This issue has been thought of with the FreeCAD Design Working Group initiative for the sheet metal worbench conducted by @obelisk79 for @sliptonic. It is posted there because it is out of scope of this work.
SMFormingWall requires the user to make a different solid with the inverted shape they want to be stamped into the part. It allows a lot of freedom and doesn’t limit the user to a few simple shapes. However, most of the time, stamping is actually pretty simple: a flat bottom, a cutout, etc.
The workbench could provide a simplified version of SMFormingWall that takes a sketch as an input. The sketch would have been the outer shape of the solid. Potentially, the sketch could have several closed profiles. This new feature would provide some options to make a cutout (instead of selecting the opposite file) and allow to select edges in the sketch to mark that there must be an opening there (to make bridges or louvres). SMFormingWall would be used for the most complex cases.
Below are some examples from Solidworks and Catia to show how it could look.
This issue has been thought of with the FreeCAD Design Working Group initiative for the sheet metal worbench conducted by @obelisk79 for @sliptonic. It is posted there because it is out of scope of this work.
SMFormingWallrequires the user to make a different solid with the inverted shape they want to be stamped into the part. It allows a lot of freedom and doesn’t limit the user to a few simple shapes. However, most of the time, stamping is actually pretty simple: a flat bottom, a cutout, etc.The workbench could provide a simplified version of
SMFormingWallthat takes a sketch as an input. The sketch would have been the outer shape of the solid. Potentially, the sketch could have several closed profiles. This new feature would provide some options to make a cutout (instead of selecting the opposite file) and allow to select edges in the sketch to mark that there must be an opening there (to make bridges or louvres).SMFormingWallwould be used for the most complex cases.Below are some examples from Solidworks and Catia to show how it could look.
Catia surface stamp: http://catiadoc.free.fr/online/cfyugstamp_C2/cfyugstampsurface.htm
Catia flanged cutout: http://catiadoc.free.fr/online/cfyugstamp_C2/cfyugstampflangedcutout.htm
Catia flanged hole: http://catiadoc.free.fr/online/cfyugstamp_C2/cfyugstampflangedhole.htm
