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by jmaustpc
Tue Jan 04, 2022 3:19 pm
Forum: Help on using FreeCAD
Topic: gettng started
Replies: 22
Views: 5177

Re: gettng started

Note I didn't use a circle 'cause half of it would be outside the plane that I want to pocket. See attached project. Can't view files as I am working from my phone. The others have answered most but I thought I would comment on your circle comment, you are wrong, the extra half would just pocket fr...
by jmaustpc
Mon Jan 03, 2022 12:35 pm
Forum: Help on using FreeCAD
Topic: Editing parts from assembly in STEP-format
Replies: 13
Views: 3994

Re: Editing parts from assembly in STEP-format

But it virtually impossible to do applie that on the more than 1000 parts in the original drawing.... You could split the assembly components into different files if the assembly is so big that it is too slow to work with. If the file is complex enough, you will eventually get to the point where yo...
by jmaustpc
Sun Jan 02, 2022 6:54 pm
Forum: Help on using FreeCAD
Topic: Pocketing a sphere to make a dome.
Replies: 4
Views: 1062

Re: Pocketing a sphere to make a dome.

Or just sketch an appropriate profile and then rotate, thus making your hollow half sphere in one feature.


Or create your half sphere then sketch a profile, then do a subtractive rotation Groove tool.
by jmaustpc
Sun Jan 02, 2022 6:34 pm
Forum: Help on using FreeCAD
Topic: gettng started
Replies: 22
Views: 5177

Re: gettng started

Create a sketch containing a rectangle
Pad the full length
Create a second sketch with a circle
Pocket to length required
by jmaustpc
Fri Dec 31, 2021 1:21 pm
Forum: Open discussion
Topic: Happy New Year 2022!!!!
Replies: 16
Views: 32333

Happy New Year 2022!!!!

New year 2022 has begin 15 minutes ago here in eastern Australia, and was two hours before that in New Zealand. I think that this has been a tough year for most of us with COVID and perhaps many of us for other reasons as well. So I hope that most of you will have something positive to be happy abou...
by jmaustpc
Fri Dec 24, 2021 5:59 am
Forum: Open discussion
Topic: Merry Christmas 2021
Replies: 13
Views: 8742

Re: Merry Christmas 2021

Merry Christmas to you all! As I have said almost every (if not every) year, my time zone is UTC +11 with summertime "daylight savings time", so those in the Pacific nations, the Kiwis across the ditch and a few others, get it first ...but then we here in eastern Australia are some of the ...
by jmaustpc
Wed Dec 22, 2021 10:51 pm
Forum: UX/UI Design
Topic: Per-project metrics
Replies: 24
Views: 16322

Re: Per-project metrics

and typing "*25.4" 400 times gets... old. Just replying to that comment.... Well don't then... :) The units system understands and converts display units according to your settings and underneath it is always metric, I think you understand that, however you don't appear to understand that...
by jmaustpc
Wed Dec 22, 2021 10:24 pm
Forum: Help on using FreeCAD
Topic: Is there a way to save text info with freecad file
Replies: 4
Views: 1214

Re: Is there a way to save text info with freecad file

Please follow the forum rules link above this forum regarding version data.

Regarding your question, it is explained in the FreeCAD wiki, here is a link to the page, assuming that your FreeCAD version is not obsolete

https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Std_TextDocument/en
by jmaustpc
Tue Dec 21, 2021 11:47 am
Forum: Forum français
Topic: [Résolu] Esquisses surcontraintes
Replies: 5
Views: 1092

Re: Esquisses surcontraintes

This was posted to the English language forum, Google says its French and it does not look like spam, so I moved it here.
by jmaustpc
Sun Dec 12, 2021 2:24 pm
Forum: Help on using FreeCAD
Topic: What is the correct way to subtract a cube from a ring (newbie)
Replies: 6
Views: 869

Re: What is the correct way to subtract a cube from a ring (newbie)

A Body is just a single contiguous solid, so if the real world object is a single contiguous solid, then just model it in a single Body. You appear to have used a Pad but you appear to want to subtract material, if so you should have just used a Pocket, not a Pad. In PartDesign WB, a boolean is only...