Draft Facebinder

Description
The Facebinder tool creates a surface object from the selected faces of solid object. It is parametric, meaning that if you modify the original object, the Facebinder updates accordingly. If you move and rotate the Facebinder, it will stay linked to the original faces.

It can be used to create an extrusion from a collection of faces from other objects. A typical use is in architectural design to build an object that covers several faces of walls, for example, a wall paper, or wall finish.



How to use

 * 1) Pick one face, or hold  and pick several faces, from solid objects.
 * 2) Press the  button, or press  then  keys.

The faces that are part of the Facebinder can be changed after creation, by double clicking on the element, and adding or removing faces with the or  buttons.

Options
This object has no options when it's being created. Only selected faces will be used to create the Facebinder object.

Data

 * : specifies an extrusion thickness to apply to all faces of the shape.
 * : if it is it tries to fuse the internal intersections of the Facebinder when it extruded.
 * : if it is it tries to perform a topological sewing operation on the Facebinder when it extruded.

View

 * : specifies a Draft Pattern with which to fill the face of the shape. This property only works if is "Flat Lines".
 * : specifies the size of the Draft Pattern.

Scripting
The facebinder tool can be usedin scripts and macros by using the following function:


 * Creates a facebinder object from the given selection set, which is a list of selection objects such as returned by the FreeCADGui.Selection.getSelectionEx method.
 * Only selected faces are taken into account
 * Returns the newly created object

Example:

Limitations

 * Not available before version 0.14