Did you spend 15 minutes reading the first pdf in the link in my signature as I mentioned previously? If it did not answer this question, I would like to know how to improve it... :mrgreen: 1) the link in your signature doesn't actually lead to a PDF, it leads to your GitHub account. The link to th...

TheMarkster wrote: ↑Sat Sep 18, 2021 3:49 am JSON files are fairly easy to deal with. Code is untested.

great, thanx, will try.

as a second question, I'd like to save the JSON templates into the user config directory (where the user.cfg file is): what is the way to retrieve the pah to that directory ?

joeslide wrote: ↑Fri Sep 17, 2021 10:28 pm Units are set to English in Preferences. When placing parts in assembly4, units of translation are millimeters. Please advised

thank-you for the notice, we're awaiting your pull-request to correct this intolerable behavior

kkremitzki wrote: ↑Fri Sep 17, 2021 4:30 pm With the help of the KiCad Services Corporation, we have acquired the long-sought-after freecad.org domain.

Questions? Concerns? Comments?

That's awesome. Did you (we) also get freecad.net ?

Hello, an important functionality for assemblies is a BOM: Bill Of Materials. In order to work well, parts need to have some fields set, like ID, reference number, name, supplier, material ... these info fields are specific to people and projects, so I would like to have the possibility to create an...

Sketchup is just so stone dumb easy to use compared to FreeCAD We hear a lot this sort of things, and each time I inevitably wonder: why don't you continue using Sketchup then ? And FreeCAD is not more complicated than other parametric CAD software: sketch and then extrude or revolve, fillet and ch...

Can you access custom properties of a parent object? Like if I have a Sketch, inside of a Body inside of a Part, can I add a custom property to the Part then access that as a dimension constraint in the Sketch? How? No, you can't, that would create a cyclic dependency. Unfortunately, because that w...

Syres wrote: ↑Tue Sep 14, 2021 8:19 am I've tried all sorts to get it working (and failed miserably)

which is a problem under LGPL:

complete source code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to control compilation and installation

Is Freecad practical for taking thirty or forty pieces and assembling them piece of cake: https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=34806&start=940#p528725 https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=48473&start=20 https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=...

I have two intersecting datum planes in Part Design WB. How to create a datum line on the intersection of those datum planes? good catch, it's currently not possible. You can achieve this is a pedestrian way: create 2 sketches on each plane, and draw 2 rectangles in them, such that they intersect. ...