I want to specify precisely the position of the plane where the cross section of an object will be taken. I can determine the plane with the Draft Workbench's working plane, so FreeCAD can determine the plane I want. So, then, the question becomes how to transfer the position data from the selected ...

It seems this issue has just been fixed! The latest version of FC17 (see below) finds the snap points in a file in which it had been failing up to now. Congratulations and thanks to everybody for their hard and dedicated work! Here is the version of FC I just installed, which fixes this issue: OS: U...

It seems that with the latest FC update (see below), the memory leak is gone. Draft snapping on the same objects that caused the memory footprint to expand by several GB causes no perceptible (as far as 'top' is concerned) increase in the memory footprint. Also, FC snaps instantly (vs. "thinkin...

Yes I also think there is something else... I'm trying to reduce the code until there is no memory raise at all, but that's really difficult to assess... From brief experiments on my end, I have found out that the GB-size memory leak happens when I try to use snapping on a particular object (part o...

If your using the freecad-daily PPA it should pull in the standard Ubuntu package. 2.7.11-1 or 2.7.11-2 should not be reported as 2.7.12 in "About FreeCAD". Any chance at some point you added a Python2 PPA to your software sources? I hear you. I looked through my '/etc/apt/' directory and...

Where is Python from? https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/python That's an excellent question! I don't know how to answer it. I have the Anaconda virtual environment installed for my Python needs, but there I have only Python3. Yes, Ubuntu states 2.7.11- 1 as their official version, not the 2.7.11-2...

I can confirm that the memory usage goes up by ~25MB. But when repeating this snippets several times the memory usage stays at the same level. And the same behaviour can be observed when running this little snippet: for i in range(1000000): c = i So, this means it's something completely outside the...

Impressive!

Now, KiCAD has its own global adjustments about solder masks, etc. Can you define a solder mask while working in FreeCAD? How would/could interact with KiCAD's adjustments?

Boy, this forum is very quick! I recalled my posting to add this info, and while I was doing that, you responded. I made some other changes to the HTML tags to improve readability. Basically, I import an existing small file and then use the Draft WB. As it hunts for snap points, the memory footprint...

Last year, I posted about the problem of snap points in the Draft WB (the don't work on multi-parts). However, in the most recent release of FC17 (as of Feb. 7, 2018), I observed the following: The snap points seem to work even on a multi-part if there is no Origin block (they still don't if there i...