How to manipulate individual vertices? (lemmy.nz)

submitted 4 months ago by bekopharm@discuss.tchncs.de to c/freecad@lemmy.ml

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Newbie here. FreeCAD is v1.1.1

Is there really no way to do simple manual vertices manipulation?

Coming from Wings3D. Found the Fase feature (PartDesign_Chamfer) which is a good start for my usual extrude/bevel workflow but I can not for my life find out how to manually select and move vertexes manually / individually.

I learned about converting a part into a mesh but even here I seem to not have the option to move vertices around freely?

Do I really have to go down to a 2D drawing first and work from there?

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[-] bekopharm@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

You can select a face and make changes to it like a sketch. So push pull twist, or if you select a vertices you can chamfer or filet.

Think this is the part I'm missing - as in I didn't find the option yet. For this particular case I want to increase the height of the selected ~~part~~ face.

Thanks for the detailed explanation!

[-] the16bitgamer@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago

It’s located in the part design workbench, I can remember if you can make a cube first the edit it in a part design. But my workflow in CAD is.

Sketch > Part Design > Sketch > Part Design …

In the Part Design work bench you will find additive features (extrude or revolution) as well as Subtractive tools (Pocket or Groove)

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