I can't imagine the number of hours you have spent to refine your skills with this program. FreeCAD is growing exponentially in complexity which is a double edged sword. It's far more capable now but the learning cure is also steeper for newbies.
Freecad is a very flexible tool, though it has certain rules and boundaries it's created in such a way you can have freedom to integrate and use these tools in endless ways. You can make it as complex or as "simple" (I say that very loosely) as you like. There are a hundred and one ways of doing one thing. And this is where the boundary to master such a tool lies. Worth flexibility can come complexity. I find if I explore multiple ways I can come up with solutions that shortcut complex tasks for a totally different subject. For me it's all about seeing modelling in a different way. That's the fun part 😊. But I don't want to keep this knowledge to myself so I share that knowledge with everyone. And I am beginning to see that there are certain basics that I need to cover and I am looking at creating something as we speak that will turbo charge the beginner experience. It's totally unique to anything out there. It's in the pipe line... And there will also be a book! 😁😁
This is by far the best video on making boat hulls I have ever seen for FreeCAD. I haven't got home to try it yet, but I can't wait! THANK YOU DARREN! Know I know why I am subscribed and donate $6 a month to your Patreon!
You must let me know how you get on! So glad I can help out, really appreciate your support as a patreon. Makes it so much easier keeping this channel going with supporters like your self :)
I am going to 3D print me an RC boat from plans taken off of Pinterest. I wasn't having any luck making a hollow hull. The trick is the OFFSET. I kept trying to use the THICKEN face, and it wouldn't work. The trick is make 2 solids and then Boolean subtract one from the other. GENIUS!
When you cut the interior from the exterior, you used a small offset to avoid the skin being left on top. Rather than offset, which might create weird geometry (not important for this, but I can imagine projects where it would matter a lot), would it not have been preferable to extrude the top edge of the interior upwards before the cut? That is, in general you've gone to the effort of making your interior shape exactly correct, so you don't want to move it. For example, let's say you are designing a part which will be injection moulded, and it needs to have a consistent skin thickness. If you've designed inner and outer shells to leave precisely that skin thickness between them, and then offset the inner shell, the part will be thicker on the bottom than on the sides.
really good stuff dude, you are awesome. I want to make a Matthias Pliessnig style bench and sculpture. steam bending wood around complex 3d curved structure. Really like your tutorials awesome
Thank you glad your enjoying. Just had a look at the designs by Matthias Pliessnig. 5 second initial thoughts, Curves workbench with ISO curves maybe to get an idea of the flow maybe.
@@MangoJellySolutions yes, I used your tutorials from the boat to learn the iso curves. Extruded b-splinte curves and iso curves on curved survaces. Creating ribs to cnc. Really helpful actualy. I am a fan of your work
Hi, nice course. Is it possible to simply move the origin in FreeCAD ? Or, alternately edit keel mergin pointon origin , remove the attachement to the origin, then attach the middle of the deck to the origin ?
I’m doing exactly as you following along. At 8:08 you symmetrical constraint and works. I do it and I get redundant restraints and it turns orange. Any ideas?
Select the sketch to move - then to copy and paste. I have Freecad 0.20. 2. The last dot selected prior to selecting and click copy is not selected to paste - The same dot to copy/move is selected by the program even if the selection is made by dragging up/down - left right or by clicking on a dot after selection. Could you show which version is being used?
The geometry points are always slightly off. I can't find a way to line them up, or rather, create a coincidence constraint between points on tangent sketches. But luckily the curved array workbench doesn't care about that. This trick works wonders, thank you so much for making this video!!
This Video and the Curved Shapes Workbench opened up a whole world of possibilities Beginners: TAKE NOTES.. I have over 5 pages of notes on this video alone...
Hi, Very interesting example but I have a question. It.s not easier to use Thickness / Shell (from other software) from Part design? I tried, after I created a clone, applied directly on the solid it's not working and I don't know why... Thank you
Very interesting. How do you continue construction to obtain a whole boat? The end in the middle is annoying; it can be avoided if the inner section is moved slightly.😁
You could change the hull curves to what shape you like. Things like cabins could be done as a seperate body and assembled together, or you could union straight on top, or pull into part design as a bar feature. Yep I have made a boat with a pretty fat back side lol
In a matter of fact they are a compound so you can use part workbench and explode compounds into individual objects. You can even explode the curved shape array if you just want the individual sketches.
Sketcher Copy doesn't exist in the latest version of Freecad/Ondsel... you're suppose to use Sketcher Translate instead but when I use it and move the sketch down, it doesn't change anything when I close the sketch. Edit: OK I guess it worked I just need to constrain the object after moving it...
