Work features addon-on (macro) for FreeCAD

Tool utility that creates:

• Origin (X, Y Z axes, Origin (0,0,0) point and XZ, XY, YZ planes)
• Points (Center of Mass of object(s), mid points, center of circle, ...),
• Axes (from 2 points, Normal of a plane...),
• Planes (from 3 points, from one axis and a point...)
  and many other useful features to facilitate the creation of your project.

Version 2019-05 by @Rentlau_64
This project is a fork of @wood-galaxy's FC-WorkFeature macro

Installing

Download and install FreeCAD from wiki Download page and either install this macro by:

• using the FreeCAD Addon Manager to easily install WorkFeatures and other interesting macros or,
• manually by copying the WorkFeature folder into the Macro sub-directory of the FreeCAD application (most of the time ~/.FreeCAD/Macro).

Tip: Learn more about Macros at "How to install FreeCAD macros" for more details.

Requirements

Freecad >= v0.15
Numpy is a required dependency (numpy >= v1.14.3).
The development of the macro is still currently done with Python2.7 but now compatible with Python3 (so this addon is py3 compatible (yet) and was tested on FreeCAD >= v0.18 :FreeCAD_0.18.15671_Conda_Py3Qt5_glibc2.12-x86_64.AppImage).

Please "Open an issue", if you detect any problem.

Abstract

This utility is in the combo view labeled "Work Features".
Several Tab panels will be added into this widget:

• Origin (for Origin tools)
• Point (for Point creation)
• Axis (for Axis creation)
• Circle (for Circle and Ellipse creation)
• Plane (for Plane creation)
• Object (for Bounding box and Object creation)
• View (for View change)
• Modif. (for Object cutting)

This macro will create a new Group named WorkFeatures.
Depending of the tool you will use, it can create the following sub-Groups:

• WorkFeatures/
  • Origin
  • WorkPoints
  • WorkAxes
  • WorkPlanes
  • WorkBoxes
  • WorkObjects

Tutorials

Find some more detailed documentations in ./WorkFeature/Doc directory:

• WF_documentation
  
• WF_releasesDocumentation
  

Find some tutorials in ./WorkFeature/Doc/Tutorials directory:

• TranslationBySegment
  
• ProjectedPoints
  
• RandomPoints
  
• 2DConvexPolygon
  
• CreatePolygon
  
• Regression2D