This repo contains tools to help you better work with FreeCAD files in your git repo.
Because FreeCAD files cannot be easily "viewed" or "diffed" in the Web Browser, they're significantly more difficult to work with collaboratively in a code forge. For example, it's not trivial to review a GitHub PR that contains updates to a FreeCAD file to see what changed before merging it.
This repo attempts to provide tools that you can integrate into your Continuous Integration workflow to make FreeCAD files easier for your team to work with.
The freecad-to-png.py file is a simple python script that exports a PNG image from a given FreeCAD .FCStd file.
This can be useful to add to CIs that:
- Automatically upload a screenshot to the comments thread of a PR for any FreeCAD files with changes
- Automatically update screenshots of FreeCAD files in your documentation after merging to the main branch
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