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A library of Parts for FreeCAD. WARNING - This library is huge. It might take a long time to download and make the addons manager unresponsive for many minutes.
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Each directory could have a README.md that shows screenshots #188

Open luzpaz opened 7 years ago

luzpaz commented 7 years ago

...this would help folks browse the repo instead of needing to download files to view their contents.

Obijuan commented 7 years ago

I think it is a great idea!

luzpaz commented 7 years ago

@Obijuan thanks :) Perhaps you can make it a guideline that it become part of the contribution workflow to make a png of their submission and at it as a README.md to said directory ?

luzpaz commented 7 years ago

Ideas for submissions guidelines:

infthi commented 7 years ago

FIY github has a built-in viewer for stl files

battlesnake commented 5 years ago

Could possibly have a script hooked to the repo the generates several views of each part and publishes them to a separate repo/site/archive rather than putting them in the source repo, to prevent the size from ballooning too rapidly

yorikvanhavre commented 5 years ago

That might be a good idea, but it would require a server to run this script, etc... At the moment the library weights more or less 1Gb, including:

So the image files really are very small, not even 1% of the total size. Also, FreeCAD has the ability to save a thumbnail inside the file, which would make these image files not necessary...

What we should do, maybe, is try to get rid of all the brep and step files. For that, we should better the tools in FreeCAD to offer several ways to import an FCStd file, to make these additional formats unnecessary (basically the ability to import them as one object). Then, make sure every brep or step file here has a corresponding FCStd file.

silopolis commented 5 years ago

Why sacrifice STEP and save STL? AFAIC, if I had to delete one, it'd be STL 🤔

easyw commented 5 years ago

@yorikvanhavre we could remove brep format (which adds nothing compared to .FCStd file) ... STEP files are a bit depending on what release of FC is used to export and which options are selected... so I would keep this format in the library... eventually they can be added as zip or even as '.stpZ' format (which is a zip std step format that can be read and saved in FC). The file size will drop 10 times or more normally... Also STL could be saved as zip

yorikvanhavre commented 5 years ago

stl is useful because you can visualize them in 3D in github (who knows one day they support FCStd files :smile: ) Probably the best way to proceed with all this is not to have the parts library as a simple FreeCAD addon anymore, but a separate system where you can download parts on-the-fly, as you need, and not simply download the whole thing as a bundle... But that requires basically coding a whole new system for it. If anyone is interested in doing that, I'm interested in helping ;)

battlesnake commented 5 years ago

I could possibly take that on, but not for a few months due to current paid projects.

We could also look at the possibility of forking an existing package-management system e.g. CTAN/CPAN/CRAN/pacman/etc, to minimise the amount of actual code that needs to be written.

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stl is useful because you can visualize them in 3D in github (who knows one day they support FCStd files 😄 ) Probably the best way to proceed with all this is not to have the parts library as a simple FreeCAD addon anymore, but a separate system where you can download parts on-the-fly, as you need, and not simply download the whole thing as a bundle... But that requires basically coding a whole new system for it. If anyone is interested in doing that, I'm interested in helping ;)

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yorikvanhavre commented 5 years ago

I could possibly take that on, but not for a few months due to current paid projects.

That would be great!!

This can be pretty simple... A dialog that basically shows a tree structure with files, and on double-clicking any of them it would download it and insert it in FreeCAD. There is a working example of this in https://github.com/yorikvanhavre/BIM_Workbench/blob/master/BimLibrary.py but the way the tree is populated there is automatic, from the filesystem. Here we'd need to do it manually.

The most annoying thing would be to get that files & directory structure from github. But maybe there is some cool API functionality to get that...

Cool too would be that such a tool wouldn't prevent using the library as we do now (clone the whole thing locally). It would just be an alternative, online UI for it...

battlesnake commented 5 years ago

I'm currently developing similar things for synchronising data with satellites, so hopefully if I have time later in the year then I'll have a decent idea of how it should all work!

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I could possibly take that on, but not for a few months due to current paid projects.

That would be great!!

This can be pretty simple... A dialog that basically shows a tree structure with files, and on double-clicking any of them it would download it and insert it in FreeCAD. There is a working example of this in https://github.com/yorikvanhavre/BIM_Workbench/blob/master/BimLibrary.py but the way the tree is populated there is automatic, from the filesystem. Here we'd need to do it manually.

The most annoying thing would be to get that files & directory structure from github. But maybe there is some cool API functionality to get that...

Cool too would be that such a tool wouldn't prevent using the library as we do now (clone the whole thing locally). It would just be an alternative, online UI for it...

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