FreeCAD Forum

It's kind of a pain because I sketch mostly in 3D so I get (pic right) often. When I need to make sketch changes I just rotate around to the other side. Not a big deal but I will be glad when it's fixed. I remember Abdullah saying it was hard to fix so it's hard to fix. :) I always wondered if there...

There are many different ways to build this model, there are approaches using spread sheets, standard planes, sketch on face, equations. Since all the features are normal to the XZ plane you can use that to base all your work. You can offset your sketches and perform everything required. In the incl...

edwilliams16, you recommended that to me once and I tried it, there were issues. I can't remember exactly what happened but I quit using it. I think when I moved one of the objects the attachment failed or maybe it was a parametric update that failed. Anyway, I didn't think it was reliable enough to...

Bodies don't have attachments and they don't have AttachmentOffset, all you can do is change their Placement. I can tell that you know Bodies can be moved but you want them attached. To do this requires an additional program to keep them attached, this would be an assembly tool. FreeCAD has a few to...

I remember weird graphic issues with Anti-Aliasing settings that were too low, I set them to new values and then restarted, that fixed the problem.

If this was mold work I would be thinking about what is the best approach to use if I later (5 years from now) need to move one of the latches 1mm and slightly modify the profile. So I would probably model 4 (1 sketch 1 pad) and place them explictly. It's not as fun as a sweep but easy to modify and...

You can use "Regular Polygon" to make multiple faces on calculated angles. Here (pic) I made a sketch using regular polygon with 90 faces, then trimmed away the ones I didn't need. Padding then gives me faces to sketch on that are planar and focused on a common center.

That's a bit confusing; Suppress has been used in CAD for years to hide or restrict the operation to an object, never a delete. Makes you not want to push the suppress button.

This issue comes up every so often and it seems like such a no-brainer to test. We look at the geometry list and check for 2 lines with identical geometries, isn't that the extent of the test?

RussG, when problems arise you can look thru the Elements and Constraints list to check things, these are in the Combo view.

Edit: This check should be added the the Sketch validation tool.