Macro FCCamera

Description

This macro can rotate the screen in a defined angle and the defined axis and creates a plan to face the screen to create a form in the specified plan positions the selected face facing the screen, to detect the position of the camera, align view to face or to axis, align the object to view.

# This code is copied instead of the original macro code
# to guide the user to the online download page.
# Use it if the code of the macro is larger than 64 KB and cannot be included in the wiki
# or if the RAW code URL is somewhere else in the wiki.

from PySide import QtGui, QtCore

diag = QtGui.QMessageBox(QtGui.QMessageBox.Information,
    "Information",
    "This macro must be downloaded from this link\n"
    "\n"
    "https://gist.githubusercontent.com/mario52a/4aa545c23b323cf68824/raw/b31c64d26788b796750095eca4a6b92803537732/Macro%2520FCCamera.FCMacro" + "\n"
    "\n"
    "Quit this window to access the download page")

diag.setWindowFlags(QtCore.Qt.WindowStaysOnTopHint)
diag.setWindowModality(QtCore.Qt.ApplicationModal)
diag.exec_()

import webbrowser 
webbrowser.open("https://gist.githubusercontent.com/mario52a/4aa545c23b323cf68824/raw/b31c64d26788b796750095eca4a6b92803537732/Macro%2520FCCamera.FCMacro")

Usage

Camera of Axis: The dialog box to enter the rotation value angle in degrees.

Angle rotation Axis in degrees: Select the rotation axis X, Y or Z.

Axe of rotation

• Accept the rotation : Accept the rotation give to angle selected

Virtual

• Detect camera orientation : Detect the camera orientation and print in report view. The returned value is the value provided by the function getCameraOrientation().

Align view to face selected

• To Face. : Align the view to the selected face. Click and repeat the click for NormalAt : "(0,0,1) (0,0,-1) (0,1,0) (0,-1,0) (1,0,0) (-1,0,0)"

• To Axis. : Align the view to Axis face selected. Click and repeat the click for Surface Axis : "(0,0,1) (0,0,-1) (0,1,0) (0,-1,0) (1,0,0) (-1,0,0)"

• Align object to view. : Align the object selected to the actual view. The changed values are : Rotation Axis((X, Y, Z), Angle), same Euler angles : Yaw, Pitch, Roll, The Translation is not modify.

• Create plane of view. : A circular plane is created facing the screen to mouse click coordinates on an object. The radius of the plane is equal to the maximum dimension of BoundBox. If no object is selected, the plane is created to 0, 0, 0 coordinates with a radius of 20 mm. The radius is modifiable to line 515:

rayon = 20                            # Radius of plane

• Reset. : Reset all values
• Photo. : Section save the screen rotation an image in angle value
• Quit. : Quit FCCamera

Section Photo

• ComboBox Actual  : Choose your screen definition for the image format
  • Available (pre-defined):
    • "Actual" (definition actual of screen)
    • "Icon 16 x 16"
    • "Icon 32 x 32"
    • "Icon 64 x 64"
    • "Icon 128 x 128"
    • "CGA 320 x 200"
    • "QVGA 320 x 240"
    • "VGA 640 x 480"
    • "SVGA 800 x 600"
    • "XGA 1024 x 768"
    • "XGA+ 1152 x 864"
    • "SXGA 1280 x 1024"
    • "SXGA+ 1400 x 1050"
    • "UXGA 1600 x 1200"
    • "QXGA 2048 x 1536"
    • "Free"

• SpinBox X and Y

• ComboBox Format image
  • Available :
    • "BMP *.bmp"
    • "ICO *.ico"
    • "JPEG *.jpeg"
    • "JPG *.jpg"
    • "PNG *.png" (by default)
    • "PPM *.ppm"
    • "TIF *.tif"
    • "TIFF *.tiff"
    • "XBM *.xbm"
    • "XPM *.xpm"

• Line 1 : Number image calculated by the angle give (ex: angle 60 degrees = 360 (complete rotation) / 60 (angle) = 6 images

• Line 2 : The definition of screen used

• Background image :
  • Actual : save image with the screen colour actual
  • White : save image with the screen colour white
  • Black : save image with the screen colour black

• Launch : Open the file window , give the name and the path
• Reset : Reset the default value
• Return : Quit the photo panel and return to FCCamera panel

Links

Related Links with FCCamera

• Macro Rotate View
• Macro Align Object to View
• Macro Align Face Object to View
• Macro WorkFeatures

Discussion Forum MACRO:Work Feature 2014_12

Script

Download the icon files FCCamera_Icones.zip

Download the macro to Gist Macro FCCamera.FCMacro

Examples

How to place an angle hole

The same result can be achieved by creating a plan in the corner given by the mouse click position and a sketch.

Version

• ver 0.15, 0.15b (19/12/2024): adapt and return PySide, (FCCamera macro can't find Pyside2) correct the web access delete WebGui replaced by webbrowser

####
try:
    import webbrowser
    webbrowser.open("http://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/index.php?title=Macro_FCCamera")
except Exception:
    None
####
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import urllib
from urllib import request

contentPage = request.urlopen("https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Macro_FCCamera").readlines()
####

• ver 0.14 (20/10/2020) : *correction bug "Grid" not accepted

• ver 0.13 (28/06/2020): adding files image in source code, create plane "On point, Center face, BBox center, Center Mass", gridLayout

• ver 00.12.1 (12/02/2020): suppress the bad character lines 674 and 675 (accent...) again

• ver 12 (01/08/2019): compatible Python 3 ( print to print() )

• ver 11 (13/01/2018): minor

• ver 10 (13/01/2018): add "def centerBoundBoxGlobal():"

• ver 09 (08/01/2018): minor

• ver 08 (08/01/2018): supp "Pyqt4" and adjust number image
• ver 07 (03/01/2018): add photo panel and rotation to axis selected (wire, edge, line )

• ver 0.6 (13/12/2016): new system for search the macro path directly in the preferences

#path = FreeCAD.ConfigGet("AppHomePath")
#path = FreeCAD.ConfigGet("UserAppData")
#path = "your path"
param = FreeCAD.ParamGet("User parameter:BaseApp/Preferences/Macro")# macro path
path = param.GetString("MacroPath","") + "/"                        # macro path
path = path.replace("\\","/")
App.Console.PrintMessage("Path locality to FCCamera.....images.png [ " + path + " ]"+"\n")

• ver 0.5 06/09/2016: correct name "FCCamera_Axis_rotation_X.png" in reset block

• ver 0.4 28/02/2016 : add display all camera detection and the Direction

• ver 0.3 18/03/2015 : modify line 492 replace "pl.Base = App.Vector(0,0,0)" to "pl.Base = sel[0].Placement.Base" now no longer moves the form at point (0,0,0) and leaves has the coordinates

• ver 0.2 25/02/2015 : correct names files in for compatibility Linux (case sensitive) thanks microelly2