I do not know if this can be done or not, but I have to ask. Is there some operation that allows the cutting of only whats outside the cutting lines? Like a cookie cutter, you press it in the dough keeping whats inside for baking and removing whats outside. What started this was looking at the 3dpri...

Solved it.
In property data for the sketch the autocontraints was false. How it got that way I don't know. But, changing it to true solved the problem.

tj

Ooops, I was wrong about closing a poyline. I works.

tj

Is it just me or am I confused. I just uprgade my hard drive and did a new Xubuntu install, along with installing a fresh Freecad. However, I noticed that auto constraint does not seem to be working. I select circle, center and rim, place the cursor over the xy origin, the xy origin dot turns yellow...

I don't know HOW I GOT there. It stated happening.
I even quit Freecad, restarted it, and it is still happening on ALL MY DRAWINGS.
Start freecad, close start page, open a drawing, open a sketch (no changes), close sketch and the start page appears.

How do I stop this.

tjp

I am seeing a very annoying happening. I have closed the start window and have the Control View, a sketch and a spread sheet window tiled. I close the sketch, not the window but the edit operation, and the Start window comes back. I'm getting tired of closing that darn window. tjp OS: Ubuntu 18.04.2...

I'll try the profile.
But, I understand abou tthe second tool controller. My question is how to do it with no tool changer? Tool changes have be manual and the new tool height set since each tool is manually changed in the collet off the router.

tj

OS: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS Word size of OS: 64-bit Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit Version: 0.18.2. Build type: Release Python version: 3.6.8 Qt version: 5.9.5 Coin version: 4.0.0a OCC version: 7.3.0 Locale: English/UnitedStates (en_US) I have a newbie question. I have a pocket I wish to cut out, I will be...

I changed to offset and it now does what I want.
A big thanks to all.

Now more learning

tj

Here's the file.