I mention this because when I tried to run Fusion - I’d run cleaning scan and stopped a lot of stuff running at start up, Fusion simply refused to run smoothly freezing frequently and even completely crashing. The hardware incorporates integral graphics which HP - the mfrs - have no later drivers for. Good luck with it, though - hope someone can assist!Yes Fusion 360 was my original choice but I’m running Windows10 upgraded a good while back, from Win7. I understand that it is both more functional and reliable now but haven't felt the need to go back to it. I tried to use FreeCAD a few years ago and found it rather lacking at that point. Quite a few of us here use Fusion 360 in its free 'home and hobby user' version which is a slightly/somewhat (depending on point of view) version of a full professional package. What might be the reason for this not being so in my 2D drawings? The sketch for the flange plate is “fully constrained”.īe interested to hear why you went FreeCAD. Videos, demonstrating dimensioning hole positions, use the displayed vertices which, in their examples, is at the epicentre of the holes. However, when it comes to setting a dimension to position the holes in the flange-plate relative to the outer edges the hole centre (vertices) is “glued to the edge of the hole and not at the hole’s geometric centre. Have modelled a number of simple flanges: plates with a vertical web - tranvesrse and longitudinally - inserting the views is executed well and I am able to dimension all the profiles without any issues. My issue: to get to the nitty gritty, is vertices/constraints in the 2D Techdraw workbench. But have found FreeCAD, although powerful, has its own unique protocols for commands some intuitive but many not so. Still at basic level even though professionally I was an airframe design technician with Airbus (4 yrs), Bae(1 yr) plus Bombardier & Short Bros (14yrs), using Catia, Computervision 12 and more recently, (post retirement) AutoCAD for 2D draughting - used for detailing house extensions and garage conversions (modelled for) interest in SketchUp 2017.

However, suffice to say I have for my sins, started to familiarise with FreeCAD ver. Am just arrived, so yet to get to grips with this platform.

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