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Being able to export the sketches from the 3 base planes instead of 1 is nice but support for an arbitrary sketch location and orientation would be ideal. I assume...

> when a menu is selected but not active How to cause this? I haven't been able to reproduce the issue so far.

@MisterMakerNL Thanks for the explanation. On my side, it's different with the Darker theme: ![darker](https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/assets/59876896/1c1260e6-54cc-4b36-9516-e0cf0813fab7) But I guess that you have some other theme settings.

> in Windows you would have only 2 styles The old classic (current default) and the new dark classic? Only those would be shown in the first start widget? Makes...

The new mode is named "Distance Free"? I can't select two points on the same face. Is it normal? The old tool allowed for that. Also, the tests are failing.

> That's indeed a limitation as we're using the global selection state and the face is deselected on the second click. Ok, I see. Do you plan to fix it...

> Is the name "Distance Free" ok? It might be better to name this "Distance Detached" or "Distance Arbitrary".

> I think the type in the UI and Tree should just say "Distance" as it's measuring the distance. Maybe a checkbox could be implemented instead of choosing between features...

To be honest, measurement between arbitrary (non-vertex) points is not so common. But there are some situations when it’s useful (quick approximate measure, no vertices in the desired locations, measuring...

All those disclaimers and warnings are worrying but if it's the only solution to this nasty issue for now then it might be worth applying it before the next release....