Your own 3D parametric modeler.
FreeCAD is an open-source parametric 3D modeler made primarily to design real-life objects of any size. Parametric modeling allows you to easily modify your design by going back into your model history and changing its parameters.
In other cad programs i use two points of a sketch to extrude a feature. In freecad it does not seem to be possible. What are your recommended workarounds for that?
I would like to extrude the base not just from the face of the sketch, but from point 1 to point 2 on the side view sketch. This workflow proved very robust in other cad tools, but I cant get it work in freecad.
Thanks a lot in advance!
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Welcome to Freecad; where you'll be making up pointless workarounds like this constantly because the workflow is nonexistant.
Well shit. 🥲
Yeah, I want it to be better too. I want FreeCAD to be the Blender of parametric modeling; but after 20 years, it's just not there yet.
I am actually very optimistic about ondsel and I hope there will be more money and coordinated work put in this software. I suspect freecad to be a lot more usable in 2 years if ondsel continues to grow and improve :)