So l was trained in AutoCAD and I’ve got about four years of Solidworks experience, and now I’m fiddling around with FreeCAD for fun. My Solidworks brain is thinking l can (for example) sketch a rectangle and it into a pad to make a solid, sketch a circle and extrude it into a pocket to make a through hole, and then change my mind and adjust the sketch to make the box longer and have the hole move (or not) accordingly.
What’s actually happening is after l modify the earlier sketch that’s making a pad (or solid or whatever you wanna call it) the model itself doesn’t update because everything below that sketch just breaks.
I’m used to attaching sketch items to existing geometry like Solidworks does, so that way the sketch can be constrained by existing geometry instead of dimensions. I can’t find a way to do that in FreeCAD which might be why things break when I adjust the solid they’re sketched off of.
TLDR: Does FreeCAD actually do parametric modeling and I’m just bad at using FreeCAD or does it just pretend to?