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
      21·
      3 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@lemmy.mlOP
        21·
        3 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 :)