#freecad I'm trying to design some pretty simple shapes using FreeCAD (using Part Design and Sketcher) and I keep encountering weird issues, including things that look like caching problems (I need to twiddle a value back and forth to see effects of other changes reflected) and outright crashes (https://tracker.freecadweb.org/view.php?id=4523 and another that boils down to "this file crashes FreeCAD if I try to edit ~anything in it").
I am most likely using it in a weird way. However, I didn't expect that amount of issues (esp. crashes) even if I was using it completely incorrectly. Is it expected that FreeCAD will be crashy-when-used-weirdly, or maybe is it the fault of my distro (NixOS), or something else?
If only I didn't want chamfers, I would just use solvespace. Unfortunately, chamfers on non-side edges of extrusions are very annoying there.
@robryk
It's really odd, I've never had this kind of issue. I would think it may be a third-party library issue that the Sketcher relies on, but that's just a guess.
As a workaround if you can't get #FreeCAD to behave reliably on your PC, if you're well versed in #Solvespace, and if it can export to STEP, you could make your parts in Solvespace and import them into FreeCAD to create the chamfers?
@robryk
Hi! I just tested your issue, both with a new file following your steps and with your attached file. I can't reproduce on Ubuntu 18.04 with the #freecad daily build package from the PPA. Well written bug report BTW!
Have you posted about it on the forum? You would have more chance to get noticed. Also, may I suggest you try and see if the AppImage has the same issue on your machine?
Good luck!
https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/releases/tag/0.19_pre