Volunteers: Unfinished Wiki pages for Part Workbench

[C4e]

I inserted a couple of tested scripting examples and found some interesting things.

Sometimes the counting variable names are not equal. Angle1, Angle2 or Angle0 and so on. Is there a rule of thumb for coding (always start at a counter of 0) oder what else?

Some of the Parameters do not have tool tip texts or identical tool tip text, which is not helpful in my opinion.

Can I make a Github PR to fill in this, or should this be discussed in the developer forum first?

And the question is, should I make a screenshot of the scripting result after the scripting section?

[Kunda1]

Can I make a Github PR to fill in this, or should this be discussed in the developer forum first?

I suggest to open a new forum thread in the developer discussion forum and x-post the link back to here.

[C4e]

Can I make a Github PR to fill in this, or should this be discussed in the developer forum first?

I suggest to open a new forum thread in the developer discussion forum and x-post the link back to here.

Done.

The topic is here.

[C4e]

Per https://wiki.freecadweb.org/index.php?t ... nishedDocu
the following Part WB wiki pages are marked incomplete:
Part BoxSelection
...
Part Wedge

Please insert Part Prism to your list. I marked it as incomplete.

[Kunda1]

Please insert Part Prism to your list. I marked it as incomplete.

Done, thanks!

[C4e]

Please insert Part_Tube to your list.

The scripting sections contains the following not workin line of code.

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tube = FreeCAD.ActiveDocument.addObject("Part::Tube", "myTube")

I tried this in the 0.20 version

OS: macOS 10.16
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.20.27319 (Git)
Build type: Release
Python version: 3.9.10
Qt version: 5.12.9
Coin version: 4.0.0
OCC version: 7.5.3
Locale: C/Default (C)

And the result is

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File "<input>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: 'Part::Tube' is not a document object type

I try to find it out and got some questions.

Both code examples occurs after pressing a button in the toolbar.

What is the difference between the following two code lines?

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Gui.runCommand('Part_Tube',0)

Starts a macro or code?

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App.ActiveDocument.addObject("Part::Cone","Cone")

[Roy_043]

difference between the following two code lines?

The first starts a GUI command and cannot be used in a macro.

Looking at CommandShapes.py this is how you can add a tube:

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from BasicShapes import Shapes
from BasicShapes import ViewProviderShapes

tube = FreeCAD.ActiveDocument.addObject("Part::FeaturePython", "Tube")
Shapes.TubeFeature(tube)
ViewProviderShapes.ViewProviderTube(tube.ViewObject)

[Roy_043]

Is the Properties section of the Part Box wiki page a good example?

I have updated Part_Box#Properties to how it should look.

[Kunda1]

Nice!

[C4e]

The first starts a GUI command and cannot be used in a macro.

Looking at CommandShapes.py this is how you can add a tube:

Thanks for the hint to the CommandShapes.py. I should take a look into it. The meaning of GUI command and the difference will become now clear.

I will add the script into the wiki.

I have updated Part_Box#Properties to how it should look.

Thanks. I will come back to it later.