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Geometry button:
- if no object selected, the legacy toggle icon has a new functionality, switch to/from creating in construction mode
- if object selected, it has the legacy functionality
- the button can be clicked during "continuos creation mode" to switch from creating to/from creating in construction mode
Constraint button:
- The button is not selectable if nothing is selected (it would be impossible to determine the effect)
- When constraints are selected, the button toggles the constraints to/from Driving.
- When geometry is selected, the button switches from/to reference mode, the change is apparent from the color of the constraint icons.
Continuous creation mode:
- Default changed so that it is active unless you change it in settings
Updated terminology
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- Changing from Driving to reference does not include unnecessary solvings.
- Added some checks to avoid making Driving constraints when calling directly from python and involving only external geometry (would give redundant constraints).
- New python command toggleDriving to just change the status from reference to Driving
- New UI toolbar Command to toggle constraints
- Fix to allow switching from/to construction mode during continuous mode creation.
- Enable/Disable for constraints in constraints widget has changed to operate on multiselection and now effects "toggle" instead of enable/disable.
- Disable the option to directly create a SnellsLaw non-driving constraint (this constraint does not support direct creation, it can be toggled to non-driving after creation though).
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The fillet applied to construction lines generates normal (not construction) geometry.
How to replicate?
1.Make a square and make all lines construction lines.
2.Apply fillet tool, there result will be a white line fillet connecting two blue constructions lines.
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It allows to create constraints directly into Reference or Driving mode.
It does not include icons
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It allows to select whether the geometry will be created as construction geometry or normal geometry.
This commit includes an important bug fix to reduce the number of times the sketcher solver is called when toggling
geometry. It makes an important difference in the creation during construction mode and InternalAligment geometry like the ellipse.
This commit does not include icons.
You have a button next to toggle that after having been clicked, switches from Normal to Construction geometry and vice versa
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It lifts the need of clicking on the external geometry icon upon importing each external geometry element.
All the elements on which the user clicks are imported until the user right clicks with the mouse or presses ESC, like the Trim or Fillet tools.
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When creating a type of geometric element, the user can create as many elements of that type he wishes without having to click the button before each insertion.
The insertion of that type of elements ends by pressing ESC or clicking the right button of the mouse.
This mode is by default disabled and can be enabled in Preferences->Display->Sketch->Geometry Creation "Continue Mode".
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This fixes a bug in the original implementation, that a non-driving constraint value could be
edited by double clicking on it in the 3D view.
It also includes minimal documentation on some functions.
It also includes:
- Color setting for non-driving constraints was not working.
- Settle UI terminology dispute:
* Driving Constraint (normal red constraint)
* Reference Constraint (non-driving constraint)
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It allows to enable and disable a constraint in the constraint list.
When disabled, the constraints current value is shown, but its value is not enforced (it is driven by the other constraints and user interaction).
A disabled constraint can be enabled (as far as it is enforceable, see non-driving constraints to external geometry below).
The sketcher functionality has been extended to support non-driving constraints to external geometry elements. This were previously excluded from
the possibility of creating a constraint on them (as their values depend on other sketches and would be redundant with the unchanged value or conflicting when value is changed).
Now these constraints are created as non-driving, but as they are not enforceable, the UI does not allow you to make them driving.
The constraint filter has been extended to include a Non-Driving constraints category.
Thanks again to Werner for his continuous support, and specially in this case to DeepSOIC, as he pointed towards a much better implementation solution than my original idea.
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The autoconstraints on creation of an hexagon were not working.
How to reproduce?
1. In a sketch make a couple of lines
2. Create an hexagon (or other polygon of your choice) with center in one end of a line and with side coincident with the end point of the other line
Result:
Neither the center nor the side autoconstraints are properly created.
Fix:
Straightforward. Just correct the indexes. Last is always the circle. Last but one is always a side.
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How to replicate:
1. Go to Preferences->Display->Sketch and disable that checkbox.
2. Create a distance constraint (radius, distance, ...)
It will ask for the value regardless of whether the checkbox is clicked or not.
Why?
In SketcherSettings.ui the prefpath is "Mod/Sketcher"
The code refered to ParameterGrp::handle hGrp = App::GetApplication().GetParameterGroupByPath("User parameter:BaseApp/Preferences/Mod/Sketcher/General");
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This function is like this from 2011 according to git blame.
The original code makes no sense. I assume that what is intended in this
function (in accordance with SketchPy.xml) is call the method clear in
Sketch.cpp.
