Other open freecad files are blocking my macro and drawing workspace

[NewbieSimulator]

OS: Mac OS X
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.16.6706 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: tag: 0.16.6706
Hash: f86a4e411ff7848dea98d7242f43b7774bee8fa0
Python version: 2.7.11
Qt version: 4.8.7
Coin version: 3.1.3
OCC version: 6.8.0.oce-0.17

This happens all the time. If I open a freecad file, and then go into macro editor or drawing mode,
the view of the opened freecad file stays on the screen. It only goes away when I close the freecad file which is time-consuming if i want to go back at it again.

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what should I do to prevent this?

[triplus]

Hi @NewbieSimulator.

This is a known issue on macOS and it was resolved only recently. FreeCAD 0.17 development release is needed to be build against Qt 5 for the issue to be resolved. Luckily such builds for macOS are available here:

https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/releases

[NewbieSimulator]

Hi @NewbieSimulator.

This is a known issue on macOS and it was resolved only recently. FreeCAD 0.17 development release is needed to be build against Qt 5 for the issue to be resolved. Luckily such builds for macOS are available here:

https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/releases

Well that escalated quickly Thank you very much!

[NewbieSimulator]

For some users who are not familiar with choosing which files to install
This one worked for me.
FreeCAD_0.17-10808.8f5057a-OSX-x86_64-Qt5.dmg