[Feature Request] Assign Material property to ‘Make Compound of Several Shapes’

[carlopav]

I testing to add material property, im not too sure what i'm not doing well

Give at least a name to the property (Material for example)

[regis]

Give at least a name to the property (Material for example)

I thought i was doing so, what else am I missing?

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[yorik]

Note that it is also easy to encapsulate your compound inside an arch component.. then it has material (that works) and everything..

[regis]

Note that it is also easy to encapsulate your compound inside an arch component.. then it has material (that works) and everything..

Doesn't that begin to make things heavier? if there are objects within another object within another object? i was reading how Caroplev was suggesting to make things happen in the most light weighted possible way.

[carlopav]

Doesn't that begin to make things heavier? if there are objects within another object within another object? i was reading how Caroplev was suggesting to make things happen in the most light weighted possible way.

I think it really depend on what you want to achieve. If it's just adding a property to document the material used in the object, I think the addProperty approach is good. But of course you do not have the material controlling the color of the object (and other useful things that you have wrapping the object around another one)...

[yorik]

The problem is that the materials system is an Arch system. Part cannot depend on Arch stuff, because there is a strict dependency order for FreeCAD modules and Arch already depends on Part. So basically we would first need a FreeCAD-wide materials system (which is being worked on), before being able to implement this for Part compounds. So for the time being, even if it makes things a little heavier (not much because the "host" Arch compound doesn't do any geom operation anyway), I would go the Arch Compound way, at least it solves your issue...

[regis]

The problem is that the materials system is an Arch system. Part cannot depend on Arch stuff, because there is a strict dependency order for FreeCAD modules and Arch already depends on Part. So basically we would first need a FreeCAD-wide materials system (which is being worked on), before being able to implement this for Part compounds. So for the time being, even if it makes things a little heavier (not much because the "host" Arch compound doesn't do any geom operation anyway), I would go the Arch Compound way, at least it solves your issue...

Thanks a bunch for your clarifications

[kargetta]

The problem is that the materials system is an Arch system. Part cannot depend on Arch stuff, because there is a strict dependency order for FreeCAD modules and Arch already depends on Part. So basically we would first need a FreeCAD-wide materials system (which is being worked on), before being able to implement this for Part compounds. So for the time being, even if it makes things a little heavier (not much because the "host" Arch compound doesn't do any geom operation anyway), I would go the Arch Compound way, at least it solves your issue...

I still am unable to find how to apply a Material to a Part, as the buttons and commands are for some reason not active.

Any explanation?

[vocx]

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Any explanation?

It is impossible to help you if you don't provide important information about your system, post pictures, attach a file, etc. It also only works in v0.19. So, provide a more concrete description of your problem and then maybe we'll take a look.

[yorik]

I still am unable to find how to apply a Material to a Part

- Turn your Part into an Arch Component (Menu Utils->Make Component)
- Apply a material