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How might this work in a GUI context? It would be absolutely amazing if there was some way to make it work on FreeCAD so we could share reusable pieces. The o
by eternityforest 3y ago
How might this work in a GUI context? It would be absolutely amazing if there was some way to make it work on FreeCAD so we could share reusable pieces.
The one missing thing I've always wanted to see in FreeCAD is something where you draw a circle on a face as an anchor point (the same way that the hole operation works) and put a point on the circle for orientation.
Then you could export the part with it's anchor points embedded in the file, or import a part with it's anchor point fitted on an existing point (With whatever offset, inversion, etc you want).
Would this be suitable for creating this kind of system?
- RomanKuzmenko 3y agoI believe you mentioned two orthogonal features. 1) Import/export from CAD tools. Absolutely. That’s one of the main goals. PartCAD will be the persistence layer for parts I create in FreeCAD. (Whole OpenVMP was designed in FreeCAD.) In another channel I’m trying to convince the author of similar plugins to join PartCAD. 2) Enrich the model metadata with anchor/relative position/orientation. Absolutely. This will be required to enable replacement/alternative parts maintained by different parties. We can come up with a convention how to define such metadata in FreeCAD so that PartCAD is able to recognise it, until FreeCAD supports it natively.
- eternityforest 3y agoThat is exactly what I was hoping for! 3DP/CAD is still one of the most exciting areas in FOSS and it's really cool to see this kind of thing moving forward.