You're right! Thanks, I had no idea what was going on there, but now I managed to get it working!

I've been interested in assembly of parts in freecad, and came across this video tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfinO3EGXeo So I created a "bolt" in the Parts workbench by creating a long slim cylinder and a large wide cylinder, and I joined these with Part -> Join -> Connect ob...

Seems like insetting in inkscape may be easier. Editing the SVG in inkscape, I could simply choose Edit -> Preferences -> Behaviour -> Steps to define the inset distance, and then simply select the path and choose Path -> Inset. I use this "script" to convert to an object: from FreeCAD imp...

Thanks for the suggestions! I think chrisb's suggestion is the simplest since I know the distance I want to inset, with Willem's suggestion I need to do some (simple) calculation. A drawback I think so far is that I'd like to script this, and doing the Draft -> Downgrade I get lots of faces. How wil...

I have a design that was made by importing an SVG drawing (path), making it a face, and then extruding that along the Z axis. It turns out that the SVG was based on a sketch that was made by overlaying a part on paper and tracing a line around it with a pen - so the sketch was offset around 1-2mm ou...

Thanks for the input. I had a chat with eivindkvedalen, and got the suggestion to try splitting my complex part into smaller parts with boolean operations first, and doing the cross sections later. I've tried, and the time reduction was dramatic, the script completes in less than 3 minutes, while ru...

Hi, I'm slicing an object into multiple cross sections for laser cutting, using the script given here: http://freecadbuch.de/doku.php?id=blog:schnittmodell_eines_hauses_fuer_den_laser-schneider Here' my copy: from FreeCAD import Base import Draft, Part App=FreeCAD def slicePart(ob): shape=ob.Shape g...

Hi, When modelling parts in the Part Design workbench, it would often be convenient to make measurements relative to others. I can make an edge equal length to another, and I can make two edges parallel, and both of these are useful. But it would also be useful to make two angles equal, one edge 1mm...

What is the best way to design irregular shapes in FreeCAD? I'm a novice with FreeCAD and mostly use PartDesign, and often find myself being very creative about how to pad and pocket from various sides to create the shapes I need, and I'm not sure I'm doing stuff the easiest way always. But sometime...

Hi, I've made a design in PartDesign that I'm happy with, but I want to remove and redo one of the earlier details which is a Sketch that is cut out with Pocket. This sketch is complex (for me anyway), and I've done many steps afterwards that "depend" on this change, and if I have to redo ...