@MangoJellySolutions Thanks for the great work on your tutorials. I abandoned Freecad after trying 0.1 and later revisiting 0.2 as I find the user interface just too confusing. At the time I was working on SolidWorks and Fusion 360 and just couldn't afford the time to figure it out without proper documentation and tutorials. When I had some time on hand recently I stumbled on your channel and found your videos very informative and helpful. When I saw this video I really wanted to work through it and with RC1 now available, I gave it a go. As I wanted to try everything in your tutorial, I also followed your "mistake" to place the sketch too high and then copy it lower using the sketcher copy command. This is where it became interesting as the copy command was not available, so I saved the file and opened it with 0.21 and the command was there. So it would be interesting to know if they left it out in RC1 and if so, if there is another way to do the same operation. Of course it's better to do the job correctly rather then fixing your mistakes later, but we all know that's a dream 🤪. Another interesting thing I picked up is that the arrays didn't immediately populate and that sent me down a rabbit hole trying to fix something that wasn't wrong, only to find that it only populated after changing the number of items in the array. this was the same for both versions, which I tried on Ubuntu that I run on en external USB hard drive. The reason for that is that I'm currently still running everything on Win 11 Pro and until I'm happy that I can run my little business entirely on Ubuntu with open source software without glitches, I still need to have my computer intact. I therefore suspect that there may be performance issues that cause the problems I experienced, so I'll also revisit RC1 on my Windows computer to ensure it's not related to the environment and possibly driver issues. In the meantime, thanks for your excellent videos and please keep up the great work. Lastly, your videos opened up Freecad as a real potential replacement for some of the work I do and the add-ons are very good especially this one as it saves a massive amount of time on the bulkheads when you design boats, which interestingly is a hobby of mine and hopefully I can still design a nice yacht before I die. After doing some searching, I found that I could change the preference in the Mesh Workbench making the paragraph that follows in brackets a non-existent issue (One other shortcoming I found is the quality if the STL and OBJ files that I export. With the other software I use, I can change the detail and quality when I save the files whereas with Freecad I noticed the round surfaces have flat areas. This means I have to smooth it in Blender before 3d printing which is a lot of extra work and not accurate. I noticed there's a third-party add-on that claims to rectify this, so I'll give it a try. Issue solved) Other than that, I'm really impressed what the team have achieved with this project and hope to soon say goodbye to Windows and the rest of the overpriced software offerings that don't allow small businesses opportunities to start off without borrowing money to get up and going. Once I make money, I would like to use all my subscription money to fund open source and channels like yours to change the world we live in. I am now committed to do at least some projects in FreeCad and as time progresses, I hope that I can change over completely.
Nice tutorial! I learned several things that will improve my models. If you get a chance to cover rendering - especially if you use Linux, that would be awesome.
I'm concerned this method doesn't produce uniform thickness in the hull. If you're having to move an the interior object that will be subtracted 0.5 to get it to work, wouldn't the hull then have thicker regions. Is this method to try to get around our low quality shelling tool, which hardly ever works on any organic shape? Do we have a thickness check tool in FreeCAD?
"i close with the line, hit close, nothing happens ..." really sad, one curve, try to close it and there it stops. when i check the offset, there is no line, freecad cant see the line that closes the curve, .. whats going on? I do exact the same. Using 0.21.1
Don't worry it does cause confusion as you can use it in other workbenches. The body from the part design is designed for a part design workflow (and sometimes used in assembly wb). The body's main purpose is to hold a origin that you can attach your elements such as sketches and Datum planes to. If you open it up in the treeview you will see the different axis and planes within which can be attached to. So it acts as a moveable anchor / 3d canvas in 3d space to hang geometry. Think of it as a frame work.
I can't imagine the number of hours you have spent to refine your skills with this program. FreeCAD is growing exponentially in complexity which is a double edged sword. It's far more capable now but the learning cure is also steeper for newbies.
Freecad is a very flexible tool, though it has certain rules and boundaries it's created in such a way you can have freedom to integrate and use these tools in endless ways. You can make it as complex or as "simple" (I say that very loosely) as you like. There are a hundred and one ways of doing one thing. And this is where the boundary to master such a tool lies. Worth flexibility can come complexity.
I find if I explore multiple ways I can come up with solutions that shortcut complex tasks for a totally different subject. For me it's all about seeing modelling in a different way. That's the fun part 😊. But I don't want to keep this knowledge to myself so I share that knowledge with everyone. And I am beginning to see that there are certain basics that I need to cover and I am looking at creating something as we speak that will turbo charge the beginner experience. It's totally unique to anything out there. It's in the pipe line... And there will also be a book! 😁😁
Thank you very much for your awesome tutorials
Thank you, glad your enjoying them.
