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Brilliant video, really enjoyed! Had to try my self in freecad. The hexasphere was the hardest to replicate. But once completed, I understood how the shape actually look. For 3D-printing splitting the model in two identical halves one discover that the modeling could actually be done by just doing 2 180 degrees revolves. Anyway, thanks for the video, love your channel! Cheers from Norway, FreeCAD lover.

Amazing, thank you 8 yrs later! 😊

Thanks for the tutorial. It was very helpful. :) BTW: For me the clone button (at 2:29:37) looks like a sheep. I think it refers to Dolly, the first ever cloned animal. Which was actually a sheep cloned in the year 1996.

As an absolute beginner, this is easily the best way to learn FreeCAD! Great job, and I look forward to making things!

As usual, just what I needed. I'm mounting a portable air conditioner in my van conversion for summer travel, and needed to both replicate the exit air duct that attaches to the unit, but also create a custom set of interlocking sections of "piping" down to the hole in the floor I will vent out through which I will insulate on the outside, as well as a custom pass through there that the pipe attaches to, and that attaches to the flooring and has a screen mounted inside to keep critters from wandering in. All will be custom designed. Learning FreeCAD has given me the freedom to invent at will with my 3D printer and I have more ideas than the time to spend on them with other things going on all the time! I can highly recommend it to any hobbyist with a 3D printer. They may find, as I did, that getting the basics under your fingers and THEN setting a goal to create a pretty complex part will PUSH you over the edge of confidence with it. My goal part was a "cart" for a window actuator in a motorized car window: the part that rides up and down in the curved track, which the steel cables pull up and down (with the window attached) to open and close the window. These are somewhat a "planned obsolescence designed part" as they will break after years of use. Creating it involved two Boolean cuts (one for the curved shape of the track it had to smoothly ride which I think was something like a 5' radius curve!) as well as precise internal cavities for the cables to mount into at the right tension with their springs. Along the way, I learned to do test prints on just a cut down portion of the model to save time and filament to check fit both for the track and the window "pin" that holds it. Works perfectly in my son's car, and now I have a model I can print, or mirror to print for any of the 4 windows! Quite a feeling of empowerment. So far, PETG is holding up fine in the car, but I have ABS and ASA I can reprint in if I deem it failed from heat exhaustion. My best CAD friend is a $3 plastic caliper from Harbor Freight, actually two of them: one in the garage, and one at my computer. I have a battery one that's more precise, but I find unless I'm doing absolute minute precision, and with some experience knowing how filament will expand slightly in your prints, I get all the precision I need and don't have to worry about batteries. Once you "think" in CAD terms looking at or imagining any new object (pad here, pocket here, etc.) it really opens up a whole new world and your channel is on my short list to plug any knowledge gaps...

If you hit the M key 12 times, you can find a great song on RUclips.

Thank you very much 9 years later!! :))

Press F to pay respect and press M for funky slinky lines in FreeCAD.

It's not installing on my end... I'm using FreeCAD 0.21.2 version

Tnx. Can you do "4X basic{9.0}"? I hope someone from the developers community of FreeCAD or Ondsel will recognise the need to make the GD&T tolerancing easier: I think we should not need to give it separately. And converting the bubble to feature is a hassle if you need to give lots of them.

Nice tutorial but I can not create the datums plans... I tried many times doing a simple square with the sketch. my points are in line together. I selected the same exact plan all along the video to see if I had make mistakes. but my datum plan doesn't move from the origine when I select my point... any idea? thanks

it's the use of dead-english romantic-prose "heighth" that really drags it down, coming in close second is the out of touch and forced laughter at things that have zero humor. otherwise a pretty good intro to the tooling, even if the narration has a tendency to grind the ears. but as they say "i'm an engineer, not an english major."

The best beginner tutorial I've seen. Very easy to follow. Thanks!

Excellent! Thank you. Is there a way to reference a previously, automatically-defined constraint (e.g.: Constraint12) in the definition of a second constraint. (without defining a "spreadsheet")? I'm looking for something like: "=Constraints.Constraint12 + 2mm". Blessings.

Exceptionally good tutorial video. Nobody covers it all, but the author here covers as close to everything as anyone else- and you will not need much more than this to enable you to become PROFICIENT with FreeCAD in short order. FreeCAD is very quirky/strange, even downright annoying at times. I am a 56 year old man who has done my share of 2D work in Autocad as well as high end 3D simulation work- but that was all in the past. I have a current and serious need to do some real CAD work, and I did not think it would take me too long to get up and running on another CAD package, but I was wrong. After many days of reviewing the CAD options out there, I decided FreeCAD was the best option for me- mostly for all it can do, but also for the confidentiality of what I am working on. Any program that needs a connection to the Internet is NOT an option. Many of you have heard that FreeCAD has a steep learning curve compared to other packages out there, and those comments are TRUE. Take the time you need and carefully soak in this whole Tutorial, and it will end up being about the fastest way to get you "over the knee" relative to learning what you need to learn. Thanks for a job well done.

