Material: Appearance and Material inspectors #13967
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I built this and it works to provide new functionality for inspecting materials. It's good for debugging but the UI/UX is rough. Also, I'm not sure if placing the commmand in both the Part and Part Designs menu is the right place.
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Is there a mechanism to allow for resizing this panel? I'm not aware of any currently, but I certainly won't claim to know everything. Open to suggestions because I'd really like to be able to do this. Copy to clipboard or save to file are also good, but it would require some work. I would consider this MVP not finished feature. As for where it belongs, it should probably be part of the Part WB at the very least, more so when the next materials PR gets merged. Part Design was just for convenience. These are easy changes... just requires consensus |
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@sliptonic Option to copy to clipboard has been added |
Dialogs to view the Appearance and Material properties of an object These inspectors are intended to be used when debugging Appearance and Material issues in a model. The Appearance inspector displays the appearance properties of an object. This will be more useful once PR 13792 is merged which migrates parts to use ShapeAppearance instead of DiffuseColor. This shows each of the appearance properties per face for the object. The Material inspector shows the material, models, and properties assigned to a model. It displays useful debugging information such as the UUID and file paths associated with eacch of the items. This is useful when finding and resolving model conflicts. The material inspector now gives the option of copying the information to the clipboard.
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So now only the @FreeCAD/design-working-group should have a look at this panel? |
No. They definitely should (It can definitely stand improving!), but it is useful as is. It is hard to see all the information in a small dialog. Adding the copy to clipboard allows you to view it in an editor. This is a debugging tool... not a commonly used UI. Even for debugging its use will be rare. Resizing would be wonderful but it isn't really under the dialog developers control. It is deeper in the core and I have no intentions of taking that on right now. |
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@davesrocketshop Yeah, sure, it's fine for me. @sliptonic wanted the DWG to have a look at this before merging but I also think that it should be good as it is considering the purpose of this tool. |
Dialogs to view the Appearance and Material properties of an object
These inspectors are intended to be used when debugging Appearance and Material issues in a model.
The Appearance inspector displays the appearance properties of an object. This will be more useful once PR 13792 is merged which migrates parts to use ShapeAppearance instead of DiffuseColor. This shows each of the appearance properties per face for the object.
The Material inspector shows the material, models, and properties assigned to a model. It displays useful debugging information such as the UUID and file paths associated with eacch of the items. This is useful when finding and resolving model conflicts.