Expressions/pl

Przegląd
Możliwe jest definiowanie właściwości za pomocą wyrażeń matematycznych. W GUI, pola wyboru lub pola wejściowe, które są powiązane z właściwościami zawierają niebieską ikonę. Kliknięcie na ikonę lub wpisanie znaku równości powoduje wyświetlenie edytora wyrażeń dla danej właściwości.

Wyrażenie FreeCAD jest wyrażeniem matematycznym zgodnym z notacją dla standardowych operatorów matematycznych i funkcji opisanych poniżej. Dodatkowo, wyrażenie może odwoływać się do innych właściwości, a także używać warunków. Liczby w wyrażeniu mogą mieć opcjonalnie dołączoną jednostkę.

W liczbach można używać przecinka lub przecinka dziesiętnego  oddzielającego całe cyfry od części dziesiętnych. Gdy używany jest przecinek, po nim musi następować co najmniej jedna cyfra. Zatem wyrażenia i  są nieprawidłowe, ale  i  są już poprawne.

Operatory i funkcje są świadome jednostek i wymagają poprawnych kombinacji jednostek, jeśli zostały podane. Na przykład, jest poprawnym wyrażeniem, podczas gdy  nie jest (powodem tego jest to, że wyrażenie takie jak  będzie najprawdopodobniej interpretowane jako  przez ludzi, ale wszystkie jednostki są konwertowane do układu SI wewnętrznie, a system nie jest w stanie tego odgadnąć). Obecnie rozpoznawane są następujące jednostki.

Możesz użyć stałych predefiniowanych i funkcji.

Argumenty funkcji
Wiele argumentów funkcji może być oddzielonych albo średnikiem lub przecinkiem po którym następuje spacja. W tym drugim przypadku, po wprowadzeniu przecinek jest konwertowany na średnik. Gdy używany jest średnik, spacja nie jest wymagana.

Argumenty mogą zawierać odwołania do komórek w arkuszu kalkulacyjnym. Odwołanie do komórki składa się z wielkiej litery wiersza, po której następuje numer kolumny, na przykład. Można też odwołać się do komórki, używając jej aliasu, na przykład.

Odwołania do obiektów
You can reference an object by its or by its. In the case of a, it must be enclosed in double and  symbols, such as.

You can reference any numerical property of an object. For example, to reference a Cylinder's height, you may use or.

To reference list objects, use or. If you want for example to reference a constraint in a sketch, use. If you are in the same sketch you may omit its name and just use. Note: The index starts with 0, therefore constraint 17 has the index 16.

For more information about referencing objects, see Reference to CAD_data.

Obsługiwane stałe
The following constants are supported:

Obsługiwane operatory
The following operators are supported:

General mathematical functions
The mathematical functions listed below are available.

Trigonometric functions use degree as their default unit. For radian measure, add following the first value in an expression. So e.g. is the same as. Expressions in degrees can use either or, e.g.  or. If an expression is without units and needs to be converted to degrees or radians for compatibility, multiply by, or  as appropriate, e.g. ; ;. These trigonometric functions are supported:

These functions for exponentiation and logarithmization are supported:

These functions for rounding, truncation and remainder are supported:

Statistical / aggregate functions
Aggregate functions take one or more arguments.

Individual arguments to aggregate functions may consist of ranges of cells. A range of cells is expressed as two cell references separated by a colon, for example or. The cell references may also use cell aliases, for example.

These aggregate functions are supported:

String identification
Strings are identified in expressions by surrounding them with opening/closing double chevrons (as are labels).

In following example, "TEXT" is recognized as a string :

String concatenation
Strings can be concatenated using the '+' sign.

Following example will be concatenated to "MYTEXT".

String formatting
String formatting is supported using the (old) %-style Python way.

All %-specifiers as defined in Python documentation.

As an example, supposing you have a default 10mm-side cube named 'Box' --default FreeCAD naming--, following expression will expand to "Cube length : 10.0 mm"

A limitation is that only one %-specifier is allowed in string, thus you have to use string concatenation if more than one is needed. With same above situation, expression will expand to "Cube length is 10.0 mm and width is 10.0 mm".

A FreeCAD sample file using string formatting is available in the forum

Conditional expressions
Conditional expressions are of the form. The condition is defined as an expression that evaluates to either (false) or non-zero (true). Note that enclosing the conditional expression in parentheses is currently considered an error.

The following relational operators are defined:

Jednostki
Units can be used directly in expressions. The parser connects them to the previous value. So or  is valid while  is invalid because there is no preceding value.

