The FPA General Assembly approved two new grant applications.
Kacper Donat aka kadet will work on a new feature preview system that can be used in Part and Part Design. Whenever you need to apply Pad or Loft or any other command, you will get a transparent preview of what you are getting right in the viewport.
Development already started weeks ago, the plan is to complete it by the end of 2024. Kacper was awarded a grant of EUR 1,500.
This is the first part of a larger project intended to unify Part and Part Design. Further planned stages, that are out of scope for this grant, are:
Add more multi solid capabilities to Part Design
Allow using features from other workbenches in Part Design workbench
Merge duplicated features together (Extrude / Pad / Pocket, Chamfer, Fillet etc.)
Dr. Rajeevlochana G. Chittawadigi, Dr. Ravi Kumar V., and Dr. Mohan Kumar S. will develop a Sketcher addon for teaching how to use the workbench. Users will follow step-by-step instructions, and the wizard will highlight mistakes (if any) after each step. The project deliverables are spread across 9 months. The team was awarded a grant of USD 6,000 (to be paid to one representative in three steps).