I am learning to use FreeCAD, and I would like to design railway wheels with FreeCAD that has correct wheel profile. The one I want to implement in FreeCAD is the wheel profile of the 45mm gauge wheel in: https://www.16mm.org.uk/resources/wheel-standards/ Now I have two questions for the sketcher: 1...

However, I can still see the original coupler and key part in the fcstd file. Toggle their visibility. Should I create each part, and each assembly on a separate file instead? Your choice. Either works well, but for more complex assemblies the tree becomes unwieldy if all the bodies are in the same...

So how does this assembly workbench work differently from Assembly4 which claims not requiring a solver?

Also, what are the functionality of this integrated assembly workbench that is not available, and is impossible to be implemented, on Assembly4?

The name of this thread is misleading, there is no workbench in FreeCAD that unifies existing assemblies A2+, Asm3 and Asm4. This is simply a new workbench and should actually be called Assembly5. This is again a new lie by Ondsel who pretend things that don't exist. Why are they allowed to get awa...

When you said "interference function" do you mean implementation of defining a fitment between two parts? no, this function calculates whether there are interferences between parts in an assembly. Parts that "penetrate" each-other. Ah I see! Good work. Suppose if in the future i...

Immediately, with no files open, I get Report messages: Check interference works with Asm4 Assemblies and there is none in this file. Every time I click a workbench or open a file these messages are repeated. yes, sorry, this was introduced by someone else who did a good job in coding the interfere...

For the Shibata coupler, I created the coupler part and the key part using PartDesign on the same file. Then I also created the coupler assembly in that same fcstd file, where the assembly consists of an instance of the coupler part and an instance of the key part. However, I can still see the origi...

chrisb wrote: ↑Sun Dec 03, 2023 7:00 am If you use a Part helix, you can control its Height property by Expressions, linking it to other moving parts.

Thanks heaps! Any tutorials on how to do so, and hook the spring onto an existing assembly?

I have just watched a very helpful tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqEVozzDSsY Now I have a much better idea on how Assembly 4 and LCS work, and I am making good progress of making the Shibata coupler assembly out of the body and key parts that I made earlier using PartDesign. Now, I need ...

That's a big "if" -- our plan has never been to migrate that into the core, but rather to support it as a first-party addon (note that it's not really two projects, it's the client and server of a single system). Ah I see! I can't see FreeCAD component library yet from the FreeCAD addon m...