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  • GuiCommand: Name:Part Box MenuLocation:Part → Primitives → Cube Workbenches:Part SeeAlso:Part Primitives

Part Box

Description

The Box command from the Part Workbench inserts a parametric, rectangular cuboid, geometric primitive into the active document. By default, the Box command will insert a 10x10x10 mm cube, positioned at the origin, with the label "cube". These parameters may be modified after the object has been added.

Part\_Box

Usage

  1. Switch to the Part Workbench
  2. There are several ways to invoke the command:
    • Press the Cube button in the toolbar.
    • Select the Part → Primitives → Cube from the menu bar.

Result: The default result is a box with an equal length, width and height of 10 mm. It is attached to the global xy-plane and one edge is coincident with the global z-axis.

The box properties can later be edited, either in the property editor or by double-clicking on the box in the model tree.

Properties

See also: Property editor.

A Part Box object is derived from a Part Feature object and inherits all its properties. It also has the following additional properties:

Data

{{TitleProperty|Box}}

  • Length|Length: The length of the box. This is the dimension in the X direction.

  • Width|Length: The width of the box. This is the dimension in the Y direction.

  • Height|Length: The height of the box. This is the dimension in the Z direction.

Notes

By default, a box is created with three sides of equal length (cubes) of 10 mm each.

This can be easily recognized by the additional tick at the icon in the tree view.

Limitations

Scripting

A Part Box can be created using the following function:

box = FreeCAD.ActiveDocument.addObject("Part::Box", "myBox")
  • Where {{Incode|"myBox"}} is the name for the object.
  • The function returns the newly created object.

The name of the object can be easily changed by

box.Label = "new boxName"

You can access and modify attributes of the {{Incode|box}} object. For example, you may wish to modify the length, width and height parameters.

box.Length = 20
box.Width = 10
box.Height = 30

You can change its placement with:

box.Placement = FreeCAD.Placement(FreeCAD.Vector(4, 6, 3), FreeCAD.Rotation(30, 45, 10))

The Part Box with the values of the scripting example looks like:

Part Box with the values of the scripting example.

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