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Glad you like it!

Hi, don't be afraid to experiment. They have nice descriptions for all controls. I like gesture and it will probably be closest to fusion

Thanks! In the sense that STEP files do not contain parameters - yes, they are not parametric. In the sense that they can be used in parametric CAD software as is with no modifications while edges, faces and vertices are valid geometry - lets say they are parametric cad compatible.

Hey, don't be discouraged. Part design workbench lists multiple bodies as experimental feature. So it is expected that there would not be a lot of features around this new capability. Give it some time

Hey, I designed that part with center to be on origin. It retains that relationship to coordinates. Otherwise you would need to measure your part and figure out center on your own to put it on origin

Thanks!

You got me 😅

Thank you!

Yeah, use what suits you best 👍. Just one note - Blender is not CAD, but it has cad sketcher addon

While I see your point, I do not believe that anyone who went through engineering school would struggle with FreeCAD. It utilizes classic and strict modeling approach most major CAD packages were built around. This approach is taught in engineering schools and is transferable between CAD packages. While major players evolved and became more approachable, FreeCAD learning curve is still steep. I see general public struggle with FreeCAD while engineers do truly amazing stuff with it.

@RoadSideMaker yees i also get what you mean. But the main advantage i see of this software being taught, or at least mentioned in engineering schools, is from a marketing point of view. Most of my collegues don't even know this software exists! Why do schools have to market comercial solutions (solidworks in my case), for free, instead of this amazing project? It would help bring a lot more people into freecad and i bet lots of students would contribute to it. And universities should adopt freecad, or at least mention it from my point of view. From a technical POV, i agree that it really isn't that diferent and knowledge can be transfered from almost any CAD package to freecad. Thank you for the video btw!

You are welcome! I look at this situation this way - universities main obligation is to prepare you for the job market. Solidworks holds the biggest piece of the market. So there is likelihood that majority of job offers will require Solidworks experience and one is more likely to be accepted if experience of Solidworks or even CSWA is present.

Hey, it was not announced yet. I do not see any blockers on GitHub, they are ironing out bugs right now. Hopefully we see the release this year.

Yeah, hope they are able to release stable soon. They had only one blocker last week.

I have Ondsel installed but haven't used it extensively. Only thing different is that it has glass ui enabled buy default (Model tree "floating" in viewport and not in separate panel) Ondsel team actively pushed functionality to FreeCAD main. So I really do not see difference between these versions. However, Ondsel announced that they are closing the business. They were not successful in establishing sustainable paying customer base for the Lens product. Unfortunate as they helped FreeCAD a lot (Refreshed sketcher and assembly workbench to name a few)

@@RoadSideMaker Thank you. I just liked the default look of Ondsel a lot better than FreeCADs (different color scheme, buttons instead of tabs, grid enabled by default, nicer toolbar-handles and -arrangement, tasks on the right etc). I didn't know they'll shut down 😟

Yeah, but they told that now former employees will continue to contribute to FreeCAD main

Great points, thank you!

Thank you and noted!

Thank you very much!

Personal preferences on what should be default can vary a lot. Automatic feature refinement was not enabled by default prior to this version - now it is, i find it sensible. Tab bar is new feature, so it is understandable to not be enabled by default. On the other hand, new auto dimensioning and auto horizontal/vertical tools in sketchers are rightfully enabled by default. To sum up - I believe that current defaults are sensible enough. Some minor tweaks and you are off to the races

Yes, it will

Yeah, FreeCAD is very customizable, make it your own

I like to disable "exit sketch with esc" so that i can press esc to unselect tools.. for some reason I haven't gotten used to doing it by right-clicking.

@@jpa3141 Good point!

I need to do this!! I back out of sketches accidentally so often.

I will try it as well

8:30 BIG THX because i use the lines and I like to refine my self, you earned your like

Thank you very much!

Not sure what object you are referring to. When converting STL it goes through folowing classes - Mesh > Shape > Shape (refined) > Solid. Can you point a timecode maybe?

Sorry, I was confused, I did not mean obecjt, but solid ​@@RoadSideMaker

And there are a few explanations in FreeCAD wiki about the principles of solids construction actually. It is surely hard to find fine answers, looking for irrelevant questions😅

You are welcome, glad I could help

You are welcome!

You're welcome!

Thank you! In the new FreeCAD 1.0 RC2 it is build in. Just go to Edit>Preferences>Workbenches and in the bottom there is an option called Workbench selector type and select "TabBar"

Thank you!

Thank you for watching!

Thank you!

Thank you. You have two options - if using CAD, then use the ST as a reference and trace sketches around it rebuilding the part. Second option is to take mesh modification software like Meshmixer (it is free) or Blender. The helmet was created, most likely, not in CAD as it contains many organic forms.

@@RoadSideMaker Ya I was afraid of that, I did take it into blender, I'm just not patient enough or skilled enough to go thru all of the thousands of individual faces and points and edges it would take to repair just that section.

I am sure that there should be tools to move bigger parts of the model, not just individual points and faces. Like brush or something

@@RoadSideMaker I tried but the only pushes the two different faces into each other and wont merge them. I guess I'm just gonna have to go thru and merge the points and faces individually to get to what I want. I'm really a noob when it comes to this kind of stuff.

Sorry couldn't be more of help. You can try Meshmixer, it is free. Maybe you find luck there

Agreed, problem is historically most 3D models made in parametric CAD and shared are in mesh format. That makes it harder to modify than it has to. Hope STEP gets more adoption and becomes standard.

@RoadSideMaker ideally it should be combination of 3mf and step in single format, hope at some point we will get file format like that. technically 3mf is an archive, so we just replace mesh with step and done

It would be helpful, however 3mf is mesh by design. Improved precision mesh, but still a mesh. I don't believe you can just replace step, unfortunately

Thank you!

Glad it was helpful!

Great suggestion, I will look into it

Thank you. You should determine where you want to place the origin. Than use measure tool to determine necessary offset. Then use Transform tool to set the necessary location

Thank you!

Thank you!

Thank you and you are welcome!

You are welcome, image appearing under red light is always like a magic to me :)

Hey, it is not the greatest design. As mentioned, I would redesign it first and then I will publish it. Take a look on Printables, there are several holders available.

@@RoadSideMaker what's the keyword in printable, i just want a similar model to do the practice.

Try "Ilford Multigrade"

@@RoadSideMaker what about the keyword of model shown in 6' of the video

@@cnz-u5x It is a focusing screen spring for 4x5 camera. You can find similar design here (back side, brown color) www.printables.com/model/250649-4x5-large-format-camera

Thank you! STEP is already parametric part file. 10:50 I am adding the defeatured model into Part Design Body and modifying it afterwards

Thank you and you are welcome!

Yes please

Would love to see that video! And thanks for this one, most helpfull.

Thank you! Much appreciated

Thank you for the kind words!

Hye, thank you! I default to Alibre for stability and top down assemblies. I use FreeCAD when I need Fasteners (great workbench), multi body booleans in Part wb (not used to Alibre Booleans yet) and FEM.

Hey, you can, can't see why not. I am trying to focus on the workflow, so the models are arbitrary. Meaning it is not a tutorial for a box 🙂

Nice