No I did not consider Lattice2 - but I will and see how that works. I disagree that Draft is not parametric, because that is exactly what I did to to build this. I had two concerns with this problem: 1) Can FreeCAD handle this in a reasonable amount of time? And yes it can! 2) How to make this objec...

FreeCAD is awesome. I don't post very often but this one took some tinkering and maybe this will help the next person: 1) Trying to make a solid disk and using Part Design boolean cut for each hole will take a long time. 2) Didn't know that Daft downgrade will work on arrays so that individual items...

This works for moving views and sheets between pages - no error checking - doesn't include dimensions, annotations, etc that may be included in a view. pick the views to move and and the last item is the page to move to. It does remove the original view from the page and from the tree. def movePageV...

Another question: Is there any way to tag items in FC with a circle (with mk number) and a leader pointing to the item? Cad-document.pdf shows an example and FC-document.pdf shows the FC equivalent. I generate the page, page views and bill of materials via python code. Any guidance or advice would b...

I was scared of doing that in a script as I am a newbie and wanted to make sure it works reliably. Tuning off the page "keep updated" on pages not being worked on really speeds up the process. You may want to post this to the naysayers about techdraw.

Rough draft to see if moving a page view object move from one page to another works and it does Pick two objects, the first being the wind to move, the second the page to move to obj = FreeCADGui.Selection.getSelection()[0]# view to move objp = FreeCADGui.Selection.getSelection()[1]# page to move vi...

I forgot to mention, you do want an external data base be it csv, sql or whatever. Parts need to be ordered, checked in when received, checked for quality and so on. FC has enough power to generate all the lists very easily, but everybody does it differently.

Wow! You guys keep surprising me as to what FC can do. I should have looked at the specs on TechDraw first. It looks like I can generate a number of views, set the scales, and then add pages and or move the views around on different pages so they fit. Perfect!

Attached is my take on the bill of materials. The assumptions are: 1) Every object is in a group 2) Every Object has a description field (either generated by the input parameters, or assigned to "Black Boxed" objects See showcase> "pressure vessel with piping" for an overall view...

Version 0.17 Rev 13247 on Windows 10. I have several questions regarding TechDraw: 1) Is there any way to change the mouse navigation on tech draw pages so that it acts like the rest of Freecad? On my box it is set up with sliders so it is difficult to dimension parts that span the page. 2) Is there...