How much interest is there to integrate LibreOffice into FreeCAD?

[microelly2]

IMO as big step forward is to have a interprocess communication between the running libre office window and the freecad app:

chang something in office and get the changes in cad.

I tried this with inkscape and freecad but without access.

Maybe this is possible with libre office api ?
So someone can edit a libre office painting and get it in freecad.

I go this way with the neo4j database. A sensor running in freecad looks at the database
and sends notifications to the app.

[HakanSeven12]

That would be useful. +1

[Aleks]

I actually do not care how it is implemented. I just want to generate manuals depending on cad model specifications.

[salp]

IMO as big step forward is to have a interprocess communication between the running libre office window and the freecad app:

chang something in office and get the changes in cad.
So someone can edit a libre office painting and get it in freecad.

I go this way with the neo4j database. A sensor running in freecad looks at the database
and sends notifications to the app.

From the brief testing I'v done so far, the solution seems quite stable and the interaction can be scripted on both sides. LibreOffice python scripts can control FreeCAD as well.

[Joel_graff]

From the brief testing I'v done so far, the solution seems quite stable and the interaction can be scripted on both sides. LibreOffice python scripts can control FreeCAD as well.

That's great!

[microelly2]

From the brief testing I'v done so far, the solution seems quite stable and the interaction can be scripted on both sides. LibreOffice python scripts can control FreeCAD as well.

Would be nice to see an example how to draw from FreeCAD Gui a line into an open Libre office drawing document.

[salp]

I have gotten as far as being able to launch LibreOffice fromFreeCAD with this macro https://github.com/myoldz/FC_LibreOffice.git.

I did not start Calc automatic on purpose, but once you open the LibreOffice document it is linked to the "doc" object.

Next step's:
copy variables from FreeCAD and put them into a spreadsheet
copy variables from a spreadsheet and put them into FreeCAD

note: running the macro does generate an error, but the call succeeds.

[Kunda1]

Nice!!!

[microelly2]

I have gotten as far as being able to launch LibreOffice fromFreeCAD with this macro https://github.com/myoldz/FC_LibreOffice.git.

the script runs for me but when I access doc the app crashes

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
#0 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x36cb0) [0x2b1eae26bcb0]
#1 /tmp/.mount_FreeCAMllRs7/usr/bin/../lib/libpython3.7m.so.1.0(PyModule_GetDict+0xb) [0x2b1eac4005ab]
#2 /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libpyuno.so(+0x8d3e) [0x2b1ee15a0d3e]
#3 0x2b1ee15a0f58 in pyuno::Runtime::Runtime() from /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libpyuno.so+0x38
#4 ...


OS: Ubuntu 14.04.6 LTS (Unity/ubuntu)
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.19.18829 (Git) AppImage
Build type: Release
Branch: master
Hash: 186d52ffd47696fadcd91369365e97f084051e7b
Python version: 3.7.3
Qt version: 5.12.5
Coin version: 4.0.0a
OCC version: 7.3.0
Locale: German/Germany (de_DE)

[salp]

the script runs for me but when I access doc the app crashes

Looking into it, thanks.