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That previous item probably doesn't make much sense, since I didn't have a good set of names to distinguish a Part as a component (primitive or operational result) from a "Part" as in "Create Part" from the toolbar/menu - meaning an aggregate part. If anyone has better terms to c...

When I create a new Part or duplicate an existing one, the newly-created Part appears at the bottom of the Tree View. I've got projects that have more parts than can fit without scrolling the tree, and I've been using (v0.18) Part and Group objects to organize stuff and to collapse parts of the tree...

I'd say that there's a lot of sense in enforcing the unit system in a project. I seem to recall that a rather valuable space probe was allegedly lost because people weren't paying proper attention to the unit system being used. And, contrariwise, I don't know of any real-world cases where multiple p...

I thought about that myself. However, it's really not being faithful to the intent of the document creator to go arbitrarily switching units. Especially on dimensioned drawings. I'm aware that the real units internally are always the same and all we really do is adjust the conversions done on displa...

Has any thought been put into assigning a measurement units property at the document level? The USA, as is well known is backwards, so I have at least 3 measurement systems to deal with. 1. CNC and 3D print projects I usually do in metric. 2. Woodworking plans I do in inches 3. Architectural plans I...

Thanks! It looks like the USE_EXTERNAL_PIVY might be what did the trick.

I did have to completely delete my current project and re-pull it, though. There is, alas, apparently no "clean" option for what CMake does.

Would have been nice to use the out-of-source build option, though.

Thanks. I looked for a more suitable forum, but somehow was blind. Actually, I wonder about FreeCAD and Fedora 29 in general. All sorts of things broke when I upgraded from Fedora 28. I downloaded the SRPM for FreeCAD and it fails to build. Thankfully, AppImage works. Plus, I've become addicted to s...

I've a nice laundry list for FreeCAD, mostly having to do with making it more conformant with generally-accepted GUI practices and I'd like to see if I can implement them, but I'm afraid the current CompileOnLinux instructions are letting me down. This is what I've seen when following the "Out-...

I actually was typing in units, but the problem came when the units weren't scaled to the device. I see at least 2 items of interest here, and maybe a third, if I can recall. 1. The GUI. While it's reasonable to be consistent with the other input controls on units, the literature on CNC means that p...

Have you adjusted your Units setting in the configuration? Make it Metric small parts, and your tool definitions are in mm/min. That said, if you use the GCode inspector to look at fundamental Job code--as kept within FreeCAD Path, not what is exported to your machine--you will see a factor of 60. ...