Don't hesitate to ask for more help.

The point you may be missing is that if you can build a shape in a solid, it can be built in void also.

In fact this is exactly how PD works it simply abstracts the bools from the user.

Did you read the link I posted? If so what did you not understand? Perhaps this will help:- PartDesign Body If you wish to use PartDesign tools they only operate on a Body, that body must contain a solid, unless the operation is the first one, then it must be an additive tool. Else you must create s...

There is nothing wrong with cutting parts from parts.

JUST DON'T USE PARTDESIGN WORKBENCH.

Please read this:-

Part and PartDesign

JamieRen wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2024 5:24 am i tried, it didn't work. if you can do that could you paste a screenshot or upload a FreeCAD file?

Drag the LCS into the Part container, then adjust its attachment by selecting a circular edge.

You should probably be using the helix tool in PD since that appears to be the models workflow.

Fillet and chamfer are both notoriously finnicky, sometimes they work sometimes not. Changing the order of selection can cause success or failure. The bottom line is, that the code in OCC that deals with this is very old and complicated and there are no developers conversant with it. So it unlikely ...

Making this type of report requires full version information: Set refine to true and all is OK. It works just fine in :- OS: Manjaro Linux (XFCE/xfce) Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit Version: 0.22.0dev.36596 (Git) AppImage Build type: Release Branch: main Hash: 380d452adb5da85f47543a316b6b533f84e829c7 ...

By the way Part and PartDesign page describes this workflow exactly, if you read it 2/3 times you should be very familiar with it!