Hi,
I am constantly being frustrated ( ie prevented from doing a job ) by what seems like inexplicable limitation on creating very basic and essential path operations using FreeCAD.
In this case I just want to make a simple rectangular cut down the side of a rectangular bar. There could hardly be anything simpler. I have an 8mm tool which could do it in one cut ( subject to repeats for depth of cut ), yet it seems impossible to get a path on this using the path tool.
The first two bounding choices produce no path at all ( tool would need to be less than cut width ) yet if I bound on stock , it dumbly eats away half the work piece.
Once again I find myself off the the workshop to do a job by hand coding Gcode instead of using FreeCAD.
Now there maybe some way to trick FC into doing this by adding fictional "helper geometries" or lying about the shape and size in the model to fool it into doing what is needed but this all becomes a bit of a mess.
The other cut on this job I had to with 3D in a rather rough finish on the curved section instead of the obvious way of facing the curved surface as a vertical since FC refuses to put a path on a vertical face ( an issue which I have highlighted before ).
These are not complex or obscure operations but some of the most obvious cuts that one may want to do. Can something be done to solve these short comings?
Thanks.
OS: Fedora 31 (Thirty One) (LXDE/LXDE)
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.19.18821 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: master
Hash: 379d04166431517f3eef59c5a55b6e2979562722
Python version: 3.7.5
Qt version: 5.12.5
Coin version: 4.0.0a
OCC version: 7.3.0
Locale: English/United Kingdom (en_GB)