Now I immediately get a popup with windows title "Workbench failure" and a message, "No module named numpy". Then I added the Assembly2 and DrawingDimensioning workspaces as I did before. I have since installed 0.15, opened it fine. No change in the rest of the interface, and I could not get do anything different than what was already offered in the I have taken your suggestion since I did not notice I was using a 'bleeding edge' version 0.16. Only the addition of the DrawingDimensioning selection in the dropdown. If the version of your FreeCAD is missing python modules, windoze doesn't know that or care. On my main machine, running win xp I also have it working as well, but I'm using the latest 'official' release.
I have FreeCAD Drawing Dimensioning workbench running here. Anyhow, most versions of linux come with python, and if parts of python (modules) are missing, it can handle getting the needed parts of python. Sometimes, these users turn off certain flags to not include compiling parts of the source code, so it's not like it's a 'official' version released by the team.įor instance, right now I'm on an Ubuntu box, don't ask me what version. I've played with 'in-development' versions of blender before, downloading them from, which hosts user complied versions of the current source code.
Second, I would try the latest 'official' version 0.15 of FreeCAD. Posting that information here might help others to help you. Help menu -> About FreeCAD, and there's a button to copy that info to your clipboard for easy pasting in a forum post. I'm sorry that I can't offer much advice on FreeCAD and your problem, but I will offer a couple of thoughts.įirst, around here it seems to be the thing to post info about the FreeCAD you are running, I see it added at the bottom of user's posts all the time. By default, it's 3 decimal places, I'm sure there's some way to increase that, but I haven't looked triplus - please refer to post #4 for part of his problem. First, when I wanted to add a length dimension to an angled line, (not straight up/down or left/right), it kept wanting to dimension the vertical or horizontal distance, I had to move a bit of distance from the angled line for it to figure out I wanted the angled line length. It easily allows you to add dimensions, center lines, angles, and more to a drawing. Yes, the DrawingDimensioning workbench is what you want, it allows you to place dimensions directly on your 'page' that you export to a. I'm new to FreeCAD, so bear that in mind. FreeCAD is almost there.I guess that is what the new DrawingDimensioning workspace is all about. I guess I have been spoiled by years of Inventor (and now Fusion) where you model in 3D and then switch to a page or paperspace, and drop your views on the sheet, and then simply dimension. That is how I used to work long ago in AutoCAD when I didn't understand paper space. I was always able to put dimensions on the model in different work planes in FreeCAD, but this is a lot of work to do to produce dimensioned drawings.