All values must have a unit. Therefore you must in general use a unit for values in spreadsheets. In some cases it works even without a unit, for example if you have e.g. in spreadsheet cell B1 just the number and refer to it for a pad height. This only works because the pad height predefines the unit that is used if no unit is given. It will nevertheless fail if you use for the pad height e.g. because  has a unit and  has not.

Units with exponents can directly be entered. So e.g. will be recognized as mm³ and  will be recognized as m³.

If you have a variable whose name is that of a unit you must put the variable between to prevent it from being recognized as a unit. For example if you have the dimension it would be recognized as the unit ampere. Therefore you must write it in the expression as.

The following units are recognized by the expression parser:

Amount of substance:

Angle:

Current:

Electrical capacitance:

Electrical conductance:

Electrical inductance:

Electrical resistance:

Electric charge:

Electric potential:

Energy / work:

Force:

Length:

Luminous intensity:

Magnetic field strength:

Magnetic flux:

Magnetic flux density:

Mass:

Power:

Pressure:

Temperature:

Time:

Volume:

Special imperial units:

The following commonly used units are not yet supported:

Invalid characters and names
The expression feature is very powerful but to achieve this power it has some limitations concerning some characters. To overcome this, FreeCAD offers to use labels and reference them instead of the object names. In labels you can use almost all special characters.

In cases where you cannot use a label, such as the name of a sketch's constraints, you must be aware what characters are not allowed.

Labels
For labels there are no invalid characters, however some characters need to be escaped:

For example, the label must be referenced as.

Names
Names of objects like dimensions, sketches, etc. may not have the characters or character sequences listed below, otherwise the name is invalid:

For example, the following name is valid:. While these are invalid names: (\r means "carriage return") or  (mol is a unit).

Since shorter names (especially if they have only one or two characters) can easily result in invalid names, consider using longer names and/or establishing a suitable naming convention.

Reference to CAD data
It is possible to use data from the model itself in an expression. To reference a property use. If the property is a compound of fields, the individual fields can be accessed as.

The following table shows some examples:

Document-wide global variables
There is no concept of global variables in FreeCAD at the moment. Instead, arbitrary variables can be defined as cells in a spreadsheet using the Spreadsheet workbench, and then be given a name using the alias property for the cell (right-click on cell). Then they can be accessed from any expression just as any other object property.

Cross-document linking
It is possible (with limitations) to define a Property of an object in your current document (".FCstd" file) by using an Expression to reference a Property of an object contained in a different document (".FCstd" file). For example, a cell in a spreadsheet or the of a Part Cube, etc. in one document can be defined by an Expression that references the X Placement value or another Property of an object contained in a different document.

A document's name is used to reference it from other documents. When saving a document the first time, you choose a file name; this is usually different from the initial default "Unnamed1" (or its translated equivalent). To prevent links being lost when the master document is renamed upon saving, it is recommended that you first create the master document, create a spreadsheet inside it, and save it. Subsequently, you can still make changes to the file and its spreadsheet but you should not rename it.

Once the master document with the spreadsheet is created and saved (named), it is safe to create dependent documents. For example, assuming you name the master document, the spreadsheet , and give a cell an alias-name , you can then access the value as:

Note: that the master document must be loaded for the values in the master to be available to the dependent document.

Unfortunately, the integrated checker sometimes claims that a valid name doesn't exist. Continue typing anyway. When you have completed the full reference, the button will become active.

Of course, it's up to you to load the corresponding documents later when you want to change anything.

Known issues / remaining tasks

 * The dependency graph is based on the relationship between document objects, not properties. This means that you cannot provide data to an object and query that same object for results. For example, even though there are no cyclic dependencies when the properties themselves are considered, you may not have an object which gets its dimensions from a spreadsheet and then display the volume of that object in the same spreadsheet. As a work-around use multiple spreadsheets, one to drive your model and the other for reporting.
 * The expression parser does not handle parentheses well, and is unable to properly parse some expressions. For example:   results in an error, while  is accepted.  The expression  cannot be entered in any form.
 * As stated above, unfortunately, the integrated checker sometimes claims that a valid name doesn't exist. Continue typing anyway. When you have completed the full reference, the button will become active.
 * There is no expression manager implemented where all expressions in a document are listed, and can be created, deleted, queried, etc.
 * Open bugs/tickets for Expressions can be found in the FreeCAD Bugtracker Expressions category