Great tutorial, thanks! Just one question... what's the point of the second hole(not through hole) on the inside of the slits? Shouldn't it be from the outside to create a seat for the fasteners? I was hoping you would show how to do that.
Wouldn’t it be possible te center the block on the XY plane before mirroring the bolt holes? Also I would think that that would also allow to work with 1/4 of the sketch of the block and mirror over X and Y axes. I hope you get what I am trying to say, or maybe I am just incorrect… ?
Yes I see what you mean about the 1/4 sketch and mirror across those planes good idea. Not sure about the moving before the mirror. But it's been a long day for me and I will come back to this comment so bare with me.
@@TheSillybits sorry this got totally lost in my comments, trying to do a bit of a catch up. Centering the block before mirroring and choosing the base planes rather than the sketch axis or mirroring over reference geometry would get you a clean mirror yes. Looking at the object to try to get an idea of how to figure out different ways so construct you could create two tubes as per the beginning in the part workbench. Fusion them together and throw a couple of cross sections loops along the different planes to get an idea of symmetry. These should show identical sections so creating the 1/4 with a mirror should work and with a little bit of thought you may be able to incorporate some of the other features in which may save you some steps.
Hi this tutorial was very useful and thanks for your work! It is great idea to use the mirror function etc. However, I wanted to make a round recess one side of the "mirror" and a hexagonal recess on the other. Obviously it doesn't work with mirror activated and I couldn't find a way to deactivate it. I thought it may be possible to de-activate at the end or after the fusion part but I could not. The only way I found was to make a clone and then make the recesses on the clone. Is this the only way? Thanks!
That was quite innovative. I would make one change relating to the compression holes though. Add either a counter sink, or a boss, on the outside surface to create a flat. Then the nut and bolt will sit flush.
I prefer to use the spreadsheet to link constraints between benches. However, it is tedious to define, alias and then reference each dimension individually and is easy to make a design mistake due to Freecad parametric workflow. The parametric process is easier and quicker to use when a part is not in its final form. Cool learning something new with that sketcher blocking function :)
It would be interesting to see this shape remade using one sketch transformed several ways to "carve" the resultant shape. I believe it is possible to do that.
True you can clone and transform the original 'cookie cutter' (don't know what else to call it) and attack the shape from different angles like a piece of clay and then do the two holes as the last action using the base planes. It's interesting when you think about removing material rather than adding it, changing to this method of thinking you can often find a solution to a tricky model build. Something I learnt from my design teacher who was a Potter who used CAD
@@MangoJellySolutions I was thinking the same thing, but stuck with the exercise because the purpose is to mix and match the Part and Part Designe WBs. I'm glad to learn how! Thank you!
version .21 has a bug where if you use draft to sketch, it does not keep the placement of the original sketch. super anoying. i am ready to leave freecad now.
Thank you so much. Hard work as beginner, it works🙂
Very helpful again, thank you!
Awesome video! Thank you!
Great tutorial, thanks! Just one question... what's the point of the second hole(not through hole) on the inside of the slits? Shouldn't it be from the outside to create a seat for the fasteners? I was hoping you would show how to do that.
Awesome vid. My OCD couldn’t let this go. Just noticed the pocket at 23:30 was not done to the other pipe section. Maybe that was by design. 😁
Fantastic use of Freecad for complex engineering component - thanks
Thank you, I'm trying out a few different things seeing how people like them.
Great thanks!
Wouldn’t it be possible te center the block on the XY plane before mirroring the bolt holes? Also I would think that that would also allow to work with 1/4 of the sketch of the block and mirror over X and Y axes. I hope you get what I am trying to say, or maybe I am just incorrect… ?
Yes I see what you mean about the 1/4 sketch and mirror across those planes good idea. Not sure about the moving before the mirror. But it's been a long day for me and I will come back to this comment so bare with me.
@@MangoJellySolutions am I right about the 1/4 sketch?
@@TheSillybits sorry this got totally lost in my comments, trying to do a bit of a catch up. Centering the block before mirroring and choosing the base planes rather than the sketch axis or mirroring over reference geometry would get you a clean mirror yes. Looking at the object to try to get an idea of how to figure out different ways so construct you could create two tubes as per the beginning in the part workbench. Fusion them together and throw a couple of cross sections loops along the different planes to get an idea of symmetry. These should show identical sections so creating the 1/4 with a mirror should work and with a little bit of thought you may be able to incorporate some of the other features in which may save you some steps.
Hi this tutorial was very useful and thanks for your work! It is great idea to use the mirror function etc. However, I wanted to make a round recess one side of the "mirror" and a hexagonal recess on the other. Obviously it doesn't work with mirror activated and I couldn't find a way to deactivate it. I thought it may be possible to de-activate at the end or after the fusion part but I could not. The only way I found was to make a clone and then make the recesses on the clone. Is this the only way? Thanks!
Thanks all
That was quite innovative. I would make one change relating to the compression holes though. Add either a counter sink, or a boss, on the outside surface to create a flat. Then the nut and bolt will sit flush.
Thank you for the comment and adding your thoughts. I agree a nice little change to neaten up the end product. 😊
I prefer to use the spreadsheet to link constraints between benches. However, it is tedious to define, alias and then reference each dimension individually and is easy to make a design mistake due to Freecad parametric workflow. The parametric process is easier and quicker to use when a part is not in its final form. Cool learning something new with that sketcher blocking function :)
It would be interesting to see this shape remade using one sketch transformed several ways to "carve" the resultant shape.
I believe it is possible to do that.
True you can clone and transform the original 'cookie cutter' (don't know what else to call it) and attack the shape from different angles like a piece of clay and then do the two holes as the last action using the base planes. It's interesting when you think about removing material rather than adding it, changing to this method of thinking you can often find a solution to a tricky model build. Something I learnt from my design teacher who was a Potter who used CAD
@@MangoJellySolutions I was thinking the same thing, but stuck with the exercise because the purpose is to mix and match the Part and Part Designe WBs. I'm glad to learn how! Thank you!
Good😃😃😃😃
which version do you use?
V0.19
version .21 has a bug where if you use draft to sketch, it does not keep the placement of the original sketch. super anoying. i am ready to leave freecad now.