In my original design the top row of 5 pockets all have the same shape, but they are not spaced equally distant.
Is there a good way in FreeCAD to create these from some kind of array function without just copying the whole pocket 5 times?

Shalmeneser You almost completely redrew my project. Impressive :D But you did miss a few subtle things. In my own design the pockets on the top row are not at regular intervals. Some of the pockets are shifted to leave a wider ridge for the short arm of the allen key. But those are just small deta...

Nonsense this has always been allowed. :evil: Oops, I stand corrected, I mixed up things... You can't pad a sketch if it results in multiple solids, but you can use a sketch to make multiple pockets. And after Shalmeneser's last post, I padded a simple sketch, then made another sketch with two circ...

Update: Going from imported shapes directly to Draft / Draft2Sketch as Shalmeneser suggests does work, but it leaves all the lines as separate entities. If you first update them to wires in the Draft workbench, then the ends have coincident constraints in the resulting sketch, and this results in le...

I'm very close now, also thanks to Shalmaneser's last post. I have now imported all layers at the correct depth, padded the outside, and made pockets with all the others on their correct depths. There are two thinks I do not know what they are or how they work: * Modify Map Mode to FlatFace * Modify...

Just had dinner and read about https://wiki.freecad.org/Part_and_PartDesign I noticed you can: 1. Import DXF in Draft. 2. Upgrade once (to wire) or twice (to faces) 3. Part Workbench -> Extrude. With the result that you have multiple extrusions: Box_04.png But as what I understand from the Wiki, &qu...

This seems to get me a bit further with a limited amount of mouse clicks: 1. Import both DXF files. 2. Draft / Upgrade to wires. 3. Draft / "Draft to Sketch" of everything together. 4. Part Design: Put the sketch into a body and pad it. I can do this a few times more for milling at differe...

I can turn a wire into a sketch, then add some more constraints, and work further with multitransform, but it's quite a lot of extra work. I am also looking for general workflow directions, and alternative methods. I don't have much experience with multitransform yet, but it seems to mainly work wit...

Search the Wiki for PartDesign WB and search official tutorial, you can't mix easily things as PartDesign is usually using Sketchs, and not wires (Draf WB wires?). Regards Carlo D. I've been using FreeCAD for some years now, and almost everything I did with it is creating sketches, padding them and...

The next, and very much related issue is the second DXF file. When imported, it is 80 shapes, I can upgrade them to 10 wires, but how do I make 10 pockets from this? The final goal is to use the path workbench generate G-code for milling this out of some wood like material. Box_02.png I've attached ...