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!

  • thantik@lemmy.worldEnglish
    43·
    8 months ago

    Welcome to Freecad; where you’ll be making up pointless workarounds like this constantly because the workflow is nonexistant.

    • WbrJr
      OP
      21·
      8 months ago

      Well shit. 🥲

      • thantik@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        8 months ago

        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.

        • WbrJr
          OP
          21·
          8 months ago

          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 :)