Flamingo & Dodo workbench(s) discussion thread

[Faroghar]

.. asking if it is possible to edit the profiles using LibreOffice E.g. Particularly the pipe definitions. Manufacturers in our part of the world have somewhat different standards and it would be great to create Australian standard parts/profiles and contribute to the dodo workbench in that manner.

Hi, I'm proud to say that this possibility has been envisaged from beginning. You can read how to do in this old tutorial.

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All dimensions of pipes, flanges, elbows etc. are saved in the /Mod/flamingo/tables directory (or /Mod/dodo/tablez) in csv files. You can modify them and also create your own files, following few rules: after that you will find automatcally the new dimensions table in the "Insert a.." dialog in FreeCAD.

• The files must be comma-separated-values type, with semicolon as delimiter.
• The names of the file must start with the kind of piping object ("Pipe" "Elbow" "Flange"...) followed by an underscore and the name of it's pressure-rating class, that will be shown in the right list of the dialog above.
• The file must contain the table of dimensions of tubes, being the first row of the table the names of properties as defined in the relevant class in pipeFeatures.py (read the automatic documentation of classes with the menu path Help -> Automatic Python documentation for the name of the fields and their meaning).

It's even simpler to just copy one of the existing files in the same folder, rename it and change values.

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Hi oddtopus, i'm a Revit user for HVAC and i really liked what you have managed to do in FreeCAD.

I would like to be able to work without Revit directly in IFC format, i'm for now a total novice, that's why i would like your feedback.
I know that there is some ressources sharing between FreeCAD and Blender and i would like to know if you think it would be possible to do transfer your work in blender (BlenderBIM)?

In 3.0 there will be an asset manager and i think it could be possible to have all the different pipes and duct etc stored or even in .csv and call them on a path with a script or even activate a script continuously (an operator ?) to draw directly a pipe, duct, etc...

Thanks for your input.

Best Regards.

[johnwang]

Hi,

AddOn manager doesn't work on my pc, so I just downloaded from Github as zip and unziped under Mod folder.

When fc starts, I got this error and can't found it in the wb list:

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During initialization the error "No module named 'DraftSnap'" occurred in G:\bjFreeCAD\Mod\flamingo\InitGui.py

Any idea?

Regards,

John

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After remove this line in Mod\flamingo\InitGui.py:

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  #import DraftSnap

I can see the wb on the list now. Will try some pipe functions.

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Edit 2:

Just remembered, I'd better use DODO.

[Kunda1]

Flamingo has been deprecated in favor of Dodo.

[oddtopus]

Hi, I just patched Dodo to eliminate the warning about a syntax deprecation using addExtension method but i can not get rid of the following that appears when I insert a PypeBranch:

10:44:04 96.107 <App> Document.cpp(3546): Senza_nome#Tubo still touched after recompute
10:44:04 96.1071 <App> Document.cpp(3546): Senza_nome#Tubo001 still touched after recompute
10:44:04 96.1072 <App> Document.cpp(3546): Senza_nome#Curva still touched after recompute
10:44:04 96.1862 <App> Document.cpp(3546): Senza_nome#Tubo still touched after recompute
10:44:04 96.1863 <App> Document.cpp(3546): Senza_nome#Tubo001 still touched after recompute
10:44:04 96.1864 <App> Document.cpp(3546): Senza_nome#Curva still touched after recompute

I searched already posts talking about this but I still don't figure out how they can apply to my case.

Does anybody have a hint?

Also, in the example above, I draw a Wire with 2 segment, then I create on it the PypeBranch. The result in the tree view seems correct because 2 pipes and 1 curve are created but it seems they are badly rendered in the graphic window, as they are drawn twice in the same position...

[adrianinsaval]

Does the object have any expression assigned?

[oddtopus]

Does the object have any expression assigned?

Hi, the code is in file pFeatures.py, lines 554 and forward for the object itself and line 496 and forward for the viewprovider.

[paullee]

Just installed on the latest FC 0.20, run the FrameBranchManager, click OK and return error

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12:02:46  Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/paullee/.local/share/FreeCAD/Mod/dodo/fFeatures.py", line 684, in execute
    beam.AttachmentOffset.Rotation=FreeCAD.Rotation(Z,angle+beam.spin)
<class 'AttributeError'>: 'FeaturePython' object has no attribute 'spin'
12:02:46  Recompute failed! Please check report view.

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OS: Fedora Linux 36 (Workstation Edition) (GNOME/gnome)
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.20.29177 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: (HEAD detached at 0.20)
Hash: 68e337670e227889217652ddac593c93b5e8dc94
Python 3.9.13, Qt 5.12.9, Coin 4.0.0, Vtk 9.1.0, OCC 7.5.3
Locale: English/United States (en_US)
Installed mods: 
  * dodo
  * DynamicData 2.46.0
  * ArchTextures

[mwlandolsi]

Just installed on the latest FC 0.20, run the FrameBranchManager, click OK and return error

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12:02:46  Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/paullee/.local/share/FreeCAD/Mod/dodo/fFeatures.py", line 684, in execute
    beam.AttachmentOffset.Rotation=FreeCAD.Rotation(Z,angle+beam.spin)
<class 'AttributeError'>: 'FeaturePython' object has no attribute 'spin'
12:02:46  Recompute failed! Please check report view.

Test_ Dodo_ 2_ FrameBranchManager_Error.FCStd


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OS: Fedora Linux 36 (Workstation Edition) (GNOME/gnome)
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.20.29177 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: (HEAD detached at 0.20)
Hash: 68e337670e227889217652ddac593c93b5e8dc94
Python 3.9.13, Qt 5.12.9, Coin 4.0.0, Vtk 9.1.0, OCC 7.5.3
Locale: English/United States (en_US)
Installed mods: 
  * dodo
  * DynamicData 2.46.0
  * ArchTextures

Got the same error with freecad 0.21

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OS: Ubuntu Core 20 (ubuntu:GNOME/ubuntu)
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.21.29840 (Git) Snap 174
Build type: Release
Branch: master
Hash: 1b5285bebd888b2926a890a8ba9dc837ad64dfeb
Python 3.8.10, Qt 5.15.3, Coin 4.0.0, Vtk 7.1.1, OCC 7.6.2
Locale: English/United States (en_US)
Installed mods: 
  * Assembly3 0.11.3
  * dodo
  * lattice2 1.0.0
  * sheetmetal 0.2.52
  * frame 0.1.0
  * CurvedShapes 1.0.4
  * fcgear 1.0.0
  * fasteners 0.3.50
  * Render 2022.2.0
  * Curves 0.5.2

[oddtopus]

Just installed on the latest FC 0.20, run the FrameBranchManager, click OK and return error

Hi, I downloaded your file and run the same command in the same release of FreeCAD but it worked smoothly on my system:

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OS: Linux Mint 20.2 (MATE/mate)
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.20.29177 (Git) AppImage
Build type: Release
Branch: (HEAD detached at 0.20)
Hash: 68e337670e227889217652ddac593c93b5e8dc94
Python 3.9.13, Qt 5.12.9, Coin 4.0.0, Vtk 9.1.0, OCC 7.5.3
Locale: Italian/Italy (it_IT)
Installed mods: 
  * sheetmetal 0.2.51
  * dodo
  * Assembly4 0.12.2

Since I recently patched few lines, can you try to update the workbench?

[paullee]

Since I recently patched few lines, can you try to update the workbench?

Curiously, nothing to update even I force add-on manager to refresh. In fact, I just install the other day.

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