Box (sphere) from bounding box - "No compatible object selected" (when used link as source)

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Box (sphere) from bounding box - "No compatible object selected" (when used link as source) #29

Open drfenixion opened 6 months ago

drfenixion commented 6 months ago

I tried to build bounding box from box and get error if i use Link as source. Link from another document. Any not little project uses a lot of linked documents as inserted objects in main doc. It will be nice to fix that bug.

galou commented 6 months ago

I'm not sure that it's not a good idea to use link because links usually have a different placement than the linked part. The generated object will then be at a different place than the link and this may confuse users. In FreeCAD, you can jump to the linked part with a right-click on the link in the tree.

drfenixion commented 6 months ago

Maybe there can be wayaround. Because as i know linked documents only way to work with big projects and also team project development (different developers makes different parts and uses parts from each other as linked documents). Also linked docs give a oportunity to simplicity current work scope. Without limked docs with time project becomes huge and that slows work with. I am ok with current workflow but looks it is lack when project scale.