Lattice2 Workbench
Introduction
This version is in devlopment. Breaking changes can be introduced at any point. If you want to make a project with use of Lattice workbench, it is recommended to stick with Lattice v1.
Lattice Workbench is a plug-in module (workbench) for FreeCAD.
The workbench purpose is working with placements and arrays of placements. It is a sort of assembly workbench, but with emphasis on arrays. There are no constraints and relations, there are just arrays of placements that can be generated, combined, transformed, superimposed and populated with shapes.
Ever wondered how to create a protractor with FreeCAD? That's the aim of the workbench (including tick labeling). Also, exploded assemblies can be made with the workbench.
Additionally, the workbench features a few general-purpose tools, such as parametric downgrade, bounding boxes, shape info tool, and tools for working with collections of shapes (compounds).
One of the big design goals of the workbench is being as parametric as possible.
References
- Author: DeepSOIC
- Home page: https://github.com/DeepSOIC/Lattice2
- Source code on github: https://github.com/DeepSOIC/Lattice2
Tools
Detailed description here
Toolbar
- Placement
- Single Placement: Custom
- Single Placement: XY plane
- Single Placement: XZ plane
- Single Placement: YZ plane
- Single Placement: along X
- Single Placement: along Y
- Single Placement: along Z
- Single Placement: Euler angles
- Placement of shape: Copy object.Placement
- Placement of shape: Center of bounding box
- Placement of shape: Center of mass
- Placement of shape: Inertial axis system
- Generate linear array
- Generate polar array
- Array from shape
- Invert lattice
- Join arrays
- Array filter
- Explode array
- Project array
- Resample array
- Populate with copies
- Populate with children
- Parametric downgrade
- Sub link
- Make compound
- Explode compound
- Fuse compound
- Bounding box
- Shape string for array
- Para series
- Inspect
- Substitute object
- Expose links to subelements
Other
Installation
Automatic installation
See Installing
From GitHub
Prerequisites
Lattice2 WB requires FreeCAD no less than v0.16.5155.
Manual install
- Scroll to the top of the page, and click 'download zip' button
- Unpack the contents into a "Lattice2" folder created in \Path\to\FreeCAD\Mod, and restart FreeCAD.
- Note that InitGui.py (and the rest of .py files) should end up directly under Mod\Lattice2 (not under nested directory like Mod\Lattice2\Lattice2).
After you install the workbench, it should appear at the bottom of list of workbench selector in FreeCAD.
Links to Lattice2 WB
- Workbench Wiki: https://github.com/DeepSOIC/Lattice2/wiki
- FreeCAD Wiki:
- FreeCAD Forum: Lattice workbench - v2.0 is becoming stable
- Tutorials: Gallery
- Videos: [xxxxxxxxxxx]
- Files: [xxxxxxxx]
- Gallery: https://github.com/DeepSOIC/Lattice2/wiki/Gallery
- Report bugs: Please report bugs at https://github.com/DeepSOIC/Lattice2/issues
Other useful links
- Lattice old version
- DevWorkbenches: List of workbenches in development.
- Macros recipes
- FreeCAD Download
- FreeCAD Community Portal