thanks hugely chris, much appreciated, apologies for the woeful over constraining, still coming to terms with the whole aspect of designing within the program & how best to minimize and best constrain !

I ended up clearing my boot up drive and reinstalling so I can start from a clean slate, and 0.18 has reopened and IS saving again, but only in already saved FCStd files, so I have persevered and managed to get to within one final pocket of the design and suddenly its either "broken face valida...

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downloaded the mac version but it simply doesn't open, shows as a volume of 1.47gb, FreeCAD_0.19-18403-OSX-x86_64-conda-Qt5-Py3.dmg, but nothing happens however I try to open it

Thanks again chris...I have already deleted everything and no config files or any free cad files are showing anywhere on the mac now (checked preferences etc) How and where can I download 0.19...and yes, would like to attempt to start Freecad with sudo...help appreciated Besides You should try the c...

no, i literally can't do anything, neither 'save as' or 'save' - and having just deleted the app again and reinstalled, on trying to open the app via an FCStd file already in my desktop file, or the one you resent on here, the app will not open either...so I can open the app directly via the app but...

You can repair it with the following procedure: - Select Pad in the tree to the left and make it visible - select the top face (I will come back to this later considering vocx's proposal) - select Map sketch to face from the Sketcher menu or click the corresponding icon. - select Sketch001 and conf...

somthing like moog taurus 1-3 there are still replacements online exactly ! its for a Moog Taurus 1, but I've looked everywhere and have spoken with Syntaur, who have what little replacement spares are still around for this model and they couldn't help...if you have a link to any I'd be hugely grat...

Hi there, and may I apologize in advance for my obvious lack of knowledge in this field, having just started working with Freecad. I am attempting to design a replacement for a long extinct cover for a foot synthesizer, and have thus far succeeded in sketching the basic body, making a pad and perfor...