What are the needs for the integrated assembly workbench?

[ppemawm]

Probably out of scope, as "top down" is one of the many ways of doing things.

I beg to differ. In my experience it is the only way to design an assembly. If you know of another way, please let me know.

[ppemawm]

What scares people in Asm3 is the large number of constraints available, stemming from the solver used (solvespace).

Exactly.

I really like working with Asm3, because it's very similar to the approach I knew with SolidWorks or Catia.

For a direct comparison of Assembly4 to SW please see my latest post for that purpose here: viewtopic.php?t=80718. This is a more of a bottom-up assembly since the design already exists. For a top-down example see here: viewtopic.php?t=78962

[Cyclonit]

I'd like to add that for me parametrization parts is a very important aspect. Lots of parts in an assembly might be parametrized and a user might want to use different versions of that part in one and the same assembly. Screws are a common example. It makes sense to have only one base model for a metric hex-head screw, which ends up being used in all kinds of different sizes. This expands into BOM management too.

[cehjan]

Great, I can't wait for the new Assembly workbench.

In my opinion, the Assembly module (in collaboration with Techdraw) must have a tool that creates a Bill of materials. The BOM is one of the most important documents created during design.

It would be great if in the future it would be possible to link parts to geometric elements of the imported sketch and also to link parts to each other using local coordinate systems (Assembly 4).

The list is quite large and you have a lot of work ahead of you, it is useful to see what tools other 3D CAD software have: creating sub-assemblies, creating Mirror parts, duplicate parts, circular and rectangular patterns, collision detection...

[bntarc]

Assembly Workbench

FreeCAD_weekly-builds-34873-2023-11-05-conda-Windows-x86_64-py310.7z

[FreeCutter]

Thanks a lot for letting us know - looks really nice!
I tried to play around with what is available in the weekly-builds. So far I managed to link in some parts and to place joints. But I guess as the solver is not yet implemented the actual assembly action still doesn’t take place, right?
Would it be too early to mention what is already available in the dev. release notes?
Looking forward to see further progress and keeping fingers crossed!

[bntarc]

Integrated assembly workbench coming to your doorstep
viewtopic.php?t=82685

[kwahoo]

I tried to play around with what is available in the weekly-builds. So far I managed to link in some parts and to place joints. But I guess as the solver is not yet implemented the actual assembly action still doesn’t take place, right?

You can see solver in action after building this branch https://github.com/Ondsel-Development/F ... er-testing

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git clone --recursive https://github.com/Ondsel-Development/FreeCAD.git
git checkout OndselSolver-testing