0003858: Additive primitives of the Part WB should use existing task dialogs of PartDesign WB - FreeCAD Tracker

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ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0003858	Part	Feature	public	2019-02-24 13:57	2021-02-06 06:46

Reporter	uwestoehr	Assigned To
Priority	normal	Severity	feature	Reproducibility	always
Status	new	Resolution	open
Product Version	0.18
Target Version	0.20

Summary	0003858: Additive primitives of the Part WB should use existing task dialogs of PartDesign WB
Description	When you insert an additive primitive like a box in the PartDesing WB you get a nice task dialog where you can specify the dimensions etc. When adding a primitive in the part WB, there is no task dialog at all. Since there exists task dialogs for primitives in PartDesign the part WB could use them somehow. This would increase the usability because a visual feedback during the creation of a primitive is very helpful and currently you have to set the dimensions etc. in the Data tab of the Combo view without any visual preview.
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wmayer 2019-02-24 17:31 administrator ~0012752	When adding a primitive in the part WB, there is no task dialog at all. Uwe Stoehr This is not correct. In the one toolbar of the Part wb the first five buttons are supposed to quickly create some standard primitives. The sixth button opens a task panel where some further primitives are listed and there you can define the parameters. Since there exists task dialogs for primitives in PartDesign the part WB could use them somehow. Technically this is impossible because the PartDesign library links the Part library. So, it's not possible to use PartDesign stuff in Part as this would cause a cyclic dependency and thus to unresolvable linker errors.

uwestoehr 2019-02-24 18:11 manager ~0012756	> The sixth button opens a task panel where some further primitives are listed and there you can define the parameters. Hmm, but this dialog offers for example no rotation and also no visual preview. The PartDesing dialog offers both. Also issue 0003857 applies for all primitives added this way. > Technically this is impossible OK. So let's keep this as feature request for an improved task dialog for the Part WB.

Kunda1 2020-12-08 20:38 administrator ~0015120	@uwestoehr was this issue addressed recently ?

uwestoehr 2020-12-09 12:22 manager ~0015122	Only partly: existing primitives use now the PartDesign dialogs, but when creating a new primitive like a box, you don't get any dialog. I failed to get this working. So the bug must be kept open.

yorik 2022-03-03 13:55 administrator ~0016721	This ticket has been migrated to GitHub as issue 5886.

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2019-02-24 13:57	uwestoehr	New Issue
2019-02-24 17:31	wmayer	Note Added: 0012752
2019-02-24 18:11	uwestoehr	Note Added: 0012756
2020-12-08 20:38	Kunda1	Note Added: 0015120
2020-12-09 12:22	uwestoehr	Note Added: 0015122
2021-02-06 06:46	abdullah	Target Version	=> 0.20