Dovetail joint generator
Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2020 8:04 pm
Hi.
I've been into woodworking for some time as well as into freecad (mostly as a user). For the past couple of days I've been working on a simple design using dovetail joint. I found one thread and I can model the joint by hand (drawing manually a sketch for each board).
What I would like to develop is a tool like bevel or chamfer in the Part Design Workbench to do it automatically after entering several parameters. It should be similar to bevel/chamfer in that way, that it its permanently assigned to a particular surface (an end of a board) and gets automatically transformed each time the dimensions of the surface (the board) change.
I know Python, but I know almost nothing about FreeCAD APIs. Is it possible to develop an add-on for an existing workbench or do you think (at least for PoC) a Dovetail Workbench is more appropriate approach? Is there a piece of code I could use as a reference?
P.S. I would like to develop for 0.18 because this is the I am using on Debian 10.
I've been into woodworking for some time as well as into freecad (mostly as a user). For the past couple of days I've been working on a simple design using dovetail joint. I found one thread and I can model the joint by hand (drawing manually a sketch for each board).
What I would like to develop is a tool like bevel or chamfer in the Part Design Workbench to do it automatically after entering several parameters. It should be similar to bevel/chamfer in that way, that it its permanently assigned to a particular surface (an end of a board) and gets automatically transformed each time the dimensions of the surface (the board) change.
I know Python, but I know almost nothing about FreeCAD APIs. Is it possible to develop an add-on for an existing workbench or do you think (at least for PoC) a Dovetail Workbench is more appropriate approach? Is there a piece of code I could use as a reference?
P.S. I would like to develop for 0.18 because this is the I am using on Debian 10.