This is by far the best video on making boat hulls I have ever seen for FreeCAD.
I haven't got home to try it yet, but I can't wait! THANK YOU DARREN! Know I know why I am subscribed and donate $6 a month to your Patreon!
You must let me know how you get on! So glad I can help out, really appreciate your support as a patreon. Makes it so much easier keeping this channel going with supporters like your self :)
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OMG ....... in the piont !!!!
I must admit you would be an amazing teacher! I'm improving dramatically my proficiency on FreeCAD thanks to your videos! Thanks!
That's so cool to hear, thank you. Glad these are helping.
Made it. Great learning for me. Thank you 🙂
Awesome lesson! Thanks so much! It's a perfect compliment to your Helicopter Canopy lesson.
Great to hear, so pleased you enjoyed. 😊
Well done! Thank you.
complimenti per il video una bella lezione👏
Obrigado, por compartilhar, seu conhecimento com este planeta. És fabuloso e muito anos de luz.🙏
You're the best 😁
😁😁😁😁👍👍👍
I am going to 3D print me an RC boat from plans taken off of Pinterest. I wasn't having any luck making a hollow hull. The trick is the OFFSET. I kept trying to use the THICKEN face, and it wouldn't work. The trick is make 2 solids and then Boolean subtract one from the other. GENIUS!
I have been meaning to do this video for such a long time and so pleased it's already helped someone. :) :)
Very good!
Thanks!
Soo wonderfull. brave❤❤❤💥💫
thanks. How complicated can/must those internal calculations be of freecad... wow.
Thank You
You're welcome
When you cut the interior from the exterior, you used a small offset to avoid the skin being left on top. Rather than offset, which might create weird geometry (not important for this, but I can imagine projects where it would matter a lot), would it not have been preferable to extrude the top edge of the interior upwards before the cut? That is, in general you've gone to the effort of making your interior shape exactly correct, so you don't want to move it. For example, let's say you are designing a part which will be injection moulded, and it needs to have a consistent skin thickness. If you've designed inner and outer shells to leave precisely that skin thickness between them, and then offset the inner shell, the part will be thicker on the bottom than on the sides.
really good stuff dude, you are awesome. I want to make a Matthias Pliessnig style bench and sculpture. steam bending wood around complex 3d curved structure. Really like your tutorials awesome
Thank you glad your enjoying. Just had a look at the designs by Matthias Pliessnig. 5 second initial thoughts, Curves workbench with ISO curves maybe to get an idea of the flow maybe.
@@MangoJellySolutions yes, I used your tutorials from the boat to learn the iso curves. Extruded b-splinte curves and iso curves on curved survaces. Creating ribs to cnc. Really helpful actualy. I am a fan of your work
Hi, nice course. Is it possible to simply move the origin in FreeCAD ? Or, alternately edit keel mergin pointon origin , remove the attachement to the origin, then attach the middle of the deck to the origin ?
I’m doing exactly as you following along. At 8:08 you symmetrical constraint and works. I do it and I get redundant restraints and it turns orange. Any ideas?
Sir, One thing I wanna ask you. Do low generation motherboard and processor affects while doing designing?
Select the sketch to move - then to copy and paste. I have Freecad 0.20. 2. The last dot selected prior to selecting and click copy is not selected to paste - The same dot to copy/move is selected by the program even if the selection is made by dragging up/down - left right or by clicking on a dot after selection.
Could you show which version is being used?
The geometry points are always slightly off. I can't find a way to line them up, or rather, create a coincidence constraint between points on tangent sketches. But luckily the curved array workbench doesn't care about that. This trick works wonders, thank you so much for making this video!!
This Video and the Curved Shapes Workbench opened up a whole world of possibilities
Beginners: TAKE NOTES.. I have over 5 pages of notes on this video alone...
Hi, Very interesting example but I have a question. It.s not easier to use Thickness / Shell (from other software) from Part design? I tried, after I created a clone, applied directly on the solid it's not working and I don't know why... Thank you
Very interesting. How do you continue construction to obtain a whole boat? The end in the middle is annoying; it can be avoided if the inner section is moved slightly.😁
You could change the hull curves to what shape you like. Things like cabins could be done as a seperate body and assembled together, or you could union straight on top, or pull into part design as a bar feature. Yep I have made a boat with a pretty fat back side lol
HUGE ! you probably can't use any of the individual arrays to do something with, there just a path ?
In a matter of fact they are a compound so you can use part workbench and explode compounds into individual objects. You can even explode the curved shape array if you just want the individual sketches.
@@MangoJellySolutions
Sketcher Copy doesn't exist in the latest version of Freecad/Ondsel... you're suppose to use Sketcher Translate instead but when I use it and move the sketch down, it doesn't change anything when I close the sketch.
