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33 lines
1.3 KiB
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# Arbench
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Annotation for robotics bench. A FreeCAD workbench for annotating frames of interest, exporting these w.r.t. the part frame, and exporting part information.
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# Installation instructions
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This workbench uses freecad 0.16 so far.
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0. If you're on ubuntu 14.04, you have to run: `sudo add-apt-reposityory ppa:freecad-maintainers/freecad-stable` then `sudo apt-get update`,
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1. Install FreeCAD
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`sudo apt-get install Freecad`
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2. Custom workbenches are located in `.FreeCAD/Mod/` under your home directory
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`cd ~/.FreeCAD/Mod/`
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3. Either
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- Clone the repository there
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- symlink the cloned repo in there
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4. Start the workbench by
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1. Run FreeCAD
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2. Open a STEP file
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3. Open the `ARBench` workbench
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# Usage
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1. Click a small feature e.g. a circle
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2. Press the feature frame creator (cone with a magnifying glass on it icon)
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3. Chose type of feature to create
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4. Chose feature parameters if relevant and the offset of the frame from the feature.
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5. Repeat 4 for each feature you want on each part
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6. Click a part and press the export to json button (block->textfile icon)
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7. Save json
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8. Use the json with whatever you want. E.g. [`arbench_part_publisher`](https://github.com/mahaarbo/arbench_part_publisher)
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# Todo
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-[] Add export all parts to meshes
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