New macro, Vision1, check it out

[openBrain]

Has the macro been added to the FreeCAD-macros repo yet ?

AFAIK it isn't. What's the need behind your question?

[freedman]

What's the need behind your question?

I thought about that for a while. My need is to get appearance icons on the toolbar as a standard tool. After using this macro for 6 months I can't hardly use FreeCAD without it, I guess that's why I'm so adamant. As we workflow from sketching to solids the environment changes, with multiple solids we need to be able to switch between see-thru and solid almost all the time, and we don't have tools to do that easily.
Without my macro, if I need to size a clearance for 10 bodies I might spend 1/3 of my time clicking on appearances to view inside solids, afterwards I need to undo all my appearance changes to see a solid model. We can do that same thing with a few buttons and two seconds.

I should say that I personally don't need anything, I'm advocating for the users.

[Markymark]

Hi,

is this macro obsolete / integrated somewhere (were I could not find it). Pretty helpful for my use case.

On Win10 I get a little corrupted view with the version of post #1:

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OS: Windows 10 (10.0)
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.19.23463 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: master
Hash: adc6db8f32c17e9f67cb82aa7962d1e42ce061c6
Python version: 3.8.6
Qt version: 5.12.5
Coin version: 4.0.0
OCC version: 7.4.0
Locale: German/Germany (de_DE)

[openBrain]

Hi,

is this macro obsolete / integrated somewhere (were I could not find it). Pretty helpful for my use case.

https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic. ... 2&p=427049?

[Markymark]

Make my day! Rgrds, m.

[freedman]

If you can give me some feedback I will try to size the icons for a Mac. I presume Vision5 will look funny also. It appears there is some minimum width required but I don't have a Mac for testing.

[freedman]

Here is a version for testing, on my laptop this is a nice width but kind of tall, it does not work correctly with FreeCAD stylesheets. It also seems to be 50/50 on docking, it works on my desktop but not on my laptop. If a few buttons are off color, well I'm not sure about that right now, but everything should work. Anyway this is Vision5.

[Markymark]

Hi Chris,

looks much better now on Windows 10. Still a little bit narrow. Size is perfect for me. Thanks.

I am a little in a hurry. Just want to say that this is - for my use case - the most underrated FC-gadget ever. Seeing "inside" a model and modifying at once gets so fast without clicking your fingers off. Maybe adding a fast clipping tool as well could be an idea. But anyway ... runs like a charm as it is.

Rgrds + guten Rutsch *) m.

*) Happy new year in advance german style.

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[tobaggo17]

Nice job, I find it really pretty and useful