I think that Basic Part Design Tutorial should be renamed to Basic Part Design Tutorial_old or something, and Basic Part Design Tutorial 017 should be renamed to Basic Part Design Tutorial with no version info. Please forgive my ignorance if such a system exists and my forum searches were inadequate to discover it. I suggest an update to the tutorial text and request a pointer to a neat out-of-the way spot on the forums or else-ware to report any further issues I stumble across. However upon experimentation (word censored+D) Fix length tool yields no such error message. 'Cannot set the datum because the sketch contains conflicting constraints' Select one of the vertical lines and give it a vertical distance constraint and a value of 11 mm.'Īction described results in the following error message if either the (Shift+H) Fix the horizontal distance constraint or (Shift+V) Fix the vertical distance constraint tool is used: Select one of the horizontal lines apply a horizontal distance constraint and a value of 5 mm.Ģ. Under subheading Features with pocket and external geometry.

Here is something I noticed while taking on the tutorials one by one starting with part design: In the face of the wall awe it is easy for a newcomer to feel less than qualified to comment - at all. There is a lot to learn if you are taking FreeCAD software as a point of entry into the world of 3D. Newly installed 0.17 Revision 13541 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTSįirst up shouldn't there be a sticky topic section to discuss the tutorials alone?

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