I was also caught in the trap of expecting sketcher to have pattern operations similar to part design. I got here because I was expecting polar pattern in sketcher as well as in part design. My particular case was one of those where part design polar pattern was an equivalent replacement. I think I ...

Wow. I even started from your document! I saved it with FreeCAD-asm3-Daily-Conda-Py3-Qt5-20201214-glibc2.12-x86_64.AppImage this most recent time. But when I read the FCStd document, I see the same thing you do. It looks like saving from a directory to a file has a bug. Seems likely to be a reproduc...

A recent daily realthunder release 12.08 "Added open/save as directory menu action for open/save document as uncompressed directory" so you no longer have to create a directory and pretend it's a file for this version-control friendly mechanism. I have a couple cutting layouts coming together. Howev...

Wow, thank you! I have no idea what I did to have left the model in a state that it could not read without errors. Looking through this model is instructive! And it's perfect to model what I want to do because it clarifies that what I really want is to have one global assembly "as assembled" and one...

Oh, thank you. That's going to take a while to dig into. There's so much I don't know yet! Making two assemblies might be more practical in this particular case, because the parts for toolpathing need to be oriented differently than in the as-assembled assembly. The only tedious part there is making...

Sorry, I used the realthunder branch which writes individual files in a directory, which is great for version control but not for sharing with people not using his branch... ☺ Here's a link that should download the current model as an FCStd file: https://gitlab.com/mcdanlj/applianceshelf/uploads/6d2...

I'm new and expect I've done lots of stuff wrong. I'm using realthunder's branch for assembly3 and individual files in Git, which is great. I'm modeling a bit of flat-pack knock-down furniture to make on the CNC router. I created the parts, then added links (for as many copies as I needed) to an ass...

I used my project as a way to compare working in SolidWorks and FreeCAD. I'm expert in neither so both show evidence that I don't know the best way to do things. I'm almost done with the assembled assembly (just some tedious placement to do) and was thinking about creating a separate assembly in whi...

Thank you so much for posting this! I've been working on a parametric appliance shelving unit to cut from baltic birch (probably also 18mm) and my design tree has evidence of my flailing around learning. I appreciate your sharing this to learn from, especially the explanations of what worked well an...

Thank you for the pointer. Success! ☺