Macros recipes

Rotate the view by 90°
This macro rotates the current view by 90° to the left. Only works if you are in Top view.

import math from pivy import coin cam = Gui.ActiveDocument.ActiveView.getCameraNode rot = coin.SbRotation rot.setValue(coin.SbVec3f(0,0,1),math.pi/2) nrot = cam.orientation.getValue * rot cam.orientation = nrot

Array copy
This macro copies the selected object several times, on an array grid. You can define the number of rows and columns and the distance between them. You need pyqt installed.

import FreeCAD, FreeCADGui, Part from PyQt4 import QtGui,QtCore def proceed: try: u = (int(l1.text),float(l2.text)) v = (int(l3.text),float(l4.text)) except: FreeCAD.Console.PrintError("Wrong input! Only numbers allowed...\n") sel = FreeCADGui.Selection.getSelection if sel: sel = sel[0] name = sel.Name shape = sel.Shape for column in range(u[0]): for row in range(v[0]): if (column != 0) or (row != 0): delta = FreeCAD.Vector(column*u[1],row*v[1],0) newshape = sel.Shape newshape.translate(delta) newobject = FreeCAD.ActiveDocument.addObject("Part::Feature",name) newobject.Shape = newshape else: FreeCAD.Console.PrintError("Error: One object must be selected") hide def hide: dialog.hide dialog = QtGui.QDialog dialog.resize(200,300) dialog.setWindowTitle("Array") la = QtGui.QVBoxLayout(dialog) t1 = QtGui.QLabel("number of columns") la.addWidget(t1) l1 = QtGui.QLineEdit la.addWidget(l1) t2 = QtGui.QLabel("distance between columns") la.addWidget(t2) l2 = QtGui.QLineEdit la.addWidget(l2) t3 = QtGui.QLabel("number of rows") la.addWidget(t3) l3 = QtGui.QLineEdit la.addWidget(l3) t4 = QtGui.QLabel("distance between rows") la.addWidget(t4) l4 = QtGui.QLineEdit la.addWidget(l4) okbox = QtGui.QDialogButtonBox(dialog) okbox.setOrientation(QtCore.Qt.Horizontal) okbox.setStandardButtons(QtGui.QDialogButtonBox.Cancel|QtGui.QDialogButtonBox.Ok) la.addWidget(okbox) QtCore.QObject.connect(okbox, QtCore.SIGNAL("accepted"), proceed) QtCore.QObject.connect(okbox, QtCore.SIGNAL("rejected"), hide) QtCore.QMetaObject.connectSlotsByName(dialog) dialog.show

Flatten wire
This macro flattens draft wires that are not plane to their median Z coordinate.

import FreeCAD obj = FreeCAD.ActiveDocument.ActiveObject z = 0 for p in obj.Points: z += p.z z = z/len(obj.Points) newpoints = [] for p in obj.Points: newppoints.append(FreeCAD.Vector(p.x,p.y,z)) obj.Points = newppoints

Convert Meshes to Parts
This macro converts selected meshes to parts. It has a broad tolerance, so use it only with objects that have no curves otherwise you'll get weird results.

import FreeCAD,FreeCADGui,Mesh,Part,MeshPart for obj in FreeCADGui.Selection.getSelection: if "Mesh" in obj.PropertiesList: faces = [] mesh = obj.Mesh segments = mesh.getPlanes(0.01) # use rather strict tolerance here for i in segments: if len(i) > 0: # a segment can have inner holes wires = MeshPart.wireFromSegment(mesh, i) 		    # we assume that the exterior boundary is that one with the biggest bounding box if len(wires) > 0: ext = None max_length = 0 for i in wires: if i.BoundBox.DiagonalLength > max_length: max_length = i.BoundBox.DiagonalLength ext = i 	       	wires.remove(ext) # all interior wires mark a hole and must reverse their orientation, otherwise Part.Face fails for i in wires: i.reverse # make sure that the exterior wires comes as first in the lsit wires.insert(0, ext) faces.append(Part.Face(wires)) shell=Part.Compound(faces) solid = Part.Solid(Part.Shell(faces)) name = obj.Name FreeCAD.ActiveDocument.removeObject(name) FreeCAD.ActiveDocument.addObject("Part::Feature",name).Shape = solid