I actually figured out you can use assembly to position, which is quite nice as you can drag into place and they auto sit on the board. Need to figure out how I add in the traces now, I am assuming that will be another sketch ? or perhaps this is where I need to export to kicad as mentioned by other...

I have been trying to design a PCB using freecad, I have created a board and some holes and created a few extra models to act as parts. How do you go about adding parts to your pcb and positioning them ? I am using freecad 0.18 currently are there any good tutorials most I have found seem to be targ...

Cheers is there any info on how to create these templates I have seen I can select them in the interface, but I have not found where I create them ?

Thanks chrisb for the suggestions think I will stick to typing them manually as any of those options I need to remember todo that.

Be nice if you could configure your machine in preferences and then move the tool head in relation to that in the gui, maybe in the future

Well issuing that gcode seems to have fixed things for me anyway I can make freecad do that so I don't have to manually ?

Its twigged I believe its using absolute positions not relative perhaps and looking at the gcode that's the case this makes more sense. So I have moved the tool head and set its zero above the wood, so then freecad is moving up to 5mm above the wood because it does not know that the zero position is...

Yes I changed it the tool is already above the stock and I don't really need the clearance. Basically the tool is above the stock the movement should be from its position to the first hole cut down then move upp and move to the next position. I could add back in the clearance if you think it would h...

Thanks for the explanation sliptronoic I was going to try that out but instead I am back more confused than ever. Not sure if This is a bug but in my generated gcode all Z moves seem to be upwards there are no negatives, files attached. So basically I have positioned my cutter on the stock ready to ...

Currently when I create a job the tool is always in the centre, is there a way I can position it, I am aware of tool start position but this does not change the start position its more the cutting start. So currently the tool starts in the center then moves to one corner where it starts the cut the ...

Can anyone tell me what i can use to access this method, .getRedundant() I have a sketch body and part but could not see the method on any of these objects.

I have over constrained a sketch in code and just want to remove the conflicting constraints as part of the script.