What CAD program is that? (I suspect AutoCAD, based on your input in Mantis). I use Alibre Design Personal Edition, the lowest tier of three. It is now owned by 3D Systems. They have changed the branding of it. The upper 2 tiers are known as "Geomagic Design" and the lowest tier (old Personal Editi...

wmayer wrote:Over time the data written to the registry

Is this the MS Windows OS registry?

If you do find these files, please tell us where they are located on Windows 7 I don't know about Win7, but in WinXP they are located here: C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\FreeCAD Of course the Drive and User will change. And I don't know if MS has renamed the folders for t...

then made the sketch connected around the part i wanted to keep If I understand correctly, you almost had it. You must draw the pocket around the area you want to "GET RID OF", not what you want to keep. A pocket ALWAYS must be a closed figure, not just lines. In your screenshot, finish the figure ...

Well, I've been trying to learn FreeCAD, off and on, over the last couple of months. I'm finally starting to get the hang of it. CAD programs are hard enough to learn with no prior knowledge. But when you have to forget about, and unlearn another CAD system as you are learning FC, well it is a lot h...

Of course it worked out great. Thanks. What I've learned... Use refine shape at the very end. "Refine shape" becomes a new feature in the tree. Can I delete after using it without a reversion? (graphically) Learn to use constrains more efficiently. I know I don't use them well. Now I'll go back and ...

Thanks trip.
I'll work through this and holler back it I can't get it all done properly.

FC was downloaded from SourceForge.net OS: Windows XP Platform: 32-bit Version: 0.14.2192 (Git) Branch: master Hash: b63f9d7a2b440e1363508976ec105dac31d7f698 Python version: 2.6.2 Qt version: 4.5.2 Coin version: 3.1.0 SoQt version: 1.4.1 OCC version: 6.5.1 After all of those long posts with Norm I t...

You're asking the wrong person now. I don't know anything about those things. I've seen the word *mime* used before, but I sure don't know what it means. Sorry.

If the system would just accept the backup file extension then everyone would be happy. Triplus could keep working the way he does and be happy. Yorik could keep working the way he does and be happy. I could *start* working the way I want to and I would be ecstatic. (well... happy )