Issues with PartDesign -> Draft & Dovetails.

[tmckzs]

OS: Windows 10 Version 2009
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.19.24291 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: releases/FreeCAD-0-19
Hash: 7b5e18a0759de778b74d3a5c17eba9cb815035ac
Python version: 3.8.6+
Qt version: 5.15.2
Coin version: 4.0.1
OCC version: 7.5.0
Locale: English/United States (en_US)

Hi all,

I am trying to draft some dovetails I have made (I followed Mark's video, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3onE2S0JwQw&t=1677s), but I am having some issues with the direction of the draft on one of the pieces.

The first piece seems to have drafted fine:

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But this happens with the second piece:

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I was reading the wikipage for PartDesign, Draft Tool, and it says that, "The Draft tool will only function on faces that are normal to each other," so I am thinking that maybe this is my issue, although Mark seemed to do it fine in his video.

I appreciate your time, and this is my first time posting so please let me know if I forgot anything, thanks.

Edit: Fixed some images, thanks Chris.

[chrisb]

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[tmckzs]

I figured out that I had to have the underlying sketch set to both axes z and y = 1, and it seems to work.

Thanks.