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0001221FreeCADFeaturepublic2013-08-25 07:32
Reportershoogen Assigned Towmayer  
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityalways
Status closedResolutionfixed 
Fixed in Version0.14 
Summary0001221: Add a function that can apply a Placement to a Shape like sh.transformGeometry(sh.Placement.toMatrix())
DescriptionDefiniton: A so-called "null placement" has the same effect as appling unity matrix. (No rotation nor translation)

If a shape is to be used as a result of the execute funtion it needs to be free of any (shape) placement. Otherwise this introdruce trouble when the Features has a Placement as well.
The result of bolean operations has a null placement. But some operations like refine shape may return a Shape with a placement (esp. for trivial input that can not simplified further).
In order tu use this shape in parametric (python) feature the placement has to be applied to the actual Shape data.
the only known workaround to the auther is call to fp.Shape=sh.transformGeometry(sh.Placement.toMatrix()) in execute() function.
Though the transformation will in generaly not require the shape to be converted to BSpline representation, transformGeometry is notoroius for degrading the Shape in this way.

There should be a way to obtained a shape with Placement allready applied to the internal datastructure without the danger of degrading the shape to a BSpline reperesentation.

Suggesgestions:
Maybe the fusion the shape (with placement) with an 'empty' solid can create the desired shape

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shoogen

2013-08-18 11:14

developer   ~0003493

An error caused by the current workaround is dicussed http://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4412&p=34698#p34691
Also discussed in
http://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2196&hilit=transformGeometry&start=10#p19074 and
https://sourceforge.net/apps/mantisbt/free-cad/view.php?id=699

shoogen

2013-08-20 05:11

developer   ~0003500

Another solution would include to break up the connection of the placement of the Feature and the Shape. (in Part::Feature::onChanged(const App::Property* prop))
And introduce another layer inbetween those two.
We could introduce this as another (kind of) feature. The Shape would have a second Placment (in its properties) wich is used to recalculate the shape's placment in case the Feature's placement is modified.

shoogen

2013-08-23 02:35

developer   ~0003505

the workaround with a useless boolean operation seems to work:
fp.shape = sh.cut(Part.Compound([]))
The question is if it makes send to avoid the actual boolean and just look what OCC does internally to apply the placement to the vertex data (without converting the data to BSplines)

wmayer

2013-08-23 11:37

administrator   ~0003506

The class BRepTools_ReShape might offer the functionality you use which can be used with Shape.replaceShape() (which requires a list of tuples of shapes as argument).

But look at https://sourceforge.net/p/free-cad/code/ci/48f8d67b509a61875ee32fb809c8a66c4cafe6fe/ and you'll see that this issue is solved now.

shoogen

2013-08-23 12:33

developer   ~0003507

Last edited: 2013-08-23 12:35

Thanks Werner but there are other usecases.
It seems to me that calling the Part.Solid(someshape) returns a Shape with no placement?

shoogen

2013-08-23 14:34

developer   ~0003508

Last edited: 2013-08-23 14:39

As i don't know which Shape type I get. I don't want to check for them. I would like to have a Command that works with any Type.
But this has low priority because the main other use case that i can think of is limited to wires.

ulrich1a

2013-08-23 15:00

reporter   ~0003509

I had a look, how to change the placement of parts from the python console. For me it looks like, that the operation of the Part Workbench puts a handle to the real placement into the placement structure.
The operations of the Partdesign Workbench put only a copy of the original placement into the placement structure. You can not change the placement of these parts from the placement menu. You can change the placement from the python console. But the parts are flipping back at app.recompute().
You can go down the feature tree for Partdesign parts. And the original feature allows to place the part from the menu.
So for me there is the question, how can I get a handle to the placement of the first feature, as this would allow to place these parts from within python.

shoogen

2013-08-23 16:24

developer   ~0003510

i think that there is no such handle, but the placements a synchronized in the method Part::Feature::onChanged(const App::Property* prop)

ulrich1a

2013-08-23 17:06

reporter   ~0003511

I found a way to move one step up in the feature tree:

o = Gui.Selection.getSelectionEx()[0]
>>> o.Object
<Part::PartFeature>
>>> o.ObjectName
'Pad'
>>> o.Object.OutList.__len__()
1
>>> o.Object.OutList[0]
<Sketcher::SketchObject>
>>> sket = o.Object.OutList[0]
>>> sket.Placement
Placement [Pos=(0,0,0), Yaw-Pitch-Roll=(0,0,0)]
>>> sket.Placement.move(FreeCAD.Vector(10,0,0))
>>> App.activeDocument().recompute()

I could move a Partdesign Pad made from a sketch with the above commands.

ulrich1a

2013-08-23 17:31

reporter   ~0003512

Here is the difference between a Partdesign-Part and a Part-Part.
A Part-Part may have two objekts in the outlist:
>>> o.Object.OutList
[<Part::PartFeature>, <Part::PartFeature>]
The consequence is a new "Null-Placement".
A Partdesign-Part has only one object in the outlist. The placement is governed from the topmost feature with a "Null-Placement"

wmayer

2013-08-24 09:17

administrator   ~0003513

http://www.opencascade.org/org/forum/thread_14993/?forum=3

The class BRepBuilderAPI_Transform has a parameter "copy" and setting it to true gives a transformed shape without a placement set.

wmayer

2013-08-25 07:31

administrator   ~0003515

transformShape() now got a second parameter. This is of boolean type and optional (default=False).

import Part
m=App.Matrix()
m.rotateX(0.5)
m.rotateY(0.5)
m.rotateZ(0.5)

s=Part.makeBox(10,10,10)
s.transformShape(m,True)
s.Placement
Part.show(s)

t=Part.makeBox(10,10,10)
t.transformShape(m)
t.Placement
Part.show(t)

wmayer

2013-08-25 07:32

administrator   ~0003516

git show 1da39d0

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2013-08-18 11:09 shoogen New Issue
2013-08-18 11:14 shoogen Note Added: 0003493
2013-08-20 05:11 shoogen Note Added: 0003500
2013-08-23 02:35 shoogen Note Added: 0003505
2013-08-23 11:37 wmayer Note Added: 0003506
2013-08-23 12:33 shoogen Note Added: 0003507
2013-08-23 12:35 shoogen Note Edited: 0003507
2013-08-23 14:34 shoogen Note Added: 0003508
2013-08-23 14:39 shoogen Note Edited: 0003508
2013-08-23 15:00 ulrich1a Note Added: 0003509
2013-08-23 16:24 shoogen Note Added: 0003510
2013-08-23 17:06 ulrich1a Note Added: 0003511
2013-08-23 17:31 ulrich1a Note Added: 0003512
2013-08-24 09:17 wmayer Note Added: 0003513
2013-08-25 07:31 wmayer Note Added: 0003515
2013-08-25 07:31 wmayer Status new => assigned
2013-08-25 07:31 wmayer Assigned To => wmayer
2013-08-25 07:32 wmayer Note Added: 0003516
2013-08-25 07:32 wmayer Status assigned => closed
2013-08-25 07:32 wmayer Resolution open => fixed
2013-08-25 07:32 wmayer Fixed in Version => 0.14