Thank you very much for presenting the basics of magic FreeCAD. Long video, lot of ads, but worth watching. I'm new to FreeCAD. 👌👍

At 4:05 you make two lines colinear but how does SW know to bring the left line up? What if you wanted to bring the right line down?

using inches is disgusting

7:23 how do you make the body inside the frame disappear?

Who knew that a video from 6 years ago could save my life.

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

Awesome man! Thanks a lot!

I checked the result of the surface created by this tool in the ziess inspection software. There was about 6 mm difference in accuracy between actual stl file and the the surface created by this tool. Is there any tool in freecad which could generate accurate surface on stl file?

Helpfull

Can you make a similar sort of a video for gear couplings? For instance, curved tooth coupling.

You hold ctrl and select the points to pierce! For anyone really new like me wondering why nothing is working.

Very well explained. Subscribed!

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Thanks for your man

Excellent tutorial, learned a ton about good practices and useful tools in FreeCAD

We can't see properly

I cant stand this software. Maybe i dont have enough brain cells but whatever.

This was incredibly useful. I'm just curious though, why did you keep standing on the body? And why don't you use a shovel to hide the body? Seems like it'd be quicker than using a space bar.

The biggest thing holding FreeCad back I think, at least this is the case for myself, is how insanely easy it is to break models. I created a bracket model, it worked great, even 3D printed it, no issues, right up until I went back and tried to make one change to the size of a chamfer, now the entire model is broken and I have no idea how to fix it.

2024 april 20. FYI1. 1:08:53 Version 0.21.2 Arc tool of FreeCad is not able to close the ring. "Sections must be all closed or all open". I stuck in this for several days. I learned a lot at that time but you better know "it is not your fault". At 1:24:40 V0.21.2 Ortographic view mouse hover does not every time show the chance to link an external geometry. 2:16:14 Hotkeys have changed. Distances are i, L and kd. Hotkeys can be lower case.

Really Great video ! Wondering how we set up the tool bars to look like the ones you use. My download of FreeCad isn't showing most of the sketch tools you have showing, might take some time to customize, is there a simple way to set it up ?

Left ear left the chat...

I'm new to CAD other than TinkerCad which I've been using for a few years now. I've been making my own designs with TinkerCad for use with my 3d printer but I've outgrown the limited functionality that it offers and have been working with FreeCad for about a month now. I have to say that the single best tip I've found is where you show how to use the "Make A Thick Solid" button...I had no idea! That is a huge game changer for me. Thank you!

Is there any way to show the insertion dashed lines as _dashed_ in techdraw? I've tried by inserting them directly from the Exploded Assembly's objects but they get inserted as continuous lines, which is definetely not quite good.

Really cool, interview. Enjoyable, and heartwarming to see that there are people who give back to the community and use engineering to make a positive change for the youth. Even if they don't go on to become engineers all of them. Really nice to watch!

Enjoyed the interview very much. Thank you for sharing.

This video was very helpful thank you

Impressed! Can you mirror sheet metal features?

I rate this tutorial about 4/5. It's genuinely good! But frustratingly, all it needs to be great is to pay a bit more attention to making sure the information your student is getting is complete and consistent. Example of incompleteness: you dive into creating a sketch, but you don't explain what a sketch IS. So you're drawing all these pretty shapes on screen, but that'd make a lot more sense if you'd taken fifteen seconds to explain: look, a sketch is a 2-D drawing that you'll use as the basis for a 3-D shape; here's an example sketch and a 3-D object you could make from it, okay now let's look at the basics of sketching. Example of incompleteness: around 18:16, you're pointing out a horizontal constraint, but then FreeCAD chooses a contingent constraint, and you just carry on talking as if it was a horizontal constraint. That's confusing, dude! This is my third FreeCAD tutorial so now I understand what's going on, but when I was an absolute beginner, and FreeCAD was deeply confusing to me, even minor glitches like this could make a tutorial much harder to navigate. THAT SAID: I'm 20 minutes in now, but it's clear to me that this is going to be a valuable resource, and I'm enthusiastic about what I'm going to learn in the next 2+ hours. Thank you for the considerable time and effort that must have gone into making this!

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This view is extremely leggy. Hard to work with. I need to disable the automatic view update to be able to work on it. It has trouble to hide or not to include overlapping lines. I have a simple 2x40 THT pin header and from the side view instead of 1 line it draws 80 lines on top of each other. This creates lag.

Imperial decimal is standard in 3d modeling? Last time I have checked the whole world except a handful of countries is using metric system 🤷‍♂️🤔 ... Other than that excellent tutorial, thank you for taking the time to share your knowledge with us 👌🏻👍🏻

You can loft a tube with inner and outer sketches for variable profiles and thicknesses. I made a tube with various cross sections and puzzled for many hours on why the inner and outer lofts were crossing over from inner to outer in some parts. Eventually I found freecad does not loft according to inner or outer sketches but according to the order that you created the inner and an outer in one sketch.