Comment on So glad I'm ditching these fucking idiots

• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  any advice on getting constraints to actually behave? I can’t seem to get it to actually create geometries more complex than a box. (and forget master-sketches. that irritates me.)

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  • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Here is a tip: constraints don’t need to behave. You can leave parts unconstrained and it will still work.

    You can just eyeball the placement, and make sure the constraints that matter are constrained. The rest you can leave floating freely.

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    • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Doesn’t thaT really scare things up later if (when) you need to make adjustments?

      I’ve never left something unconstrained that I haven’t regretted later.

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      • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        FreeCAD is already wonky if you try to adjust things later, whether they are constrained or not.

        It actually makes it easier to adjust, because when it is loose you can move things around without it affecting the rest of your work.

        Some things need constraints of course, but a lot of it can do without.

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    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Doesn’t that create wonky geometry if you try and alter the parameters?

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      • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        On the contrary, because they are not connected they don’t affect other parts. So you can just freely move things around.

        And if things move, you can always just eyeball it again.

        For many parts of a drawing, exact measurements aren’t important.

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