Macro FCInfo

Gives a series of informations about the selected shape and can display a conversion of length, inclination (degrees, radians, grades, pourcent) shape, surface, volume and the weight of the form in the density selected in different units of quantities international and Anglo-Saxon.



Utilisation
Select an object or launch the application and select an object, and a series of informations appear. His calculations based on unity of FreeCAD, which is the mm to each new selection, the length unit always comes back on mm and angle on decimal degrees.

Sector 1
 * Document name
 * Label of the object
 * Internal Name of the object
 * Sub element name of the object
 * Type of the object

Sector 2
 * Coordinates X,Y and Z click to mouse

Sector 3 km, hm, dam, m, dm, cm, mm, µm, nm, pm, fm, inch, link, foot, yard, perch, chain, furlong, mile, league, nautique.
 * Length of the object if the object is a face perimeter is displayed unit size can be selected :
 * Perimeter of the shape

Sector 4 max 200 lines in the table, if there are more than 200 lines it appears (!+ 200) and the number of lines (full details can save be the button in a file in CSV format and can be viewed the file in spreadsheet with the  or by an external spreadsheet as LibreOffice OpenOffice or other)
 * Vertexes and details of the shape (compt_Edge), (compt_Faces), (compt_Vector of the Face)

Sector 5
 * Inclinations of the object can be displayed in:
 * decimal degree, ex: 174.831872611°
 * degree minute seconde, ex: 174° 49' 54.741401''
 * radian, ex: 3.05139181449 rad
 * grade, ex: 194.257636235 gon
 * pourcent ex: 30° = 57.74%
 * Inclinations in planes XY, YZ, ZX and their coordinates

Sector 6
 * Surface of the form displayed unit size can be selected
 * Surface of the face displayed unit size can be selected

Sector 7 ton,quintal, kg, hg, dag, gram, dg, cg, mg, µg, ng, pg, fg, gr (grain), dr (drachm), oz (once), oz t (once troy), lb t (livre troy), lb (livre av), st (stone), qtr (quarter), cwt (hundredweight), tonneau fr, ct (the "spinBox" is set to 7,5 kg, average density of steel. If you want a different default value, change the value of the density, line 204)
 * Volume of the form displayed unit size can be selected
 * The buttom unit mass can be chosen :
 * weight of the form displayed unit mass can be selected
 * density of the material in kg by dm3

Sector 8
 * Center of the shape and these coordinates XYZ
 * Center of mass and these coordinates XYZ
 * BoundBox extreme dimensions of the shape

Sector 9
 * Moment of inertia and these coordinates

Buttons
 * : Open a file .FCInfo
 * : Save a file .FCInfo
 * : Exit the macro and delete it from memory
 * : Refresh the display of data in report view
 * 1 : If this CheckBox is checked the informations are displayed in the report view window
 * 2 : If this CheckBox is not checked the window macro are displayed to right (default). If it is checked the window macro are displayed to left

Once launched macro, the macro remains active and the window remains visible. To exit the macro by pressing. If you leave by the cross, the macro remains in memory and the data appears in the "report view" of FreeCAD.

Length unit:
km, hm, dam, m, dm, cm, mm, µm, nm, pm, fm, inch, link, foot, yard, perch, chain, furlong, mile, league, nautique.

Angle degrees :

 * 1) decimal degree, ex: 174.831872611°
 * 2) degree minute seconde, ex: 174° 49' 54.741401''
 * 3) radian, ex: 3.05139181449 rad
 * 4) grade, ex: 194.257636235 gon
 * 5) pourcent ex: 30° = 57.74%

Understanding of angles in FCInfo display.

Weight unit :
ton, quintal, kg, hg, dag, gram, dg, cg, mg, µg, ng, pg, fg, gr (grain), dr (drachm), oz (once), oz t (once troy),

lb t (livre troy), lb (livre av), st (stone), qtr (quarter), cwt (hundredweight), tonneau fr, ct

the "spinBox" is set to 7,5 kg, average density of steel. If you want a different default value, change the value of the density, line 206

A file can be created by the button. The file is written as a file csv in this way, the data can be studied in a spreadsheet in FreeCAD or Openoffice, LibreOffice...

