Assembly workbench for FreeCAD v0.15 with support for importing parts from external files. Please note that the Assembly 2 workbench is a work under progress and still contains bugs.
Intended work-flow:
- each part in the assembly is designed in its own FreeCAD file
- a separate assembly FreeCAD file is created
- parts are imported to this assembly file using the Assembly 2 workbench
- spacial constraints are then added to assemble the imported parts
Features
- circular edge constraint
- axial constraint
- plane constraint
- part importing
- updating of parts already imported
Limitations
- Poor constraint solver which may fail or take excessively long for complicated assemblies
- undo and other similar features not supported
To use this workbench clone this git repository under your FreeCAD MyScripts directory, and install the pyside and numpy python libraries. On a Linux Debian based system such as Ubuntu, installation can be done through BASH as follows
$ sudo apt-get install git python-numpy python-pyside
$ mkdir ~/.FreeCAD/Mod
$ cd ~/.FreeCAD/Mod
$ git clone https://github.com/hamish2014/FreeCAD_assembly2.git
FreeCAD you will now have a new workbench-entry called "Assembly 2".
Once installed, use git to upgrade to the latest version through BASH as follows
$ cd ~/.FreeCAD/Mod/FreeCAD_assembly2
$ git pull
- download the git repository as ZIP
- assuming FreeCAD is installed in "C:\PortableApps\FreeCAD 0_15", go to "C:\PortableApps\FreeCAD 0_15\Mod" within Windows Explorer
- create new directory named "assembly2"
- unzip downloaded repository in "C:\PortableApps\FreeCAD 0_15\Mod\assembly2"
FreeCAD you will now have a new workbench-entry called "Assembly 2".
Pyside and Numpy are integrated in the FreeCAD 0.15 dev-Snapshots, so these Python packages do not need to be installed individually
To update to the latest version, redownload the git repository and overwrite the contents of the assembly2 folder.
Please report bugs at https://github.com/hamish2014/FreeCAD_assembly2/issues