![]() prefix: shiftĬode: Select all 7 zoom to fit 8 top 9 trimetricġ normal to sketchĒ bottomē toggle visibilityĪs stated in the beginning, I created Dial-a-sketch in three days and looked exclusively at the Part Design and Sketcher workbenches. Snell's law (I have literally never clicked on this but somehow it ended up with its own dedicated key.)īonus: dial-a-sketch for viewing angles. Sketcher measurement constraints: 0, (this prefix can be inconvenient for traditional number pads on my keyboard I can press it with my thumb.)Ġ equal (remember, this means hit 0 twice, first as the prefix and again for the command.) Sketcher: No prefix, this makes dialing sketcher codes faster.ģ,6 B-spline, periodic control (closed shape)Ģ,2 switch between driving and reference modesĢ,7 activate/deactivate selected constraints Primitive cut (not mapped, too many variants.)ġ,3 thick solid (I haven't tried this tool out yet, what does it do?) Primitive (not mapped, too many variants.) Part design: M, (I mapped m to my mouse as the first key in any Part Design sequence it also cycles the Polyline modes in the Sketcher.) &context=3Īnd now: an unabridged list of all dial-a-sketch codes! It's the same contents, but if you want to go upvote it, do so here. project? Idea? Whatever it ends up being. Second, I made a Reddit post to announce this. 123456789 corresponds to XCDRSTWFP on my board, so whatever config files I have won't work for you. I'm using letters, not numbers, to dial in my codes. I also use the Colemak-DH keyboard layout instead of standard qwerty, which you can read about here. You will *sometimes* dial 69 for slot, but you're more regularly going to dial 65 for "circle with a center point" and 68 for "circle defined by a rim".įirst, I set up dial-a-sketch to be used on my Corne, a keyboard you can learn about in the r/crkbd subreddit. For example, in the sketcher, 6 is circle and 9 is polygon. Contradicting concepts are placed in the same column to minimize repeated use of the same finger. I've also employed a simple technique used in ergonomic keyboard layouts: actions are designed to "flow" horizontally, using multiple fingers. In terms of columns, the rightmost column is all about shapes, the central column deals with points and lines, and the leftmost column is all about modifications to existing things (The left column came together by accident, so it's not as structured as the others.) 8 is about creating lines or extruding shapes, 5 is about cutting things or creating single points, and 2 is devoted entirely to invisible items: datums, construction lines, and reference dimensions. You'll note that the upper row involves "more", while the lower rows involve "less". Fortunately, there are a few neat organizational tricks I've employed to tidy things up. ![]() Hopefully that gave you a basic mental image of the dialer layout, but I've found it very difficult to convey what the keys represent and how they relate to each other. (sketch) use existing polyline, rim polygon If you wanted to make a regular pad, you would dial M89, dropping the 4 because pads are not complicated. If you wanted to create a lofted cut, you would dial M459, because 5=cut. M=part design (remapped to my mouse), 4=complex, 8=additive, and 9=pad. For example, if you wanted to create a loft, you would dial M489. Unlike traditional keyboard shortcuts, where each key is associated with the name of an action, dial-a-sketch ties each key to a basic concept, then you chain concepts together to create the action you want to accomplish. Ok, but what actually IS dial-a-sketch? It's a system of keyboard shortcuts I came up with so that I never have to take my hand off the number pad. If you know of any pre-existing designs that do what I'm doing, or if you see anything I should change, TELL ME NOW before I build any muscle memory. Any advice?)ĭisclaimer: Dial-a-sketch is currently a proof of concept. ![]() As a side note, I don't know how to make images smaller here in the FreeCAD Forum. I expect it to entice you to read further. ![]()
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