These functions are part of the TechDraw module and can be used in scripts and macros or from the python interpreter, once the TechDraw module has been imported. Good examples of basic TechDraw scripting can be found in the unit test scripts.
See the TechDrawGui module API for more functions.
Example:
import FreeCAD
import TechDraw
page = FreeCAD.ActiveDocument.addObject('TechDraw::DrawPage','Page')
FreeCAD.ActiveDocument.addObject('TechDraw::DrawSVGTemplate','Template')
FreeCAD.ActiveDocument.Template.Template = templateFileSpec
FreeCAD.ActiveDocument.Page.Template = FreeCAD.ActiveDocument.Template
page.ViewObject.show()
view = FreeCAD.ActiveDocument.addObject('TechDraw::DrawViewPart','View')
rc = page.addView(view)
EdgeWalker ( listOfEdges, [bool] )Description: Creates wires from edges in input by planar graph traversal. Optionally exclude the OuterWire by setting optional parameter to false.
Returns: List of wires sorted by size (descending)
findOuterWire ( listOfEdges )Description: Finds the OuterWire (largest) of a list of edges (that form a planar graph).
Returns: Outer wire
findShapeOutline ( TopoShape, scale, direction )Description: Project shape in direction and find outer wire of result.
Returns: Outline wire
viewPartAsDxf ( DrawViewPart )Description: Return the edges of a DrawViewPart in Dxf format.
Returns: String
fileSpecDxf = "fcOut.dxf" v = App.ActiveDocument.View s = TechDraw.viewPartAsDxf(v) dxfEnd = "0\nEOF\n" dxfFile = open(fileSpecDxf, "w") dxfFile.write(s) dxfFile.write(dxfEnd) dxfFile.close()
viewPartAsSvg ( DrawViewPart )Description: Return the edges of a DrawViewPart in Svg format.
Returns: String
fileSpecSvg = "fcOut.svg"
v = App.ActiveDocument.View
s = TechDraw.viewPartAsSvg(v)
head = '<svg\n' + \
'xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" version="1.1" \n' + \
'xmlns:freecad="http://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/index.php?title=Svg_Namespace">\n'
tail = '\n</svg>'
svgFile = open(fileSpecSvg, "w")
svgFile.write(head)
svgFile.write(s)
svgFile.write(tail)
svgFile.close()
writeDXFView ( DrawViewPart, FileName )Description: Save the DrawViewPart in Dxf.
Returns: File
import TechDraw TechDraw.writeDXFView(myPart,myFileName)
writeDXFPage ( DrawPage, FileName )Description: Save the DrawPage in Dxf.
Returns: File
import TechDraw TechDraw.writeDXFPage(myPage,myFileName)
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