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New grants: transparent preview in Part Design, interactive Sketcher tutorials

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The FPA Gen­er­al Assem­bly approved two new grant applications.

Kacper Donat aka kadet will work on a new fea­ture pre­view sys­tem that can be used in Part and Part Design. When­ev­er you need to apply Pad or Loft or any oth­er com­mand, you will get a trans­par­ent pre­view of what you are get­ting right in the viewport. 

Devel­op­ment already start­ed weeks ago, the plan is to com­plete it by the end of 2024. Kacper was award­ed a grant of EUR 1,500.

This is the first part of a larg­er project intend­ed to uni­fy Part and Part Design. Fur­ther planned stages, that are out of scope for this grant, are:

  1. Add more mul­ti sol­id capa­bil­i­ties to Part Design
  2. Allow using fea­tures from oth­er work­bench­es in Part Design workbench
  3. Merge dupli­cat­ed fea­tures togeth­er (Extrude / Pad / Pock­et, Cham­fer, Fil­let etc.)

Dr. Rajeevlochana G. Chit­tawadi­gi, Dr. Ravi Kumar V., and Dr. Mohan Kumar S. will devel­op a Sketch­er addon for teach­ing how to use the work­bench. Users will fol­low step-by-step instruc­tions, and the wiz­ard will high­light mis­takes (if any) after each step. The project deliv­er­ables are spread across 9 months. The team was award­ed a grant of USD 6,000 (to be paid to one rep­re­sen­ta­tive in three steps).

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8 responses to “New grants: transparent preview in Part Design, interactive Sketcher tutorials”

  1. GAZ082 Avatar
    GAZ082

    Awe­some! Nice to see we are work­ing towards uni­fy­ing Parts and PD! it’s going to make things eas­i­er for new­com­ers and hope­ful­ly vet­er­ans as well. Also per­haps less main­te­nance complexity.

  2. Clive Avatar
    Clive

    I love FreeCAD. Thank you all, for all the hard work and time you put in.

  3. GentlemanRider Avatar
    GentlemanRider

    This remem­bers me of how Linkstage3 dis­plays the same oper­a­tions. It also had a sim­i­lar ‘live pre­view mode’ when mak­ing fil­lets and cham­frs that might be worth porting

    1. Aleksandr Prokudin Avatar
      Aleksandr Prokudin

      Yes, and RT said that it’s hard to iso­late that fea­ture from the rest of the code because it’s inter­twined with his topon­am­ing code.

  4. John Avatar
    John

    In the Part Design envi­ron­ment, the biggest prob­lem are fea­tures Thick­ness and Draft. It is not pos­si­ble to do ele­men­tary shapes with these tools.

  5. Spike Avatar
    Spike

    Thanks to all the team and con­trib­u­tors. Do you accept dona­tions through Bitcoin ?

    1. Aleksandr Prokudin Avatar
      Aleksandr Prokudin

      I think you are sup­posed to be able to donate BTC on Open­Col­lec­tive, but I’m not sure: https://opencollective.com/freecad

  6. holomorphism Avatar
    holomorphism

    Uni­fy­ing Part and Part­De­sign is a game chang­er in terms of dis­cov­er­abil­i­ty for new users! Has there been talks of doing some­thing sim­i­lar for the 2D work­bench­es? Draft has so many idio­syn­crasies and a clunky UX com­pared to the rest of FreeCAD, caus­ing me to write it off as com­plete lega­cy code when I was new. But I’ve learned that it still has some use­ful tools (not even 2D-spe­cif­ic!) that I would­n’t have dis­cov­ered at all with­out watch­ing tutorials.

    You’re all doing amaz­ing work, in any case! Con­grat­u­la­tions to the grant applicants!

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