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robertspark
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Help, copy face from another part

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I've got what i'm sure will be a simple problem for someone to answer.

I've used a lot of CAD for 20+ years and use autocad + bricscad + revit for my day job. I have used inventor and fusion 360 in the past but man I cannot find a solution to this.

Say I want to make a bracket between 2 objects such as those shown in the next screenshot

Logic would say, create a part, then body, then sketch on the face of object one, copy the face of the other part to the sketch, and then pad it, and then do the same on the other part.

I know I've done this in fusion 360 in the past by I am determined to learn freecad, hence this is just one of the things that bugs me is I cannot seem to "copy the face of the other part to the sketch".

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My freecad version below: (I run the same setup on linux and windows across a few machines).
OS: Windows 10 Version 2009
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 2022.709.28846 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: LinkStage3
Hash: c880c050c5f7601e4bae6740de71500edf2be0c7
Python version: 3.8.6+
Qt version: 5.15.2
Coin version: 4.0.1
OCC version: 7.5.3
Locale: English/United Kingdom (en_GB)
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Re: Help, copy face from another part

Post by thomas-neemann »

robertspark wrote: Sun Aug 14, 2022 8:32 pm ...
can you upload a hand sketch with the desired result?
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Re: Help, copy face from another part

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The Part (Std_Part, yellow icon) is not necessary.

Simply create a new Body, select the face and create a Shapebinder or subshapebinder. It will be in the new body. It can be Pad'd or used to import geometry into a new sketch.
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Re: Help, copy face from another part

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OHHH!!!!

So simple, thanks very very much.

You won't believe how many youtube clips and search strings I've been trying to find that simple answer!

Thanks very much
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Re: Help, copy face from another part

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robertspark wrote: Sun Aug 14, 2022 9:07 pm OHHH!!!!

So simple, thanks very very much.

You won't believe how many youtube clips and search strings I've been trying to find that simple answer!

Thanks very much
We believe that youtube video are the worst choice as many of them are made for old FC version or by people that use wrong workflows (usually to make only scores to have some money in return for people viewing theirs video and see the included advertisement).

Usually it is better to ask here and maybe you will be advised even to some video made by competent people (there are some left around).

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