Cube menu

[bitacovir]

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CubeMenu is a FreeCAD module that provides ability for managing FreeCAD navigation cube menu structure and overall appearance.

Code repository:
https://github.com/triplus/CubeMenu

Is it not in the Addon Manager list, yet? I cannot see it.

[pablogil]

triplus,

Could you please try to add the "cube size" setting? apart from the fact to be able to customize it, for people like me that use HDPI screens, the cube become that small that is unusable...

Thanks

[triplus]

Is it not in the Addon Manager list, yet? I cannot see it.

Looks like Addons manager is a bit more strict these days, accepting modules. For now please result to manual installation.

triplus,

Could you please try to add the "cube size" setting? apart from the fact to be able to customize it, for people like me that use HDPI screens, the cube become that small that is unusable...

Thanks

Fair point, will add it today.

[triplus]

Note that the navigation cube size setting was added earlier today.

[pablogil]

Note that the navigation cube size setting was added earlier today.

Great! it works. Please, add a label that reads something like "(needs FreeCAD restart)"... it didn't updated the new size till I restarted FreeCAD
IMHO, the size option must go into the FreeCAD preferences because is really important.

Cheers

[czinehuba]

CubeMenu.png

CubeMenu is a FreeCAD module that provides ability for managing FreeCAD navigation cube menu structure and overall appearance.

Code repository:
https://github.com/triplus/CubeMenu

Great work with this. Well done.

How feasible is to extend it with a few more options ie:

Possibility to create a home possition to always go back to. And also to be able to select which is the front for the cases when you working on different sides of the project.

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Add another small command to the cube menu for zoom functions

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Possibly not needeng the different zoom command in FC for extra screen estate. On the laptop it takes up quite a lot.

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[OficineRobotica]

CubeMenu is a FreeCAD module that provides ability for managing FreeCAD navigation cube menu structure and overall appearance.

There is a way to display it. It's quite new, and does not work quite well in my latest release. I have fixed in in the pending release. You can show the 'LCS' of each element by either change the element object's 'ShowCS' property in the View (not Data) property page, or use the following toolbar button to show it for all elements.

It is a bit of time that I think about this. As FC is a local coordinate system aware software there was no way that one could instantly visualize the coordinates of a given selection. As there is a duplication of global coordinates display in the viewport (the top cube and the bottom arrow coordinate display) why not make the bottom one always display the LCS for the current selection instead of the global coordinates? From a usability stand point that would be a great plus for all workbenches if implemented at the base level not just for asm3. Perhaps with a small text underneath it "LCS" to avoid confusion. As of the current implementation , if i select an element with the "show LCS" option enabled , the lcs is highlighted in green and i cannot tel which axis is which. Imagine how much easier manual rotations about an axis would be with a clear representation of the selection LCS.


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Thank you for your great work.
Cheers.

@Triplus Do you think that with your addon it is technically possible to force the cube to display the local coordinate system of a given selection instead of the global CS? This little trick would have such a great positive impact on the workflow of people doing assemblies. Perhaps with a quick togle between GlobalCS and LocalCS.
I still think that the bottom "arrow display" would be better suited for this problem but waiting for that to happen do you think that cube menu could do the trick?

Thank you
Cheers

[triplus]

In a day or two i will create a PR, for being able to add a bit more control over NaviCube appearance to CubeMenu module. Like being able to set colors, offset, maybe text ... That will likely be it, regarding the CubeMenu module, for now. If it makes sense:

How feasible is to extend it with a few more options ie:

Possibility to create a home possition to always go back to. And also to be able to select which is the front for the cases when you working on different sides of the project.

There is currently View -> Freeze display functionality available in FreeCAD. I could try to bring that whole menu entry to the NaviCube menu, if desired?

Add another small command to the cube menu for zoom functions

Fit all command likely already does that?

@Triplus Do you think that with your addon it is technically possible to force the cube to display the local coordinate system of a given selection instead of the global CS? This little trick would have such a great positive impact on the workflow of people doing assemblies. Perhaps with a quick togle between GlobalCS and LocalCS.
I still think that the bottom "arrow display" would be better suited for this problem but waiting for that to happen do you think that cube menu could do the trick?

Thank you
Cheers

I took a quick look and likely indeed NaviCube could do that. Some selection logic would need to be added and based on the selected feature, to therefore translate the NaviCube accordingly. And when one clicks on for example "Front" for the translation to be taken into consideration. This is out of scope, concerning the CubeMenu module and i personally don't plan to work on this for now.

[triplus]

There is now a pending PR against navigation cube and later in the day some changes will get added to cube menu module. Once cube menu module is installed, navigation cube menu gains a few additional commands by default:

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The navigation cube menu is fully customizable:

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In addition now navigation cube appearance is fully customizable:

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Some examples of customization:

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[carlopav]

wow!
I have a question triplus: you have been working a lot on FreeCAD UI. And AFAICS you always created wonderful external modules. I am just asking myself: why some of them (like this one for the navicube) don't go into the FreeCAD Master? They are obvious enhancements from all points of view.