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I've never encountered this before, but issue #4070 looks like SPAM to me. Not sure how MS Exchange/Outlook relate to FreeCAD/TechDraw. Do we have an email client buried in the code base somewhere?

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Is it correct that those are in mm? Why? Shouldn't it allow me to type in other units? If it has to be mm, then I would want that to be shown clearly as an "mm" to the right of the value, and also allow me to specify my intent which is to type in 0.001" and have it convert to whateve...

jchuillier wrote: ↑Wed Jul 24, 2019 1:31 pm Can you guys point me over to a tutorial for idiots like me who don't want to create or modify anything but just use the stp 3D file to measure the distance between this and that ?

Make a drawing in TechDraw_Module and dimension it.

After the packaging bug was fixed by https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=37910 I reinvoked and retested, I'm not seeing the preference item at all in my build (details of that build follows): My copy of freecad-daily (dated Tue 23 Jul 2019 02:10:40 EDT) supports the new end cap par...

To verify the problem I edited the A4_Portrait_ISO7200Pep.svg template: 1) changed one letter to a german Umlaut (ä) 2) saved 3) loaded via 'New page from template' Can't make it happen here. Please post your modified template and I'll have a look. TemplateUmlaut.png Surely this is related directly...

kkremitzki wrote: ↑Tue Jul 23, 2019 5:47 pm DisplayableObject seems nice and descriptive.

+1

microelly2 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 23, 2019 6:12 am creating nodes for pyflow environment I'm wondering how should I name the objects in 3D viewspace.

"DisplayableObject"? "Object3D"?

Just no more "Partxxxx" please!

Suppose I want to get the center of mass from a part named by the user. Re: Another tip, things in FreeCAD have both a Name and a Label, mostly a user (at least in the GUI) would see and refer to an item by its editable property "Label" not the non-editable property "Name" creat...

So I'd like to know what the status of the Robot WB is. It looks like there hasn't been major development for quite some time now. Is it planned to keep the WB around? There was some talk about moving the Robot WB out of the core system and making it an add-on workbench, but I don't think anything ...

Suppose I want to get the center of mass from a part named by the user. #not tested! import FreeCAD def getCenter(objName): center = None doc = FreeCAD.ActiveDocument obj = doc.getObject(objName) if obj: if hasattr(obj, "Object"): center = obj.Object.Shape.CenterOfMass return center myObj...