There are a few ways to do it. Some already mentioned.
The Manipulator workbench is convenient.
The Edit menu>Alignment works, but is confusing at first.
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- Thu Mar 28, 2024 10:31 am
- Forum: Help on using FreeCAD
- Topic: Snapping different bodies together
- Replies: 5
- Views: 181
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 10:27 am
- Forum: Help on using FreeCAD
- Topic: Pocket breaks body (faces glitch away and distort)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 190
Re: Pocket breaks body (faces glitch away and distort)
Yes, I did note that.
It could be that having no reference to the Body Origin had something to do with needing a complete recompute (just a guess...).
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 10:34 pm
- Forum: Help on using FreeCAD
- Topic: Pocket breaks body (faces glitch away and distort)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 190
Re: Pocket breaks body (faces glitch away and distort)
Same here a full recompute and viola.
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 9:37 pm
- Forum: Open discussion
- Topic: auto things making life "easier"
- Replies: 8
- Views: 478
Re: auto things making life "easier"
Preference packs are quite powerful and can be created by the user.
They aren't well known or understood, so haven't found many users.
They aren't well known or understood, so haven't found many users.
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 9:33 pm
- Forum: Open discussion
- Topic: Sketcher: Snapping to external edges automatically
- Replies: 8
- Views: 253
Re: Sketcher: Snapping to external edges automatically
Snapping that worked well in sketcher would be a good thing.
External geometry should be able to be used as real geometry, you shouldn't have to trace over it. And, the code already exists...
External geometry should be able to be used as real geometry, you shouldn't have to trace over it. And, the code already exists...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 9:27 pm
- Forum: Help on using FreeCAD
- Topic: How to convert to .STP file
- Replies: 6
- Views: 195
Re: How to convert to .STP file
Yes, the .STL loads fine. I can measure it, etc, but no functionality is available associated with it. Like convert to solid I guess I stumped this illustrious group. Not impressed people. It's ok, I'm not impressed by your attitude. :mrgreen: A mesh is typically not a source for a step file which ...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 9:16 pm
- Forum: Help on using FreeCAD
- Topic: STL to STEP file conversion
- Replies: 3
- Views: 151
Re: STL to STEP file conversion
It is never a good idea to assume that an STL is manifold (i.e.valid). Use the Mesh workbench Analyze after import to confirm. If it isn't then it is a problem for any further conversion. Fixing this can sometimes be done in the Mesh workbench. If it is manifold, then use the Part workbench Convert ...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 7:12 pm
- Forum: Help on using FreeCAD
- Topic: Modifying master sketch breaks slave sketch
- Replies: 7
- Views: 362
Re: Modifying master sketch breaks slave sketch
...So no choice but to workaround. ... Yes. And one of those workarounds should be actually purposely creating TNP and learning how to fix it...without starting over again. Of course, everyone is more interested in working on their project, but, sometimes it is beneficial to work on stuff that is i...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 4:41 pm
- Forum: Open discussion
- Topic: [REQ] This is a formal request to support the USD format
- Replies: 16
- Views: 604
Re: [REQ] This is a formal request to support the USD format
Hard surface visual assets, typically, are real things like gears and such. For that you choose one of the many other formats (dae, 3mf, stl, obj, xhtml, glTF, 3dmax), an animation format is even for that not really suited. Probability step or plain brep is for that better, to mesh it direct and no...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 1:16 pm
- Forum: Open discussion
- Topic: [REQ] This is a formal request to support the USD format
- Replies: 16
- Views: 604
Re: [REQ] This is a formal request to support the USD format
getting hard surface assets from CAD to somewhere were they are very useful in scenes that are then communicated with USD would seem more useful Without any searching, i am sure 10 other formats can do it either and probably better, besides why should someone make visual assets in FreeCAD. And when...