diff --git a/src/Mod/PartDesign/Gui/CMakeLists.txt b/src/Mod/PartDesign/Gui/CMakeLists.txt
index af384cc76..03b37fa31 100644
--- a/src/Mod/PartDesign/Gui/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/Mod/PartDesign/Gui/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -18,6 +18,9 @@ include_directories(
 )
 link_directories(${OCC_LIBRARY_DIR})
 
+generate_from_xml(ViewProviderPy)
+
+
 set(PartDesignGui_LIBS
     PartDesign
     SketcherGui
@@ -252,6 +255,14 @@ SET(PartDesignGuiModule_SRCS
 )
 SOURCE_GROUP("Module" FILES ${PartDesignGuiModule_SRCS})
 
+
+SET(Python_SRCS
+    ViewProviderPy.xml
+    ViewProviderPyImp.cpp
+)
+SOURCE_GROUP("Python" FILES ${Python_SRCS})
+
+
 SET(PartDesignGui_Scripts
     InitGui.py
     TestPartDesignGui.py
@@ -263,6 +274,7 @@ SET(PartDesignGui_SRCS
     ${PartDesignGuiModule_SRCS}
     ${PartDesignGuiTaskDlgs_SRCS}
     ${PartDesignGuiViewProvider_SRCS}
+	${Python_SRCS}
 )
 
 add_library(PartDesignGui SHARED ${PartDesignGui_SRCS})
diff --git a/src/Mod/PartDesign/Gui/ViewProvider.cpp b/src/Mod/PartDesign/Gui/ViewProvider.cpp
index 641954e6b..166a51707 100644
--- a/src/Mod/PartDesign/Gui/ViewProvider.cpp
+++ b/src/Mod/PartDesign/Gui/ViewProvider.cpp
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
 #include "TaskFeatureParameters.h"
 
 #include "ViewProvider.h"
+#include "ViewProviderPy.h"
 
 using namespace PartDesignGui;
 
@@ -252,6 +253,14 @@ void ViewProvider::makeTemporaryVisible(bool onoff)
         Gui::ViewProvider::hide();
 }
 
+PyObject* ViewProvider::getPyObject()
+{
+    if (!pyViewObject)
+        pyViewObject = new ViewProviderPy(this);
+    pyViewObject->IncRef();
+    return pyViewObject;
+}
+
 
 namespace Gui {
 /// @cond DOXERR
diff --git a/src/Mod/PartDesign/Gui/ViewProvider.h b/src/Mod/PartDesign/Gui/ViewProvider.h
index 7a128402e..6abf52067 100644
--- a/src/Mod/PartDesign/Gui/ViewProvider.h
+++ b/src/Mod/PartDesign/Gui/ViewProvider.h
@@ -60,6 +60,8 @@ public:
     //document and properties.
     void makeTemporaryVisible(bool);
 
+    virtual PyObject* getPyObject(void);
+
 protected:
     virtual bool setEdit(int ModNum);
     virtual void unsetEdit(int ModNum);
diff --git a/src/Mod/PartDesign/Gui/ViewProviderPy.xml b/src/Mod/PartDesign/Gui/ViewProviderPy.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ff5b2104f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Mod/PartDesign/Gui/ViewProviderPy.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<GenerateModel xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="generateMetaModel_Module.xsd">
+  <PythonExport
+    Father="ViewProviderDocumentObjectPy"
+    Name="ViewProviderPy"
+    Twin="ViewProvider"
+    TwinPointer="ViewProvider"
+    Include="Mod/PartDesign/Gui/ViewProvider.h"
+    Namespace="PartDesignGui"
+    FatherInclude="Gui/ViewProviderDocumentObjectPy.h"
+    FatherNamespace="Gui">
+    <Documentation>
+      <Author Licence="LGPL" Name="Juergen Riegel" EMail="FreeCAD@juergen-riegel.net" />
+      <UserDocu>This is the father of all PartDesign ViewProvider classes</UserDocu>
+    </Documentation>
+    <Methode Name="setBodyMode">
+            <Documentation>
+<UserDocu>setBodyMode(bool): body mode means that the object is part of a body
+and that the body is used to set the visual properties, not the features. Hence
+setting body mode to true will hide most viewprovider properties.</UserDocu>
+            </Documentation>
+    </Methode>
+    <Methode Name="makeTemporaryVisible">
+            <Documentation>
+<UserDocu>makeTemporaryVisible(bool): makes this viewprovider visible in the
+scene graph without changing any properties, not the visibility one and also not
+the display mode. This can be used to show the shape of this viewprovider from
+other viewproviders without doing anything to the document and properties.
+</UserDocu>
+            </Documentation>
+    </Methode>
+  </PythonExport>
+</GenerateModel>
diff --git a/src/Mod/PartDesign/Gui/ViewProviderPyImp.cpp b/src/Mod/PartDesign/Gui/ViewProviderPyImp.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4c31c59cc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Mod/PartDesign/Gui/ViewProviderPyImp.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+/***************************************************************************
+ *   Copyright (c) 2017 Victor Titov (DeepSOIC)   <vv.titov@gmail.com>     *
+ *                                                                         *
+ *   This file is part of the FreeCAD CAx development system.              *
+ *                                                                         *
+ *   This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or         *
+ *   modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public           *
+ *   License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either          *
+ *   version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.      *
+ *                                                                         *
+ *   This library  is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,      *
+ *   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of        *
+ *   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the         *
+ *   GNU Library General Public License for more details.                  *
+ *                                                                         *
+ *   You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public     *
+ *   License along with this library; see the file COPYING.LIB. If not,    *
+ *   write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place,         *
+ *   Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA                                *
+ *                                                                         *
+ ***************************************************************************/
+
+
+#include "PreCompiled.h"
+
+#include "ViewProvider.h"
+
+// inclusion of the generated files (generated out of ViewProviderPy.xml)
+#include "ViewProviderPy.h"
+#include "ViewProviderPy.cpp"
+
+using namespace PartDesignGui;
+
+// returns a string which represent the object e.g. when printed in python
+std::string ViewProviderPy::representation(void) const
+{
+    return std::string("<PartDesign::ViewProvider>");
+}
+
+PyObject *ViewProviderPy::getCustomAttributes(const char* ) const
+{
+    return 0;
+}
+
+int ViewProviderPy::setCustomAttributes(const char* , PyObject *)
+{
+    return 0;
+}
+
+PyObject* ViewProviderPy::setBodyMode(PyObject* args)
+{
+    PartDesignGui::ViewProvider* base = getViewProviderPtr();
+
+    PyObject* b_mode;
+    if(PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "O!", &PyBool_Type, &b_mode)){
+        base->setBodyMode(PyObject_IsTrue(b_mode));
+        return Py::new_reference_to(Py::None());
+    };
+
+    return nullptr; //error
+}
+
+PyObject* ViewProviderPy::makeTemporaryVisible(PyObject* args)
+{
+    PartDesignGui::ViewProvider* base = getViewProviderPtr();
+
+    PyObject* b_vis;
+    if(PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "O!", &PyBool_Type, &b_vis)){
+        base->makeTemporaryVisible(PyObject_IsTrue(b_vis));
+        return Py::new_reference_to(Py::None());
+    };
+
+    return nullptr; //error
+}