Allow to define workplane using normal vector

[adam-urbanczyk]

It would be nice to have this for the workplane() method. Everything can be done using a transformed call but is sometimes unnatural.

[nopria]

I came across your comment while examining the functionalities of Plane object as a coordinate system. Probably I don't understand well your comment, but you can define a Workplane using 3-tuples:

import cadquery as cq
wp = cq.Workplane(cq.Plane(origin=(0,0,0), xDir=(1,1,0), normal=(1,0,0)))

You can use this code to show the Workplane coordinate system:

my_format = lambda n:'{:<8}'.format(' {: .4f}'.format(n).rstrip('0').rstrip('.').rstrip('-'))

def showCS(cs): # cs is an OCP.gp.gp_Ax3 object
    print("xDir ="+''.join([my_format(n) for n in cs.XDirection().XYZ().Coord()]))
    print("yDir ="+''.join([my_format(n) for n in cs.YDirection().XYZ().Coord()]))
    print("zDir ="+''.join([my_format(n) for n in cs.Direction().XYZ().Coord()]))

showCS(wp.plane.lcs)

[adam-urbanczyk]

Indeed, you are right regarding cq.Workplane but it is still not possible using cq.Workplane.workplane. I'll adjust the description.

[nopria]

You can achieve that using "copyWorkplane":

import cadquery as cq wp = cq.Workplane("XZ").copyWorkplane(cq.Workplane(cq.Plane(origin=(0,0,0), xDir=(1,1,0), normal=(1,0,0))))

[adam-urbanczyk]

Thanks, but we are now talking about really two different things. Your example does not do what workplane().transformed(...) would do.