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Rotation: - Add a private attribute Vector to store the direction of the rotation, and manage not to erase this direction when the angle id 0. - Add a private attribute to store the angle as defined (no modulo etc) - Keep the quaternion for calculations PropertyGeo - Saves the rotation with angle and direction instead of saving the quaternion. - Attribute name chosen: Ox, Oy and Oz for the coordinates of the axis and A for the angle in radians. This has to be validated. - Backward compatibility with the saved files with quaternion (test presence of A to determine which of the Quaternion (old way) or the direction and angle is stored (new way). New files can be opened by old FreeCAD and vice-versa. The only side effect I can imagine is that it was possible to set a vector to 0, 0, 0 if the angle was not 0, what is somehow non sense. Now when setting to 0, 0 0 the last not null vector is kept. The vector can not be null any longer.
FreeCAD
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Compiling
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