Thanks for the thoughts and encouragement. I was trying to use FreeCAD for 2D so I could wean off my 2D CAD and just use FreeCAD for it all. I only assumed that 3D models were built using 2D drawings as a reference as that's what I saw being done in several tutorials. Figured if I have to have a 2D ...

For the life of me I can't figure out the Draft workbench and I have been using CAD software for 20+ years. As a newbie to 3d modeling and as I understand it so far, the model is created from a reference drawing. That would then presuppose to my mind that the Draft workbench would be a competent wor...

The appimage has everything it needs in itself, that's the difference to the full version. Thanks, but, going off topic a little, the first use of the appimage it asked if I wanted to integrate it into my system with icons and links etc. I clicked "Yes" and it shows the icon in Dash and i...

OK, Problem solved. It seems that using the "appimage" it launches it's own in-memory copy. Kinda weird, but I have never used "appimage" before. I navigated to the "/usr/lib..." and launched freecad from the .bin Folder and locked the icon to the Launcher. That copy do...

Hi, welcome to the forum, Thank you and thank you for the reply. If the Assembly2 workbench is made, than you have to check in Freecad > Tools > Customize I had already checked in Tools > Customize and not here. I have found in "/usr/lib/freecad/mod/assembly2" owned by root and of course ...

I am new to FreeCAD, but not new to CAD, so I made the Lego block, saved it and shut down FreeCAD. I installed Assembly-2 as described using the PPA and Synaptic. Synaptic seemed happy and said 82-items installed. Started FreeCAD and it has rearranged the order of the workbenches back to stock (grrr...