User talk:Catman

About your addition to the FreeCAD and DXF Import page
Hi Catman,

I have removed the paragraph you have added to the FreeCAD and DXF Import page. IMO the information does not fit that page and should be turned into a separate tutorial. But because there are some inaccuracies in the information I have decided to create a Sandbox page first: Sandbox:Sketcher_import_DXF_tutorial.


 * There is no direct way to import a DXF file into a sketch is not correct. Note that you later refer to the Sketches radio button. But selecting that option does have its issues.
 * Importing Splines seems to work fine here. But maybe this depends on the DXF.
 * You should also specify if the legacy importer should be used or not.

If you address some of these issues this can become a useful tutorial.

--Roy 043 (talk) 08:13, 9 September 2021 (UTC)

Hi Roy, thanks for your feedback.

To the inaccuracies. I just tried again with rev 28611 and again I was not able to import any DXF I had to a sketch. You say its not correct. I know the preference setting and I always set it, but I never got back a sketch object yet. Have you actually done it? Please confirm.
 * I did some edits to address your inputs imho your points should be covered

When you say separate tutorial I think of any of these Tutorials, but that would require a step-by-step worked example, which would be quite different from the provided info. I would rather see it as a "HowTo" kind of info. What did you have in mind where to place that?

Miscellaneous
I would propose to add a small chapter to address that although edit fields can not be automatically filled in (FC 0.19), this could be acieved with an own macro.

As a starting point to test this from the Python Console, this Macro shows the principle >>> p = App.ActiveDocument.Page >>> t = p.Template >>> et = t.EditableTexts >>> et["FC-Title"] = "The title of my page" >>> t.EditableTexts = et

PartDesign Workbench
Please, as already said in the forum discussion about TechDraw:
 * 1) search the Wiki if the info is not already there
 * 2) if you think it is missing, ask in the forum's Wiki section first: https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewforum.php?f=21
 * 3) if there is already a page, but misses info, please update this page directly to reflect the current state (if necessary, add the version tag to make clear if it is a new feature of the unreleased FC 0.19)
 * 4) the Workbench pages are there for an overview, all detail info is within pages that are linked to the workbench page

thanks and regards --uwestoehr (talk) 14:42, 2 August 2020 (UTC)