Thank you sgrogan I think you found the key What tests could I do ? I will, of course, make sure vs2013/vc12 is rightfully installed then I will report what happens Slightly changing subject I'd mention that although there is no error or issue that I could trace from Freecad not finding CGGL LIBCGGL...

Thank you for your attention. I have carefully checked the comments and although my issue may fall into the general category of "binary incompatible" ... i do not think it could be labelled as "same problem" It was not happenning with 0.17.6726 and I do not have any TK* in window...

I downoaded and un7zip https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/releases/download/0.17_pre/FreeCAD_0.17.7461_x86_dev_win.7z OS: Windows Vista Word size of OS: 32-bit Word size of FreeCAD: 32-bit Version: 0.17.7461 (Git) Build type: Release Branch: master Hash: a38a78f6d6bd319a916ca8de87527e6d62137ec3 Pyth...

sgrogan I propose moving this to the compile/install forum under another title like "testing FC 0.17 on Vista x86" I got Dependecy walker, downloaded 0.17 7427 followed your instructions - same errors, it loads Draft but it does not Part nor FEM nor Drawing - - it loads too Plot, Points, T...

by jmaustpc » Wed Apr 20, 2016 6:36 pm --> " Continuing to use those old "unsupported by MS" operating system particularly on an Internet connected machine is stupid, dangerous and irresponsible." jmaustpc what would you call to spend time and effort for free to create programs f...

wmayer , your post shows that you got my point. I hope you understand that with posts like NormandC or jmaustpc one tends to take for granted some things that your post says are not. Posts and attituds like wmayer and sgrogan move me to try to help. I will download from time to time a build and I wi...

DeepSOIC -> "Constructing distance as a line can be easily done as Python feature. I suspect someone might have done it already, but I'm not aware." <-Thank you for letting me know. I was mainly looking for an existing procedure, unknown by me, using the GUI. -> "It is possible to con...

jmaustpc
About my question, is it wrong ? Could you tell me the right way of writing it ?

Thank you.

DeepSOIC -> I am absolutely open for helping by testing, but, you might have read NormandC's opinion and while I am not guaranteed to be using future versions of Freecad ... what would be the pourpose of testing something that is not designed to work in my comp ? There are thousands of guys in the w...

Just one of the several 0.17 builds I downloaded, worked.

And at the same time : Will the team agree on building only versions tha can ... just allow a very basic operation on Vista ? Since 6726 ... none allowed even to load Part or Sketcher or Part Design WBs