the official FreeCAD Assembly WB is planned and some early work has been started in some developers’ branches but it does not exist in any sort of useful state yet.
Yes. The new PartDesign Workbench is an essential step towards the assembly workbench, introducing crucial new objects and workflows wich enable assemblies later on. Hence multiple persons are working on this and a lot of work has gone into this over the recent months. And a lot of work will happen until this new PartDesign is to be considered stable and we can go on working on other assembly aspects.
I’m also working parallel on the assembly solver, on and off, if I feel like it
I see that the last message is more than a month old.
Is the assembly workbench currently in development or is the part design rework still a priority ?
I am currently using the 0.17.7713 (x64 win10) official pre build, which was released on april 9th. Maybe there has been important changes since.
I am very willing to contribute but I am quite new to FreeCAD development.
If I can help by any mean (testing, writting py scripts, making new icons, translations to french, …) let me know
That is part design rework is still a priority and assembly workbench currently is in the development.
I am currently using the 0.17.7713 (x64 win10) official pre build, which was released on april 9th. Maybe there has been important changes since.
I am very willing to contribute but I am quite new to FreeCAD development.
On Ubuntu 16.04 FreeCAD snappy package is available and if you want you can test assembly workbench in current state.
If I can help by any mean (testing, writting py scripts, making new icons, translations to french, …) let me know >
Yes all of this is welcomed. You can follow python/design/translation discussions on the forum and take part if something interests you.
Assembly is not in the daily PPA version, triplus said it was in that snap version someone recently made, I have no idea if it is or is not. Compiling Assembly WB in master (which is what the daily PPA is) is a cmake option currently defaulted to off, for good reason. Assembly WB has three icons and does almost nothing, it did compile for me a week or two ago on one of my heavily modified Kubuntu 12.04 64 bit box, but the result is a complete waste of time as far as any user functionality is concerned. If you want to develop code then you would be compiling from source anyway.
Look at the date the video was published. I believe it’s an old Assembly experimental branch that is no longer available/working because FreeCAD has changed much since then.