Combine, Duplicate & Position

[NewJoker]

Can you explain this a little more?

I'm just talking about the well known limitation:

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However, I should add that there's no such limitation in the Link Branch: https://github.com/realthunder/FreeCAD/releases

[Bance]

But is perfectly acceptable to do this so long as the result is a single solid. So for instance to model a table, with four legs, so long as I model the top first I can then model the four legs as you describe.

But I wouldn't do that it's stupid, when I can use a feature pattern.

If I want to move features in relation to each other within a body that too is possible.

[chrisb]

So you can’t make for example two or more pads from separated sketches within the same Body.

This is a generalization which needs further explanation: You cannot create a pad from a sketch, where the resulting pad would be separate from previously modeled features in the same body.

[NewJoker]

This is a generalization which needs further explanation: You cannot create a pad from a sketch, where the resulting pad would be separate from previously modeled features in the same body.

Right, I should have explained it further. But it's brought up so often that one begins to simplify the explanation. And someone has already mentioned the concept of a single contiguous solid which pretty much sums up the whole thing.