BSplines to Shape2DView and Sketcher

[easyw-fc]

Hi,
to improve integration between FreeCAD and KiCad I developed a way to approximate BSplines in sketcher to Arcs (thanks to @wmayer for some improvements in FC) ... from that side I evolved my old macro Macro_DXF_to_Face_and_Sketch to add the ability to convert a shape or a dxf or a svg containing BSplines to a Sketch, where the sketch is obtained as an approximation of the BSplines to Arcs.
The new macro is included in the StepUp WB



This is also useful to convert i.e. a step model that has some spline to a 2D edge and then a Sketch for improve internal elaboration

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[triplus]

Looking good.

[chrisb]

It would be great, if you could integrate your code in the Draft Workbench, where we have already a function Draft<->Sketch, which cannot handle BSplines.

[easyw-fc]

It would be great, if you could integrate your code in the Draft Workbench, where we have already a function Draft<->Sketch, which cannot handle BSplines.

The Bspline approximation to Arcs is very useful for KiCad, because KiCad doesn't have bspline support.

For FreeCAD the best would be to convert the Edge to a real BSpline Sketcher
I asked Chris a support at this topic
Cuerves WB topic

Maurice

[easyw-fc]

Thanks to @Chris_G

Curve WB

finally I can convert a SVG or a DXF file with BSplines, Ellipses, Arcs, Lines to a Sketch in FC.
The Sketch will keep BSplines, Ellipses, Arcs and Lines as they were in the Edges and the Sketch can then be pushed to KiCad.
The Pushing will approximate the pcb Edge with Arcs and Lines in KiCad, because there only Arcs and Lines are allowed entities.
Requirements: FC0.17

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[Chris_G]

It would be great, if you could integrate your code in the Draft Workbench, where we have already a function Draft<->Sketch, which cannot handle BSplines.

The Draft<->Sketch conversion tool now supports BSplines curves.
Bezier Curves, which are not directly supported by sketcher, are converted to BSpline curves in the process.
Please note that the internal geometries of the BSplines (the control points) are not exposed by default, in order to keep the sketch cleaner and lighter.
For example, an imported SVG path with multiple curve segments, could lead to a rather heavy and messy sketch.
These internal geometries can be manually exposed for each BSpline curve with Sketch -> Sketcher tools -> show/hide internal geometry :

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[chrisb]

Awesome!

[triplus]

The Draft<->Sketch conversion tool now supports BSplines curves.

Thanks.