Can't make a wall!

[rothloup]

So I'm just getting started with FreeCAD.

I tried to do what I thought would be an exceedingly simple operation. I tried to make a curved wall following these steps:

• Create a Sketch
• Draw a Circle
• Close Sketch
• Select Sketch and Press "Wall" button

The result is that a wall object is created with a "!" symbol indicating an error, and the sketch disappears from view (but is still visible in the model tree under the wall object). When I click on the wall object to see what the error is, it says "Wa'': 'NoneType" object has no attribute 'isClosed'."

Is FreeCAD not able to make circular walls? It seems to work if I use a polygon.

Thanks.

OS: Windows 7
Word size: 32-bit
Version: 0.14.3700 (Git)
Branch: releases/FreeCAD-0-14
Hash: 32f5aae0a64333ec8d5d160dbc46e690510c8fe1
Python version: 2.6.2
Qt version: 4.5.2
Coin version: 3.1.0
SoQt version: 1.4.1
OCC version: 6.5.1

[rockn]

Is FreeCAD not able to make circular walls?

Nope ! Not is this way, but you can do it by creating a solid then upgrade this solid to a wall.
In the example attached, I created a sketch, then I pad it (with PartDesign workbench). Then I selected the pad and clic on wall tool of Arch Workbench.

CircularWall.fcstd

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[rothloup]

Thanks!

[yorik]

Indeed surprisingly, there is no way to create a wall from a circle... Funny that nobody tried earlier. The problem as far as I can see is that the DraftGeomUtils module cannot calculate an offset for the circle, which is needed to create the wall base. I'll see if I can fix that when I have a bit of free time again

[paullee]

A reporter made reference to this old thread

https://www.freecadweb.org/tracker/view.php?id=3859


I try in a Sketch make 2 separate arcs forming a complete circle, then ArchWall works

Maybe someone can implement to support a simple circle