I see lots of new #FreeCAD users expressing frustration about the process of importing and converting mesh files (like STLs) to be inconvenient and/or unintuitive. While I have my own opinions about whether you should be trying to modify STL files in the first place, I have found myself doing it from time to time because of the nature of the #3dprinting file-sharing ecosystem.
That said, even though I don’t particularly find the process of conversion to be particularly difficult, I decided to try and help FreeCAD users perform all of the operations with one click.
You can download my macro here: https://codeberg.org/chrishuck/Mesh_to_Solid
Import a mesh, select it, and run the macro. There are some options you can choose from, mostly for clean-up. I turned them on by default because I figured most people would just want to see the final object at the end.
Let me know if there are any issues or if you find it useful.
#DoingBetterTogether