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Description

The Arch Equipment tool offers you a simple and convenient way to insert non-structural, standalone elements such as pieces of furniture, hydro-sanitary equipments or electrical appliances to your projects. Equipments are based on Part shapes, which allow them to benefit from the solidity and possibilities of BRep geometry, and generate nice views when rendered to plan and section views.

Furniture objects enclosed in an Arch Equipment object. The flat projections can be obtained by the Draft Shape2DView tool

As most BIM objects, Equipment objects also have a DataHiRes property where a Mesh object can be attached. Equipment objects can then be made to display that mesh in the 3D View instead of their shape by individually setting their ViewDisplayMode property to HiRes. That enables the use of any high-resolution mesh objects such as detailed pieces of furniture commonly found on websites.

Furniture objects enclosed in an Arch Equipment object, with a high resolution mesh attached

When using the Arch OBJ exporter, all equipment objects that are in HiRes display mode will be exported as their mesh instead of their shape.

Usage

1. Select a Part shape, and optionally a Mesh object.
2. Press the Equipment button, or press E then Q keys.

Properties

An Arch Equipment object shares the common properties and behaviors of all Arch Components.

• DataModel (String): A description of the model of this equipment.
• DataProductUrl (String): An URL of the product page where more information about this equipment can be found.
• DataSnapPoints (VectorList): A list of 3D vectors to be used as additional snap points for this equipment.
• DataEquipmentPower (Float): The electric power needed by this equipment, in Watts.

Scripting

See also: Arch API and FreeCAD Scripting Basics.

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

Equipment = makeEquipment(baseobj=None, placement=None, name="Equipment")

• Creates an Equipment object from the given baseobj, which can be a Part or a Mesh.
• If a placement is given, it is used.
• It returns None if the operation fails.

Example:

import FreeCAD, Arch

Box = FreeCAD.ActiveDocument.addObject("Part::Box", "Box")
Box.Length = 500
Box.Width = 2000
Box.Height = 600

Equip = Arch.makeEquipment(Box)
FreeCAD.ActiveDocument.recompute()

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