Feature request thin element for Part and PartDesign workbench

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C_h_o_p_i_n
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Re: Feature request thin element for Part and PartDesign workbench

Post by C_h_o_p_i_n »

Dear All,

I like to support freecad-heini-1' s request ...

https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic. ... 08#p388103

This function might be very helpful !

Kind regards,
Stefan
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Re: Feature request thin element for Part and PartDesign workbench

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You may note it can be done mostly with ArchWall. Is that what something you want ?
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Re: Feature request thin element for Part and PartDesign workbench

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If I understand it right, that's what freecad-heini-1 did in the linked topic:
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Re: Feature request thin element for Part and PartDesign workbench

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C_h_o_p_i_n wrote:
Jee-Bee wrote:
Hi, trying to implement this. What do you think this attribute should be named ? Need some native English speaker's advice.

Extrusion Offset, Normal Offset ... ?

Thanks.
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Re: Feature request thin element for Part and PartDesign workbench

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Why not call it "Wall" as in Arch?
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Re: Feature request thin element for Part and PartDesign workbench

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"Wall" implies vertical orientation.
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Re: Feature request thin element for Part and PartDesign workbench

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Line extrusion, or spine perhaps?
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Re: Feature request thin element for Part and PartDesign workbench

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Thanks, I am explaining a little bit more the intent.

ArchWall 'thicken' Base DWire / Sketch polyline into baseplate, then Extrude along the Normal for the Height. Now it seem peoples want something more e.g.:

- to have an attribute to control the Wall to 'extrude' in symmetrical direction along the Normal for the Height defined
- to have an attribute to control the Wall 'extrude' some portion in 'reverse' direction / baseplate offset from Base

Now I just added a property 'Extrusion Offset' for above 2nd scenario
(People could manually input -ve of Height /2 to make it look extruding 'symmetrically')

[EDIT] Maybe 'Extrusion Align' for the 1st scenario with option - default 'Bottom' , 'Center' (similar to Center in Align, i.e. symmetrically), 'Custom' - so Extrusion Offset will be used.

I am wondering if I understand people's usage / workflow intuition to add the above 2 attributes and the names of the attributes
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Re: Feature request thin element for Part and PartDesign workbench

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Maybe ... ?

- ExtrusionAlign - default 'Bottom', 'Top', 'Center'
- ExtrusionOffset - +ve / -ve Offset

And they behave similarly to Align (Left, Rigth, Center) and Offset
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