This command saves a copy of the current document under a new name,
without modifying the document itself.
Available in menu File -> Save a Copy or from python with
FreeCAD.ActiveDocument.saveCopy(filename)
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A recent improvement was to allow to create an object (several geometric elements) as construction lines
by providing an additional parameter as true (that defaults to false).
This introduced a bug, that when a list of geometries mixing construction and normal lines was added (with the parameter as false),
construction lines would be converted to normal lines.
This fixes the bug.
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Support for mirroring a full sketch.
A dialog appears allowing to select X, Y axis mirroring or mirroring about the origin of the sketch.
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This commit provides with a single toolbar button to select between a copy and clone.
Copy just copies the constraints.
Clone modifies the dimensional constraints to geometric constraints, so that the constrained geometry follows the changes in the original object.
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This commit allows the user to select in advance whether he wants a simple copy or a clone.
This involves substitution of dimensional constraints in the copies by equality and parallel constraints.
Terminology change for Arrays, now it is Rectangular array
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- Support for copying geometric elements in the sketcher with Ctrl+C (or using the still missing icon). It will show you the vector of displacement from the
"reference point". The reference point can be chosen by the user (although it is not necessary to do it so) by making the point the user wish to be the reference point
the last selected element. It conveniently incorporates "autoconstraints", so that you can make this point (the one of the copy) directly coincident with any other point in the sketch.
- Python 2D array command modified to lock elements position using construction lines and constraints.
- Support for different spacing between u and v directions (the direction of the cols and the direction of the rows).
- Support to avoid copying DistanceX and DistanceY constraints when used for locking a point. This means that if the geometry that you copy(array) is
fully constraint, the resulting 2D array is also fully constraint.
- UI support for creating 2D linear arrays in the sketcher.
- Bug fix in python addArray, wrong line copy startingpoint calculation fixed.
How to create a 2D array in the sketcher:
1. Select your geometric elements.
2. Click the button
3. Fill in the rows/cols and preferences on spacing and constraining each element of the array
4. Click Ok
5. Define the direction of the cols of the array and click
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For a while End-to-endpoint tangency is implemented via AngleViaPoint constraint. The code was not recalculating the "value" of the constraint in this case.
This also forces to set the geometry first and constraints afterwards, as the AutoLockTangencyAndPerpty function requires a valid GeoId to operate (not a big deal anyway).
Correction of the condition to allow the symmetry when a single line is mirrored about a point pertaining to a geometric element.
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Two new python commands (no UI yet).
Copy: Copies the geoids in a list by a displacement given by a Vector3d:
App.ActiveDocument.Sketch001.addCopy([0,1,2,3,4,5],App.Vector(150,150,0))
Array: Copies the geoids in a list cols times in the displacement vector
direction and rows times in the perpendicular to the displacement vector:
App.ActiveDocument.Sketch001.addArray([0,1,2,3,4,5], App.Vector(150,150,0),3,4)
N.B.: You need to recompute or solve to update the view
App.ActiveDocument.recompute()
or
App.ActiveDocument.Sketch001.solve()
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Creates geometry symmetric to the selected one with respect to the last selected point or line.
It does not support the following constraints:
- Angle
- Horiz/vertical distance
- SnellLaw
Horizontal and Vertical (directional) dimensions removed from the the copying process when created
on a single edge (by picking one edge instead of two points), i.e. Constraint involving only one GeoId at "First".
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http://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=11341&start=80#p92820
...I already have a minor bug, if you insert a conflicting dimensional constraint,
the solver information is not updated, the work-around is to hit "Manual Update".
