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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
65/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Review the linked CalibrateImage repository and the existing addon entries in the FreeCAD Addons repository to find the expected metadata and entry location. Add CalibrateImage consistently with those entries, and verify that it appears correctly in the addon index.

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Description

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https://github.com/NovelaDevices/CalibrateImage

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This is a simple utility that mimics the functionality in Fusion360 to scale an image plane to known dimensions so that you can build your sketch to scale around features in a photo. This works very well if the image contains a ruler in the frame to use as a reference.
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Forks
14
Avg merge
1d 2h
Merged PRs (30d)
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Getting set up

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First steps

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