For me, as an un-experienced user, this is an example of where I think error messages with more information would really help. I think there's no reason the messages have to be so short, and in fact a link to a more detailed section of the help file would really be appreciated. I like that about Vis...

So do you recommend new users to start with 0.16? From what I have read here, if someone wants to ask questions in the forum they always want us to use the latest version. And that gave me an idea, maybe we need a trimmed-down version of FreeCad, like a FreeCad-lite for people who just want to use i...

Thanks for all the suggestions, I was able to get a couple of them to work, but not the others for some reason. I know this isn't the place to comment on FreeCad itself, but at 3 of my local FabLabs / Hackerspaces, they teach Fusion 360 and I was suggesting that they also teach FreeCad since it's op...

So are you saying I can't add or import a sketch into a body in PartDesign? That seems like a major problem because Part workbench can't do all the things you can do in PartDesign.

Hi all, thanks for helping. I spent a few hours searching for the answer, but I had to finally come here. I use FreeCad infrequently, although I had so far created about 8 parts in the last 2 years that I could successfully print, but they were in version 0.16 Now in 0.18 some things looked unfamili...

Thanks so much. I have to catch a train, so I'll look more closely at it tomorrow and go through all the steps you described, but I did check your file and it's exactly what I wanted.

I have done lots of searching and reading about joining and unions and compounds but so far I can not figure out how to do something that seems quite simple: I want to connect (join, union or whatever might be the right term) these two solids which I made in part design. I want to join them at the m...

Thanks GeneFC, that ctrl-D transparency is great. It's also especially great when I have a complex part with features inside larger bores and pockets because then I can see them more easily. So far I've been having trouble getting precise cross sections, and it takes lots of steps, whereas the trans...

Thanks both of you for the valuable info. Your comments made me see that there are quite a few things to consider when designing in FreeCAD. Also, I hadn't considered making a cross section to see if it is solid. Would you consider this a reliable method to see if there are any gaps in the solid? I'...

I just started using FreeCad a few days ago. I've done several tutorials, and now I am designing my first part. I spent a couple hours searching for an answer to this seemingly simple question, but I couldn't find anything definitive. So I made a simple file I attached which isolates just the questi...