Hello all, I've been able to get a bit more time on this. Updated to a newer version of FreeCAD - went down a rabbit hole by upgrading to MacOS Big Sur first... (Instructions here for getting FreeCAD and cycles compiled on macOS Big Sur: https://vectronic.io/posts/building-freecad-on-macos-big-sur/ ...

Good to hear. Sounds like we’re now in the same place with materials

Hello all, Thanks to several answers in this thread and also DrVax's blog entry, I was able to deal with the macOS Big Sur hang. I've also dealt with getting the new Render workbench rendering with Cycles. So if it helps anyone out there, here are the steps I just performed which gave me what I need...

Hello, I have just finished a write up of getting the render workbench working with cycles under macOS Big Sur. Hopefully this might help you. I had the same issue you mentioned with cycles compilation. It is due to the fact that 2 days ago, the libs repository in SVN was updated to use a newer vers...

Version: 0.19.22039 (Git) @Kunda1 I am using the latest prebuilt binary available for macOS on GitHub. I had a look after you mentioned this the other day and I think the version I am using is approx 200 commits behind the head of the master branch. FreeCAD_0.19-23756-macOS-x86_64-conda.dmg You're ...

Version: 0.19.22039 (Git) Just an aside, you are running an very old version of v0.19 @vectronic are you planning to update ? @Kunda1 I am using the latest prebuilt binary available for macOS on GitHub. I had a look after you mentioned this the other day and I think the version I am using is approx...

@howetuft thanks for all the help! I can confirm the updated render workbench provides me with a dialog to edit material rendering settings. I also confirm if I create a render view of the last part in the body, rather than the body the 'funky-ness' disappears. If I use the default FreeCAD ABS mater...

Hello, I'm trying out the new Render Workbench with the Cycles renderer. Very exciting! 1. Render Output The default render looks quite nice (see attached default.png). default.png Note that I changed tessellation settings to get the curves looking nicer. If I use a plastic red material (either sett...

Hi All, If anyone is interested, and in case anyone in the future is looking for similar answers, I have managed to solve both of my problems! Firstly, the issue with the constraint solving: The answer was to perform a recompute() BEFORE calling addRectangularArray() Here is an example: https://gith...

Just an update on this as I got a bit of free time. I tried with the latest build on MacOS and it still proved intermittent (e.g. 0.19 21514) I can see one thing I could do is try and constrain the angle of the lines that are 'flipping' i.e. currently I constrain them to parallel to a construction l...