thread milling?

[GeneFC]

Is there something else I need to download to get the threadmilling operation in my version of FreeCad?

I do not believe there is an clickable icon yet in the standard distribution. You need to use the top row Path menu and select Specialty Operations.

Gene

[bowcoastie]

Hello Gene,
Thank you for your response. I have looked through all the menus in the Path work bench and I don't see any specialty operations. I found the threadmilling

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icon in Tools>Customize and added it to the Path in a custom tool bar. With this I am now able to run the operation. Thank you to everyone who got this going!

[chrisb]

You have to enable Path experimental to get it in the regular menu.

[GeneFC]

You have to enable Path experimental to get it in the regular menu.

That hurdle has probably outlived its usefulness.

Gene

[mlampert]

You have to enable Path experimental to get it in the regular menu.

That hurdle has probably outlived its usefulness.

Gene

Are you suggesting thread milling is stable and mature enough to be made public?

[GeneFC]

No, not specifically thread milling. The other operations, such as 3D surface, work reasonably well, however.

I am just suggesting that the "experimental" operations should be more visible. Perhaps with a warning like Firefox, "You may break your system. I promise to be careful".

Gene

[mlampert]

Most of those have a dependency on OCL which is currently not a requirement for FC. I get your point though, maybe we could add a checkbox with corresponding warning message to the preferences.

[chrisb]

You have to enable Path experimental to get it in the regular menu.

That hurdle has probably outlived its usefulness.

I don't know about the thread milling but the other functions are indeed well tested and could be moved from experimental to regular.

[mlampert]

PR-4387

EDIT: feel free to suggest different wording, I'm not the most eloquent person
EDIT 2: I have argued against exposing the experimental feature flag in the past. Today I think that some of those ops are used a lot and we can't move them out of experimental for 0.19, so this might be the lesser of two evils.

[chrisb]

Today I think that some of those ops are used a lot and we can't move them out of experimental for 0.19, so this might be the lesser of two evils.

Regarding the argument: do you mean can or can't?