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- Long felt need of refactoring the code so as not to repeat code already existing in SketchObject.
- Refactored code supports preexisting Ellipse and Arc of Ellipse and adds support for Arcs of Hyperbola and Parabola.
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Support for mirroring a full sketch.
A dialog appears allowing to select X, Y axis mirroring or mirroring about the origin of the sketch.
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This commit provides with a single toolbar button to select between a copy and clone.
Copy just copies the constraints.
Clone modifies the dimensional constraints to geometric constraints, so that the constrained geometry follows the changes in the original object.
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This commit allows the user to select in advance whether he wants a simple copy or a clone.
This involves substitution of dimensional constraints in the copies by equality and parallel constraints.
Terminology change for Arrays, now it is Rectangular array
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- Support for copying geometric elements in the sketcher with Ctrl+C (or using the still missing icon). It will show you the vector of displacement from the
"reference point". The reference point can be chosen by the user (although it is not necessary to do it so) by making the point the user wish to be the reference point
the last selected element. It conveniently incorporates "autoconstraints", so that you can make this point (the one of the copy) directly coincident with any other point in the sketch.
- Python 2D array command modified to lock elements position using construction lines and constraints.
- Support for different spacing between u and v directions (the direction of the cols and the direction of the rows).
- Support to avoid copying DistanceX and DistanceY constraints when used for locking a point. This means that if the geometry that you copy(array) is
fully constraint, the resulting 2D array is also fully constraint.
- UI support for creating 2D linear arrays in the sketcher.
- Bug fix in python addArray, wrong line copy startingpoint calculation fixed.
How to create a 2D array in the sketcher:
1. Select your geometric elements.
2. Click the button
3. Fill in the rows/cols and preferences on spacing and constraining each element of the array
4. Click Ok
5. Define the direction of the cols of the array and click
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For a while End-to-endpoint tangency is implemented via AngleViaPoint constraint. The code was not recalculating the "value" of the constraint in this case.
This also forces to set the geometry first and constraints afterwards, as the AutoLockTangencyAndPerpty function requires a valid GeoId to operate (not a big deal anyway).
Correction of the condition to allow the symmetry when a single line is mirrored about a point pertaining to a geometric element.
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Creates geometry symmetric to the selected one with respect to the last selected point or line.
It does not support the following constraints:
- Angle
- Horiz/vertical distance
- SnellLaw
Horizontal and Vertical (directional) dimensions removed from the the copying process when created
on a single edge (by picking one edge instead of two points), i.e. Constraint involving only one GeoId at "First".
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Group creation:
- complex geometries (consisting of several geometry elements and constraints) have been rewritten to use python list (one command call for all geometries and constraints)
- Ellipse ExposeInternalGeo as group creation of geometries and constraints
To construction mode creation:
- addGeometry python and SketchObject functions modified to take an additional optional parameter "construction" to create the geometry/geometries directly as construction.
In addition to the shorter form, this helps generate less amount of onChange propagation and Redraws.
- all the geometry creation commands in CommandCreateGeo.cpp have been rewritten to use the new construction argument. This includes modifying the regular polygon script to
take a new optional parameter to create geometry as construction in addGeometry.
- special care is taken in group creation not make construction points
- Show/hide internal geometry implemented with this option.
To solving:
- the solve previously included after every geometry addition (when in no Update, e.i. no Recompute mode) has been removed and each Gui::Command calls either an UpdateActive
for recompute or a Solve in no Update mode. This is behaviour is less intrusive and uniform with group creation.
Bug fixes and redrawing reduction:
- Fixes the CheckId exception problem. The solution also helps further remove redraws during creation of complex geometry (e.g. Slot)
- Fixes touching the sketch by only opening it.
- Code clean up.
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- Fixing toggle AutoUpdate Mode
- Fix Auto-Update Sketcher tools
- Fix missing createGeo recomputes
- Missing constraints recomputes fixed
Various fixes for non-Update mode:
- Fixes lack of update upon entering a conflicting datum constraint.
