Guitar fretboard macro / guitar body

[ryback08]

Guitar Fretboard Maker (Macro), Python scrpit is unbelievable to make complexe form.... I love FreeCAD
Macro is link to this post.

Why do not create "macro section" on this forum ??



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edit - news files (2012/03/18)
add shape name & close windows when macro is done

[yorik]

Excellent! It works very well, congratulations. What about putting your macro here? http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/f ... os_recipes

[NormandC]

Awesome work, ryback!

Question: the script generates two shapes, the first is the fretboard, the second is a simple face some distance from the fretboard. Is that to indicate the scale length/saddle placement?

What about putting your macro here? http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/f ... os_recipes

You need wiki rights for that, which Yorik can give you. But I can do it for you if you prefer. It definitely deserves to be in the wiki, it's one of the nicest scripts so far!

Edit: I just found in my files an OM guitar body I had started last year. I used a DXF blueprint from someone named C. Grellier published on a creative commons license. I don't exactly remember how I imported it in FreeCAD. Since B-splines are not supported, I may have converted as polylines (in LibreCAD?) somehow to import in FreeCAD, then convert the polyline back to B-spline with the Draft tool. I extruded it, and I stopped there. I think I'm going to try to finish it, so I can use your script!

[NormandC]

Gaaah! Booleans are murder.

I spent a significant part of my evening fighting with boolean operations to create the top and bottom radii on the guitar top. At first I created revolved solid "cupolas" and tried to cut my extrusion with them, but one would succeed and the other would fail. At last, I reversed my methodology and decided to try "common" (intersection of two shapes) instead. That worked!

Side view:


Now, I have to figure out how to hollow this out... (the neck will be plenty of fun too!)

FYI, the blueprint for the guitar I'm trying to model, and a few others, is available here: http://www.grellier.fr/plans.php?id=1&lang=en

[ryback08]

What about putting your macro here? http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/f ... os_recipes

I'm ok. I would like to be sure that my plugin fully works before post. It is the first time i program. I did not quite understand what I was doing, especially in main.
Many thinks that i would like correct :
- It is possible to name shape (default, it is Shape, Shape001....) ??
- close windows when the plugin is done

Question: the script generates two shapes, the first is the fretboard, the second is a simple face some distance from the fretboard. Is that to indicate the scale length/saddle placement?

Yes, the second shape is just the scale lenght distance (diapason). indication for place the bridge at good distance. I had this to help the construction.
Maybe it is possible to replace this in freecad by a construction line ??

You need wiki rights for that, which Yorik can give you. But I can do it for you if you prefer. It definitely deserves to be in the wiki, it's one of the nicest scripts so far!

I'm ok normal, thanks

For body guitar, i use SVG import (now it is work with right dimension) (make with inkscape, very simple for Bspline)

now, how to make complex galbe similar this ??


Maybe I must create a new post because my answer is out of sujet

[yorik]

- It is possible to name shape (default, it is Shape, Shape001....) ??

Yes, where you used Part.show(myShape), you must use this instead:

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obj = FreeCAD.ActiveDocument.addObject("Part::Feature","myNewName")
obj.Shape = myShape

- close windows when the plugin is done

- inside your setupUi function, you give an internal name to your Dialog widget, so other functions can get it after:

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self.dialog = Dialog

- at the end of the createFretboard function, you just close it (contrary of "show()"

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self.dialog.hide()

[NormandC]

For body guitar, i use SVG import (now it is work with right dimension) (make with inkscape, very simple for Bspline)

I meant that I could not import into FreeCAD a DXF that included Bsplines. But that was 10 months ago. Are you saying Bsplines in imported SVG is supported in FreeCAD now?

now, how to make complex galbe similar this ??

I'm interested in knowing that too, and I think this subject would benefit from a new topic, as it's going to get lost here. But to be honest, there's still much stuff missing in FreeCAD to model prismatic objects. Doing complex surfacing like that is not possible in the GUI, maybe in python but I'm not sure of that either.

Edit: reworded the 2nd part of my reply.

[shoogen]

Are you saying Bsplines in imported SVG is supported in FreeCAD now?

[/quote]SVG only supports bezier curves and these can be imported to freecad

[ado]

Can anybody tell me how to use this fretborad file? thanks

[NormandC]

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