Topological Naming, My Take

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Re: Topological Naming, My Take

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realthunder wrote: Wed Apr 11, 2018 11:37 am
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Is that integrated in your new appimage (Ubuntu), as well as all the new topo naming improvements?
Not yet, but new release is coming soon.
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Re: Topological Naming, My Take

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I try to read almost everything here, another matter is how much I understand. I do comprehend that the topological naming issue is with 3D objects and my current issue is with a sketch. Since they look kinda similar I thought to ask anyway.

My problem is with the green dimension in screenshot (filename:FCD_green_dim.jpg). My sketches in the beginning have 90deg corners and later add radii or chamfers if I decide so. But if i do that the (6.1mm) dimension disappears. For me the point (rightmost point of the previous green 6.1 mm dimension) just moved little downwards, but FreeCAD deletes that dimension. I have had the same experience with some commercial 3D software in the past.

I will accept that only I have this problem, not drawing the correct sketch first place, and I should learn-to-CAD. I will also accept that this is a problem, but not a part of solving the topological naming issue.

Thanks

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Re: Topological Naming, My Take

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The dimension disappears as soon as the point is removed. You could remove the coincidence pull the two line ends apart and add the chamfer yourself, then you can keep it. It still might be in the wrong place (at the left of the two points).
Another possibility is to use the general distance point/line. But the problem will reoccur as soon as you chamfer the corner of the point.

You should avoid it by applying the dimensional constraints later. Which is good advice anyway, because you should always prefer geometry constraints over dimensional ones.
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Re: Topological Naming, My Take

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Rene wrote: Wed Apr 11, 2018 2:38 pm I will accept that only I have this problem, not drawing the correct sketch first place, and I should learn-to-CAD. I will also accept that this is a problem, but not a part of solving the topological naming issue.
This is somewhat related to topological naming. However, it is out of the scope of my take here, which only applies to modeling using OCCT. This problem is more specific, and can only be solved inside Sketcher itself. The chamfer essentially split the points into to two. Sketcher can, for example, check which point's horizontal coordinates remains the same, and move the horizontal dimension constraint there, same for vertical one.
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PartDesign is getting colorful, too. Cheers!

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I've been reading through OCC 7.2.0 release notes, and picked this:
Summary: Create a mechanism to serve shape history in a common way for algorithms accepting and producing shapes.
Shape history mechanism has been implemented in the new class BRepTools_History. It supports history for shapes with types 'vertex', 'edge', 'face' and 'solid' and allows defining relations 'generated', 'modified' and 'removed' between the accepted and the produced shapes. It provides algorithm to merge two histories of sequentially applied algorithms. It is positioned as a replacement of widely used history methods Generated, Modified, IsDeleted.
Type BRepTools_ReShape has been extended to support the BRepTools_History and correctly merge history of several shapes merged to a single one.
BRepTools_History history has been implemented for algorithm ShapeUpgrade_UnifySameDomain. The history of changes in the initial shape now considers all shapes created by the algorithm as modified instead of generated shapes.
▪ to get the modified shapes, use History()->Modified()
▪ to check whether the shape has been deleted, use History()>IsRemoved().
I thought it might be interesting for you, one of the two who messes with toponaming. If you already know this, then sorry for the noise ;)
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Re: Topological Naming, My Take

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DeepSOIC wrote: Mon Apr 16, 2018 8:26 pm I thought it might be interesting for you, one of the two who messes with toponaming. If you already know this, then sorry for the noise ;)
Thanks for the reference. Looks a lot like FC ShapeHistory class, but can be across different type of shapes I presume.
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Re: Topological Naming, My Take

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Hi!
It sounds like the topological naming is included in the freecad version where the assembly 3 is. (If I understood it right)

So I can give you a case where the topological naming algorithme don't work

To reproduce :
Select pad001 and check reverse direction.

The difference between with and without topological naming solution :
with => an error appear on Sketch002 (for Pocket)
without => Holes generated by pocket move to an other face

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Re: Topological Naming, My Take

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Matael wrote: Tue Apr 17, 2018 1:27 pm Version: 0.17.5235 (Git shallow) AppImage
I checked it here and works perfectly. I'm not sure with realthunder's numbering scheme but is it possible that you have a completely outdated version?

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Re: Topological Naming, My Take

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Matael wrote: Tue Apr 17, 2018 1:27 pm Hi!
It sounds like the topological naming is included in the freecad version where the assembly 3 is. (If I understood it right)

So I can give you a case where the topological naming algorithme don't work

To reproduce :
Select pad001 and check reverse direction.

The difference between with and without topological naming solution :
with => an error appear on Sketch002 (for Pocket)
without => Holes generated by pocket move to an other face
That's how topological naming works. In case of topological changes, the geometry element name is not reused. And an explicit error will be shown to the user in order for him to fix it. In your case, after the pad change, the face attached by the sketch is changed, causing its element name to change.

The new topological naming here does not mean it can (or even should) automatically fix any reference changes due to model changes. It is like the fillet example I showed here. If the edge is changed, you'll see an error. I added element reference guessing logic in the fillet editing tools, so you may see the correct edge selected when you double clicking the fillet. But it is still guessing here. It may auto select too many edges. In case of sketch, there is only one face to select, so I didn't add the guessing logic. The user just need to select the face again.
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