Two small tips: 1) Go to Preferences->Display and increase "Marker size" and "Pick radius" from the default value of 5 pixels. I have mine set and 15 which gets rid of the pixel hunting when you want to select a point/line/whatever. 2) Just press Esc to finish a sketch, you don't need to switch back to the task view for this.
Thanks for the great tips! I try to stay away from using the keyboard as much as possible so that people watching will know what I am doing. When I started, it was a point of frustration when watching other tutorials. I like to switch between the panels so that people know they are there, and understand they can access the model tree while in the sketcher. I really appreciate your feedback, thanks for watching!
@@GeckoCycles I recently download a program that will display the keyboard shortcut when I press the keys. This is awesome feedback, thank you so much!
I'm brand new to cad, i came across your videos through random chance, so far they have been very help full (ive done this series and the first of the live stream ones so far) thanks for sharing
Amazing video !. Every time I see a new feature on this program, I am more and more surprised !. This was awsome and you, mister, are a *real Master* in this field !. No question about that. Thank a lot from Santiago de Chile, South America. This is John. Greetings.
Brilliant! Coming from Fusion 360, this video helped with the different ways of doing things. In Fusion you can use parts of a sketch to extrude etc., a master sketch in FreeCAD kind of gives the same functionality as that.
You could add another sketch on XZ for all the padding and pocket dimensions, name the constraints and use these for the length of pad/pocket .. that way you have 2 sketches which you need to update and everything else changes accordingly. You would eliminate a few 'magic numbers' from your design this way.
You sure can. The great thing about 3D modeling is that there is more than 1 way to almost everything. Find what techniques work for you, and stick with them. Thank you for the input!
Me being a newbie learned a lot from this set of tutorials. Thanks a lot and I look forward to more of your excellent videos. Before my retirement I worked in Pro-E and SolidWorks for a number of years. The master sketch is something I never used. Great Job!
Glad you like it! There are a lot of ways you can model, some are better than others. I've tried a few approaches, and this is my favorite. I'm not saying it's the best, and it gets more difficult to implement the more complicated your model is, but it works well for simple stuff, and it makes very stable models that don't break when. Your change your constraints. Thank you for the feedback!
@@FPVBuilders Yeah, I like good quality videos which gives me new ideas. Currently I am transitioning from Fusion 360 to Freecad. With help of these videos it will be easily possible for model airplane builders like myself.
Starting over with new software is always very tough. Thx for your help and such clarity. I feel I am almost starting from scratch in cad/cam again and you really helping me and my son. He IS making his own drown. He has 2 3d printers now.
My Pleasure! Tell him to join FPV Builders on Facebook! We have a lot of great people with TONS of experience that will help him every step of the way!
Nice tutorial. As a 2D drafter moving to 3D the master sketch was an insight to a tool to drive the 3D model. I know you can name key dimensions and use spreadsheet to populate them. That would a great next step perhaps? Even if one was not intending to make several model sizes, for 3D printing, the 'fit' dimensions sometimes need tweaking to accommodate nozzle size or squish from the 3D printer.
@@FPVBuilders Your way of solving the problem is simply brilliant, unusual but brilliant. This ingenuity for technical CAD drawings is remarkable. On the one hand, I intend to apply a PPA to the USPTO. For this I need CAD drawings for my ideas and, on the other hand, someone with good English skills for negotiations and other things. If you are interested in a cooperation (team) here is my e_mail: stojanovik69@gmail.com
Excellent video. I've been learning Freecad since the big crippling event with Fusion 360 a few months back. It's videos like this that really help newcomers come up to speed quickly. Please keep them coming! Cheers from Canada
You don't have to hide the body every time you want to make a new sketch. You can use the "Switch between section and full view" button to hide everything obstructing your sketch (3rd row, 5th from the left in your sketch view)
I don't think so. I changed a lot of the dimensions and was never able to get an error. Topology errors come when you map sketches nto a face instead if a base plane or datum plane. Let me know if you are able to get it to break.
Great video! I learned a LOT! But I have one problem -- when you select points, you get an exact point. For example, with drawing a line on a fully constrained view, when I start to draw a line starting on a known point, it not the exact point I selected. This is consistent however carefully I try. If I move the line, the point is NOT the point I think I selected but a new point close to, but not the exact correct point. I have to separate the points and use the concentric point constraint tool. Have I got a wrong preference setting? I can't find any reference in the wiki etc. possibly because I don't know the term for this function.
