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by bryanb
Thu Apr 20, 2017 3:20 am
Forum: Help on using FreeCAD
Topic: Noob question
Replies: 4
Views: 791

Re: Noob question

Finally am able to complete the tutorial. What I needed to do was use the "create sketch" from the face tools menu in the combo view tasks tab. Couldn't get it to work from the other "create sketch" tools.
Hope this helps someone else.
by bryanb
Wed Apr 19, 2017 4:57 pm
Forum: Help on using FreeCAD
Topic: Noob question
Replies: 4
Views: 791

Re: Noob question

thanks for the reply Roland. I thought I had done that but I recreated the whole model again and made sure I did select the back face and mapped the new sketch to it but got the same result. So then I tried the manual approach with the sketcher - MapSketch tool and still get the same result. When I ...
by bryanb
Tue Apr 18, 2017 11:50 pm
Forum: Help on using FreeCAD
Topic: Noob question
Replies: 4
Views: 791

Noob question

I am following along with the BasicPartDesignTutorial Part02 and am stuck trying to make the pocket tool work. When I close the fully constrained sketch that is on the back surface, the sketch disappears and I am left with just the block. If I click the Pocket tool, it complains there is not sketch ...