- Freecad 3d printing workbench how to#
- Freecad 3d printing workbench full size#
- Freecad 3d printing workbench code#
One feature i want to add is to create a icon for the ability to cut mesh through section, as been using this a lot to reverse engineer scan data to create a surface to use, it's currently buried in the mesh workbench menu options.This tutorial has been realized for FreeCAD users interested in 3D printing. It would be helpful to additionally scale the X/Y/Z axes separately.
Freecad 3d printing workbench full size#
Probably not the best description, as originally the workbench was created to take a full size stamping die solid model and scale it down to fit the 3D Printing bed, so second icon from the left allows you to enter the full size item in X and it will scale the object to fit the 3D Bed when you click on the icon scale to fit I did not quite understand the option "Change default Die length size". How can I change the size of the printer's mesh box?ģrd Icon from the left defines the Printer Box Size, unfortunately its a X = Y = Z thing as assumes a square printing bed, a future feature to modify the Printer Bed Size in X/Y and Z separately Am coming up to the big 50 and doing CAD for a long time the strain on the eyes with some of the fancy UI's is not good.
Freecad 3d printing workbench how to#
Will have a think about how to make the icons without text that portrays the functionality, do think the march to 'flat design' for UI design makes it harder for the user to pick up, as the emphasis is more on how pretty it looks than is it usable by the poor CAD monkey that has to use this new and wonderful UI.
the default is off from the IT department we have and cannot be changed, so at the moment i do click the wrong one at times. See below screenshot, this is with the text on in the V6 3DS environment but without the text the icons for the iso/plan/side views is similar to the parallel/perspective icon, and is easy to click on the wrong one if the text isn't there. I think having the text is useful, granted that it should be able to be translated easily to different languages. I would say yes and no to removing the text, having just been thrown in the deep end in my day job having to pick up Catia V6, which is basically V5 with a pretty front end to the same functionality but designed by committee rather than by the user. Tooltips can be translated but icons should be language neutral. If you want to know what a button does, you can place the mouse over the button and display more information in the tooltip. Icons should be understandable by themselves. I personally think that you should remove the text, as it makes it difficult to translate. Top to bottom on the left in the Combo view, with models from left to rightīy the way, in your toolbars, you are including words like "Orange", "White", "Yellow", etc. Just created a new screen grab which shows most of the functionality. The train model that you show here is fine, but given that the entire mesh is blue it is a bit boring and you cannot see details. The image should be big enough, like 600x400 px, although it will be displayed at 400 px width. For example, the image used in the "CurvedShapes Workbench" is quite good, as it shows what it is intended for. In the Release notes 0.19 page, go to the "Additional workbenches" section to see the kind of images that are nice.
It doesn't have to be very complex, but something that attracts potential new users. It would be nice if you could post in this thread a single image that showcases your workbench. Hi, I'm editing the Release notes 0.19 in the wiki.
Freecad 3d printing workbench code#
I have created a workbench that helps with the importing of stl files from the net, it brings the functionality hidden away to the user without having to resort to trawling the forums to find that bit of python code to do simple things.
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