I use the latest version of the Freecad AppImage in Ubuntu 20-04.
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OS: Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS (XFCE/ubuntustudio)
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.21.29485 (Git) AppImage
Build type: Release
Branch: master
Hash: a236ca843fdd6674afb6d7ed1454fbd3b547f5ea
Python 3.10.5, Qt 5.12.9, Coin 4.0.0, Vtk 9.1.0, OCC 7.5.3
Locale: French/France (fr_FR)
Installed mods:
* Help 1.0.0-alpha
- Either I do "control + Left click" and I select the faces one by one. In this case, I can then click on the "Add" button to add the faces I selected in "Base Geometry" tab. So then I can simulate the milling operation. This solution seems to be fastidious to me. Indeed in the current example, I have a simple cylinder. That permits to be easy to select the good faces. But this file is a test to learn to make sculptures which are more complicated in future. And there, the selection will prove to be tedious.
- Or I use the "Edit/Box Element selection (Shift + E)". But in this case, I can't add the selected faces by clicking on the "Add" button in the "Base Geometry" tab.
Did I miss something? Am I asking too much of Freecad (which would still surprise me a lot)?
My goal is to be able to sculpt small 3D shapes that I would have drawn in Blender. I'm having a hard time figuring out how to go about it right now. Maybe Freecad is not suitable at all. But I would be surprised. And even if I read the tutorials on the Freecad site, I can't do it any better. Maybe it's almost a question of training that I didn't have at the start. I don't know. Any comments on this would be welcome.
Thanking you in advance for your help.
Have a nice day and have a goog FreeCADing.