Subject: bug#54011: FreeCAD: Unable to import STEP files

From: Guillaume Le Vaillant <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2022 22:48:55 +0000

Jacob Hrbek <[email-masked]> skribis:

> That patch seems to have broken something in FreeCAD as i have issues with fonts^ and keybinds:
>
> To reproduce:
> a) Run `guix shell freecad -- FreeCAD` and notice that the texts are missing on the title page
> b) Open a new project
> 1. Part Design workbench
> *
> 2. Tasks and create a new body
> *
> 3. Create a sketch
> *
> 4. In a sketch environment use `R`-key and notice that it no longer works to make a rectangle

On my machine, the start page was not displayed properly even before the
patch for STEP files, so it's probably a different issue with HTML rendering.

There are indeed no keyboard shortcuts by default for creating cercles,
rectangles, etc. in part design. But you can still configure them in
"Tools -> Customize -> Keyboard -> Sketcher".
Maybe these shortcuts are missing because the version we are currently
using is not an official release (because of compatibility issues with
boost, opencascade-occt and vtk) and there's a bug in it, or maybe
upstream decided not to set them by default anymore...