I'm curious how exactly you did that? Is there a specific tool for it in Alibre? No such luck!! (at least not in what I use - the lowest of 3 tiers of Alibre - "Personal Edition") How then? OK. Just remember you asked. :lol: For the uninformed: An involute is the line scribed by a pencil ...

Thanks Norman. Good answer. Exactly what I was looking for.

First, I apologize for my oversight in not including a link. I made a note to self to remember to include *everything* that will make it easier for you folks who help us. And yes, that link is to the tutorial I was referencing. So If I understand correctly, the capability exists in the v0.14 develop...

FreeCAD was downloaded from SourceForge.net OS: Windows XP Platform: 32-bit Version: 0.14.2192 (Git) Branch: master Hash: b63f9d7a2b440e1363508976ec105dac31d7f698 Python version: 2.6.2 Qt version: 4.5.2 Coin version: 3.1.0 SoQt version: 1.4.1 OCC version: 6.5.1 To create this datum plane, select the...

Sorry, but this isn't possible because these shortcuts are already used by the standard view commands.

As was noted in MantisBT #1189, re-arranging the icons would work. Too bad "customize" doesn't work. Any idea when that function may be operational?

so don't expect to see things done so soon, unless you are ready to try to do it yourself

I have no programming skills, but a tremendous amount of patience. Nuff said.

Thanks. I'll post it in Mantis BT.

Yeah, I figured it out. Next subject: (since you mentioned it) and the 0-6 keys on the Num keyboard to switch views. Do you think it would be a big deal to have the numerical sequence, 0-6, match the positional sequence of the associated icons in the toolbar? That would be so much more intuitive. Or...

Just a quickie test of that "M" option. http://en.zimagez.com/miniature/m-linemoption.jpg M-opt-test.FCStd The 2 end arcs were drawn with the M option. The long central arcs are just arcs. Had to set some constraints to get the figure closed for padding. I played around with it and it isn'...

A tip you may not know and I'm not sure it's in the FreeCAD wiki: the Sketcher polyline tool has multiple modes that can be toggled with the letter M.

Whoa!! Thanks a lot. I gotta check that out.

ps. I don't use the alphabetic shortcuts. So... Are they case sensitive?