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Pier Tilma
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Problem with techdraw

Post by Pier Tilma »

september 23, 2021

Hello,

System : Linux Ubuntu 20.04
Freecad : 0.19

I am trying to create an A4 with some technical information (techdraw).

This is what I am doing :
1 - select e.g. front view of a part
2 - go to the already created A4 template page
3 - select that part in the model tree
4 - press button "Insert a view"

Now I.ve get the message :
"Wrong selection - No Shapes, Groups or Links in this selection"
What am I doing wrong ?

Pier
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M4x
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Re: Problem with techdraw

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Sounds like a small thing. Could you share a screencast?
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Re: Problem with techdraw

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Does it work with a default cube from Part workbench?
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Re: Problem with techdraw

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Don't select the page in the tree view as that will deselect the object. Just select the object and use the insert view tool.

Edit: if you have more than one page select it in the mdi view tab.
Pier Tilma
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Re: Problem with techdraw

Post by Pier Tilma »

September 24, 2021

Hello,

What I did :
1 - Open an existing design in FreeCAD
2 - button "create a new empty document" (techdraw)
3 - button "Insert page using template" (techdraw)
4 - select a body in model tree
5 - press "insert a view" (techdraw)
FreeCAD returns message "Wrong selection No Shapes, Groups or Links in this selection"

What I do now :
1 - Open an existing design in FreeCAD
2 - button "Insert page using template" (techdraw)
3 - select a body in model tree
4 - press "insert a view" (techdraw)
And this is working

Thanks for your help.

Regards
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Re: Problem with techdraw

Post by M4x »

I'm not able to reproduce your issue.

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OS: Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS (ubuntu:GNOME/ubuntu)
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.20.25645 (Git) AppImage
Build type: Release
Branch: master
Hash: 37d9757399b4c2ec30318eb88d7cd7c508246345
Python version: 3.9.7
Qt version: 5.12.9
Coin version: 4.0.0
OCC version: 7.5.2
Locale: English/United States (en_US)
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