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Now you can switch from one tool to the next just by clicking on the next tool
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Geometry button:
- if no object selected, the legacy toggle icon has a new functionality, switch to/from creating in construction mode
- if object selected, it has the legacy functionality
- the button can be clicked during "continuos creation mode" to switch from creating to/from creating in construction mode
Constraint button:
- The button is not selectable if nothing is selected (it would be impossible to determine the effect)
- When constraints are selected, the button toggles the constraints to/from Driving.
- When geometry is selected, the button switches from/to reference mode, the change is apparent from the color of the constraint icons.
Continuous creation mode:
- Default changed so that it is active unless you change it in settings
Updated terminology
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- Changing from Driving to reference does not include unnecessary solvings.
- Added some checks to avoid making Driving constraints when calling directly from python and involving only external geometry (would give redundant constraints).
- New python command toggleDriving to just change the status from reference to Driving
- New UI toolbar Command to toggle constraints
- Fix to allow switching from/to construction mode during continuous mode creation.
- Enable/Disable for constraints in constraints widget has changed to operate on multiselection and now effects "toggle" instead of enable/disable.
- Disable the option to directly create a SnellsLaw non-driving constraint (this constraint does not support direct creation, it can be toggled to non-driving after creation though).
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The fillet applied to construction lines generates normal (not construction) geometry.
How to replicate?
1.Make a square and make all lines construction lines.
2.Apply fillet tool, there result will be a white line fillet connecting two blue constructions lines.
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It allows to select whether the geometry will be created as construction geometry or normal geometry.
This commit includes an important bug fix to reduce the number of times the sketcher solver is called when toggling
geometry. It makes an important difference in the creation during construction mode and InternalAligment geometry like the ellipse.
This commit does not include icons.
You have a button next to toggle that after having been clicked, switches from Normal to Construction geometry and vice versa
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It lifts the need of clicking on the external geometry icon upon importing each external geometry element.
All the elements on which the user clicks are imported until the user right clicks with the mouse or presses ESC, like the Trim or Fillet tools.
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When creating a type of geometric element, the user can create as many elements of that type he wishes without having to click the button before each insertion.
The insertion of that type of elements ends by pressing ESC or clicking the right button of the mouse.
This mode is by default disabled and can be enabled in Preferences->Display->Sketch->Geometry Creation "Continue Mode".
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The autoconstraints on creation of an hexagon were not working.
How to reproduce?
1. In a sketch make a couple of lines
2. Create an hexagon (or other polygon of your choice) with center in one end of a line and with side coincident with the end point of the other line
Result:
Neither the center nor the side autoconstraints are properly created.
Fix:
Straightforward. Just correct the indexes. Last is always the circle. Last but one is always a side.
Fixes a bug where an arc, ellipse, or arc-of-ellipse, being reversed in
XY plane, behaved badly in sketcher (see forum thread "Sketch: how to
handle reversed external arcs?"
http://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=9130 ).
Also fixes a problem with rotated arcs (see forum thread "Rotating Arc
in Sketcher"
http://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=9145#p74262 ).
This is done by adding an emulation flag to a few methods in
Part::GeomXXX, which makes the shape to pretend being non-reversed
(CCW). This causes endpoints of reversed arcs of circles lineked as
external geometry to swap, causing broken sketches sometimes.
- ArcOfEllipse enhancement: Tangency ArcOfEllipse to ArcOfEllipse or ArcOfCircle by selecting end/starting points...
- Minor bug corrections (Thanks DeepSOIC)
- ExposeInternalGeometry python command
- DeleteUnusedInternalGeometry python command
- On deletion of an Ellipse/ArcOfEllipse all further unconstrained internal geometry is also deleted.
- This cleans up the code by eliminating code repetition in the creation methods.
- Major bug fix for autoconstraints for ellipse and arc of ellipse creation (for both creation methods)
- Major bug fix Start and Endpoint constraints of an arc of ellipse where not taking into account that Sketcher arcs are always CCW, so they have to be exchanged if we convert a CW arc into a CCW arc.
Sketcher: General bug fix: Tangency wrongly suggested
What?
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- On creation of a shape autoconstraints are suggested.
