Apparent error when rotating host with elements

[mickele]

After creating two structural elements, I add one of them to the other.

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In the child element I set the option "Move with host" to true. If I translate the host object everything works as expected: child object moves with the host.

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If I rotate the host I have strange behaviour: child object doesn't rotate; moreover child object starts moving in a not easyly predicatable way.

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Possible bug?

OS: Windows 10
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.18.15646 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: master
Hash: fdf8fe7bc6ed671e8b7ee064000b6f00567ce795
Python version: 2.7.14
Qt version: 4.8.7
Coin version: 4.0.0a
OCC version: 7.2.0
Locale: Italian/Italy (it_IT)

[yorik]

Yes there is definitely a bug there. Working on it...

[yorik]

Ok there are multiple bugs there... I can't unfortunately solve it right now because it could potentially break many existing models, which is a bad idea to do just before an official release. So I openend a bug issue at https://www.freecadweb.org/tracker/view.php?id=3789 and will handle it after the 0.18 release.

In the meantime, you have many other ways to solve this, for example: Union your pieces with Part Fuse tool, then turn the union into an Arch Structure. Then you can move/rotate it without problems.

[mickele]

Ok, thanks!