Separate group results in many items being duplicated or linked to. Result of the relatively early stage of development of Freecad, but some are likely my unfamiliarity withġ- The tree view becomes really confusing, and my attempts to rationalize it by grouping, say, walls under a So my first question is 'Is this the right sequence of work, or is there a simpler way?Īnd the second question is really a list of the main difficulties I have encountered. I am ignoring the floor slabs in the above, as they seem slightly simpler to manage. Join walls using Arch add, but better not to do so until all openings haveīeen made, as drawing on the correct face of the correct wall becomes tricky.

I do not understand the relationship between the body, the switch to Part design in order to have access to 'pad' and 'pocket' tools, use pocket to cut the hole.

highlight a face of a wall and switch back to Sketcher to draw the outline of an opening on the wall face.

switch to Arch workbench to generate the wall. This entails anchoring the endpoints to lines on the base drawing, after activation external geometry. use Sketcher to copy a line representing one face of a wall. Hash: fc5b6288c6eb4fe89192f63f1fbdf4a43c0fad27Īs I understood it the workflow should be: Coming back, now on version 18, I am trying to model a building we are buying, but my workflow on Freecad must be faulty, and I cannot find a clear summary of good practice or of the way the operations in Freecad actually work. I did most of the Artigas tutorial about 18 months ago, but then had to stop for other things. Slightly embarrassed to ask here, but I did not find a beginners' forum.

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