"Add PartDesign Common operations" feature request created.
https://www.freecadweb.org/tracker/view.php?id=4135

The restriction to one single solid only seems like bug, but isn't. That's how a PartDesign body is specified. Even with 3 nested shapes (like our example, rectangle included) it still remains a single solid, even more if pocket is not 100% depth, that's why I said it is a bug. It should start from...

and in that case just adding extra big rectangle will not work because this gives 3 contours and what is inside and what outside is not determined properly. If you limit the depth so that it does not go through all, then the pocket works while it doesn't with an additional outer rectangle. Thnx, i ...

doesn't work anymore if you have already nested geometry: I tried your example and it showed the multiple solids error. I think nested geometry in pocket always results in multiple solids. It must first work as pocket to be able to use the rectangle trick I think. Just want to remember that for rob...

It does not have to be pretty :) Thnx. Yes, it does work that way. Actually I tried to recreate the method and made an even uglier one :). Great workaround in the meantime. I still hope the PartDesign Common feature will be available sometime. I do not think a feature request in the tracker is stil...

just draw the desired shape and then create a bigger rectangle around everything previous and pocket with that. Good tip, thank you, but I just tried it and it does not work directly, the sketch must also be modified and then into a bigger and harder to make drawing (ex: try on Sketch147i in my &qu...

I attached a model that I have drawn some time ago. Actually I had made it in many variants so the struggle was even bigger. I am not sure it is the best example. I can search more if it is not explanatory enough. I renamed the related sketches and pockets with an "i" at the end (from inve...

(As the idea in my other topic changed I thought to create a new one to avoid confusion.) In short, I would love an option in the PartDesign Pocket tool that would allow us to change the function of Pocket from removing the extruded sketch and keeping the rest to removing the rest and keeping the ex...

(..idea rethinking in the second half of this message ...) My workflow now is to start with PartDesign, first I draw a sketch with a lot of parameters then I pad it. Then I add or subtract on its pad faces and so on, also based on parametrized sketches. I imagine the requested feature in PartDesign ...

Hello all and nice to meet you. I remember that a long time ago (close to dos 3d max era) someone showed me a way to produce a 3d object from 2 2d shapes, positioned at an angle (not in the same plane), which was the resulting of the intersection of the extrusion of those 2 shapes. The easiest to un...