Script
Copy the contents of the macro in a file named "FCInfo.FCMacro"
 * Windows: the form is usually " drive:\Users\your_user_name\AppData\Roaming\FreeCAD\ "
 * Ubuntu: the form is usually " /home/your_user_name/.FreeCAD ".

Or, directly in the interface of FreeCAD

The icon must be in the same directory as the macro.

Download image positioning on the icon   and then drag the mouse right click "save as" (do not change the name)

PS: too long to be contained in the wiki page (for the time being the wiki pages accept only 64 KB) the macro code has been placed in the forum

There is also FCInfo_Alternate_Linux for only for FreeCAD version 0.13... and PyQt4

There is also a Macro_FCInfo_Alternate_Linux here the code is changed (due to the character display error : ² ³ ° μ ordinal not in range (128)") which posed problems in certain configurations the functions are the same

Example :

remplacés par

Files saved with this version is incompatible with the other version (docked or not)

Dwnload the file on gist docked to right FCInfo_en_Ver_latest_Docked.FCMacro. PySide

(Or On the forum. )

PS: this macro uses getSelection and the list of object begin to 1 ex: for a box Edge1 to Edge12 and the code in the console start at 0 ex: for a box Edge[0] to Edge[11]

This is normal the counting on arrays/lists inside OpenCascade always starts at 1 and not at 0

Limitations
Always leave the button. If one exits the program without going through the button the program remains in memory and continues to run and the display will remain in the "view report". You must leave FreeCAD to erase it from memory.

Only the first 200 elements of the object are visible in the table if there are more than 200 items in the object a signal will be displayed by "'(! +200)" '. The complete list of data is visible in the file saved by the button.

project:

read the file directly in a table. done

matches the "Edges" and their coordinates done

Association of a substance to its density

inclination on the element rather than the global object done

inlay right in the interface of FreeCAD done

currently:

ver 1.16, 21/06/2017 add control height police (here PointSize 8) and checkbox for position the window to right or left

ver 1.15, 19/12/2015 suppression PyQt4 option see , add checkBox for editing infos in report view

ver 1.14, 04/08/2014 replace PyQt4 and PySide and correct tooltip not displayed cause on PySide and add fg

ver 1.13, 27/07/2014 replace FCInfo_en_Ver_1-12_Docked.FCMacro to FCInfo_en_Ver_1-13_Docked.FCMacro accept PyQt4 and PySide

ver 1.12, 10/03/2014 adding tooltip

ver 1.11, 04/03/2014 adding µm, nm, pm, fm, µg, ng, pg, pourcent, fixed of grandeur carat "cd" in "ct", display of the label and internal name, fixed calculation of angles XY YZ ZX could give an error on a compound shape,  window dockable in FreeCAD

ver 1.10.b, 19/11/2013 buttons outside the scrollbar and the dimensions of the window blocking

(ver 1.10, 18/11/2013 create scrollbar)

ver 1.08.b, 10/11/2013 translation units in English, error correction to display the area of the faces listed in the table and replacement of the"print" by "App.Console.PrintMessage"

ver 1.09, 04/11/2013 works perfectly on Windows and Linux (cause of errors on Linux the characters : ² ³ ° "ordinal not in range(128)")

In a Linux distribution and in the case of an error of "ordinal not in range (128)" an alternative version exists on this page Macro_FCInfo_Alternate_Linux

ver 1.08, 24/10/2013 correction of high top "Faces" and "Edges" displaying 100 objects (in the saved file)

ver 1.07, 11/10/2013 matches the "Faces" and their coordinates.

ver 1.06, 22/09/2013 matches the "Edges" and their coordinates, inclination on the element rather than the global object

ver 1.05, 17/09/2013 added an icon for the spreadsheet, conversion barrel fr, affichage des dimensions overall instead of coordinates.

ver 1.04, 11/09/2013: read the file directly in a table.

ver 1.03, 09/09/2013: clearer display in view report and replacement by "typeObject = sel[0].Shape.ShapeType"

ver 1.02, 7/09/2013 : small updates

ver 1.00, 6/09/2013

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