trying diff tools to get more understanding of cad and ran into a problem. i tried reading everything i could find on this and havent found anything. here's where im stuck. if i make a shape and want to make a pocket (a complex shaped pocket that touches the edge) freecad takes away the part i want ...

With boolean cuts you can do that. If I did what you meant. If I understood wrong, then you still can do that what you are trying, with boolean cuts, I think. This took time less than half an hour for me, maybe you can do even quicker. I would need more time, if I had to position everything exactly...

havent playe with boolean yet. they mat hold some asnwers to my questions.

and now im working on a more complex sketch and i figured out how to make it symetrical to the plane. but in this screen shot i want to make a pocket all the way through and leave the middle part. but, when i make the pocket, it removes alomst the whole thing except for the right side. is there a wa...

ok here is an example of what i did wrong http://i1213.photobucket.com/albums/cc471/leonpiper69/Screenshot8_zps5bfb6efe.jpg and then when i picked the correct side to make the pocket from http://i1213.photobucket.com/albums/cc471/leonpiper69/Screenshot9_zpscd03e784.jpg now, since i know to pick the ...

i not trying to annoy. im just mixing up the terms. i had to go back and really study what i did to understand what you meant and i just remembered what i did. when i started with a rectangle (that was the very start of my sketch) and when i made the curve i used the smaller red dot (see. i almost c...

ah ha! i just figured something out. i was trying to delete the sketches i didnt want when a sketch was open. when i closed the sketch i can indeed delete them. also i tried to delete the useless constraint points, and i had trouble before. but, now i was able to delte those 3 specific ones. im gonn...

i tried deleting the empty sketches but they dont delete. one time one deleted properly but i ahvent been able to get it to delete again. i will save the fillets till the end. and i have noticed when i have redundent things and whatnot and the solver tells me to change it, so im getting better at th...

im def getting the hang of it. but cant figure out why im getting hollow spaces that used to be solid. like the tabs on the end where it curves are now hollow and i didnt cut them out. http://i1213.photobucket.com/albums/cc471/leonpiper69/Screenshot6_zpsbbe354ec.jpg and here is the file so far in ca...

holy crap i thnk i am starting to grasp this.

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