Manipulator Workbench

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Introduction

The Manipulator Workbench is an external workbench aimed to help FreeCAD users with Aligning, Moving, Rotating and Measuring 3D objects through a friendly GUI. These series of tools help to Transform the placement and Measure objects and STEP models in FreeCAD.

Features

Aligner: a set of tools to move and align 3D parts; it can also align an object (face, edge, point) to the origin in FreeCAD.

Mover: a set of tools to move and rotate 3D parts on different Axis

Caliper: a set of tools to measure 3D parts, with some Snap facility and Radius, Length, Angle measurements.

These helpers work with Part, App::Part and Body objects.

The Tools can be Floating or Docked Left or Right.

Each Tool has a Help Button to get some useful tips

References

Tutorial

Manipulator-WB-@Work

YouTube Tutorial Manipulator WorkBench @Work


Tools

Above: Manipulator workbench dialog. For a more detailed description see README.md on Github.


Aligner

Aligner: set of tools to move and align 3D parts; it can also align an object (face, edge, point) to the origin in FreeCAD

Mover

Mover: set of tools to move and rotate 3D parts on different Axis

Mover: Using App:Part and Body

Mover: with External Reference


Caliper

Caliper: measuring Radius

Caliper: measuring Angles

Caliper: measuring Dimensions

Caliper: measuring Dimensions (cont.)

Caliper: parallel planes distance


Manipulator

Installation

Automatic Installation

The recommended way to install the Manipulator Workbench is via the Addon Manager under the Tools → Addon Manager menu.

Manual Installation

If a manual install is necessary please follow the following instructions:

  • Copying the Manipulator source in to the Mod sub-directory of the FreeCAD application.
cd ~/.FreeCAD/Mod 
git clone https://github.com/easyw/Manipulator Manipulator
  • Restart FreeCAD

Supports

History

The workbench evolved out of the Center Align Objects with Faces or Edges macro


User documentation