[New Workbench] MetalWB, for welding part design

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Quentin_Plsn
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[New Workbench] MetalWB, for welding part design

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Hello to all of you,

We have developed a new external workbench for the design of mechanical welding parts with @Vincent B and @rockn. I had already made an announcement in the French forum but I wanted to wait to show it here.

I present you 'MetalWB', available at the experimental stage here on Framagit. The goal would be to cover the whole workflow for the design of welded parts, up to the drawing.
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The MetalWB workbench includes drawing tools to facilitate the creation of 3D contours as a basis for welded structures. 3D contours can be made by manipulating 2D sketches in Sketcher: tilting, copy and paste, manual moving...
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Curves workbench functions allow you to add parametric lines. Previously created sketch lines can be used as a basis for applying the divide or line between two points functions.
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A function to create a parametric cube has been added to quickly reproduce structures with this shape.

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Frames are created with the 'WarehouseProfiles' function, specific to the MetalWB workbench. It appears as a dialog box, where the user can define the profile completely. Pressing the 'OK' button will create a set of bodies, where each body represents a flow.
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Each of created bodies via WarehouseProfiles is customisable. Parameters can be accessed from the properties to get a more refined result.
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Other mecano-welding functions are available at the experimental stage: a trim and extend function and corner management functions. I'll tell you the rest in a second post because I've reached the maximum size of attachments.
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Re: [New Workbench] MetalWB, for welding part design

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Trim and extend function and corner management functions :
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The welded part can be assembled with other elements via the different assembly workbenches: A2plus, Asm3 or Assembly4. Below, the Atelier Paysan carriage (called 'Porte-tout') was modelled using Assembly4, which allows the mechanism to be animated, here according to the angle of the wheels and the axle.
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It is also possible to model missing elements directly via Part Design: below the tray and the wheels of the hand trolley are created from the tubes. This method can be used in combination with the previous one. It is particularly effective if the elements to be added have not been modelled afterwards and you wish to adjust the dimensions directly to the welded part.
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It is possible to install the workbench via the Addon manager by adding the Framagit repository to the preferences. Otherwise it can be installed manually by copying it directly into the 'Mod' folder.
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Re: [New Workbench] MetalWB, for welding part design

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Great workbench, looks great, I think this will be very useful when working with big machine designs.
Congratulations for your amazing work.
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Looks great keep up the good work !
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That is very cool! Keep up the great work.
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Re: [New Workbench] MetalWB, for welding part design

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Useful workbench.
Is there a way to change profile once inserted ?
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Re: [New Workbench] MetalWB, for welding part design

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Look great ! Some features looks like the Dodo (previous Flamingo) Workbench Add-on? :)


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https://wiki.freecad.org/Dodo_Workbench
https://github.com/oddtopus/dodo

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Re: [New Workbench] MetalWB, for welding part design

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Can someone help me, since I am new to Freecad, how can I install this workbench or any other ?
Thank you very much !
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Re: [New Workbench] MetalWB, for welding part design

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Very interesting, thank you!
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