Manipulator Workbench

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Introduction

FreeCAD Manipulator WorkBench

Manipulator WB is aimed to help FreeCAD users in Aligning, Moving, Rotating and Measuring 3D objects through a friendly GUI.

Features:

Aligner: a set of tools to move and align 3D parts

Mover: a set of tools to move and rotate 3D parts on different Axis

Caliper: a set of tools to measure 3D parts, with some Snap facility and Radius, Length, Angle measurements.

These helpers work with Part, App::Part and Body objects.

The Tools can be Floating or Docked Left or Right.

Each Tool has a Help Button to get some useful tips

References

Tools

Detailed description here

[[Image:Manipulator-WB-@Work.png] https://youtu.be/owGzsd1fyZc]

Aligner


Mover




Caliper






Manipulator

Installation

Automatic installation

- automatically using the FreeCAD Add-on Manager (bundled in to 0.17 dev version under Tools Menu)

From GitHub

- manually by copying the Manipulator folder to the Mod sub-directory of the FreeCAD application.

Manipulator github page

Supports

  • FreeCAD v0.15 4671
  • FreeCAD v0.16 >= 6712
  • FreeCAD v0.17 >= 11707