Help & Dimension Drawing WB

[Maavhamt]

Hi,

I have just updated me version of FreeCAD and now find the "Help" does not work, it says, :

The page could not be found.


'qthelp://org.freecad.usermanual/doc/Online_Help_Startpage.html'

I have never had that problem before. Am I doing sth wrong?

Second question, on "Dimension Drawing WB" I'd like to make the dimension off centre with the arrows. Is there a way of doing this?

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OS: Windows 10
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.16.6706 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: releases/FreeCAD-0-16
Hash: f86a4e411ff7848dea98d7242f43b7774bee8fa0
Python version: 2.7.8
Qt version: 4.8.7
Coin version: 4.0.0a
OCC version: 6.8.0.oce-0.17

[r-frank]

Second question, on "Dimension Drawing WB" I'd like to make the dimension off centre with the arrows. Is there a way of doing this?

> Select your dimension in the tree view
> on the "Data" tab, section "Parameters" set the parameter "auto place text" from "true" to "false".
> do a manual refresh (F5)

[Maavhamt]

Thank you that works.

[Dgingrey]

I am having the same problem with the F1 Help key.
I upgraded from v18.15870 to the following version

OS: Windows 10
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.18.15991 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: master
Hash: 10c745175f8a121b594ee6b0612cc487ebf43ba1
Python version: 2.7.14
Qt version: 4.8.7
Coin version: 4.0.0a
OCC version: 7.2.0
Locale: English/UnitedStates (en_US)

and I get the same error message when pressing the "F1" key.
It was working correctly before the upgrade.
Now I also get the same error when I use v17 on the same PC.
Anyone have any ideas on solving this.

[triplus]

Likely the development builds don't have the documentation included.

[Dgingrey]

The help documentation files are in their correct location in the "DOC" folder. If they are not then a different error message is displayed indicating so.
I tried going back to the previous build of version 18 and this did not solve the problem and now version 17 is doing the same thing.

[NormandC]

This might help:

Installing_Helpfile#Register_the_Documentation

[Dgingrey]

Thanks, I was able to solve the problem with the information in this link.