Go to end: if checked the report view will scroll to the bottom when a new message is added.

Display message types: see Preferences Editor.

Right clicking the report view opens a context menu with the following commands: These functions can be used from the Python console directly, or from macros and custom workbenches.Įxample messages in the report view: a general message, a warning, an error, and a logged message. These messages could be anything that is valuable to troubleshoot a problem in the future by reading the logs, for example, starting or closing a workbench.

('text'), print messages that are going into the logs.

('text'), print messages that are intended to be error messages, that is, when a critical component is missing that makes a certain operation fail.

Warnings should be shown when some functionality is missing but the software still works acceptably.

('text'), print messages that are intended to warn the user about strange behavior in the application.

('text'), print any sort of informative message, that doesn't imply any misbehavior for example, print the coordinates of points, the result of a distance calculation, the number of vertices in a shape, etc.

The report view displays messages from the internal FreeCAD Console class. See also: Console API, and FreeCAD Scripting Basics. The report view showing messages when FreeCAD has just started.

It is available in the menu View → Panels → Report view.Ĭertain properties of this panel, like color of the text and whether to display it automatically on warnings or errors, can be configured in the General → Output window tab of the Preferences Editor. The Report view is a panel that shows text messages from FreeCAD processes and tools.

Freecadweb review