reflections" folder in your .FreeCAD/Macro/

You can then use it as you would with any other macros, setting up an icon and placing it on the work bench toolbar.

Because it's just setting an environment map accross all the objects, it should work on any workbench that supports the environment map feature. I personally use it on the Part and Part Design workbenches.

For more infos, head over to the Github repository : https://github.com/Athanaze/Freecad-easy-reflections

[TheMarkster]

This is neat. Is it possible to make the effect survive closing and reloading the document?

[Jimmy84]

This is neat. Is it possible to make the effect survive closing and reloading the document?

Unfortunately, it looks like environment textures in FreeCAD are not restored when reloading the document. This also means that when your reopen the document, you have to manually set the "env F" variable (on the left panel) to false, otherwise when you re-execute the macro it crashes FreeCAD.

I would love to solve both of theses problems but I don't know how to execute a macro "on it's own", without user input. This would enable me to reset the correct environment textures and set the "env F" variable ot the approriate value automatically each time the document is reloaded.

[TheMarkster]

You would probably need to make a workbench.

Find your Mod folder where workbenches are installed, create a folder inside it, add a file called InitGui.py, which gets executed when FreeCAD starts up.

[triplus]

Nice.

P.S. Maybe an integration with Arch Texture could be an option:

https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?t=31598

[Jimmy84]

You would probably need to make a workbench.

Find your Mod folder where workbenches are installed, create a folder inside it, add a file called InitGui.py, which gets executed when FreeCAD starts up.

Thanks for your suggestion, but I think putting it in it's own workbench would be kind of useless : I want to work on a part while there are some nice reflections, not just look at it. This is meant to be a quick way to have nicer view of your work; without breaking your flow.

[Jimmy84]

Nice.

P.S. Maybe an integration with Arch Texture could be an option:

https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?t=31598

Thanks !

[Kunda1]

P.S. Maybe an integration with Arch Texture could be an option:

https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?t=31598

Thanks !

@furti

Edit: posted to the Arch Texture development thread: https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic. ... 87#p426787