FreeCAD 0.18: Sketcher - No "Elements"-Selection Field

[Spindoctor]

Hello!

I am using FreeCAD 0.18 (see details below) and try to reverse engineer an STL-File.

I employ the "Mesh-Remodel" workbench for that.

The instruction video on page two says, you have to delete all external references at a certain point. For that @TheMarkster uses the "Elements" Selection Field in the Sketcher dialog. Also the Sketcher Dialog's wiki page says, the "Elements" selection field should be there.

However, in my version of FreeCAD, it isn't:

FreeCAD Elements missing.png (46.94 KiB) Viewed 2881 times

Also my AppImage version of FreeCAD doesn't know this field.

Am I doing something wrong? Was this Field removed at some point and the manuals are old?

Is there another way to select only external geometries?

Thank you in advance!

OS: Debian GNU/Linux bullseye/sid
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.18.4.
Build type: Release
Python version: 3.7.6
Qt version: 5.12.5
Coin version: 4.0.0
OCC version: 7.3.0
Locale: German/Austria (de_AT)

[bejant]

Assuming your External Geometry aren't only Points, in the Elements widget shown in your image try changing Type from Start Point to something else, but not End Point. Also try ticking the German equivalent of "Extended Naming" to True. This will label the Element in the list as "External Geometry".

Elements that are External Geometry will all be together either at the top or the bottom of the Elements list - I forgot which and I don't have FreeCAD right now. Edit: Elements that are External Geometry are at the end of the Elements list

Click the Element in the list with your cursor to select it, then press the Delete key to delete it. You can also select Elements from the 3D view too.


OS: Windows 7 SP 1 (6.1)
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.19.20943 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: master
Hash: ceb23799c76df3ebfa7be4b9fe83bb62de60bc6c
Python version: 3.8.2
Qt version: 5.12.5
Coin version: 4.0.0
OCC version: 7.4.0
Locale: English/United States (en_US)


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[Spindoctor]

Thank you bejant!

I was able to remove the external geometry in my use case. So no problem there.

However, my question was two-fold - the more important one was:

Why is a documented selection of the Sketcher Dialog missing in my versions of FreeCAD? Should I file a bug report?

[openBrain]

Don't understand what is missing. In your screenshot everything is fine.

[Spindoctor]

It's the "mode" field (sorry, I mixed up the names).

By randomly reading the 0.19 release notes, I just found out the reason: This will be introduced not before version 0.19 and TheMarkster already used a pre-release of that version.

[bejant]

Thank you bejant!

You're very welcome!

version 0.19 and TheMarkster already used a pre-release of that version.

You may want to use 0.19 too; it's very much improved over 0.18. You can have both 0.18 and 0.19 installed on your system at the same time.

[Spindoctor]

Just tried it: finally svg imports work in FreeCAD - that's great!

Thank you once again!

[vocx]

Why is a documented selection of the Sketcher Dialog missing in my versions of FreeCAD? Should I file a bug report?

If you see something in the wiki that doesn't match, look at the date of the page. It's more likely that it was a new thing added, rather than something removed. Especially if it looks like an useful feature.

[drmacro]

Just tried it: finally svg imports work in FreeCAD - that's great!

Thank you once again!

I've done SVG imports.

But, I've seen this complaint in two different places now, so, I'm curious.

There was an issue with a particular construct that some SVG producers allowed for curves, but that was known (and I believe was in the bug fix...).

What didn't work?

(Note: I've not anything but 0.19 for almost a year, so I may not have seen the issue.)

[Spindoctor]

@vocx
I will lookout for that in the future. Just didn't expect the wiki page was not related to the actual release version. I remember those signs saying something like "since 0.16" or so. Is this not a thing anymore?

@drmacro
I experienced FreeCAD to crash, whenever I tried to import an SVG as a "construction object". This was on Debian with FreeCAD 0.17 and 0.18. I also think I read there was a library missing in the Linux builds.