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If anyone can help out on that, I'd be really grateful. You can use different instances of FreeCAD using different config files. All metric stuff is then edited in the metric instance and imperial models are modeled in the imperial instance. Instead of switching tabs it is switching applications. S...

While this is off-topic, I would like to express my overwhelming gratitude for the FreeCAD "link" feature. It has made my life a lot more pleasant. Unfortunately, FreeCAD still persists on per-instance metric systems over per-document metric systems. And it continues to be about my biggest...

A more intuitive result would be to shift focus to the newly-created duplicate. That's what most graphic application do, I think. Questionable. For example, in inkscape, when I clone something, the clone is indeed highlighted. But then I can't use Clone button again to create more clones, as it cre...

In current versions of FreeCAD, duplicating an object leaves the current object focus on the source object. I've caused myself more than a little annoyance when I forget this and start wreaking havoc. A more intuitive result would be to shift focus to the newly-created duplicate. That's what most gr...

I should mention that I managed to get FreeCAD to manage unit systems per-project. Several months ago, in fact. I haven't attempted to offer it, however, because even though I can shift the metrics internally, there's not any good event I can find to fire to cause the change to propagate when switch...

I think that that was right before I did a forced migration to F30. I gotta stop doing that. I migrated to F29 right after it came out and the initial release had FreeCAD itself with broken RPM dependencies. F30 also required uninstalling stuff and I'm not sure I got them all back yet or not. I thin...

PIvy did give me some problems, but recent builds on F30 did OK for me. Not that something couldn't have broken since I last did a source pull (about 3 weeks ago).

I posted some improved instructions on building with CMake on F30 recently. You might want to check them.

The terms are admittedly somewhat fluid, but I think FreeCAD "Projects", "Documents" and project files are pretty much aspects of the same thing. FreeCAD internally refers to a "Project" as a 'Document" and further distinguishes the App::Document (which is the pers...

Joel, does that mean that you're the resident expert on measurement here? I've identified 3 aspects of project metrics, and they kind of overlap, but alas currently are kind of distributed in FreeCAD's innards: 1. System of measurement. Basically Metric System versus Freedom Units. 2. Scale of proje...

Solved again! Didn't even need PIVY this time. I've learned somewhat about CMake. To separate source and build starting from git, this command sequence will work: NOTE: My current project requires nearly 9GB of disk space! # 1. Pull the source archive and override its root directory name locally: $ ...