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@Syres916 I tested it, looks good.

It's a great tool. Will it support thickness in the future (when I press M when adding area annotation, nothing happens)?

> What is thickness? Is there already a thickness dimension tool? Is it extent? Should a face selection offer the extent as a mode? I mean what pierreporte showed here:...

> @FEA-eng I think it should show the distance at the selected point. This kind of dimension shouldn’t be used for variable thicknesses anyway. It could change value when the...

Yes, such redundancy can be really confusing. This wiki section summarizes the differences nicely: https://wiki.freecad.org/PartDesign_SubShapeBinder#PartDesign_SubShapeBinder_vs._PartDesign_ShapeBinder It would be great to unify those tools without loosing any of their advantages.

Theoretically, this should be handled by the [Inspection Workbench](https://wiki.freecad.org/Inspection_Workbench) but it's a bit underdeveloped, to put it lightly. There's also [Macro HighlightDifference](https://wiki.freecad.org/Macro_HighlightDifference). Still, those should be just additional tools, likely...

@PaddleStroke I tested it, works very well. I just wonder - perhaps it shouldn't be possible to select both "Delete original geometries" and "Create symmetry constraints" at the same time...

I tested it again, it's all good. Can you undraft it?

> Enable the checkbox and set default value to false for the experimental feature. The problem is that without group meshing, pressure on shells won't work at all: #12114. So...

> @FEA-eng this fix #10071 and also #12114 And #5699 @chennes I tested this and it works properly.