Monthly Archives: February 2012

I think I’m honing in on the code where I would need add code to change a line to a polyline. I’m starting to run into coin3d stuff. I never worked with coin3d so I need to do a little … Continue reading →

    This post is some notes, I was keeping working out how free cad is put together.(This may not make sense to anyone other than me) So.. freshly armed with Qt-Creator 2.4.1 I’m delving into freeCAD source once again. … Continue reading →

So I’m using 10.04 ubuntu and there qt-creator version that down loads from synaptic is 1.3.1 based on qt 4.6.2.  According to the freecad versions the later version have better support of cmake… Ok.. So uninstalled qtcreator from synaptic. I … Continue reading →

I managed to the break points working from with the QT-creator IDE https://sourceforge.net/apps/phpbb/free-cad/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=2237 I set the breakpoint on void ViewProviderSketch::draw(bool temp) and I was looking at the call stack after I clicked the mouse 0    SketcherGui::ViewProviderSketch::draw    ViewProviderSketch.cpp    1600    0x00007fffd1d4453a 1   … Continue reading →

I’m starting to take a look at how the freeCad code is put together.   It is pretty massive.   At first glance the naming conventions don’t have the same naming discipline, that heekscad has, but from what I’m seeing the seems … Continue reading →

I spent  more than a few minutes of googling and the search engine never did give me the answer I was seeking.   Most the of the hits for the search terms I was using seem to indicate the solution … Continue reading →

I really like code::blocks.. and it made sense for me to use it with heekcad since both where based on wxwidget technology, but I wonder if it would be less pain for me to use qt-creator.    I’m running 64 bit … Continue reading →

FreeCAD is really intriguing to me.    The bummer is that it’s designed around metric.   My work place is inch based and most of my tools and stock at home are inch based also.   I remember in heekscad they made an … Continue reading →