A pocket is a hollow i.e. it removes some material from another solid which is done with boolean cut operation. But you can't do a cut with "nothing".Wondering if someone can explain the reasoning behind requiring a support face for a pocket? I'm simply trying to better understand the philosophy of FreeCAD, hopefully to make it's use more instinctive to me.
As shown in you screenshot that's the way to go. A pocket always needs a plane as face and thus doesn't work with cylinders or other surfaces.I've had a few occasions where no support face exists and it's necessary to create a pad and do a boolean cut. Is this an intended/accepted consequence, or am I missing an alternative solution?
AFAIK it's not implemented.I've noticed that pads have a 'Mirrored extent' property, I assume this has not been implemented yet?
Out of curiosity, do you plan for the Pocket feature to eventually be able to handle a case like j-dowsett's?jriegel wrote:Actually the pocket is at the moment really done for imprints on planar faces. for your use case I would do a different feature.
You can do this by adding the support by hand...
