Yes, the workbench used for creation was Draft.
Now, after shutdown and restart the Tree View looks different (no changes made to the actual file).
New look attached.
- comboview_after_restart.png (10.89 KiB) Viewed 3985 times
The underlying icon seems to be the same but with colors this time, the blue/white tick mark has changed to an exclamation mark in a purple box (any meaning for this icon?), and the object name is no more grayed out. Another difference to yesterday's session is that now the Property View lets me choose the Display Mode. The Polygons remain still invisible, though.
As far as I remember I made the polygons in following sequence:
-draw a rectangle and an inward offset copy of it in Top View
-switch to Front View
-select Polygon Tool and try to draw. The circle showing the polygon diameter doesn't show up
-think "what??", scratch head, try again, same result
-Ha! The background grid is not showing even though a drawing tool is selected, maybe they were drawn on the XY plane.
-No, nothing seen in any view angle
-notice that SEVEN polygons appeared to the Tree View
Off topic: The "looking angles" (Front, Top, etc.) are called "Views" and the "Info Windows" (Tree, Properties, etc.) are also called "Views". A bit confusing at first, before you get used to it.
Back to the issue:
Now, as I try it again with a new Draft document, everything works as expected.
Further investigation on the original file. Earlier this morning I noticed the Property View "Data" tab (the other tab being called yet another
"View") gives me diameter 1mm, location 0,0,0 for the Polygons, which definitely was not the size nor location they were drawn at. However, zooming in doesn't show any visible objects. I have closed and restarted FreeCAD a couple times since, and, lo and behold, now they DO appear, at the size and location indicated, and drawn on the XY plane.
Two more snapshots:
The "Unnamed" is the file created this morning and "testing" is the yesterday's file.
- original_polygon.png (45.44 KiB) Viewed 3985 times
- new_polygon.png (47.18 KiB) Viewed 3985 times
Here, the original polygons are missing the section "Draft" in the View Property listing. Something to do with the issue?
BTW, is the white tick mark on blue background (a circle, I now see) an indication of an object having modifications made in the properties list boxes but not actually applied yet?
UPDATE: Tick mark figured out (the text in lower left corner of FreeCAD window gives a hint)
To make things even more complicated:
Yesterday morning I did install some minor upgrade, system related files also but nothing directly related to FreeCAD (if I can tell), and did not reboot. So, when creating the original file I may have had some upgrades installed but not in affect yet.