- Tangent autoconstraint was suggested even with lines perpendicular to the tangency direction
Reproduce
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- Make a circle on the origin and move the mouse along the X axis, it will suggest a tangency that is impossible
- Click on the axis and no circle will be created
Solution
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- The SeekConstraint now can use the parameter dir to give a direction that is substantially perpendicular to the expected tangency, so that
if an object having a direction (a line) is hit, a tangency will not be suggested if within around 6 degrees of being parallel.
- Additionally, if such a line is an X,Y axis of the sketch, tangency will only be suggested if the direction is within 6 degrees of being perpendicular (i.e. it is almost tangent already while sketching).
- This difference is due to the fact that an X or Y axis can not "move" to meet the object under creation, whereas a line can.
I. Fix minor bug where wrong b was used to create ellipse internal geometry.
Tweak the internal geometry code a bit and reformat it so it isn't so wide.
Also begin debugging constraint conflicts on small circular ellipses.
There seem to be two issues currently in major/minor internal geometry lines:
1) Sometimes minorLength > majorLength due to round-tripping doubles, and
2) Constraint conflicts when majorLength > minorLength by an epsilon on the order of 1e-6
(cherry picked from commit 5c3e20af1a95c860112289dcdda54ea99778bc3a)
II. When testing for a valid ellipse, also ensure that the mangled major axis length > the mangled axis length.
This additional condition ensures that major and minor axis constraints don't conflict in the case of small
(nearly) circular ellipses.
The is still a potential bug in the solver when the major length is just slightly larger than the minor, but this fix
makes it nigh impossible to reproduce.
(cherry picked from commit 7e274bc32d9aa1a12ab52bfa33ed80353540b062)
III. Code clean up
Remove redundant 3d vectors.
(cherry picked from commit c656d5165c8bae8f101a2b46af6b12348d06cefe)
--Center, major radius, minor radius
--Periapsis, apoapsis, minor radius
Artist: We need an icon for periapsis, apoapsis, minor radius method.
(cherry picked from commit f0a4339621b0bf901754af14c3cd36c95ca55966)
Elements that have internal geometry are created with the internal geometry on creation.
It has been under discussion for a long time. Ulrich was in favour (asked for it several times).
DeepSOIC implemented the focus because he hated the poor dragging of the ellipse when empty.
- Minor changes to alignment constraint selection to avoid to create objects just for simple calculations
- Equality constraint of Ellipse, ArcOfEllipse and combinations of those elements
- Bugfix for internalalignment creation of major and minor of ellipse and extension to arcofellipse
- Trim support for ellipses
- Solver threshold for rank calculation set at 1e-13.
- Trim support for arc of ellipse
- Ellipses and ArcOfEllipses as external geometry
- Validate Sketch now supports arcs of ellipse
- Tangents of Ellipse or ArcOfEllipse to any of ArcOfcircle, circle and Ellipse (using construction elements)
- Perpendicularity constraint
- Bug fix: Show/hide internal geometry not working for external geometry
- Visualization of Internal alignment constraints when selecting in the constraint widget
- Equality for ellipses and arc of ellipses
- Ellipse introduction button via (center,majaxis extreme, a point in edge), ellipse is always CCW so that Z axis goes in the positive direction of the sketch
- Backwards compatibility with files of previous versions of ellipse not defining a phi angle
- Art by Jim (all the icons you see and the XPMs shown on creation of an ellipse)
- Element Widget support for ellipses
- Box selection for ellipses
- Point on Ellipse constraint based on the gardener's method based on Ulrich's function proposal (radcan simplified, i.e. with simplify_radical sage function)
- Tangent: Ellipse to Line based on DeepSOIC's geometric formulation (radcan simplified)
Sketcher New Feature: Internal Alignment Constraint
- The element to which internal alignment is applied has to be selected last.
- All other elements are added in the order of priority, taking into account existing elements
- Art by Jim (beautiful icons).
Sketcher New Feature: Tool to show/hide/restore the internal geometry of an element
- New functionality for show/hide internal geometry:
toggles between hiding all unused internal geometry elements and showing all internal geometry.
The restore function is implicit to the showing all internal geometry
Sketcher New Feature: Arc of Ellipse support
- Part::Geometry + Python implementation
- ArcOfEllipse creation method
- Art by Jim (all the icons you see and the XPMs shown on creation of arc of ellipse elements)
- Sketcher Element widget for ArcOfEllipse.
Bug fix: Select elements associated to constraints works now for foci internal alignment constraints
