Arbench
Annotation for robotics bench. A FreeCAD workbench for annotating frames of interest, exporting these w.r.t. the part frame, and exporting part information.
Installation instructions
This workbench supports versions of FreeCAD>0.16.
- Install FreeCAD
- If you're not on Ubuntu follow the workbench installation instructions or you can do the following on Ubuntu.
- Custom workbenches are located in
.FreeCAD/Mod/
under your home directorycd ~/.FreeCAD/Mod/
- Either
- Clone the repository there
- symlink the cloned repo in there (
ln -s ./ARBench ~/.FreeCAD/ARBench
)
- Start the workbench by
- Running FreeCAD
- Open a STEP file
- Open the
ARBench
workbench
Usage
- Click a small feature e.g. a circle
- Press the feature frame creator (cone with a magnifying glass on it icon)
- Chose type of feature to create
- Chose feature parameters if relevant and the offset of the frame from the feature.
- Repeat 4 for each feature you want on each part
- Click a part and press the export to json button (block->textfile icon)
- Save json
- Use the json with whatever you want. E.g.
arbench_part_publisher
Todo
-[] Add export all parts to meshes