Freecad New Feature : Scale in Sketcher

[@Gumball_W]

Your tools are wonderful, they will make sketching in FreeCAD way more convenient. I can’t wait to use them in the future version :-)

[@kay19887]

Nice Work. The sketcher grows :)

[@TecnoLAZ]

How i can install this features on my freecad?

[@Wuetr]

great work dude!

[@nams37]

Thank you sir

[@mikaelhirn3909]

Thanks for the nice work you are doing for the FC community! Have you thought of recording some programming sessions? I think the people who want to get into FC development would benefit from these types of videos.

[@freecaddevdiary7038]

That was my initial plan actually, but I don't know how to make good videos as I spend a lot of time staring at my screen and thinking, going back and forth editing code and fixing things. So I fear that would be very boring videos. I should do that for an easy tool that I can code from begining to the end without hesitation. Maybe the L shape tool.

[@mikaelhirn3909]

@@freecaddevdiary7038 I don't think you have to worry about you your manners. Thats something that everybody does while codin. Just go for it! Turn your recording on the next time you code :)

[@gagos247]

Amazing dev, being new to freecad this has helped alot, thank you. Just one silly question does this come on latest release? Or do we have to download it.

[@AlanTuringWannabe]

While you're thinking about snapping can you add snapping to line center like Fusion 360 has?

[@freecaddevdiary7038]

This is being discussed on the forum. We'll probably add an autoconstraint that will create a symetric constraint of the created point in middle of the line.

[@ShamanthS13]

@@freecaddevdiary7038 Thanks for this! I highly recommend making the symmetry point a different colour than the end points for easier distinguishing. Love all the work you are doing!

[@wisefix9256]

Awesome!!!

[@QEngineering]

Love it, Anyway you could do a video for us none programming people on how we could download your branch? Or maybe if you can make it an add-on alternate workbench? Your doing great work. 🍻

[@freecaddevdiary7038]

Thanks! I'm not really a professional developper to say the truth. To try the branch you would need to follow this tutorial first : wiki.freecadweb.org/Compile_on_Windows And when you can compile then you can fetch my branch by : git remote add PaddleStrokeFork github.com/PaddleStroke/FreeCAD.git # 'PaddleStrokeFork' is a free name git fetch PaddleStrokeFork ConstraintContextual # 'ConstraintContextual' is the branch name limiting fetching to this branch. git branch ConstraintContextual FETCH_HEAD git checkout ConstraintContextual

[@freecaddevdiary7038]

Or you can wait until it merges, which might be simpler :)

[@StephenLebed]

Thanks for all the work you're doing with Freecad. Has viewport gizmos been discussed to allow easy manipulation of items in a sketch? Also, do you know if the TNP been address in the current builds?

[@freecaddevdiary7038]

Sorry I don't know what is viewPort gizmos. TNP I guess it's topological naming problem. It hasn't merged yet no. The Realthunder PR is opened for almost a year now I wonder how long it will take. Hope it'll get merged soon.

[@waynefilkins8394]

I don't have this in my freecad, how do I get it?

[@freecaddevdiary7038]

It hasn't merged yet in master. You can ask on the forum if you want, it will maybe show interest and motivate maintainers to get it merged :)

[@TecnoLAZ]

I'm programer, but i dont undestand how i can start make features for freecad. can you make one video to explain that?

[@freecaddevdiary7038]

Hi, I have a video serie about coding a feature for Freecad : kzbin.info/www/bejne/eaTUYqSHmMpmipI It's maybe not perfect but I hope it can help you a little ! If you want to make some features for freecad I suggest that you join the forum to present you and what you want to do. Cheers

[@BrainDeadEngineering]

your reviewing a upgrade feature that doesn't even exist !

[@TecnoLAZ]

By the way, nice work

[@ДенисМихалко-в5ъ]

Can't find it in FreeCAD. How to install it or enable?

[@freecaddevdiary7038]

It's in 0.22 dev version not in 0.21

[@ДенисМихалко-в5ъ]

@@freecaddevdiary7038 great thanks

[@bhc1892]

What release is this planned for? Is it in a dev branch somewhere? I would really love to use this feature to save about 8hrs of work and I can't seem to find it.

[@pierreboyer9277]

Hi! It has not merged yet, but the PR should probably merge within a week or two. However if you want you can already use the scale tool in the Ondsel Assembly playground : github.com/Ondsel-Development/FreeCAD/releases/tag/Assembly_Playground

[@pierreboyer9277]

Ondsel assembly playground is a custom build of freecad for user who wants to try out the assembly workbench currently in development. And some sketcher features that I made, scale included.

[@bhc1892]

@@pierreboyer9277 Thanks a million for the followup!