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The Drawing module allows you to put your 3D work on paper. That is, to put views of your models in a 2D window and to insert that window in a drawing, for example a sheet with a border, a title and your logo and finally print that sheet. The Drawing module is currently under construction and more or less a technology preview! |
The Drawing module allows you to put your 3D work on paper. That is, to put views of your models in a 2D window and to insert that window in a drawing, for example a sheet with a border, a title and your logo and finally print that sheet. The Drawing module is currently under construction and more or less a technology preview! |
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== GUI Tools == |
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The [[Draft Module]] has its own [[Draft_Drawing]] too to place Draft objects on paper. It has a couple of extra capabilities over the standard Drawing tools, and supports specific objects like [[Draft Dimension|Draft dimensions]]. |
The [[Draft Module]] has its own [[Draft_Drawing]] too to place Draft objects on paper. It has a couple of extra capabilities over the standard Drawing tools, and supports specific objects like [[Draft Dimension|Draft dimensions]]. |
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In the picture you see the main concepts of the Drawing module. The document contains a shape object (Schenkel) which we want to extract to a drawing. Therefore a "Page" is created. A page gets instantiated through a template, in this case the "A3_Landscape" template. The template is an SVG document which can hold your usual page frame, your logo or comply to your presentation standards. |
In the picture you see the main concepts of the Drawing module. The document contains a shape object (Schenkel) which we want to extract to a drawing. Therefore a "Page" is created. A page gets instantiated through a template, in this case the "A3_Landscape" template. The template is an SVG document which can hold your usual page frame, your logo or comply to your presentation standards. |
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In this page we can insert one or more views. Each view has a position on the page (Properties X,Y), a scale factor (Property scale) and additional properties. Every time the page or the view or the referenced object changes the page gets regenerated and the page display updated. |
In this page we can insert one or more views. Each view has a position on the page (Properties X,Y), a scale factor (Property scale) and additional properties. Every time the page or the view or the referenced object changes the page gets regenerated and the page display updated. |
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== Scripting == |
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At the moment the end user(GUI) workflow is very limited, so the scripting API is more interesting. Here follow examples on how to use the scripting API of the drawing module. |
At the moment the end user(GUI) workflow is very limited, so the scripting API is more interesting. Here follow examples on how to use the scripting API of the drawing module. |
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Here a script that can easily fill the [[Macro_CartoucheFC]] leaf FreeCAD A3_Landscape. |
Here a script that can easily fill the [[Macro_CartoucheFC]] leaf FreeCAD A3_Landscape. |
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First of all you need the Part and the Drawing module: |
First of all you need the Part and the Drawing module: |
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Create a small sample part |
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Direct projection. The G0 means hard edge, the G1 is tangent continuous. |
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Everything was projected on the Z-plane: |
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Project to SVG |
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=== The parametric way === |
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Create the body |
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Insert a Page object and assign a template |
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Create a view on the "Shape" object, define the position and scale and assign it to a Page |
Create a view on the "Shape" object, define the position and scale and assign it to a Page |
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Create a second view on the same object but this time the view will be rotated by 90 degrees. |
Create a second view on the same object but this time the view will be rotated by 90 degrees. |
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Create a third view on the same object but with an isometric view direction. The hidden lines are activated too. |
Create a third view on the same object but with an isometric view direction. The hidden lines are activated too. |
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Change something and update. The update process changes the view and the page. |
Change something and update. The update process changes the view and the page. |
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=== Accessing the bits and pieces === |
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Get the SVG fragment of a single view |
Get the SVG fragment of a single view |
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Get the whole result page (it's a file in the document's temporary directory, only read permission) |
Get the whole result page (it's a file in the document's temporary directory, only read permission) |
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Important: free the file! |
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Insert a view with your own content: |
Insert a view with your own content: |
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That leads to the following result: |
That leads to the following result: |
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[[Image:DrawingScriptResult.jpg|800px]] |
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=== General Dimensioning and Tolerancing === |