Edit: OK I guess it worked I just need to constrain the object after moving it...
Please could you model a toroidal propeller for a boat like the sharrow propeller. Thanks,
:-)
Now that's an interesting request. Yes I will look into it. 😊😊😊
what kind of workbench is best to make watches in FREECAD ? or i do not need workbench to build a watch ?
Standard part design would be enough. Here's a good start th-cam.com/video/ATKsJsxiQWE/w-d-xo.html
I can draw a boat and and use the curved shapes workbench which is great but I can't make it solid! I don't know why! help?
@MangoJellySolutions Thanks for the great work on your tutorials. I abandoned Freecad after trying 0.1 and later revisiting 0.2 as I find the user interface just too confusing. At the time I was working on SolidWorks and Fusion 360 and just couldn't afford the time to figure it out without proper documentation and tutorials. When I had some time on hand recently I stumbled on your channel and found your videos very informative and helpful. When I saw this video I really wanted to work through it and with RC1 now available, I gave it a go. As I wanted to try everything in your tutorial, I also followed your "mistake" to place the sketch too high and then copy it lower using the sketcher copy command. This is where it became interesting as the copy command was not available, so I saved the file and opened it with 0.21 and the command was there. So it would be interesting to know if they left it out in RC1 and if so, if there is another way to do the same operation. Of course it's better to do the job correctly rather then fixing your mistakes later, but we all know that's a dream 🤪.
Another interesting thing I picked up is that the arrays didn't immediately populate and that sent me down a rabbit hole trying to fix something that wasn't wrong, only to find that it only populated after changing the number of items in the array. this was the same for both versions, which I tried on Ubuntu that I run on en external USB hard drive. The reason for that is that I'm currently still running everything on Win 11 Pro and until I'm happy that I can run my little business entirely on Ubuntu with open source software without glitches, I still need to have my computer intact. I therefore suspect that there may be performance issues that cause the problems I experienced, so I'll also revisit RC1 on my Windows computer to ensure it's not related to the environment and possibly driver issues. In the meantime, thanks for your excellent videos and please keep up the great work.
Lastly, your videos opened up Freecad as a real potential replacement for some of the work I do and the add-ons are very good especially this one as it saves a massive amount of time on the bulkheads when you design boats, which interestingly is a hobby of mine and hopefully I can still design a nice yacht before I die.
After doing some searching, I found that I could change the preference in the Mesh Workbench making the paragraph that follows in brackets a non-existent issue (One other shortcoming I found is the quality if the STL and OBJ files that I export. With the other software I use, I can change the detail and quality when I save the files whereas with Freecad I noticed the round surfaces have flat areas. This means I have to smooth it in Blender before 3d printing which is a lot of extra work and not accurate. I noticed there's a third-party add-on that claims to rectify this, so I'll give it a try. Issue solved)
Other than that, I'm really impressed what the team have achieved with this project and hope to soon say goodbye to Windows and the rest of the overpriced software offerings that don't allow small businesses opportunities to start off without borrowing money to get up and going. Once I make money, I would like to use all my subscription money to fund open source and channels like yours to change the world we live in. I am now committed to do at least some projects in FreeCad and as time progresses, I hope that I can change over completely.
Nice tutorial! I learned several things that will improve my models. If you get a chance to cover rendering - especially if you use Linux, that would be awesome.
I'm concerned this method doesn't produce uniform thickness in the hull. If you're having to move an the interior object that will be subtracted 0.5 to get it to work, wouldn't the hull then have thicker regions. Is this method to try to get around our low quality shelling tool, which hardly ever works on any organic shape? Do we have a thickness check tool in FreeCAD?
I believe the move trick would work even if you set it to 0.001 so the effect would be very minimal.
"i close with the line, hit close, nothing happens ..." really sad, one curve, try to close it and there it stops. when i check the offset, there is no line, freecad cant see the line that closes the curve, .. whats going on? I do exact the same. Using 0.21.1
i close with the line, hit close, nothing happens ...
I know its fundamental but after years I still dont get when you have to create "body" or not. Miss the old days when there was no "body"
Don't worry it does cause confusion as you can use it in other workbenches. The body from the part design is designed for a part design workflow (and sometimes used in assembly wb). The body's main purpose is to hold a origin that you can attach your elements such as sketches and Datum planes to. If you open it up in the treeview you will see the different axis and planes within which can be attached to. So it acts as a moveable anchor / 3d canvas in 3d space to hang geometry. Think of it as a frame work.
Sir, One thing I wanna ask you. Do low generation motherboard and processor affects while doing designing?