ModernUI Workbench

Introduction
The ModernUI Workbench is an external workbench that replaces the standard user interface with modern features such as:
 * each workbench has its ribbon tab
 * Modern UI ribbon tab replaces top-level menu
 * activating a workbench's ribbon tab shows groups of the workbench's tools
 * Panels such as Combo View are collapsed/expanded upon mouse-over

Limitations and Troubleshooting

 * If you experience unexpected behavior, always try first to uninstall and then reinstall the ModernUI workbench.
 * The workbench is primarily tested with English and may exhibit unexpected behavior in other languages.
 * Installing more workbenches after installing ModernUI may cause problems.

Install
Install with the Addon Manager.

Note: To uninstall, you will have to create a macro and execute it. If you do not feel confident about this, consider to not install.

Running Modern UI in a self-contained directory
To easily test Modern UI without interfering with your standard configuration, you can contain it in a separate directory. Uninstalling Modern UI is then simply accomplished by deleting the directory.

Linux

For example: $ mkdir modernUI # new directory that contains Modern UI  $ cd modernUI $ HOME="$PWD" FREECAD_USER_HOME="$PWD" FreeCAD_0.19.AppImage

When starting FreeCAD like this for the first time, you have a new default configuration. Now install (and configure) Modern UI. This is essentially a portable FreeCAD version.

Instead of using the command line, you can also create a dedicated desktop icon.

Windows

There are not dedicated instructions for Windows yet, however, it is very similar to creating a portable version of FreeCAD on a USB medium.

Uninstall
Detailed instructions are found at GitHub.

The uninstall sequence is as follows: from PySide2 import QtCore, QtGui, QtWidgets mw = FreeCADGui.getMainWindow mw.menuBar.show WBList = FreeCADGui.listWorkbenches for WB in WBList: FreeCADGui.activateWorkbench(WB) for tb in mw.findChildren(QtWidgets.QToolBar): tb.show
 * 1. Uninstall with the [[Image:AddonManager.svg|24px|link=Addon Manager]] Addon Manager.
 * 2. Restart FreeCAD
 * 3. Create a macro with this code
 * 4. Execute macro
 * 5. Restart FreeCAD

Links

 * Workbench Wiki:
 * FreeCAD Wiki:
 * FreeCAD Forum: https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=44937
 * Tutorials:
 * Videos:
 * Files:
 * Report bugs: https://github.com/HakanSeven12/Modern-UI
 * Patreon (to support the author): https://www.patreon.com/HakanSeven12