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[realthunder]

What is the "Placement" constraint? I searched for it but I can't find it anywhere.

Oops, I got the name wrong. It is the 'Attachment' constraint, the icon just beside PlaneCoinicident constraint. I wanted to named as Placement, but changed idea, because I borrowed upstream Attacher icon for the constraint.

It can be used just like other constraints. Select two element and click the button. It fixes the relation between two parts by align the two selected element. If one of the part is fixed by Lock constraint (or indirectly locked by other Attachment constraint), the other part is considered fixed too. All fixed parts pre-calculates their placement before the solver. It works somewhat like asm4 constraint. In fact, I added this after the request from Zolko right before he starts his work on asm4. Guess he didn't want to wait for my release and went ahead anyway.

[nic]

Talking about icons meaning, I take the opportunity to ask the meaning of icons frame's color code (Nope/ green / red) and icons frame's line pattern (Nope / continuous, dashed)?

[OficineRobotica]

Talking about icons meaning, I take the opportunity to ask the meaning of icons frame's color code (Nope/ green / red) and icons frame's line pattern (Nope / continuous, dashed)?

I think that here it is explained really well https://github.com/realthunder/FreeC ... d-Solvers . I'm reading the wiki myself atm but given the complexity of the changes introduced there is really a book to be written lol.

Long story short the framing of the icons is a visual indication of how many arguments a constraint can take( one , two, multiple)

[nic]

my bad... I went throught it, but my mind was focused on another topic at this moment. Thanks @OficineRobotica

[jpg87]

Hi,

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I completed the page of my site: "Go further with Asm3 WB"

http://help-freecad-jpg87.fr/025c_ass_ex_creat.php

The example (with commented videos) implements the advice of the Realthunder wiki, and a small design test in the assembly.

Thank you for your comments.

[catman]

I'm sure there are allot of users that still aspect it as an add-on unaware of the presence of it in the latest appimage release.

+1

Acutally, I checked out "FreeCAD_0.19-19443-Linux-Conda_Py3QT5_glibc2.12-x86_64.AppImage". I did not see asm3 in there, just a 4 variables in Tools/Edit Parameters/Preferences/Mod/Assembly3.

Has it been removed from the newer AppImages again?

[vocx]

Acutally, I checked out "FreeCAD_0.19-19443-Linux-...

Your version is pretty old. We are already in 0.19.19603.

[HoWil]

Are the improvements regarding topo-renaming now also in the appimages?

[catman]

Your version is pretty old. We are already in 0.19.19603.

Thanks, I downloaded it last week, but I keep forgetting that the most current ones are behind the "Assets" link. Thanks, I will try this one..

[vocx]

Are the improvements regarding topo-renaming now also in the appimages?

No. The Assembly3 Workbench is just another Python workbench. So adding it to the current FreeCAD is not such a big problem.

The new code by realthunder to fix the topological naming problem is still not submitted. That code comprises a set of a hundred commits, so it'll take a while for it to be reviewed and merged. I suspect it should come in the following months.