Syres wrote: ↑Sun Feb 03, 2019 10:46 am It's only got a couple of years and then I will have to spend some money on at least the graphics card if not the whole thing.

Thanks for the tip Syres, now i think i can survive with that problem on my laptop

Hello everyone, i feel a bit intrusive in the project, so forgive me if i'm stalking you all ... :) But.... i hade some other thougts on the draft wb: TAB at the moment seems to be used just to tab tasks panel imput boxes, but it could have a very powerful behaviour depending on several starting con...

As you mentioned it doesn't happen on a newer desktop and it also doesn't occur on mine either so I would go for the graphics card/driver as the culprit. We had a similar glitch posted recently https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=33453 where a few users could replicate a display fa...

chrisb wrote: ↑Sat Feb 02, 2019 2:27 pm I like the name CADeau. What a pity that FreeCAD already has one.

Hello, i encountered that strange behaviour of the box selection tool on my laptop (on my newer desktop that thing doesnt happen). I select the tool (menu or ctrl+b) i click on the screen everyting (every object but also the grid and the view cube) disappear except the selectionBox i release the cli...

PS i have two icons for "noshading" and "hiddenline", dont know if this is the right place...

the "more tools vs. less tools" question I don't know if i'm too specific, but i'd to share some thoughts also if i''ve been just using freecad for a month... I'd like more tools, but grouped by common behaviour or result you expect, or... else? It is to say i'd like less tools, but more ...

Moult wrote: ↑Sat Feb 02, 2019 10:00 am PR for the ability to tab-cycle through potential objects, in case the snapper picks the wrong one: https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/pull/1943

That sound very very good, i'd love it could be the same also when selecting an object. but i guess it's something very different to implement.

3. The final thought is regarding the name, FreeCad. This describes what the app is: its a free, as in libre, computer assisted deisgn tool. There is also of course librecad, libreoffice, librecmc, so this notion of putting free before the tool category is fairly common. First of all I really like ...

1. Shortcuts are only one keypress. Which makes things very, very fast! 2. Shortcuts use the left side of the keyboard so you can keep the right hand on the mouse (e - extrude, f - face, b - bounding box select, c - circle select, x - delete, r - rotate, g - grab/move, w - special, s - scale) these...