Datum Plane orientation request

[realthunder]

But there is something that's more important in my eyes: that the size of the coordinate system remains constant on the screen, that it doesn't scale with the part when zooming in and out.

I just added that in commit this and this. It is in LinkDev branch not LinkStage3, because I am working on some other features right now.

[Zolko]

I just added that in commit this and this.

I replaced the 2 files and tried to compile, both with the LinkStage3 and also from the main git repo, but it doesn't compile.

EDIT: I replaced all 4 files, and now it compiles and the size of the LCS is now constant on the screen, exactly as it should. Yes, this is very good, this should be default.

[Zolko]

But there is something that's more important in my eyes: that the size of the coordinate system remains constant on the screen, that it doesn't scale with the part when zooming in and out.

I just added that in commit this and this. It is in LinkDev branch not LinkStage3, because I am working on some other features right now.

now that LinkStage3 might be the next v0.19, could you include this fix into it ?

[realthunder]

now that LinkStage3 might be the next v0.19, could you include this fix into it ?

Yes, sure.

[RatonLaveur]

Hello all, sorry to revive this topic, but I'm really struggling with the Datum Plane creation.
I never know which direction they are oriented until my sketch is mapped drawn and extruded. Now i can always flip the plane or reverse the sketch mapping mode in a few clicks, but it is a bit tedious and can become rather frustrating when some sketches just break completely when this happens.

Has the original question of this post been resolved somewhat? (i.e.: visualize during datum plane creation what the normal positive axis is).

Thank you for your kind help.

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[HarryGeier]

as far as i know, you can only attach a coordinate system after creating the Datum Plane.

[RatonLaveur]

But the option to flip the plane is there already. So I'm flipping it from what to what?

I can also wiggle the Z value up and down a bit. So somehow the direction already exist.

For example if during the plane creation freecad automatically shows me a small green plane at z+1mm and a small red plane at z-1mm I'd know at all times what my yellow plane's orientation will be.

Although I'm dead certain there's a better way to show it

Datum planes are so important to truly make proper master based parametric design that i think this discussion ought to be had.

The center of the plane seems to be of importance too to center the sketch. But freecad does not like attaching a plane normal to an edge and attached to the same edge's vertex, so i always use excentered vertices and edges which moves my sketch origin off center, which means when i try flipping the sketch when i realise the plane was in the wrong orientation things break.

[chrisb]

Showing a coordinate system during editing of a DatumPlane - especially during creation - would be great. These extremely unlucky named properties yaw, roll, and pitch could then be coloured in the dialog in the same way as the axes of the coordiante system.

[Zolko]

Showing a coordinate system during editing of a DatumPlane - especially during creation - would be great.

Why not use coordinate systems to attach Sketches directly ? You'd have the orientation, and also the position - and orientation - of the X and Y axes. Since DatumPlanes cannot be resized properly their visual aid is limited anyway.

[RatonLaveur]

Fair comment for my tangent on sketch centering. But sometimes you want more than one sketch at more than one position in the same plane. In this case a plane speaks a lot more to me than a LCS.