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Drawing dimensions an toleranecs are still under development but you can get some basic functionality with a bit of work. |
Drawing dimensions an toleranecs are still under development but you can get some basic functionality with a bit of work. |
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First you need to get the gdtsvg python module from here (WARNING: This could be broken at any time!): |
First you need to get the gdtsvg python module from here (WARNING: This could be broken at any time!): |
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https://github.com/jcc242/FreeCAD |
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To get a feature control frame, try out the following: |
To get a feature control frame, try out the following: |
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Here is a good breakdown of the contents of a feature control frame: http://www.cadblog.net/adding-geometric-tolerances.htm |
Here is a good breakdown of the contents of a feature control frame: http://www.cadblog.net/adding-geometric-tolerances.htm |
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The parameters to pass to control frame are: |
The parameters to pass to control frame are: |
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#X-coordinate in SVG-coordinate system (type string) |
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#(optional) The third datum's material condition (tuple, svg string as first, width of symbol as second, height of symbol as third) |
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The ControlFrame function returns a type containing (svg string, overall width of control frame, overall height of control frame)''' |
The ControlFrame function returns a type containing (svg string, overall width of control frame, overall height of control frame)''' |
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To get a dimension, try out the following: |
To get a dimension, try out the following: |
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Inputs for linear dimension are: |
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#point1, an (x,y) tuple with svg-coordinates, this is one of the points you would like to dimension between |
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#textstyle, a string containing svg (i.e. css) styles, using the getStyle function to retrieve a preset string, for styling how the text looks |
#textstyle, a string containing svg (i.e. css) styles, using the getStyle function to retrieve a preset string, for styling how the text looks |
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With those two, you can proceed as above for displaying them on the drawing page. This module is very buggy and can be broken at any given moment, bug reports are welcome on the github page for now, or contact jcc242 on the forums if you post a bug somewhere else. |
With those two, you can proceed as above for displaying them on the drawing page. This module is very buggy and can be broken at any given moment, bug reports are welcome on the github page for now, or contact jcc242 on the forums if you post a bug somewhere else. |
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FreeCAD comes bundled with a set of default templates, but you can find more on the [[Drawing templates]] page. |
FreeCAD comes bundled with a set of default templates, but you can find more on the [[Drawing templates]] page. |
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== Extending the Drawing Module == |
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Some notes on the programming side of the drawing module will be added to the [[Drawing Documentation]] page. This is to help quickly understand how the drawing module works, enabling programmers to rapidly start programming for it. |
Some notes on the programming side of the drawing module will be added to the [[Drawing Documentation]] page. This is to help quickly understand how the drawing module works, enabling programmers to rapidly start programming for it. |
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{{docnav|Part Module|Raytracing Module}} |
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[[Category:User Documentation]] |
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Revision as of 23:13, 29 November 2013
The Drawing module allows you to put your 3D work on paper. That is, to put views of your models in a 2D window and to insert that window in a drawing, for example a sheet with a border, a title and your logo and finally print that sheet. The Drawing module is currently under construction and more or less a technology preview!
GUI Tools
Note
The Draft Module has its own Draft_Drawing too to place Draft objects on paper. It has a couple of extra capabilities over the standard Drawing tools, and supports specific objects like Draft dimensions.
In the picture you see the main concepts of the Drawing module. The document contains a shape object (Schenkel) which we want to extract to a drawing. Therefore a "Page" is created. A page gets instantiated through a template, in this case the "A3_Landscape" template. The template is an SVG document which can hold your usual page frame, your logo or comply to your presentation standards.
In this page we can insert one or more views. Each view has a position on the page (Properties X,Y), a scale factor (Property scale) and additional properties. Every time the page or the view or the referenced object changes the page gets regenerated and the page display updated.
Scripting
At the moment the end user(GUI) workflow is very limited, so the scripting API is more interesting. Here follow examples on how to use the scripting API of the drawing module.
Here a script that can easily fill the Macro_CartoucheFC leaf FreeCAD A3_Landscape.
Simple example
First of all you need the Part and the Drawing module:
import FreeCAD, Part, Drawing
Create a small sample part
Part.show(Part.makeBox(100,100,100).cut(Part.makeCylinder(80,100)).cut(Part.makeBox(90,40,100)).cut(Part.makeBox(20,85,100)))
Direct projection. The G0 means hard edge, the G1 is tangent continuous.
