I think all programmers are aware of this. But putting it into practice, and making the code more bulletproof, is a lot of work. Yeah, that's true. But in a first step it is maybe just useful to define sane defaults and some preliminary checks of the parameters. E.g. for the snapModes it would be g...

Hey guys! @vocx yeah maybe :D Joking aside, the whole topic of validation of preferences and user input is an important one. OK, then I will mark this topic as solved and we open an extra topic on validation of config files and/or user input. Where would an appropriate place for this? Best wishes Jo...

Let's try: https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/pull/3905 ping Hey guys, I just updated the FC daily and it works like a charm! Thanks for the fast PR and its review (as well as the discussion)! What stays is: Why was the user.cfg file corrupted in the first place, i.e. why was the string not long en...

Hey vanuan and vocx, thanks again for your fast replies! Well, from a developer perspective, a framework/library is not a configuration option. It's a core part of an application. It's only the Linux desktop that is such a mess that you can't have multiple versions of a framework/library installed. ...

Hey guys, Thank you for your fast answers! Mint 18.3 is based on Ubuntu 16.04 which would end support in 6 months. You would need to upgrade anyway so why wait? As a workaround, you could try the AppImage version. Thanks for the hint about the AppImage! Yeah, maybe I should upgrade at some time. I h...

I wonder how this setting could have become corrupted in user.cfg. I don't know. I've never touched this setting, except for adding the missing '1' as discussed above. The follow-up errors are occuring, when want to create a bspline: 15:12:48 Draft workbench activated. 15:12:58 GuiCommand: BSpline ...

Hey guys, @vanuan: Thanks for confirming and referring to the other thread. I mean, there is an entire subforum that says Draft, Arch, BIM. Yeah, my mistake. I very seldomly use Draft. Now it is moved anyway :mrgreen: As for your problem, try removing the configuration group from the .cfg file. <FCP...

I looks like the snapModes setting is less than 14 characters. Check your configuration file. It should be somewhere in the home directory Hey vanuan, Thank you for your fast response! Yeah, from the error message I also guessed that there is anything wrong with the string length :mrgreen: I had th...

Hey guys, I don't know whether the developers corner is the right forum for a bug concerning a specific workbench. Please just move the topic if it is not appropriate here. Today I experienced a bug in DraftWorkbench after firing up the freecad-daily binary. 08:34:23 Traceback (most recent call last...

In order to create mesh object from FEM mesh, select the FEM mesh and click in FEM wb (Mesh -> FEM mesh to mesh) https://wiki.freecadweb.org/FEM_FemMesh2Mesh Nice! Seems that I just not realized that this possibility exists. Thank you for pointing this out! :oops: Then forget my last remark :mrgreen: