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Wiki page describing Part-o-Magic #25
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That'd be lovely! I have trouble finding time to work on my workbenches now, be it code or documentation. |
I'd like to try to learn to use part-o-magic. After reading old threads it seems you hit an impasse in April 2017 and could not get it merged into freecad, so slowed down on App.ActiveContainer. What should I do right now? Ask for help from others and use part design in FreeCAD 0.18, Libs: 0.18R14726 (Git)? |
Ask your questions, either here in PoM issue tracker, or in FreeCAD forum. On FC forum, ping me with a quote, so that I notice. I'll answer as many as I can, no problem. Your questions may push me over that write-the-docs barrier! |
@jgriessen this is your chance! |
I'm good at writing also. I'll help. For freecad forum I should ping you as forum reply with quote only, or also do a forum personal message? John Griessen Parting red sea! Funny! :-) |
Back in Feb 19, 2017, you said, "You can still make a sketch on a face of a Cube, be it in Module or not. You just need to make a new sketch from a Sketcher workbench, not from PartDesign workbench." |
Yes. It's not a part-o-magic rule, it's a general "if you want a sketch for anything but partdesign" rule.
Yes. I don't quite have a list. So let me try. |
That is, when you want to do something, make sure the correct container is active. Often, you can (and should) use whole body/module/shapegroup for an operation.
** replacement tool can assist with inserting shapebinders/ghosts into cross-container links.
it's much harder to pack up a container after the fact. I hope to introduce some tools to help with that, eventually.
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Thanks, I will write this list into my howto_summary.txt and publish it on the https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/Template:DevWorkbenches wiki page as I test it out. It's been 28 days, but now I am going to be spending time on this for a few days and get some results. |
"Often, you can (and should) use whole body/module/shapegroup for an operation." Not understanding well. Is this an example: I am wanting a boolean subtract. I make a body within the main container, enclosure_back, active and make a rectangular shape, (that I want to subtract). I make enclosure_back active again, select the rectangular shape and additive pipe and create a boolean of them. Alternatively: I could make top container active, make a rectangular shape, (that I want to subtract). I make top active again, select the rectangular shape and enclosure_back, and create a boolean of them. Are you saying use Alternatively as a rule? |
"avoid copying dependencies. " that seems tricky. Not sure how to do. |
It's hard to say without having your project. I'm having a hard time understanding you. But it seems like both ways you describe are valid. |
When you duplicate something, FC often asks "do you also want to duplicate dependencies?". If you say "yes" in an attempt to duplicate Modules, Parts, Bodies, especially those that depend on something external, chaos can result. |
OK, I will try copying without dependencies and then put back the orientations etc. I guess spreadsheet is a dependency that cannot copy, or select it and see? I will try it and always answer"No." to FC asking "do you also want to duplicate dependencies?". |
I'm learning how to select all the planes in Origin003 etcetera to get a copy to work without errors such as, "Lost link to 'X_Axis004' while loading, maybe an object was not loaded correctly" Now to write this up and keep going creating reused chunks of what I drew before. So far, so good. |
I've tried adapting the example of https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?t=20698&start=50 |
subtractive-shape-save-test3 has no offset position value in its property list. Have I created it the wrong way? |
Hey @DeepSOIC
Just a heads up that I added your Part-o-Magic icon to https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/Template:DevWorkbenches
Yorik was saying that he'd like every single Addon to have a wiki page. I know you haven't gotten around to documenting this workbench... it would be really awesome if you did. Do you need help ?
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