Glad it helped! And thank you for adding that information regarding the the Mefisto setting, helps with others that read the comments.

@@MangoJellySolutions Cheers. After a more thorough look at this the outcome seems more complicated. It depends to some degree on the geometry of the part/model, the thing I'm primarily working on curves continuously in all 3 dimensions. Even following your sterling advice to use Blender to make a comparison I feel like my evaluation is still a little subjective, I'd say I get roughly a 25% saving in file size for a broadly comparable surface smoothness. Of course how much of a difference would actually show up in a printed item I lack the experience to say right now. So I'll moderate my earlier enthusiasm to: If you have the time and are working with a file size constraint it might be worth your while to have a look at Mefisto's output. It may be worth bearing in mind that setting the edge length or surface deviations much smaller than the defaults on large models can result in very long processing times, like go-out-for-a-bit-of-a-walk long on my i7-7700 machine. The processing appears to be single-threaded.

Please comment back, it be great to know if this does or does not resolve the issue and it would help others. Glad you enjoyed

Thanks for that, and thanks for the comments on the video regarding output quality to screen. This jogged my brain into remembering about the settings for finner output for models. I'm still researching the use of the mesher settings. I am wondering if it's going to help with displacement uv mapping in Blender as it's more of a sub divided surface.

@@MangoJellySolutions Hi, you mentioned about displacement mapping and this is something I am considering to utilise for textured mesh surfaces e.g. brick work for a wall in Freecad. So far blender seems to be the only freely available software that can handle this. Would love to see a video on this subject by yourself.

@@TheAndrian463 you will be happy to know it is in the making 😁. It's an interesting realm as you need to use a combination of different stl output settings in freecad along with blender sub surf modifiers and displacement to get the best effect. Also if your like me and your running on a computer that's 10 years old then there is some additional techniques you can use to unwrap parts of your object rather than applying surface division to your whole model which constantly cause blender freezing up or crashing for myself.

@@TheAndrian463 another way would be to use lattice2 to add repeating geometry (next week I am releasing a video that has been sitting as early access with my Patreons for a while regarding creating a diffusion pattern for tail lights) but if your going for a more organic feel then finishing in Blender is the best option.

@@MangoJellySolutions Awesome, looking forward to it. Yup in the same boat as you with hardware limitations, just looking to build my own PC with possibly a Ryzen cpu which has a top end single thread speed for Freecad.

Thank you so much for sharing this and detailing the process, really greatful for that 👍👍👍😁😁😁

@@MangoJellySolutions no worries mate, hope it helped

Thanks glad your enjoyed. In regards to the resolution all I can say is give it a go, if you do please could you share your results hear. Be great to get feedback from the community.

Great info you supplied. Thanks for sharing

You would be getting the same results for changing the default preferences. Also changing them in your preferences should change them as the defaults for the mesh wb when you create a mesh from shape

Glad you are enjoying the freecad videos. You can take a model from such sites and tessellate them in mesh wb and then turn them back into a solid via part wb. But they will be one single solid.

@@MangoJellySolutions Ok thanks

Draw a sketch of the shape you need to remove on the end of wheelnut/cylinder or whatever and press the pocket function on the part design bench. From there you can set the depth, thru all, up to face or whatev for all the specifics

You need to select the body rather than the model. If your drawing has more than one body, you need to ctrl-click and select all the bodies. Hope that helps.

@@marti6464 thank you ill give that a try

Thanks for the comments guys, glad it's all sorted. Just been trying to recreate the issue for the last 30 minutes and couldn't think what you may of done. Don't worry, time not lost as I have found a couple of settings that I have been looking for for a while. And thanks for the resolution, all good for the community 😊😊👍👍👍👍

@@MangoJellySolutions I missed out a bit it seems that you cant bring any stl you want and do this Bugger