I have been trying to find a practical way to fillet vertical edges of a part using a macro and the part workbench. It seems that no mater what I try I either get no fillets at all or an error message.
Do you have an opinion about the Thunder Link Branch, that allows one to link bodies together (borrow features) more easily? Makes life easier on we who like to live in Part Design.
I haven't looked at it in depth, but I like much of what I've seen. I tend to shy away from it for concerns about keeping my models compatible with future versions of FreeCAD. But RealThunder appears to be a talented and prolific developer and I am very happy to see that his mitigation of TNP is going into the next main line release of FreeCAD. I hope that opens a pipeline for other features he's implemented to be ported in in future versions.
I am using Link Branch 3 also an feel that is the future for FC but struggling with the UI. Still using F360 currently but looking for a breakthrough with FC. I am in awe with your mastery of FC and hoping I can get to acceptable level proficentcey with it myself. I appreciate your video's.
1:57 As of this comment. In most of the CAD world, thickness or thicken takes a surface and makes it into a solid of specified thickness, or otherwise adds thickness to an existing solid with an extrude-like operation. (Although many packages have weird hollowed out or self-intersecting artifacts if you try it on a solid. Looking at you, Siemens.) Shell is what typically hollows out a solid to a certain thickness. Or, with a negative thickness value, creates a hollow solid that wraps around the object, minus the specified faces. This is backwards compared to the rest of the industry. I'm struggling to understand what the FreeCAD team was thinking here.
I have been trying to find a practical way to fillet vertical edges of a part using a macro and the part workbench. It seems that no mater what I try I either get no fillets at all or an error message.
Do you have an opinion about the Thunder Link Branch, that allows one to link bodies together (borrow features) more easily?
Makes life easier on we who like to live in Part Design.
I haven't looked at it in depth, but I like much of what I've seen. I tend to shy away from it for concerns about keeping my models compatible with future versions of FreeCAD.
But RealThunder appears to be a talented and prolific developer and I am very happy to see that his mitigation of TNP is going into the next main line release of FreeCAD. I hope that opens a pipeline for other features he's implemented to be ported in in future versions.
I am using Link Branch 3 also an feel that is the future for FC but struggling with the UI. Still using F360 currently but looking for a breakthrough with FC. I am in awe with your mastery of FC and hoping I can get to acceptable level proficentcey with it myself. I appreciate your video's.
So many good tools link branch has added. It's fun to use.
very nice tutorial
Thank you! Cheers!
1:57 As of this comment.
In most of the CAD world, thickness or thicken takes a surface and makes it into a solid of specified thickness, or otherwise adds thickness to an existing solid with an extrude-like operation. (Although many packages have weird hollowed out or self-intersecting artifacts if you try it on a solid. Looking at you, Siemens.)
Shell is what typically hollows out a solid to a certain thickness. Or, with a negative thickness value, creates a hollow solid that wraps around the object, minus the specified faces.
This is backwards compared to the rest of the industry. I'm struggling to understand what the FreeCAD team was thinking here.