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by Duane Kalman on 17.02.2015

Commenting post 22: Hello Yorik, and community, First, thank you and the other developers for the open and free nature of these products! I am a very new user experimenting with FreeCad 0.14. I have a frustrated history with TurboCad, going back several versions, more than a decade. Doing your initial tutorials as found under the help menu, I am beginning to become hopeful that I can use the program, and that the output will be useful. I am encouraged by the system of depiction being linked to CAM languages and dialects, as my needs are for very specific shapes with high fidelity to dimension. I will be attempting to describe profiles, on precise workplanes, and loft to solids. In TurboCad, the process was simple, if tedious, but the lofted ACIS objects had shrunken some fraction of a milimeter, and were worthless for looking for interferences with other interacting solids, not to mention being far from CAM worthy. Many carefully wrought profile produced solids with "slippage" in their dimensions. Your program has been very illuminating of the understanding of constraints, I am now curious as to how much this understanding may improve my performance on all platforms.

I have found that the wording of some of your instructions leave me a bit baffled, and that there are assumptions the the user is perhaps better informed than I am. I would like to make some editorial suggestions for some of the manual entries and tutorials. (The Golden Rectangle example left me bewildered, until I solved for it with a much simpler approach. I suspect the wikipedia recipe it refers to is now edited.) I fear that I am not a programmer, and have no power to assist with compiling and such. Where is the best address for suggestions? Thanks again for this fascinating program. I look forward to the 0.15 edition. Thanks again, Duane

by Duane Kalman on 17.02.2015