Broken Part in FreeCad 0.17 about freecad-library

[smithps]

Juan, I’d love to help but unfortunately I don’t know how to fix the issues freecad complains about as I am relatively a beginner. It is interesting that some parts seem to work fine....perhaps the ones you have already started to convert. Is there a procedure or a process you follow to ‘fix’ the broken parts?

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On 19 May 2018, at 08:50, Juan Gonzalez-Gomez ***@***.***> wrote: Hardly all the parts in the freecad library were designed with FreeCAD 0.16. There is a lot of work to do for migrating them to Freecad 0.17. I've started to migrate a few of them. For example the through hole resistors: https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD-library/tree/master/Electrical%20Parts/electronic-components/resistors/through-hole Any help will be very welcome :-) — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or mute the thread.

[Obijuan]

Hardly all the parts in the freecad library were designed with FreeCAD 0.16. There is a lot of work to do for migrating them to Freecad 0.17. I've started to migrate a few of them. For example the through hole resistors: https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD-library/tree/master/Electrical%20Parts/electronic-components/resistors/through-hole

Any help will be very welcome :-)

[Obijuan]

The broken parts should be re-designed using FreeCAD 0.17. It is a good exercise for beginers: learn how the part has been designed and re-do it from scratch using FreeCAD 0.17. I am afraid that there is no procedure or process to follow to fix the broken parts. Just re-do them from scratch (but using the measures and data already available)

[ceremcem]

Isn't it important to use whether ASM2 or ASM3 (or any other method to make the assembly)?

[normandc]

Belated reply, but since Assembly2 and Assembly3 are external add-ons, I recommend not using them for the parts library; furthermore, Assembly3 requires a fork of FreeCAD made and maintained by its lone author, so it really should be avoided as long as his changes are not merged into the official FreeCAD source code.

[normandc]

@smithps, assuming you just need to use the component as is, the easy workaround as you yourself found is to import the STEP file rather than the original FCStd file. The STEP file imports as a "dumb" solid with no history.

If you want to modify this model, then unfortunately, you will need to repair the FCStd's features. You can get help on that on the FreeCAD forum, a helpful forum member may even be willing to do it for you.

Since this file is still unchanged for more than 2 years, and since this is an issue for a large number of files in the library, I'm closing this specific issue.