Shape = App.ActiveDocument.Shape.Shape
[visibleG0,visibleG1,hiddenG0,hiddenG1] = Drawing.project(Shape)
print "visible edges:", len(visibleG0.Edges)
print "hidden edges:", len(hiddenG0.Edges)
Everything was projected on the Z-plane:
print "Bnd Box shape: X=",Shape.BoundBox.XLength," Y=",Shape.BoundBox.YLength," Z=",Shape.BoundBox.ZLength
print "Bnd Box project: X=",visibleG0.BoundBox.XLength," Y=",visibleG0.BoundBox.YLength," Z=",visibleG0.BoundBox.ZLength
Different projection vector
[visibleG0,visibleG1,hiddenG0,hiddenG1] = Drawing.project(Shape,App.Vector(1,1,1))
Project to SVG
resultSVG = Drawing.projectToSVG(Shape,App.Vector(1,1,1))
print resultSVG
The parametric way
Create the body
import FreeCAD
import Part
import Drawing
# Create three boxes and a cylinder
App.ActiveDocument.addObject("Part::Box","Box")
App.ActiveDocument.Box.Length=100.00
App.ActiveDocument.Box.Width=100.00
App.ActiveDocument.Box.Height=100.00
App.ActiveDocument.addObject("Part::Box","Box1")
App.ActiveDocument.Box1.Length=90.00
App.ActiveDocument.Box1.Width=40.00
App.ActiveDocument.Box1.Height=100.00
App.ActiveDocument.addObject("Part::Box","Box2")
App.ActiveDocument.Box2.Length=20.00
App.ActiveDocument.Box2.Width=85.00
App.ActiveDocument.Box2.Height=100.00
App.ActiveDocument.addObject("Part::Cylinder","Cylinder")
App.ActiveDocument.Cylinder.Radius=80.00
App.ActiveDocument.Cylinder.Height=100.00
App.ActiveDocument.Cylinder.Angle=360.00
# Fuse two boxes and the cylinder
App.ActiveDocument.addObject("Part::Fuse","Fusion")
App.ActiveDocument.Fusion.Base = App.ActiveDocument.Cylinder
App.ActiveDocument.Fusion.Tool = App.ActiveDocument.Box1
App.ActiveDocument.addObject("Part::Fuse","Fusion1")
App.ActiveDocument.Fusion1.Base = App.ActiveDocument.Box2
App.ActiveDocument.Fusion1.Tool = App.ActiveDocument.Fusion
# Cut the fused shapes from the first box
App.ActiveDocument.addObject("Part::Cut","Shape")
App.ActiveDocument.Shape.Base = App.ActiveDocument.Box
App.ActiveDocument.Shape.Tool = App.ActiveDocument.Fusion1
# Hide all the intermediate shapes
Gui.ActiveDocument.Box.Visibility=False
Gui.ActiveDocument.Box1.Visibility=False
Gui.ActiveDocument.Box2.Visibility=False
Gui.ActiveDocument.Cylinder.Visibility=False
Gui.ActiveDocument.Fusion.Visibility=False
Gui.ActiveDocument.Fusion1.Visibility=False
Insert a Page object and assign a template
App.ActiveDocument.addObject('Drawing::FeaturePage','Page')
App.ActiveDocument.Page.Template = App.getResourceDir()+'Mod/Drawing/Templates/A3_Landscape.svg'
Create a view on the "Shape" object, define the position and scale and assign it to a Page
App.ActiveDocument.addObject('Drawing::FeatureViewPart','View')
App.ActiveDocument.View.Source = App.ActiveDocument.Shape
App.ActiveDocument.View.Direction = (0.0,0.0,1.0)
App.ActiveDocument.View.X = 10.0
App.ActiveDocument.View.Y = 10.0
App.ActiveDocument.Page.addObject(App.ActiveDocument.View)
Create a second view on the same object but this time the view will be rotated by 90 degrees.
App.ActiveDocument.addObject('Drawing::FeatureViewPart','ViewRot')
App.ActiveDocument.ViewRot.Source = App.ActiveDocument.Shape
App.ActiveDocument.ViewRot.Direction = (0.0,0.0,1.0)
App.ActiveDocument.ViewRot.X = 290.0
App.ActiveDocument.ViewRot.Y = 30.0
App.ActiveDocument.ViewRot.Scale = 1.0
App.ActiveDocument.ViewRot.Rotation = 90.0
App.ActiveDocument.Page.addObject(App.ActiveDocument.ViewRot)
Create a third view on the same object but with an isometric view direction. The hidden lines are activated too.
App.ActiveDocument.addObject('Drawing::FeatureViewPart','ViewIso')
App.ActiveDocument.ViewIso.Source = App.ActiveDocument.Shape
App.ActiveDocument.ViewIso.Direction = (1.0,1.0,1.0)
App.ActiveDocument.ViewIso.X = 335.0
App.ActiveDocument.ViewIso.Y = 140.0
App.ActiveDocument.ViewIso.ShowHiddenLines = True
App.ActiveDocument.Page.addObject(App.ActiveDocument.ViewIso)
Change something and update. The update process changes the view and the page.