Try this: Edit>>preferences -- Click the display icon on the left of the preferences window. In the 3D view tab, locate "Marker Size" and increase the size to 13px or 15px. This will make it easier to select pre-existing points to start a line. Also, when selecting a point, make sure the cursor changes color, indicating that the point will be selected. Hope this helps!!
Practical example, importing geometry from one sketch to another is a useful tool. I prefer setting dimensions from a spread sheet so they have names (and become yellow in your sketch). And language-police here, sorry, but the singular of vertices is vertex. I cringe when hearing 'this verticee' as if that is singular.
@@FPVBuilders Thanks for the reply, turns out I was trying to pad multiple solid pieces out of a sketch that doesn't touch each other which isn't allowed.
Two small tips:
1) Go to Preferences->Display and increase "Marker size" and "Pick radius" from the default value of 5 pixels. I have mine set and 15 which gets rid of the pixel hunting when you want to select a point/line/whatever.
2) Just press Esc to finish a sketch, you don't need to switch back to the task view for this.
Thanks for the great tips! I try to stay away from using the keyboard as much as possible so that people watching will know what I am doing. When I started, it was a point of frustration when watching other tutorials. I like to switch between the panels so that people know they are there, and understand they can access the model tree while in the sketcher. I really appreciate your feedback, thanks for watching!
@@FPVBuilders You could also mention the keyboard shortcut at the same time you show the function
@@GeckoCycles I recently download a program that will display the keyboard shortcut when I press the keys. This is awesome feedback, thank you so much!
@@FPVBuilders Sweet! Hope it works out on your next video tomorrow! No pressure. LOL
@@GeckoCycles 😂😂😂 I wish!! One video a week is about the max I can do with my job and kid! But I'm happy to hear you are looking forward to it 😁
I'm brand new to cad, i came across your videos through random chance, so far they have been very help full (ive done this series and the first of the live stream ones so far) thanks for sharing
I'm very happy you are finding them educational!
Amazing video !. Every time I see a new feature on this program, I am more and more surprised !.
This was awsome and you, mister, are a *real Master* in this field !. No question about that.
Thank a lot from Santiago de Chile, South America. This is John. Greetings.
Hi. That was super educative. Thanks a lot.
I am very happy you found it helpful!
Simply Great!!! Give us more pls
Will do! Im glad you enjoyed!
Brilliant! Coming from Fusion 360, this video helped with the different ways of doing things. In Fusion you can use parts of a sketch to extrude etc., a master sketch in FreeCAD kind of gives the same functionality as that.
Really good example! Thanks a lot
Glad you liked it!
You could add another sketch on XZ for all the padding and pocket dimensions, name the constraints and use these for the length of pad/pocket .. that way you have 2 sketches which you need to update and everything else changes accordingly. You would eliminate a few 'magic numbers' from your design this way.
You sure can. The great thing about 3D modeling is that there is more than 1 way to almost everything. Find what techniques work for you, and stick with them. Thank you for the input!
@@FPVBuilders and thank you for the great content!
Me being a newbie learned a lot from this set of tutorials. Thanks a lot and I look forward to more of your excellent videos. Before my retirement I worked in Pro-E and SolidWorks for a number of years. The master sketch is something I never used. Great Job!
Yeah, I think using a master sketch is a great tool. It is harder to implement with complex shapes. But the more you do it, the better you will get.
Good work! Your tutorial has new ways to think in Freecad for me. I would have started with different approach. Keep videos coming!
Glad you like it! There are a lot of ways you can model, some are better than others. I've tried a few approaches, and this is my favorite. I'm not saying it's the best, and it gets more difficult to implement the more complicated your model is, but it works well for simple stuff, and it makes very stable models that don't break when. Your change your constraints. Thank you for the feedback!
@@FPVBuilders Yeah, I like good quality videos which gives me new ideas. Currently I am transitioning from Fusion 360 to Freecad. With help of these videos it will be easily possible for model airplane builders like myself.
Starting over with new software is always very tough. Thx for your help and such clarity. I feel I am almost starting from scratch in cad/cam again and you really helping me and my son. He IS making his own drown. He has 2 3d printers now.
My Pleasure!
Tell him to join FPV Builders on Facebook! We have a lot of great people with TONS of experience that will help him every step of the way!
