FreeCAD Programming
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Overview
Programming New Workbenches in FreeCAD
One Paragraph Introduction by Ruslan Krenzler
FreeCAD Kernel
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Notes from G
- Keeping 3D programming in mind - understanding what you are working with in 3D space
- Label code and functions according to orientation
- Adding toolbars is easy
- To start a FreeCAD workbench...
Starting a Bench
- Start by knowing what you need to do.
- Understand a Command concept in FreeCAD
- Understand geometry
- Command is a thing that gets executed withing FreeCAD
- Hard part was figuring out how to program the geometry
- The more details in geometry
- User selects an objects. Ex. .length.object gets you length
- Navigating the code base - going through many files.
- Using Docker to run unit tests. Docker creates an application environment, without installing FreeCAD or python modules
- One Docker instance does the test runs. How long did it take to set up Docker.