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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0000805 | FreeCAD | Feature | public | 2012-07-24 03:57 | 2017-01-09 16:09 |
| Reporter | en3rgy | Assigned To | mrlukeparry | ||
| Priority | normal | Severity | feature | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | closed | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Product Version | 0.12 | ||||
| Fixed in Version | 0.17 | ||||
| Summary | 0000805: Add dimensions to drawings | ||||
| Description | The power of drawings is print outs to easily share with others. Beside the part's form an other realy important information are dimensions. There should be a way to add dimensions to a drawing - within the drawing view. Snapping to the drawn objects. | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
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Currently the drawing sheets use SVG elements, is this the best format? I like how easy and portable the format is, but I'm not sure if it is best for technical drawings since you can't set absolute units for a number of the SVG elements (I'm not sure it even works with <line>). I found this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1346922/svg-and-dpi-absolute-units-and-user-units-inkscape-vs-firefox-vs-imagemagick The solution is rather elegant and would eliminate my concerns except, as pointed out, for the DPI scaling issue. Would this even be a problem since the intent is to print, and the SVG viewer should scale everything correctly for printing? How would this scaling affect line properties (thickness, dashes)? Of course, if we have nothing to worry about then I could put together some svg dimensions and tolerances if it would be helpful. I only have the NASA spec since that is what I design to, but I believe it is a derivative of ANSI and nearly identical. Perhaps with some small modifications (and a nice Settings dialogue) we can have all 3 specs. (Sorry if my concerns have been brought up before by others, I haven't seen anything on it.) |
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SVG may have its problems, but we're all convinced here that it is the most adequate format for the Drawing module. Your problem with using absolute units inside svg elements is quite well known (there is some discussion on the forum about it IIRC, and also on the inkscape forums) but I'm afraid there is nothing we can do about it on the freecad side... Probably the best course of action is to try to convince the w3c people. Originally SVG was made for the web, and it is very recent that it begins to be used for tech drawings. In freecad, for purely technical drawings, you'd better output them as DXF, probably... To reply the original post submission, that is planned of course, but will probably take some time to be implemented, since several other actions must take place before (switch the Drawing viewer to webkit, etc...) |
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Dimensions are implemented in the new techdraw workbench. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2012-07-24 03:57 | en3rgy | New Issue | |
| 2012-08-31 04:13 | jcc242 | Note Added: 0002332 | |
| 2012-08-31 04:13 | jcc242 | Note Edited: 0002332 | |
| 2012-09-02 13:02 | yorik | Note Added: 0002338 | |
| 2013-05-15 06:03 | mrlukeparry | Status | new => assigned |
| 2013-05-15 06:03 | mrlukeparry | Assigned To | => mrlukeparry |
| 2017-01-09 16:09 | wmayer | Note Added: 0007578 | |
| 2017-01-09 16:09 | wmayer | Status | assigned => closed |
| 2017-01-09 16:09 | wmayer | Resolution | open => fixed |
| 2017-01-09 16:09 | wmayer | Fixed in Version | => 0.17 |
