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Hi,

by Yorik on 29.10.2016

Commenting post 282: Hi,

This is certainly possible, as long as all your geometry is based on math formulas (FreeCAD is not too good with purely organic shapes). You might need to develop some tools yourself, as not many people work with clothoids at the moment But it's nothing hard if you are ready to learn a bit of python scripting.

As for collision control, there is nothing ready for that in FreeCAD at the moment, but it also doesn't seem too hard to achieve, specially for static models. There are a lot of very easy tests you can perform between objects already (check if their bounding boxes intersect, for example), which would leave you with a much smaller subset of objects to check for "real" (at geometry level) collision. And there are probably several open-source libraries out there that could do the job, that could easily be plugged in FreeCAD.

by Yorik on 29.10.2016