Part Box
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Part Box |
Menu location |
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Part → Primitives → Cube |
Workbenches |
Part |
Default shortcut |
None |
Introduced in version |
- |
See also |
Part Primitives |
Description
The Part Box command creates a parametric box solid.
FreeCAD creates a cube, each side with an equal length of 10 millimetre.
By default, the box is positioned with the lower left corner at the origin (0,0,0). The bottom of the cube is on the xy-plane. Its extension in x, y and z direction follows the positive axis values.
Usage
First, make sure you are using the Part Workbench.
There are two ways to create a Part Box:
To edit the Part Box:
- either
- select it in the tree and double-click on it
- edit the parameters in the appearing dialog
- or use the the Property Editor to edit its Properties
Example
A Part Box object with the values of the bottom scripting example are shown here.
Notes
The inserted box is a parametric, rectangular cuboid.
Properties
See also: Property editor.
A Part Box object is derived from a Part Feature object and inherits all its properties. It also has the following additional properties:
Data
Box
- DataLength (
Length
): The length of the box. This is the dimension in the x-direction. - DataWidth (
Length
): The width of the box. This is the dimension in the y-direction. - DataHeight (
Length
): The height of the box. This is the dimension in the z-direction.
Scripting
A Part Box is created created with the addObject()
method of the document.
box = FreeCAD.ActiveDocument.addObject("Part::Box", "myBox")
- Where
myBox
is the name for the object. The name must be unique for the entire document. - The function returns the newly created object.
The Label
is the user editable name for the object. It can be easily changed by
box.Label = "new myBoxName"
You can access and modify attributes of the box
object. For example, you may wish to modify the length, width and height parameters.
box.Length = 4
box.Width = 8
box.Height = 12
You can change its placement with:
box.Placement = FreeCAD.Placement(FreeCAD.Vector(1, 2, 3), FreeCAD.Rotation(75, 60, 30))
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