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Description

This macro easily creates a connection between two objects, an object and a point or between two points (the center of the objects are the starting and ending points of the sweep) can be selected form a configurable ellipse polygon circle.
A discretize function is available to create marker points configurable for cutting lines in section or cutting with a dimension on point is created to all coordinates.
A Duplicate face or wire feature for use with the Sweep and Loft operation
Sweep and Loft operation directly with the macro.

# This code is copied instead of the original macro code
# to guide the user to the online download page.
# Use it if the code of the macro is larger than 64 KB and cannot be included in the wiki
# or if the RAW code URL is somewhere else in the wiki.

from PySide import QtGui, QtCore

diag = QtGui.QMessageBox(QtGui.QMessageBox.Information,
    "Information",
    "This macro must be downloaded from this link\n"
    "\n"
    "https://gist.githubusercontent.com/mario52a/3ec67a3711202dab69592ce53b938924/raw/984cd58c1d64dd391062025cfa82a698c7268e66/Macro_Connect_And_Sweep.FCMacro" + "\n"
    "\n"
    "Quit this window to access the download page")

diag.setWindowFlags(QtCore.Qt.WindowStaysOnTopHint)
diag.setWindowModality(QtCore.Qt.ApplicationModal)
diag.exec_()

import webbrowser 
webbrowser.open("https://gist.githubusercontent.com/mario52a/3ec67a3711202dab69592ce53b938924/raw/984cd58c1d64dd391062025cfa82a698c7268e66/Macro_Connect_And_Sweep.FCMacro")

Macro_Connect_And_Sweep

Usage

Run the macro select your objects or points choice the form and parameters and click Create.

Macro_Connect_And_Sweep

Discretize

Duplicate

Sweep

Loft

Reset

Images

These files must be copied to your macros directory

(For download : Click Right button op the image and click "Save Image as ..." (version 0.17))

The icon for the toolbar

Script

Macro_Connect_And_Sweep.FCMacro

Download the macro to Gits Macro_Connect_And_Sweep.FCMacro

Example

Path and tubing with Macro_Connect_And_Sweep and Macro Repro Wire

Animated example

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Object and Object, the connection boundBox center object 1 and boundBox center object 2

Object SubObject, the connection boundBox center object 1 and boundBox center Subobject 1

SubObject SubObject, the connection boundBox center Subobject 1 and boundBox center Subobject 2

Connect And Sweep Direction one object selected or Subobject selected

Detect Error of mode selection, if one error of selection is created the mode change to mode 3 and the mode 3 line is colored in orange

Version

ver 0.13 2024/07/24 : del webGui and replace by webbrowser

ver 0.12 2020/07/05 : include icons in source code

ver 00.11b 2020-02-22 : adding the test "try: except" on test FreeCAD version

ver 00.11 2020-02-13 : modify for the HD dpi QGridLayout run only FC version 0.18 and more
For the precedent version see Macro_Connect_And_Sweep.FCMacro

ver 00.10 2020-01-09 : centering on face

ver 00.09 2020-01-06 : adding Tab Duplicate (as Macro reproWire), Sweep, Loft.

ver 00.08 2019-12-23 : adding function discretize wire and create marker points for use the points as landmarks

ver 00.07 2019-06-26 : upgrade add mode Object to Object, Object to SubObject, SubObject to SubObject selection one line and other minor change

00.06 18/06/2019 : adding "Recompute" on create line section

00.05 05/04/2019 : compatible Python 3

00.04 22/02/2017 : upgrade the search path

00.03 15/09/2016 : add create pipe

00.02 13/06/2016 : add options choice angle path rectangle and ellipse

00.01 07/06/2016 : add option solid or not centring rectangle or not

00.00 05/06/2016 :

Links

The forum discussion Scripting point to point tubing

This macro is based to the microelly2 code see Looking for some helpful GUI-commands

Other forum discussion Macro_Connect_And_Sweep