model only visible from top view

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vr6scrub
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model only visible from top view

Post by vr6scrub »

Hi all,

recent adopter of FreeCAD just got finished with making a couple parts and printed them out a couple days ago. But today when I opened up the files to make changes I could only see the part in top view and all of the sketches could only be seen from the view they were made in. I don't think I had this issue before I exported to .stl is there anything I can do to fix this?

thanks
RatonLaveur
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Re: model only visible from top view

Post by RatonLaveur »

Hello hello,

Great to see another maker amongst us.

To best answer your request please provide your model and version information (Help-->About Freecad)

Cheers
J.
kisolre
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Re: model only visible from top view

Post by kisolre »

This should go to Help subforum. You can start by reading the IMPORTANT link ot top there and providing some more info: your FreeCAD version, screenshot of the problem, file with the problem, ... By your explanation I at least have not experienced such problem. There is a clipping plane problem sometimes. Model is clipped in half when rotated. But "View/Standart views/Fit all" usually fixes that.
vr6scrub
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Re: model only visible from top view

Post by vr6scrub »

"View/Standard views/Fit all" fixed the problem I was having. for future reference where is the help forum? I looked for a bit but couldn't find one so i just posted here.

thanks for the help
RatonLaveur
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Re: model only visible from top view

Post by RatonLaveur »

Hey, glad you got sorted.

The help forum is literally the first one on the forum board index and is named "Help on using Freecad".
vr6scrub
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Re: model only visible from top view

Post by vr6scrub »

oh! I thought that was for help with the GUI and stuff like that.
TheMarkster
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Re: model only visible from top view

Post by TheMarkster »

vr6scrub wrote: Tue Sep 10, 2019 9:00 pm oh! I thought that was for help with the GUI and stuff like that.
I think that information is to distinguish it from help for python scripting. Perhaps it should be reworded?
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