Recently I we disccoused in “My take on the FreeCAD GUI” I learned that FreeCAD has a Design Guide. Based on this I created my own as a proposal. While working on it I came accross that some part of it is special for PartDesign.
So my question. Does PartDesign has a DesignGuidline?
Nothing official, but over the years some principles have turned out to be successful.
Do you see room for a discussion, if I write down my thinking and ideas into a Design Guidline - based on my knowledge from using closed source CAD systems the last 15 Years?
I’m pretty sure that it will not end in “The PartDesign Guidelines”.
We’re certainly open to ideas but just don’t expect us to fall at your feet and treat your words as gospel (we’ve had so called designers coming “to help” with such expectations before). There’s certain things worth mimicking from proprietary software but equally many things we should avoid like the plague. Besides that, any proposal should be realistic.
As my answer was a rather short, here is the long version: I second Adrian.
FreeCAD overall is in very active development and a design guide makes sense.
Part Design continues to get improvements and various tweaks, but the overall design is basically finished. It is not clear how a PD design guide would be of much value.
Gene
adrianinsaval I have no Problem with that. I like the discussion around that.
From your post I assume there are any No-Gos for PartDesign? I for my self would base some parts of the Guideline on a solved TNP Problem and some ideas I had written down here.
I had completely misunderstood the intent of this topic. I had the impression that this is about how to design PartDesign models. I mention it, because you may want to clarify for others.
Here my first Beta:
→ Style Guide “ModernUI 23” FreeCAD/PartDesign
And my enhanced proposal for FreeCAD from “My take on the FreeCAD GUI” :
→ Style Guide “ModernUI 23” FreeCAD
While working on that, it was difficult to set, what is a guideline that FreeCAD should set general and what a Workbench should do individually.
Cryptpad had some access errors. Both documents should work again.
→ Shared Directory off all my creations (read-only)
The content of this link is read-only. Only both Documents accessed from this link below are writable:
→ Style Guide “ModernUI 23” FreeCAD/PartDesign
→ Style Guide “ModernUI 23” FreeCAD