- Fixes lack of update upon setting the reference/driving status of a constraint
- Added tooltips to buttons
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ActSketch in ViewProvider dissapears. The temporal sketch (sketch.cpp) for solving is now a data member of SketchObject.cpp (hereinafter solvedSketch). All the solving is concentrated in SketchObject.cpp.
SketchObject provides an interface to expose its solver, as it is still currently needed for some UI operations from ViewProviderSketch, like dragging points (solving rubber bands).
ViewProviderSketch still can select whether to draw the solvedSketch geometry (previously ActSketch) geometry (UI staff) or the SketchObject geometry. Performancewise, it makes sense to separate this two
geometries, as the SketchObject one involves modifying the Geometry and Constraint Properties (including all the undo related functionality), which would mess the undo functinality and incur in a big
peformance penalisation while dragging. One characteristic of solvedSketch is that its geometry is solved, whereas the geometry of SketchObject may not have been solved yet.
These geometries may differ at for the following reasons:
1. The geometry corresponds to an ongoing dragging operation, so solvedSketch has the last calculated dragging geometry, while SketchObject has the one corresponding to initial position.
2. Geometry/constraints were added to the sketch, but no solve/execute was triggered yet (envisioned situation is the future group creation functionality not in this commit).
What do I gain?
- Inserting a (simple) geometry element now costs 1 solver execution.
- Inserting a constraint now costs 1 solver executions.
For reference, in previous versions inserting a constraint involved 5 solver executions.
The following information provide a historical review of the coding of this commit (formed of 10 squashed commits):
This is a general sketch solve call reduction, not only during geometry creation (this commit does not include until here any specific measure to reduce calls on geometry creation, that is another branch)
After a lot of profiling, it seems that the "cause"(tm) that creates so many solver calls is that every update generates a solving in ViewProviderSketch, regardless of the need for that update,
many times with the only aim of providing the DoF for the message dialog and keeping ActSketch in sync with SketchObject in case it is needed (currently UI moving points, constraints,...).
Sketch solver is now a data member of SketchObject instead of a temporal object that gets initilized and destroyed.
This allows:
1. Potentially more synergy reducing calls to setUpSketch (still to be seen, still to be optimized)
2. Allowing SketchObject to access the latest geometry that has been solved => In future, allow objects that use SketchObject to obtain the latest
solved geometry instead the geometry of SketchObject that may still be unsolved. This is relevant for drawing the geometry
No more solving in ViewProviderSketch. Solving a Sketch is now an exclusive competence of SketchObject.
There is however a lot of cleaning to do in ViewProviderSketch
(I mean, not that these commits are making a mess in VPSketch,
but that as a consequence of the changes, it should be possible to
optimize VPSketch, specially moving and drawing methods)
Very useful comment for future developers that may wonder why a solve per constraint just upon addition is necessary.
Added a new function to get the size of the geometry of the instance of the solver object (Sketch.cpp).
The previous way was to extract the geometry, which is costly and error prone, as you have to delete it afterwards.
Inserted comment about the necessity of triggering a Part2D update during edit mode
Fixes a bug where an arc, ellipse, or arc-of-ellipse, being reversed in
XY plane, behaved badly in sketcher (see forum thread "Sketch: how to
handle reversed external arcs?"
http://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=9130 ).
Also fixes a problem with rotated arcs (see forum thread "Rotating Arc
in Sketcher"
http://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=9145#p74262 ).
This is done by adding an emulation flag to a few methods in
Part::GeomXXX, which makes the shape to pretend being non-reversed
(CCW). This causes endpoints of reversed arcs of circles lineked as
external geometry to swap, causing broken sketches sometimes.
