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Process capturing by using macro!!!
Dear team of FreeCAD.
I am a student in mechanical engineering and I want to ask you for some ideas about a task I have to do with FreeCAD and python.
The task is to find the process of conception that someone did. For example if a designer doing a design I want to see step by step what he did (like sketch1, Pad1, modification1, sketch2, pocket 1 and so on)
for this approach, I started recording the macro while doing a simple design and working on the macro code(python).
What I have in my mind as a solution is to do "save as" with a command between each step of the design process and then finally I will have many files, each one represents a step/steps.like the below shape.
First save as → step 1
Second save as → step 1 + step 2
Third save as → step 1 + step 2 + step 3
...
But it's not so clear where to put the save as commands in the recorded macro file and generate a lot of saved as files of steps and for solution I have this for now : (IF YOU HAVE OTHER IDEAS FOR THIS PLEASE TELL ME)
my solution :
I was thinking if somehow I could print the time of a done step (calling a function) at the beginning of each line of the macro file, then we can say the lines with the same time should be for the same step and I can put my save as command before time changing.
The second solution :
Maybe it's better to do a text processing of the macro file (python code) and put the save as command after each comment, like below
(### End command Std_Workbench), but the thing is that we won't have this comment always after each step, for example if I create a rectangle in the sketch the python code will not end with "### End command Std_Workbench".
I don't want to make you bored by my post, but if you can guide me for anything helpful to do my task, it would be highly appreciated, and I thank you in advance for any suggestion you might have for me during this task.
IMANIPOUR Meysam
