Point workbench alive?

[david69]

going on translations, there is a Point workbench (?). i think it was an attempt, correct me if i am wrong.

https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/Points_Convert
https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/Points_Export
https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/Points_Icon
https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/Points_Import
https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/Points_Key
https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/Points_Merge
https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/Points_PolyCut
https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/Points_Transform

if there is no point to maintain them may be we can apply the same solution as here:
https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=38569
with a comment "Currently not used by FreeCAD".

[vocx]

going on translations, there is a Point workbench (?). i think it was an attempt, correct me if i am wrong.
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There is a Points Workbench that is intended to handle clouds of points, but it seems that nobody has implemented all the functions that were supposed to go there. Same as with the Reverse Engineering Workbench, I think the developers had ideas that would help with laser scanning models and manufacturing, but they didn't follow through.

Maybe at some point in the distant future this can be finally developed by somebody.

[jmaustpc]

It also depends on your compile time options, FreeCAD can be compiled with PCL (Points Cloud Library) support, I have no idea how well that currently works, PCL had to be compiled from source the last time I looked, it was not in Ubuntu repositories. Many years ago Werner had a development branch where he got it to work, I thought it was long since in master, PCL support is certainly a current compile time option in master.

The current points wb in FreeCAD-Daily is there and has just a few points cloud tools. I don't know now if you get more tools or not if you compile FreeCAD with PCL support.

Jim


OS: Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS (KDE/plasma)
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.19.
Build type: Release
Python version: 3.6.8
Qt version: 5.9.5
Coin version: 4.0.0a
OCC version: 7.3.0
Locale: English/Australia (en_AU)

[david69]

OS: Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.18.3.
Build type: Release
Python version: 3.6.8
Qt version: 5.9.5
Coin version: 4.0.0a
OCC version: 7.3.0
Locale: French/France (fr_FR)

and
OS: Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS (LXDE/Lubuntu)
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.19.
Build type: Release
Python version: 3.6.8
Qt version: 5.9.5
Coin version: 4.0.0a
OCC version: 7.3.0
Locale: French/France (fr_FR)

on both installations, i well see Points module.
my bad, i didn't well checked. so yes, these module is alive and deserve translation.
thank you.