your point is valid and the criticism is well taken. In fact very few 'FreeCAD Pros' use it at all. you can see my post below [above on this forum] about what i would like to do for organization...but it is merely a wishlist.Yep this was my post. Really surprised to see the FreeCAD pros take it seriously to produce the desired model. As a beginner, all of this is going over my head.
I released this workbench originally for 2 reasons:
-people asked me to after i posted pictures of results on the FreeCAD forum
-it has in fact been ready for tasks like gnosys did here from the very first day of release.
I consider this workbench to be in 'library' state...you can use it to build stuff, and the current tools will always be around, but it is lacking the top level tools...so you have to be your own top level tool.
example of an obvious higher-level tool:
-if i select 4 sketches and hit cubic surface, create and nest the polys and grid automatically.
right now its 4 times sketch>poly
then select the 4 polys > grid
then grid > surface
absorbing the sketches in the polys, and absorbing the polys in the grid seems like a no brainer right? But i want to use each sketch in many polys. and use each poly in many grids. and use each grid in different surfaces and even several other derived grids....
so things disappearing when you 'use' them is not always helpful...and there needs to be an override...and FreeCAD Part Design workbench won't let me share between parts and bodies...so i can't integrate in part Design...but Part Design has all the tools i realy want to use after i finish the surface....
this last one is already doable, and AndyK has shared models with me that demonstrates this. I myself have not yet experimented extensively with Part Design after Silk. I usually check my surfaces by building solids in Part, but this is more QC then workflow.
this tool is definitely not recommended for beginners. you need to be very solid on sketching, Part Design Sketching vs Sketcher Sketching...very solid on using the advanced features of the placement/attachment tool...you need to know how you intend to use the final surface...which is the next workbench? what are it's limitations.
I don't control any of these things, so i stick to super simple objects, that make sense with each other. basically, FreeCAD is giving me plastic, and i'm giving you legos. not playmobil. you can put my legos on a playmobil pirate ship if you want, and sometimes you might like it, but it's out of my control
Although there is no single best way to create the model structure, there definitely are many things that could be done to keep the clutter under control. I freely admit that i have slacked on this...due to both laziness and the issues i detail in my post below [above on this forum]