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this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2023
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Agree to disagree.
From what I remember something as common as offsetting lines in a sketch required switching away from the sketch workbench into the draft workbench and exiting the sketch editor altogether.
Normally, for an offset line, I'd use some helper lines and just set an offset along the helper between intersecting points, all straight from the sketch editor. Maybe you mean some other kind of offsetting, but I barely use the draft workbench, I've found it only offers a few tools that are hard to come up with inside the sketch editor itself.
I mean offsetting complex shapes in one go.
Just randomly throwing together an example:
Ironically, an in-Sketcher offset tool has been developed over a year ago, along with like 10 other Sketcher tools... but it's been blocked from merging because they found there is a mistake in the general UI styling, and they switched to fixing that instead.
Oh well, guess FreeCAD's UI is a problem after all. 🤦