Very well done, easy to understand, nice clear voice. Thank you
Glad it was helpful!
So happy that you made these short and to the point!!! Thanks for the Very useful info
Thank you for the awesome feedback! More videos to come!
Great video tutorial! To the point, very easy to understand the way you explain things. Thank you!
Thank you for the compliment!
Nice tutorial. As a 2D drafter moving to 3D the master sketch was an insight to a tool to drive the 3D model. I know you can name key dimensions and use spreadsheet to populate them. That would a great next step perhaps? Even if one was not intending to make several model sizes, for 3D printing, the 'fit' dimensions sometimes need tweaking to accommodate nozzle size or squish from the 3D printer.
I am actually going to do a tutorial on that as soon as I finish the tutorial series for for modeling a drone
Great video !!
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@FPVBuilders Your way of solving the problem is simply brilliant, unusual but brilliant.
This ingenuity for technical CAD drawings is remarkable.
On the one hand, I intend to apply a PPA to the USPTO. For this I need CAD drawings for my ideas and, on the other hand, someone with good English skills for negotiations and other things.
If you are interested in a cooperation (team) here is my e_mail:
stojanovik69@gmail.com
Excellent video you should make some more
Excellent video. I've been learning Freecad since the big crippling event with Fusion 360 a few months back. It's videos like this that really help newcomers come up to speed quickly. Please keep them coming! Cheers from Canada
Thank you so much for the feedback! I hope you'll subscribe and check out more of the videos in the channel!
@@FPVBuilders Yup - already subscribed - and I'm not even into drones !! Maybe I will be after I watch some more of your videos - lol
@@lewiscobb7817 music to my ears!
Same here, if I had only spent the time learning on Freecad which I stopped using almost 20 yrs ago instead of Fusion. It sure has changed.
After using Fusion 360 FreeCAD seems to be raw and hard to use. With Fusion 360 you can build this part 2 or 3 times faster.
Very clear explanation, thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
outstanding! blew my mind !
Very happy to hear that!
Thank you for the great explanation and video.
So happy to hear you enjoyed it!
You don't have to hide the body every time you want to make a new sketch. You can use the "Switch between section and full view" button to hide everything obstructing your sketch (3rd row, 5th from the left in your sketch view)
Wow, great tip! Thank you so much for the feedback! 😁
Excellent video
Thank you very much!
This video should be referenced at the end of tutorial 2 on the wiki page.
Wow, that's an amazing compliment. Thank you!
Any particular reason you are explicitly avoiding to link external geometry to the lines instead of the points?
You can link the math to an internal spreadsheet with a named variable
You sure can! That's coming in one of my next tutorials!
Will this suffer from topology errors. Lets, say if you change the master sketch?
I don't think so. I changed a lot of the dimensions and was never able to get an error. Topology errors come when you map sketches nto a face instead if a base plane or datum plane. Let me know if you are able to get it to break.
@@FPVBuilders Thank you so much for sharing, maybe this will be my new workflow from this time on.
Great video! I learned a LOT! But I have one problem -- when you select points, you get an exact point. For example, with drawing a line on a fully constrained view, when I start to draw a line starting on a known point, it not the exact point I selected. This is consistent however carefully I try. If I move the line, the point is NOT the point I think I selected but a new point close to, but not the exact correct point. I have to separate the points and use the concentric point constraint tool. Have I got a wrong preference setting? I can't find any reference in the wiki etc. possibly because I don't know the term for this function.
Try this: Edit>>preferences -- Click the display icon on the left of the preferences window. In the 3D view tab, locate "Marker Size" and increase the size to 13px or 15px. This will make it easier to select pre-existing points to start a line. Also, when selecting a point, make sure the cursor changes color, indicating that the point will be selected. Hope this helps!!
Practical example, importing geometry from one sketch to another is a useful tool.
I prefer setting dimensions from a spread sheet so they have names (and become yellow in your sketch).
And language-police here, sorry, but the singular of vertices is vertex. I cringe when hearing 'this verticee' as if that is singular.
Thanks for the input.
"Pad: Result has multiple solids. This is not supported at this time."
Hmmm, not sure why that is happening. Maybe try opening a new file and starting over.
@@FPVBuilders Thanks for the reply, turns out I was trying to pad multiple solid pieces out of a sketch that doesn't touch each other which isn't allowed.
I thought that might have been the issue. Glad you figured it out.