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Regarding point 1, there's a bunch of 3rd party assembly plugins (A2+, A3, A4...), but no standardised assembly workbench yet. Hopefully one of the 3rd party on
by leoedin 6y ago
Regarding point 1, there's a bunch of 3rd party assembly plugins (A2+, A3, A4...), but no standardised assembly workbench yet. Hopefully one of the 3rd party ones will be accepted as good enough to make the standard one soon. It's not a great situation for the casual user who just wants to glue parts together.
There is a project to build one true assembly workbench - but these things take time. https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Assembly_project https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Assembly_project
Regarding point 2, there's a workbench called the TechDraw workbench which allows you to make technical drawings. In my experience it mostly works, with a few quirks and annoying bugs but nothing deal breaking.
https://wiki.freecadweb.org/TechDraw_Module https://wiki.freecadweb.org/TechDraw_Module
- jstanley 6y agoI tried A2+ before and it did not work well for me. I wrote this at the time: > I liked how easy it was to define constraints between the parts. Unfortunately I found that if I changed any of the parts in any way, then when I updated the part in the assembly, A2plus had lost track of which pieces of geometry were supposed to be constrained. This is very annoying and means you need to redefine the constraints for a part every time you change the part. I read somewhere that A2plus is best used when you have already committed to the design of the parts and you just want to assemble them together, but that is not really a useful workflow. If I've already committed to the design of the parts, I can just print them out and assemble them together in real life!
- andi999 6y agoJust to point this out: A3, A4 are plugins and not papr sizes?
- jstanley 6y agoThey're short for "Assembly3", "Assembly4".