I just meddled through a comment section with the standard "FreeCad good" vs "FreeCad bad" garbage... While I'm still not a FreeCad user, I'm glad to have your channel around to remind myself that people can be civil, and that this program is honestly pretty cool when you get someone skilled enough to wield it properly. I'm not sure if this makes much sense, but thank you for your content!
Is there a FreeCAD macro or tool, that given a wire path from a sketch on surface in curves workbench, will etch it with a thickness and depth parameter? The edges of the etch should be parallel to each other and not radial pointing to the curve origin. This is meant to create a cam path on a drum surface.
@@4axisprinting I get "not a solid" error message if I use "rounded corner", which is what's needed for constant width. I could actually create a solid first then XOR or cut that from the solid. But the whole process seems cumbersome: Use Curves WB for the sketch on surface. Use that as path to make a solid. Then cut or XOR using Part WB. Also I prefer just staying in PartDesign WB.
I just meddled through a comment section with the standard "FreeCad good" vs "FreeCad bad" garbage... While I'm still not a FreeCad user, I'm glad to have your channel around to remind myself that people can be civil, and that this program is honestly pretty cool when you get someone skilled enough to wield it properly. I'm not sure if this makes much sense, but thank you for your content!
Wow, this is really cool! I could see this being part of another workbench, or just apart of freecad itself, it's very useful!
W0w, this is fantastic!
Is there a reason you don't use part design while every single tutorial I've seen uses that work bench.
Probably because of the attachment tools in the part workbench combined with discipline in maintaining the single/minimal workbench philosophy.
How about a helix, on a helix, on a helix, on a helix ...? Ya know, a fractal helix!
It actually will do that but it might take some time to compute!😁
Is there a FreeCAD macro or tool, that given a wire path from a sketch on surface in curves workbench, will etch it with a thickness and depth parameter? The edges of the etch should be parallel to each other and not radial pointing to the curve origin. This is meant to create a cam path on a drum surface.
Just sweep a square along your path and cut it from the part. Or in PartDesign, use subtractive pipe with the square and the curve as the path.
@@4axisprinting I get "not a solid" error message if I use "rounded corner", which is what's needed for constant width. I could actually create a solid first then XOR or cut that from the solid. But the whole process seems cumbersome: Use Curves WB for the sketch on surface. Use that as path to make a solid. Then cut or XOR using Part WB. Also I prefer just staying in PartDesign WB.
This is awesome, wish there was a windows installation portion but I guess I'll try and figure it out 😅