App.ActiveDocument.View.X = 30.0
App.ActiveDocument.View.Y = 30.0
App.ActiveDocument.View.Scale = 1.5
App.ActiveDocument.recompute()
Accessing the bits and pieces
Get the SVG fragment of a single view
ViewSVG = App.ActiveDocument.View.ViewResult
print ViewSVG
Get the whole result page (it's a file in the document's temporary directory, only read permission)
print "Resulting SVG document: ",App.ActiveDocument.Page.PageResult
file = open(App.ActiveDocument.Page.PageResult,"r")
print "Result page is ",len(file.readlines())," lines long"
Important: free the file!
del file
Insert a view with your own content:
App.ActiveDocument.addObject('Drawing::FeatureView','ViewSelf')
App.ActiveDocument.ViewSelf.ViewResult = """<g id="ViewSelf"
stroke="rgb(0, 0, 0)"
stroke-width="0.35"
stroke-linecap="butt"
stroke-linejoin="miter"
transform="translate(30,30)"
fill="#00cc00"
>
<ellipse cx="40" cy="40" rx="30" ry="15"/>
</g>"""
App.ActiveDocument.Page.addObject(App.ActiveDocument.ViewSelf)
App.ActiveDocument.recompute()
del ViewSVG
That leads to the following result:
General Dimensioning and Tolerancing
Drawing dimensions an toleranecs are still under development but you can get some basic functionality with a bit of work.
First you need to get the gdtsvg python module from here (WARNING: This could be broken at any time!):
https://github.com/jcc242/FreeCAD
To get a feature control frame, try out the following:
import gdtsvg as g # Import the module, I like to give it an easy handle
ourFrame = g.ControlFrame("0","0", g.Perpendicularity(), ".5", g.Diameter(), g.ModifyingSymbols("M"), "A",
g.ModifyingSymbols("F"), "B", g.ModifyingSymbols("L"), "C", g.ModifyingSymbols("I"))
Here is a good breakdown of the contents of a feature control frame: http://www.cadblog.net/adding-geometric-tolerances.htm
The parameters to pass to control frame are:
- X-coordinate in SVG-coordinate system (type string)
- Y-coordinate in SVG-coordinate system (type string)
- The desired geometric characteristic symbol (tuple, svg string as first, width of symbol as second, height of symbol as third)
- The tolerance (type string)
- (optional) The diameter symbol (tuple, svg string as first, width of symbol as second, height of symbol as third)
- (optional) The condition modifying material (tuple, svg string as first, width of symbol as second, height of symbol as third)
- (optional) The first datum (type string)
- (optional) The first datum's modifying condition (tuple, svg string as first, width of symbol as second, height of symbol as third)
- (optional) The second datum (type string)
- (optional) The second datum's modifying condition (tuple, svg string as first, width of symbol as second, height of symbol as third)
- (optional) The third datum (type string)
- (optional) The third datum's material condition (tuple, svg string as first, width of symbol as second, height of symbol as third)
The ControlFrame function returns a type containing (svg string, overall width of control frame, overall height of control frame)
To get a dimension, try out the following:
import gdtsvg
ourDimension = linearDimension(point1, point2, textpoint, dimensiontext, linestyle=getStyle("visible"),
arrowstyle=getStyle("filled"), textstyle=getStyle("text")
Inputs for linear dimension are:
- point1, an (x,y) tuple with svg-coordinates, this is one of the points you would like to dimension between
- point2, an (x,y) tuple with svg-coordinates, this is the second point you would like to dimension between
- textpoint, an (x,y) tuple of svg-coordinates, this is where the text of your dimension will be
- dimensiontext, a string containing the text you want the dimension to say
- linestyle, a string containing svg (i.e. css) styles, using the getStyle function to retrieve a preset string, for styling the how the lines look
- arrowstyle, a string containing svg (i.e. css) styles, using the getStyle function to retrieve a preset string, for styling how the arrows look
- textstyle, a string containing svg (i.e. css) styles, using the getStyle function to retrieve a preset string, for styling how the text looks
With those two, you can proceed as above for displaying them on the drawing page. This module is very buggy and can be broken at any given moment, bug reports are welcome on the github page for now, or contact jcc242 on the forums if you post a bug somewhere else.
Templates
FreeCAD comes bundled with a set of default templates, but you can find more on the Drawing templates page.
Extending the Drawing Module
Some notes on the programming side of the drawing module will be added to the Drawing Documentation page. This is to help quickly understand how the drawing module works, enabling programmers to rapidly start programming for it.