{{Macro
|Name=Macro FC element selector
|Icon=Macro_FC_element_selector.png
|Description= This macro display all elements below cursor (all elements covered by other elements will also be displayed).
|Author=HoWil
|Version=01.00
|Date=2016-12-26
|FCVersion=All
|Download=[https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/images/0/07/Macro_FC_element_selector.png ToolBar Icon]
|SeeAlso=Macro Mouse over cb [
}}
This macro display in report view all elements below cursor (all elements covered by other elements will also be displayed)
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{{MacroCode|code= #!/usr/bin/env python2
""" Created on Mon Dec 26 22:29:29 2016
@author: HoWil License: LGPL v 2.1
Concept: After starting the process by clicking on "Start here..." one can click into the 3D view to get all elements below the the cursor click. The found elements are then listed in a pulldown-menu.
Hint: Does not work with Part-Design-Next 'Part'-elements and childs of them in the tree. """
#==============================================================================
#============================================================================== from PySide import QtGui, QtCore import FreeCADGui import FreeCAD from pivy.coin import SoMouseButtonEvent
class element_selector():
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def __init__(self):
self.dialog = None
self.dialog = QtGui.QDialog()
self.dialog.resize(500,150)
self.dialog.setWindowTitle("Find all components and related objects below cursor click.")
self.view = None
self.root = None
self.hm = None
self.elements_list = []
self.objects_list = []
self.components_list = []
self.element_selection_data = []
self.element_selection = QtGui.QComboBox()
self.element_selection.setToolTip("Lists all found components")
self.element_selection.currentIndexChanged.connect(self.selection_manager)
self.element_selection.setMinimumContentsLength = 40
self.element_selection.setMinimumSize(300,30)
self.element_selection.addItems(['Found elements will be listed here.'])
self.element_selection.setEditable(False) # Set the combo-box not-editalbe
self.get_click = QtGui.QPushButton("Start here before clicking on an object in the draw window.")
self.get_click.clicked.connect(self.start_mouse_over_cb)
cancle_button = QtGui.QDialogButtonBox(self.dialog)
cancle_button.setOrientation(QtCore.Qt.Horizontal)
cancle_button.setStandardButtons(QtGui.QDialogButtonBox.Close)
grid = QtGui.QGridLayout() # rot, column, alignment
grid.setSpacing(10)
# Run
grid.addWidget(self.get_click, 0, 0, 1, 1)
# Elements
grid.addWidget(self.element_selection, 1, 0, 1, 1)
# Cancel
grid.addWidget(cancle_button, 2, 0, 1, 1)
self.dialog.setLayout(grid)
QtCore.QObject.connect(cancle_button, QtCore.SIGNAL("rejected()"), self.close)
QtCore.QMetaObject.connectSlotsByName(self.dialog)
self.dialog.show()
self.dialog.exec_()
def start_mouse_over_cb(self):
self.element_selection.clear() # Clear all elements in the combo-box
self.element_selection.setEditable(True) # Set the combo-box editalbe
self.view = FreeCADGui.ActiveDocument.ActiveView
view = FreeCADGui.ActiveDocument.ActiveView.getViewer()
root = view.getSceneGraph()
hm = root.highlightMode.getValue() # store the original highlightMode
root.highlightMode.setValue(2) # switch highlightMode off
self.root = root
self.hm = hm
self.callback = self.view.addEventCallbackPivy(SoMouseButtonEvent.getClassTypeId(), self.mouse_over_cb)
def mouse_over_cb(self, event_callback):
event = event_callback.getEvent()
if event.getState() == SoMouseButtonEvent.DOWN:
pos = event.getPosition().getValue()
element_list = FreeCADGui.ActiveDocument.ActiveView.getObjectsInfo((int(pos[0]), int(pos[1])))
FreeCADGui.Selection.clearSelection()
self.element_selection.clear() # clear pull down dialog
self.element_selection_data = []
self.elements_list = element_list # store all elements found
self.objects_list = [] # reset objects_list
self.components_list = [] # restet components_list
if element_list: # if there were elements found
FreeCAD.Console.PrintMessage("\n *** Elements found under mouse pointer (Part-Desing-Next- 'Parts' do not work yet!) ***\n")
for e in element_list:
label_object = str(e["Object"])
label_component = str(e["Component"])
label_object_plus_component = label_object + ' - ' + label_component
if label_object not in self.element_selection_data:
self.objects_list.append(e["Object"])
self.components_list.append(None)
FreeCAD.Console.PrintMessage(" " + str(label_object) + "\n")
self.element_selection.addItem(label_object)
self.element_selection_data.append(label_object)
if label_object_plus_component not in self.element_selection_data:
self.objects_list.append(e["Object"])
self.components_list.append(e["Component"])
FreeCAD.Console.PrintMessage(" " + str(label_object_plus_component) + "\n")
self.element_selection.addItem(label_object_plus_component)
self.element_selection_data.append(label_object_plus_component)
self.view.removeEventCallbackPivy(SoMouseButtonEvent.getClassTypeId(), self.callback)
self.root.highlightMode.setValue(self.hm) # restore the original highlightMode
FreeCADGui.Selection.clearSelection()
self.element_selection.removeItem(self.element_selection.findText('tmp'))
#==============================================================================
#============================================================================== def selection_manager(self): try: FreeCADGui.Selection.clearSelection() if self.element_selection.isEditable(): sel_index = self.element_selection.currentIndex()
if self.components_list[sel_index] == None :
# An object was selected in combobox
FreeCADGui.Selection.addSelection(FreeCAD.ActiveDocument.getObject(self.objects_list[sel_index]))
else:
# An element of an object was selected in combobox
FreeCADGui.Selection.addSelection(FreeCAD.ActiveDocument.getObject(self.objects_list[sel_index]), self.components_list[sel_index])
except:
FreeCAD.Console.PrintError("Unable to complete the element selection/highlighting.\n")
self.close()
def close(self):
self.dialog.hide()
element_selector() }}
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