I'm very glad you are not abandoning freecad bitacovir!
There is a problem in that wire, that after editing it, even if I take care of setting the working plane correctly, it is not plane anymore, and therefore it doesn't create a face, and the structure object doesn't update anymore. I'm not really sure why that happens, probably a problem of precision... I couldn't reproduce that with fresh wires yet...
In the meantime, I created this macro that can fix the problem. If after editing a wire it is not flat anymore (it refuses to form a face), selecting three vertices from that wire, then running the macro, will fix it:
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import FreeCAD,FreeCADGui,Draft
# check selection
sel = FreeCADGui.Selection.getSelectionEx()
ok = True
if len(sel) != 1:
FreeCAD.Console.PrintError("Please select 3 vertices from one Draft wire\n")
ok = False
sel = sel[0]
if Draft.getType(sel.Object) not in ["Wire","BSpline"]:
FreeCAD.Console.PrintError("Please select 3 vertices from one Draft wire\n")
ok = False
if len(sel.SubElementNames) != 3:
FreeCAD.Console.PrintError("Please select 3 vertices from one Draft wire\n")
ok = False
for e in sel.SubElementNames:
if not "Vertex" in e:
FreeCAD.Console.PrintError("Please select 3 vertices from one Draft wire\n")
ok = False
if ok:
# define a plane
p1 = getattr(sel.Object.Shape,sel.SubElementNames[0]).Point
p2 = getattr(sel.Object.Shape,sel.SubElementNames[1]).Point
p3 = getattr(sel.Object.Shape,sel.SubElementNames[2]).Point
p4 = p2.sub(p1).cross(p3.sub(p1))
# project wire points
points = []
for p in sel.Object.Points:
points.append(p.projectToPlane(p1,p4))
sel.Object.Points = points
