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OS: Windows 10 Version 2009
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.19.24276 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: releases/FreeCAD-0-19
Hash: a88db11e0a908f6e38f92bfc5187b13ebe470438
Python version: 3.8.6+
Qt version: 5.15.1
Coin version: 4.0.1
OCC version: 7.5.0
Locale: English/Canada (en_CA)


This is driving me bananas, I'm trying to emboss a shapestring into the top of a battery cover but I can't seem to get it to work. I read the tutorial and it worked for me. I can emboss a solid box but as soon as I use thickness to make a hollow object it won't work for me. I'll extrude the shapestring into the top of the cover and then use cut.
Can sone kind person please look at it and help me out.

The body is useless in your model. Delete it. You didn't extrude the ShapeString, so a Cut cannot remove any material.

The Part Design way, with a body, is to just drag the shapestring into the body, position with transform tool, and Pocket.

Raygers wrote: ↑Thu Nov 25, 2021 4:07 am .......
Can sone kind person please look at it and help me out.

.... one of the different workflow possibilities, (information: depending on how you orient the view you will get a particular projection of the string, in the attached * .gif example the projection view has been set from above)