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* CAM: thread-mill Shape , more robust model Purpose: prevent solver dumping arcane coding errors to report window if "crest" value is (legitimately) set to zero by user. Single tooth thread-mill tools exist which have a sharp point, ie zero flat "crest " surface. Thus the user can reasonably expect to configure a zero dimension to the truncated end of the tool if it is not truncated. This should not provoke an error condition and certainly not crash the model and dump lots of arcane developer info on the machinist user. The problem is that a zero dimension makes two points concurrent and removes an edge from the model. This leads to and ill-defined model which crashes the solver. The user should not be exposed to this kind of coding breakage when entering legitimate data for a tool shape. The solution (or workaround) here is to add a very small faction of the shaft diameter to the user supplied zero to prevent the solver crashing. Since this is proportional to the tool shaft it will scale to any use of the tool shape without disrupting path accuracy. This is a drop in replacement for the existing file and caters for both types of this tool: truncated tip and pointed tip. * threadmill Shape update This thread-mill Shape file uses max() in the expression for crest. This allows user setting zero crest by adding a small finite dimension to prevent the solver crashing, while not making any change to finite crest tools. Best of both worlds.
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Overview
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Freedom to build what you want FreeCAD is an open-source parametric 3D modeler made primarily to design real-life objects of any size. Parametric modeling allows you to easily modify your design by going back into your model history to change its parameters.
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Create 3D from 2D and back FreeCAD lets you to sketch geometry constrained 2D shapes and use them as a base to build other objects. It contains many components to adjust dimensions or extract design details from 3D models to create high quality production-ready drawings.
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Designed for your needs FreeCAD is designed to fit a wide range of uses including product design, mechanical engineering and architecture, whether you are a hobbyist, programmer, experienced CAD user, student or teacher.
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Cross platform FreeCAD runs on Windows, macOS and Linux operating systems.
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Underlying technology
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- Coin3D library Open Inventor-compliant 3D scene representation model
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Installing
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Reporting Issues
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Help > About FreeCAD > Copy to clipboard; - Restart FreeCAD in safe mode
Help > Restart in safe modeand try to reproduce the issue again. If the issue is resolved it can be fixed by deleting the FreeCAD config files. - Start recording a macro
Macro > Macro recording...and repeat all steps. Stop recording after the issue occurs and upload the saved macro or copy the macro code in the issue; - Post a Step-By-Step explanation on how to recreate the issue;
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