This is an early-stage FreeCAD workbench to deal with ROS (Robot Operating System).

Compatible with FreeCAD v0.19 (earlier version with the local coordinate system feature). Compatible with ROS2 (for now).

• Export Part::Box, Part::Sphere, and Part::Cylinder as text to be included in a URDF file.

You're on your own for now, see instructions for local install below.

If you want to work on this workbench you have the following options:

• Start FreeCAD from the root-directory of this repository in (by default freecad.workbench_ros)
• Simply link the extension to a location where python can find it.
• pip install -e . adds the root-directory to easy_install.path.

To install your extension locally with pip, do the following from a cmd (windows) or terminal (unix):

cd <path_to_the_root_of_this_repo>
pip install .

Please have a look at this pypi twine tutorial.

Be careful with version-numbering. It seems pypi doesn't allow to upload a package with a version smaller than the biggest version of the package uploaded. This seems to be true also for deleted packages and deleted versions.

Once uploaded, the package can be installed with:

pip install <package-name>

• pyrate - Optical raytracing based on Python
• OpenGlider - Python library to build paragliders
• FCGear - a gear module for FreeCAD
• freecad_pipintegration - support pip installable freecad-packages

• module : a Python source file, which can expose classes, functions and global variables
• package : a directory containing Python modules.
• distribution : the artifacts which are created by running the setup.py. Can contain multiple packages.
• workbench : a graphical space inside the FreeCAD-Gui which adds functionality related to a specific task
• namespace-package : a package which adds functionality to a specific namespace. For FreeCAD we are talking about packages which are importable with from freecad import my_package. (Sometimes also called new-style-module)
• namespace-workbench: a namespace-package containing the freecad-initialization files.
• extension-module: a library (.so or .dll) written in C/C++ which adds the possibility to import this library with python.

Due to the fact we are now using the pktutil-module to find extensions of FreeCAD, it's possible to use standard-python-paths to place the extension. This is any location which is included in the sys.path.

To get a list of all the locations simple run this code in the FreeCAD-console:

import sys
sys.path