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Can't even take a short break from 3D designing stuff. Glad I'm switching over to FreeCAD. All I wanted was to grab some dimensions from an old model.

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[–] RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Exact same situation for me aswell... i was so happy to see that developer version of FreeCAD that completely overhauled the sketcher tool for on the fly defining

[–] tubbadu@lemmy.kde.social 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Can you tell us more about this?

[–] RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 8 months ago

i believe it's already implemented in the latest version but it was presented in the 0.21 dev version where you could start to draw a rectangle and had the boxes to contrain their lenghts automatically pop up while drawing the rectangle for example