FreeCAD is becoming such a great tool that keep recommending it to other people that have been looking into CAD Systemes before. But when trying to explain the basic concepts, I keep stumbling over some Part/PartDesign issues.
The Hole thing is still a mystery to me. One main reason for me not using the part primitives is that I did not find an easy hole feature. Many of my parts need holes or theads somewhere. Of course I could create a cylinder, place it at the right position and subtract it from the cube. Somehow I can not believe this is the meant way to control holes in simple workpieces like holding plates etc.
Typically I need to put in holes with various tolderances, holes with threads and things like counterbores. They need to stick to quite a few distance contstraints. When doing a sketch with circles and trying to extrude it for boolean subtraction, I am hitting FreeCad's limitation of not doing multi-body extrusions (yet). None of the icons in the Part WB seem to make references about doing holes.
So what is the effocient Part WB process to to holes and threads without using Part:Hole? How to put them in so that TechDraw would recognize the thead as M6, for example?