Though there is error in your sketch - probably due to over-constratints as Sketcher task panel indicates - FC 0.18 build wall based on your sketch. The file attached was made with 0.18, so if you do not recompute in 0.17, you should see the Wall Extrusion i think. I upgraded to 0.18. I can load th...

Whenever I try to use wall on this sketch (attached, consisting of a straight line and a few arcs), it only ever forms a wall from the straight line. I have fiddled with it but can't seem to get it to cooperate. Any ideas? OS: Windows 10 Word size of OS: 64-bit Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit Version: ...

quick61,

Sorry about that. I went ahead and attached the image to this post just in case.

I think what meme2704 suggested with wall is most appropriate for what I want. Thanks!

This is an example of what I'm doing manually:

https://pasteboard.co/Ii5Kxt8.png

And I feel like there should be a better way.

Is there a tool to automatically convert a set of lines into a closed shape? E.g. a single line would just make a long rectangle with perimeter an equal distance away from the line. I want to create some shapes by simply expanding from a path by a specified distance, and it's awfully time consuming ...

please see point 1 and 3 of: https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2264 https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/releases That said, this looks really strange, sadly it is probably very hard to reproduce and hence to find the cause and fix. It might already be solved in the 0.18.x releases...

Version 0.17 Revision 13541 I've been recently learning how to use FreeCAD. In the middle of editing a project I've been working on for a couple days, I started getting C++ exceptions and also having the inability to make changes. I was also getting a prompt saying something about closing an open di...