I thought it would be handy to have a quick way to separate "construction" geometry (used only to construct other stuff, like guidelines, etc) from the "final" geometry, so I implemented a small system in the draft module: - There is a checkable "Construction" button on...

Perfect! Werner's measurement tool is indeed better I think... Werner 1 Jürgen 0 I think I'll change the icon to yellow, makes more sense... And I'll make a special one for the tree view (more simple with thicker outline) About the selectability, what would you think of doing something like this: ht...

jriegel wrote:The first package I will work on is the python interface to the solver itself.

Cool! I'm pretty eager to see that new solver in action

jriegel wrote:IMO core (GUI) should run without pivy

Yes I agree totally... Pivy is really a pain in the ass and it would give much hassle.
Too bad the guy who created pivy has disappeard, because it is really useful.
But reproducing my little code in C++ won't be too hard either, so maybe later I have a try.

This is great, I'm getting a big fan of that WorkingPlane.
I made an entry on the wiki, change it if you see mistakes...
I'm thinking to another cool use we might do of that tool: in the context menu. You select a face, then, right click -> set as working plane...

Nothing better, on a rainy sunday, than work on freecad...

Can you point me to the code where you build up the scene graph? Sure, the python feature definitiion is in src/Mod/Draft/Draft.py at line 707, and the command that creates it is in the same file at line 1678... The only real difference with yours is that it supports the snapping mode of the draft ...

Ok the icons are done: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/free-cad/index.php?title=Artwork In blender there is a quite beautiful tree that also use a selectable/unselectable icon... If you have blender around check the outliner window. I also made another icon for the measurement tool, if you wan...

What did you guys think of the draft dimension? It does more or less the same job... And you can place it quite precisely. The only small problem I have is to orient the dimension text so it is well aligned with the dimension "bridge". I have to look at how 3D text is oriented. And of cour...

If you make me a Icon for that, we have a deal! ;) Deal! No, the attributes can be accessed directly. In the meantime I have compiled pivy here and it is as simple as: from pivy import coin node=coin.SoType.fromName("SoFCSelection").createInstance() node.documentName.setValue("Hello ...