Surface Sections
Surface Sections |
Menu location |
---|
Surface → Sections |
Workbenches |
Surface |
Default shortcut |
None |
Introduced in version |
0.19 |
See also |
None |
Description
Surface Sections is used to create a surface from edges that represent transversal sections of a surface.
Left: control edges (transversal sections). Right: surface produced from these edges.
Usage
- Make sure you have at lease two edges or curves in space. For example, these can be created with tools of the Draft Workbench or the Sketcher.
- Press the Surface sections button.
- Press Add edge.
- Use the pointer to pick the desired edges in the 3D view; a preview of the final shape will be shown after selecting two valid edges.
- Press OK to complete the operation.
Options
- Add edge: press once to start picking edges in the 3D view. Individual lines such as Draft BSplines and Sketcher BSplines can be chosen, as well as any edge from solid objects, like those of PartDesign Bodies and Part Primitives.
- Remove edge: press once to start picking edges in the 3D view; these must be edges that were previously picked with Add edge.
- Right mouse button: open the context menu and select Remove, or press Del in the keyboard, to remove the currently selected edge in the list.
- Drag: drag the currently selected element in the list in order to change the order in which it will be processed; the list is processed from top to bottom.
- Press Cancel or Esc to abort the current operation.
Properties
A Surface Sections (Surface::Sections
class) is derived from the basic Part Feature (Part::Feature
class, through the Part::Spline
subclass), therefore it shares all the latter's properties.
In addition to the properties described in Part Feature, the Surface Sections has the following properties in the property editor.
Data
Sections
- DataNSections (
LinkSubList
): a list of edges that will be used to build the curve.
View
Base
- ViewControl Points (
Bool
): it defaults tofalse
; if set totrue
, it will show an overlay with the control points of the surface.
Scripting
See also: FreeCAD Scripting Basics.
The Surface Sections tool can be used in macros and from the Python console by adding the Surface::Sections
object.
- The edges to be used to define the surface must be assigned as a LinkSubList to the
NSections
property of the object. - All objects with edges need to be computed before they can be used as input for the properties of the Sections object.
import FreeCAD as App
import Draft
doc = App.newDocument()
pl1 = App.Placement()
obj1 = Draft.make_circle(50, placement=pl1, face=False, startangle=0, endangle=180)
pl2 = App.Placement(App.Vector(0, 0, 25), App.Rotation())
obj2 = Draft.make_circle(30, placement=pl2, face=False, startangle=0, endangle=180)
points3 = [App.Vector(18, -10, 50),
App.Vector(12, 10, 50),
App.Vector(-12, 10, 50),
App.Vector(-18, -10, 50)]
obj3 = Draft.make_bspline(points3)
points4 = [App.Vector(15, -20, 100),
App.Vector(0, 6, 100),
App.Vector(-15, -20, 100)]
obj4 = Draft.make_bspline(points4)
doc.recompute()
surf = doc.addObject("Surface::Sections", "Surface")
surf.NSections = [(obj1, "Edge1"),
(obj2, "Edge1"),
(obj3, "Edge1"),
(obj4, "Edge1")]
doc.recompute()
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