During the process of building a CAD project, sometimes double surface/vertices, misalignments of vertices etc. are created. That creates problems for meshing. Ansys and other expensive codes have utilities to 'clean the objects. see links https://www.autodesk.com/autodesk-university/class/CAD-Mesh-...

Hello,

Does FreeCAD support any CAD cleaning operation such as "merge"?
If it does are these commands scriptable?
I understand that the main scripting language is python. Is there support for Matlab or VBA ?

Thank you

I guess that could work

I was thinking to simply subtract the corresponding objects, however when I did that I got errors which might be expected (since if the objects are the same I get a void object, or if some surfaces are identical I get a null surface), but I couldn't find another solution. What I think might work is ...

Hello, I have two HFSS project files that are supposed to give the same analysis results. I would like to compare the CAD solid objects of the two files to see if they are identical Is there a way to do this in FreeCAD? The structures are quite complicated and I would like to have a script that does...

Thank you. I was indeed in the OpenInventor mouse navigation style.
Changed it and I got what I wanted now.
Thanks again

Hello, Very frustrating: I am a newbie using FreeCAD, with 25 years of AutoCAD experience. Using Windows 7, 64 bit FreeCAD ver .16 I did the following: New File Select Part workbench Switch to Sketcher Press create sketch button Choose xy plane Click on Polyline button (or any other tool for that ma...

I'm afraid, I get an error. Please see attached

many thanks. will do
Q: can I keep my other Spyder install (called from Anaconda)?

numpy and matplotlib ,only