Is this important? If so, why?
As said, once we have an agreement on the feature, I will add this to the part WB as well and also to PD's pocket.
That's a very difficult question. I don't have an answer. Ideally, Part and Partdesign should merge or deeply cooperate, but I'm afraid there is no specific plan to do so (as far as i'm aware), and in any case it will probably be a revolution of both.
Many thanks!
At first I did not have this, only a checkbox to use a custom vector. But then I realized that it is then not clear what direction will be used without a custom vector. But of course it is easier to omit the UseNormalVector.[*]The property UseNormalVector is actually superfluous
Thanks.[*]The tooltips of XSkew, YSkew and ZSkew contain a type: X-component iof pad direction vector
The point is here that sketches have any possible planes. Take for example a Sketch in a plane with normal vector (1,1,1). Then it is hard to understand the padding direction. I played a bit yesterday with such cases and had a hard time to predict how to pad from such a sketch to get a 30° angle to its normal vector. With the custom vector, I can put the components of the normal vector into e.g. Wolfram Alpha or a CAS system to get a vector back that is e.g. by 30° rotated around the x-axis. This result can be input to the custom padding vector.[*]This feature makes sure that the length of the computed vector is equal to the pad length. The question is if not the z-value of this vector should be equal to the pad length
In this case instead of 3 additional properties only two are needed.
Oh then I broke something because in my first attempt (using angles for the direction) it worked. I'll have a look.[*]The modes To last and To first are not supported.
I cannot test right now, but I wonder since I think depends on the selected face, no?But Up to face is supported and there the z-value of the vector is equal to the pad length.
See my question above.[*]The spinboxes are not expression aware
I'll will add a check.[*]The user can enter the null vector but this is not checked properly
Yes, thanks.[*]The tooltip for the reverse button is: Reverses direction for Height
This is confusing because the property to control the height is called Length and IMO not easy to translate. Better use something like: Reverses pad direction
[*]In the tooltip of this option again the confusing word Height is used
I cannot remember having set any shortcut. I'll have a look.[*]The shortcut Ctrl+S is set for the symmetric option. However, this shortcut is already used for saving files and thus won't work and raises an ambiguity warning.
OK.[*]The panel can be simplified a bit. When making the group box checkable you can remove the extra checkbox. But you then you have to change its title: User-defined direction. By default it will be off.
Which unit do you take then, is it always mm?
If you look at the first post: there are fields for angles. Allowing arbitrary reference planes seems to be a completely new game.C_h_o_p_i_n wrote: ↑Tue Aug 11, 2020 6:10 am wouldn't it be better (or an also useful alternative way) to specify an certain angle regarding to a plane to specify the direction instead ?