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It worked! Phenomenal instruction, Johannes. Thank you very much! Happy to hear that. You are welcome ;) Do you know whether or not shading like in the picture I've attached is possible within TechDraw? To be honest I don't know if this is posible with FreeCAD, however you could export your drawing...

Hi Noob, Changing FreeCAD shapes to line drawings The following ideas come to mind: Option 1: If you want to do it directly in the 3D view you could change the draw style to Wireframe and set the background to white. Set draw style: Shortcut V,3, or View --> Draw style --> Wireframe , or Right Click...

Hi Zolko , So I propose a new "Structures" toolbar I second the proposal, as I also believe that these tools belong together. However I would maybe keep PartDesign_NewSketch out since there are more Sketch related tools (e.g. Sketcher_EditSketch or Sketcher_MapSketch ) that would be left o...

Why not. Just to see if we can reproduce with it. Good news, I found the problem. It was indeed my fault. I forgot I had created a shortcut for a macro (M,O) that was interfering. Good to know at least that the CreatePolyline tool will still work if its shortcut is overridden. It would be nice to h...

Can you check in the (previously failing) "user.cfg" file and search for a group identified with <FCParamGroup Name="Shortcut"> :?: If it exists, you can have a look or copy it (the whole group) here. ;) It doesn't exist. Would you like to have the whole file? Kind regards, Joha...

Could you try hard resetting your FC preferences by renaming %APPDATA%\FreeCAD folder (need to do it with no FC instance running) ? Done! With default preferences it works as expected. What preference could be interfering? I don't set any shortcuts manually that could override this. Kind regards, J...

openBrain wrote: ↑Wed Jul 06, 2022 10:13 am What is your Mouse navigation style please ?

I use CAD.

drmacro wrote: ↑Wed Jul 06, 2022 10:14 am M key works as advertised in Debian and Manjaro. Maybe a Windows thing.

Hmm maybe.

Kind regards,
Johannes

Hi all, for some reason when I use the CreatePolyline tool in the Sketcher WB I can only cycle through its different modes using the Shift+M key combination even though the tool hint and corresponding wiki page instruct only using the M key. Is this normal? Kind regards, Johannes OS: Windows 10 Vers...

Hi, However, if you open a preexisting sketch and change anything or even just open a constraint (and make no change to the constraint); pressing the escape key causes the Task pane to come up. I believe this is FreeCADs default behaviour. When the Part Design WB starts it switches to the Task panel...

I have another question, can I still create lens without "import Part"? I don't know exactly what you mean. I suppose there are a lot of ways to achieve the same result and you are not necessarily bound to use the Part module. As for using the scripts I sent you without the import Part li...