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How to manipulate individual vertices? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 month 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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[–] Ibuthyr@feddit.org 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

You do that by extruding edges. But I believe you're looking for something like Blender instead of CAD software. CAD is all about dimensions and constraints and not about freeform vertex manipulation.

[–] bekopharm@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Hm, nope, not getting it :( If I can extrude edges, or use that fase feature, it should also be possible to define the resulting lengths of the operation too, no?

I do not need this to scale later on.

Bringing Blender into this is total overkill for "I just want to set that inner height", no?

[–] Ibuthyr@feddit.org 1 points 4 weeks ago

I'm not sure what you wish to accomplish. Maybe there's an easy work around? I'm guessing you chamfered a corner but wish to have different side lengths of the chamfer perhaps? Maybe you can post a screenshot with some annotations to make it more clear. I'm by no means an expert in this particular software, but I do know my way around CAD.