the work does not seem to me badly organized, except for the nut holes I redid one last Boolean subtraction and hide the nuts (kik space bar) this is the advantage of Part that allows you to reuse the same object several times easily you have to complicate by grouping all the sketches, it is better...

As for insertion. last night I need to add another cut in the middle of one of these hierarchies and I had to redo all of the cuts above it. I couldn't figure out another way. you didn't need to do that at all. Thanks, Jim, for the detailed instructions. I was able to understand them without any is...

Sorry my description above holds only for Unions. Cuts are different: you find the first object in the property "Base", and the second in the property "Tool". Thanks! That helped me find the properties! I was expecting them to be in the root of the property tree. I didn't realiz...

It's in the Data tab of the combo view. Perhaps this is available in 0.19 only. I downloaded 0.19 but I still don't see it. I'm going to assume this is because I've done something wrong, or haven't done something I was supposed to. I did not use Shape Binder on any of my features. I just extruded s...

(That is much easier to do in PartDesign.) 1) Delete it or edit the Shapes property 2) Edit the Shapes property and a 3) Select the objects in the right order when editing the Shapes property 4) No. Thank you for the help, but I'm still rather confused. 1) When I delete a boolean op, for instance u...

Hello there! First, I'm really impressed by FreeCAD. Second, I have next to no CAD experience but I do have (a lot of) real-time 3D rendering, CSG and mesh modeling and animation experience (Maya, 3DSMAX, Blender, Lightwav, Modo, etc.). Hopefully that means I'll have some basis for understanding the...