Arch Panel Cut

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Panel

Panel Sheet

BIM

THIS COMMAND IS PART OF THE INTEGRATED BIM WORKBENCH IN V1.0
This page has been updated for that version.

Menu location
Arch Panel Cut
Utils → Panel tools → Panel Cut
Workbenches
BIM
Default shortcut
None
Introduced in version
0.17
See also
Arch Panel, Arch Panel Sheet, Arch Nest

Description

The Arch Panel Cut tool creates, in the 3D document, a flat, 2D view of an Arch Panel, to be included in an Arch Panel Sheet or directly exported to DXF. The Panel Cut objects are also supported by the CAM Workbench.

Usage

Select one or more Arch Panel objects.
Select the Utils → Panel tools → Panel Cut option from the menu.
Adjust the desired properties.

Options

If the panel is not flat (corrugated, for example), the relief won't appear in the Panel cut. This tool is useful mainly for flat panels
The panel cut can display a tag. This tag can be a custom line of text or can automatically show the Tag, Label or Description of its linked Panel.
To be useful for CNC machining, the tag should be written using a stick font, where letters are simple polylines that are easy for the machine to follow. Upon creation, the Panel Cut object will automatically use the font specified in Edit → Preferences → Draft → Texts and Dimensions → Default ShapeString font file
Double-clicking on the panel cut in the tree view after it is created allows you to enter edit mode and modify the position of the tag
When you need to layout different Panel Cuts together, Panel Cuts can display a margin, that is useful to make sure a certain space is always present between a cut and another

Properties

Data

DataSource: The Arch Panel object shown by this Cut
DataTag Text: The text to display. Can be %tag%, %label% or %description% to display the panel tag or label
DataTag Size: The size of the tag text
DataTag Position: The position of the tag text. Keep (0,0,0) for automatic center position
DataTag Rotation: The rotation of the tag text
DataFont File: The font of the tag text
DataMake Face: If True, the panel is a Part Face, otherwise a Part Wire

View

ViewMargin: A margin that can be displayed outside the panel cut shape
ViewShow Margin: Turns the display of the margin on/off

Scripting

See also: Arch API and FreeCAD Scripting Basics.

The Panel Cut tool can be used in macros and from the Python console by using the following function:

View = makePanelCut(panel, name="PanelView")

Creates a View object (2D projection) from the existing panel.

Example:

import FreeCAD, Draft, Arch

p1 = FreeCAD.Vector(0, 0, 0)
p2 = FreeCAD.Vector(500, 0, 0)
p3 = FreeCAD.Vector(500, 50, 0)
p4 = FreeCAD.Vector(550, 50, 0)
p5 = FreeCAD.Vector(600, 0, 0)
p6 = FreeCAD.Vector(1000, 0, 0)
p7 = FreeCAD.Vector(1000, 400, 0)
p8 = FreeCAD.Vector(600, 400, 0)
p9 = FreeCAD.Vector(600, 350, 0)
p10 = FreeCAD.Vector(550, 350, 0)
p11 = FreeCAD.Vector(500, 400, 0)
p12 = FreeCAD.Vector(0, 400, 0)

Wire = Draft.makeWire([p1, p2, p3, p4, p5, p6,
                       p7, p8, p8, p9, p10, p11, p12], closed=True)
Panel = Arch.makePanel(Wire, thickness=36)
FreeCAD.ActiveDocument.recompute()

View = Arch.makePanelCut(Panel)
View.ViewObject.LineWidth = 3
FreeCAD.ActiveDocument.recompute()