Important Note: WIP!!! Please feel free to suggest, contribute, join, help, debug etc... I am new to both Python and FreeCAD Python. My background is in other languages. I hope you find this workbench useful.
FreeCAD primarily utilizes a parametric modeling paradigm. This workbench will work to develop a 'direct modeling' approach. This approach is more common in popular CAD solutions. For example, clicking on a face and being able to extrude by moving the mouse, instead of specifying a the distance by entering a number in to a text field.
cd ~/.FreeCAD/Modgit clone --recurse-submodules -j8 https://github.com/MariwanJ/Design456- Restart FreeCAD
Result: The Design456 workbench should now be available in the workbench drop-down menu
Note: Please keep this workbench up-to-date by pulling changes from this repository via git. This can be done before each time Design456 will be used.
cd ~/.FreeCAD/Mod/Design456git pull- Restart FreeCAD
Initial inspiration came from exploring the a template workbench named D3D-Printer-Workbench. Thanks to the author. Other workbenches will be inspected to see what other code can be re-used.
- Use Face to extract a face from a side.
- You cannot use
Extrudeto Extrude a side. Instead use the other functionCopy-Face-Extrudeor loft-on-direction - Tutorials and guides will be written /made later
Please leave comments, bugs, fixes in the issue queue of this repository.
- FreeCAD forum thread announcing Design456 workbench
Mariwan Jalal 2021-01-29