What is 3D drafting? I'm not familiar with that concept.

You guys know more about 2D drawing than I do. If you wanted to somehow merge "Sketch" and "Draft" into a single 2D drawing tool, what do you think it should look like? Alternatively, is there a reason why merging sketches and drafts would be fundamentally a bad idea? What I like...

But what about the people that don't like constraints and want to draft more manual? We also hear from time to time complaints about sketches and constraints being annoying :) I don't understand that response. If you don't like constraints, don't use them. To me this feels like if I said "Free...

Hello, I am new to FreeCAD and I love the "constraints" feature that you get inside a sketch. I find that constraints make a lot of sense to me and I'm wondering why I cannot use them in draft mode. In fact, I don't even understand why FreeCAD makes a distinction between sketches and draft...

A little more about Patreon: In Patreon, creators are supposed to setup "Goals" for the total amount pledged, and "Rewards" for patrons that contribute certain amounts of money. Don't be intimidated by that. It's very simple. For example: Goals: - $X/month to pay for the server c...

Hello, I would like to donate to FreeCAD on a regular basis through Paetreon. https://www.patreon.com/ I see that triplus already suggested the idea but it got no replies. Anyway, Patereon is easy. I don't need a foundation, I don't need a tax receipt. I just want to send $5/month to Jürgen as a tha...

Ah! I see. Thanks!

Hello, I recently started playing with FreeCAD. As requested, here is my FreeCAD info: OS: Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS Word size of OS: 64-bit Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit Version: 0.16.6703 (Git) Build type: None Branch: releases/FreeCAD-0-16 Hash: 2ce5c8d2e3020d05005ed71f710e09e9aa561f40 Python version: 2....