I created the attached document with the script below. I have a few issues. I can't get the resulting Draft wire to display any hatching patterns or indeed any face colour. The created Draft wire also shows 'Make Face' as false, when the call to Draft.makeWire sets it to true (I manually set 'Make F...

Hi All, I am having trouble converting sketch objects to walls, often there are walls missing or strange artefacts. I think the main issues occur when you convert a sketch that has a closed shape, plus extra bits, as in the attached file. When I attempt to convert this to a wall the wall object appe...

This is indeed a bug in the OpenCASCADE (which is what FreeCAD uses under the hood) hidden line removal algorithm. It's been fixed upstream apparently, but probably hasn't made its way into FreeCAD yet. EDIT: I've been following this bug for some time, as it makes drawings essentially useless for an...

Just my two cents, but I think a good way to allow people to pay would be to set up a company (can be a non-profit). It's nice and easy to understand for the tax authorities, and if some day someone wants to pay some devs to do some specific work that won't get done otherwise there's a vehicle set u...

Incidentally, it looks like the PythonOCC python SMESH interface isn't quite as advanced as I thought:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic ... zsTZbXODos

oh, and incidentally, in case there's any uncertainty, I can confirm that the exported unv from FreeCAD preserved the mesh group numbers which were imported. So that's nice!

Yeah, crobar we all are with you. These are great features. Making the mesh more fine where it is needed and mor coarse where it is not needed. Whould be very cool to have such features and Mesh checking and and and :D As you stated someone needs to implement it :shock: Of course if we have all the...

Incidentally, other things you might like to do in a mechanical analysis is have a mesh with big elements in most places, but small elements in some region of particular interest, to make the FEA calculation smaller but still get the results you need. This is why I was suggesting splitting it out, a...

... Might it be possible to separate out the meshing component from the workbench? In the long run this would make life easier for those of us who want to do other types of finite element analysis using meshes generated in FreeCAD, e.g. heat flow, or electromagnetics, or fluid dynamics. ... Sure it...

Is it already possible to use a custom mesh in FEM? That the user would produce himself? This is possible, but in this case I would just export my FreeCAD model to STEP and import into Salome. I'm kind of wanting to drop the Salome part of the process. I've been looking at the PythonOCC SMESH tools...