- Minor changes to alignment constraint selection to avoid to create objects just for simple calculations
- Equality constraint of Ellipse, ArcOfEllipse and combinations of those elements
- Bugfix for internalalignment creation of major and minor of ellipse and extension to arcofellipse
- Trim support for ellipses
- Solver threshold for rank calculation set at 1e-13.
- Trim support for arc of ellipse
- Ellipses and ArcOfEllipses as external geometry
- Validate Sketch now supports arcs of ellipse
- Tangents of Ellipse or ArcOfEllipse to any of ArcOfcircle, circle and Ellipse (using construction elements)
- Perpendicularity constraint
- Bug fix: Show/hide internal geometry not working for external geometry
- Visualization of Internal alignment constraints when selecting in the constraint widget
- Equality for ellipses and arc of ellipses
- Fix of internal geometry creation
- Fix swapped negative and positive ends of major radius line on creation
- Removing the fudge factor (no longer needed)
- Fix to restore internal alignment - autodecide on constraint creation which point of the line is closer to the position
- Ellipse introduction button via (center,majaxis extreme, a point in edge), ellipse is always CCW so that Z axis goes in the positive direction of the sketch
- Backwards compatibility with files of previous versions of ellipse not defining a phi angle
- Art by Jim (all the icons you see and the XPMs shown on creation of an ellipse)
- Element Widget support for ellipses
- Box selection for ellipses
- Point on Ellipse constraint based on the gardener's method based on Ulrich's function proposal (radcan simplified, i.e. with simplify_radical sage function)
- Tangent: Ellipse to Line based on DeepSOIC's geometric formulation (radcan simplified)
Sketcher New Feature: Internal Alignment Constraint
- The element to which internal alignment is applied has to be selected last.
- All other elements are added in the order of priority, taking into account existing elements
- Art by Jim (beautiful icons).
Sketcher New Feature: Tool to show/hide/restore the internal geometry of an element
- New functionality for show/hide internal geometry:
toggles between hiding all unused internal geometry elements and showing all internal geometry.
The restore function is implicit to the showing all internal geometry
Sketcher New Feature: Arc of Ellipse support
- Part::Geometry + Python implementation
- ArcOfEllipse creation method
- Art by Jim (all the icons you see and the XPMs shown on creation of arc of ellipse elements)
- Sketcher Element widget for ArcOfEllipse.
Bug fix: Select elements associated to constraints works now for foci internal alignment constraints
Based (and solves) Mantis ticket:
http://www.freecadweb.org/tracker/view.php?id=1643
The ticket refers only to redundant, and ask for deletion.
Two commands are created, one for redundant constraints and other for conflicting constraints.
As usually removing one constraint of the "at least one" is sufficient, the implementation selects the constraints (but does not delete them).
The user therefore easily identify the constraints involved and decide to delete them.
This implementation takes into account the edit->Actsketch that ViewProvidedSketch creates for solving, as it is this instance the one that generates the messages in the Sketcher Taskbar.
No buttons in the toolbar by default (can be added by the user), but an hyperlink in the solver messages which triggers the selection of the appropriate command (conflicting or redundant).
Ex 1: User selects constraints from the list => right click => select "select elements" from the contextual menu => The elements (edges,vertex) involved in the constraint(s) are selected.
Ex 2: User selects (a) constraint(s) => Clicks button in toolbar (if included by the user) => The elements (edges,vertex) involved in the constraint(s) are selected.
Intended as visual aid to see which elements are being affected by a constraint.
Requested by Jim on thread:
http://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=6875&start=10
Solving another Mantis ticket I can not find now.
- Varios minor bug fixes.
- Added the other commands to the toolbar.
- Bug fix: missing AbortCommand().
- Mode Auto-switch to edge (Sponssi mode) has selection combo disabled to avoid interferring with this mode.
However, if auto-switch checkbox is unchecked (Jim-Abdullah mode), the combo is enabled and selection of
element type can be effected via the combo with the mouse.
In any case "z" shortcut iterates round robin the "valid types" of the preselected (hovered) element.
