Drawing 3D Solid primitives Plugin

[karst.drenth]

Hi All,

As of a result of my GRBLMachine Plugin, I developed some 3D Solid Primitives.

As a showed here:
Re: GRBL v1.1 Machine Control and GCODE sender Plugin they are fully compatible with CamBam's drawing system (including saving and reading the .cb file).

With this plugin, you can use them also in your own drawings, even if you do not have/need/want GRBLMachine (this plugin WILL come as a satelite plugin together with GRBLMachine in the future )

I made the whole thing so that it can be extended (by you), used in your own plugin(s), or just standalone.
If there is some positive response here, I will extend it with 'Tube', 'Cone', 'Beam' and 'Pane' and maybe even 'Toroid'.

The classes are in the CamBam.CAD.Solids namespace and the plugin also includes my CamBam Extensions.
So you might just reference them in your own project.

The operation is quite simple:

- Right click in the View
- Select 'Draw'
- Select 'Solids'
- Select the primitive of your choise
- Fill in the properties
- Press OK or Apply to insert the Solid into your drawing.

Something like this:


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... that's where they hide


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... this is how you set the properties


So, please tell me if there are more wishes I would like to add a 'Settings' dialog under 'Plugins' to set some defaults.


Grtzz,

Karst

P.S. Source code comes later on online. I am preparing GRBLMachine official 1.0.0, which also uses CamBam.CAD.Solids. With that source I will also release this source

[History]

Attached V1.0.0.1 since 1.0.0 has no decimal places in the property dialogs  
30th Mar 2017: Attached v1.0.1

[/History]

Sources can be found here (click)

[lloydsp]

Ok, Karst!  You've got me hooked! 

Lloyd

[karst.drenth]

 

And now for someone who comes up with a decent 'Subtract' algorithm to subtract some solids/surfaces

Anyone here ?


Grtzz,

Karst

[karst.drenth]

Hi All,

So, also some progress here

Version 1.0.1 is there, as usual also including sources  !

I posted this new version at the bottom of this post: Drawing 3D Solid primitives Plugin

Mods:

- Completed the property editor for the settings of the plugin
- Taking the defaults into the draw dialogs
- Added the 'Solids' item to the main 'Draw' menu


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Note: You can use CamBam.CAD.Solids.dll from your own plugin projects, by simply referencing it in Visual Studio

So... have fun with the plugin and/or the sources !


Grtzz and please keep me informed about what you think of CamBam.CAD.Solids,

Karst

[dh42]

Hello

Oh ! .. I missed this topic  ...

Another nice job, thanks 

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David

[EddyCurrent]

The Revolved Extrude plugin can also draw what look like solids but are actually wrapped surfaces

[dh42]

Hello

It's strange, but the menus can't be translated  (tried on both 0.98 and V1.0)

Usually, menus can always be translated even if no specific code is added in the plugin (menu is the only thing that is automatically translated) ... how did you disable the menu translation ?

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David

[karst.drenth]

Hi David,

I did not ( at least consciously... )

But I can/could explain it: The names in the menu's are taken directly from the Type.Name of the solids.

So without changing the name of the class, the MenuItem will not change. I guess it should be subject to 'manual' translation when I start to build in translation.

Grtzz,

Karst

[dh42]

The strange thing is that the texts appears in the translation list (rod, sphere etc), except 'Solids' that is not here ... maybe they comes from the GRBL plugin ?

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David

[karst.drenth]

This is the code that creates the menu's:

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    private static ToolStripDropDownItem CreateSolidsMenu(List<Type> solids)
    {
      ToolStripDropDownItem solidsToolStripMenuItem = new ToolStripMenuItem("Solids") { Name = "solidsToolStripMenuItem" };

      foreach (Type type in solids)
      {
        Solid s = Activator.CreateInstance(type) as Solid;

        solidsToolStripMenuItem.DropDownItems.Add(new ToolStripMenuItem(s.DisplayName,null,(object x, EventArgs y) =>
        {
          Solid tag = (x as ToolStripMenuItem).Tag as Solid;

          new DrawSolidForm(tag).Show(ThisApplication.TopWindow);
        }) { Tag = s });
      }

      return solidsToolStripMenuItem;
    }

As you can see, it's just a normal ToolStripDropDownItem. If anybody has a clou, please tell me

Grtzz,

Karst

[dh42]

I'm not familiar with C syntax but I've a look on a VB plugin I've done and it seems that the only change is that the name is not given in the ToolStripMenuItem() statement but separately. But not sure it have anything to do with the pb.

in VB

Dim mi As ToolStripMenuItem = New ToolStripMenuItem()   'the new menu entry (item)
mi.Text = "Numerical move"
....
....

[dh42]

Hello

The copy/paste is not working on CB 1.0 and CB 1.0 - 64Bits if object is added as solid object (no problem if added as surface object)

https://cambamcnc.com/forum/index.php?topic=8790.msg70083#msg70083

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David