[mitthrowaway2]

Topological naming problem is fixed in RealThunder's Link Branch of FreeCAD:

https://github.com/realthunder/FreeCAD/releases

I highly recommend Link Branch, it's full of all sorts of usability improvements.

The fix is still being worked on for the next mainstream FreeCAD release.

[mlhpdx]

Naming and matching is never done. That said, you’ve got me curious enough to go have a look. Thanks!

[ecjhdnc2025]

Bullet points of caution:

- Realthunder’s branch contains unique, forked changes that will cause file incompatibility with core freecad if you use them unknowingly

- Core freecad is ahead in many, many ways and improving quickly

- the Realthunder branch is likely a dead end

The TNP mitigation from the Realthunder branch is very close to being enabled in 0.22, and the feature freeze for 1.0 is weeks away. 1.0 is currently targeted for early August.

My feeling is that it would be much better to learn what the topological naming problem is, and how it can be worked around, and then use Ondsel 2024.2 or a 0.22 weekly release until the TNP mitigation is mainstream. (It’s likely to be in 0.22 very soon indeed)

My thinking is straightforward: there are and will be more tutorials and more support for this route, and learning about how to mitigate TNP is not wasted info: it will teach you useful skills for making generally robust designs, TNP or not.

Among others, Mango Jelly Solutions has a recent video about TNP, and Brodie Fairhall’s video on the topic is worth seeing.