Strange how most other FreeCAD demos take a simple part and make it seem really complicad. You’ve taken a pretty complicated assembly and made it simple. Well done mate, cheers for that.
Excellent tutorial, you have made Assembly 4 animation and LCS's so much clearer to me than many other tutorials I have also viewed in TH-cam. Thank you.
Yes Really this is very nicely presented. No ugly music and fast talking bla bla. I learned lot and I just started using FreeCAD because Fusion is very restricted. Thanks for the nice works.
20+ years ago I used Auto cad 10, 11, and then 14. I just found FreeCad about a month ago. Thanks to FreeCad and tutorials like yours I am better now than I was then. I have not used a cad program for 15 years and only use it now as a memory exercise. I agree completely with pieter cloete,s comment. Looking forward to more tutorials from you.
I've been watching this series of videos. You're making difference. It helps a complete noob to 3d cad drawing to watch someone use the software's tools in simple examples. Thanks for putting in the time for us.
Calm voice speaking at the perfect speed and axplaining what you are doing. So miny Tubers are so fast and then only playing some music with no explanation. Still love that pointer.
Your videos are perfect for ramping folks with little CAD experience to doing useful work in FreeCAD. I'm a long term technical CAD user (Catia, NX, ...) and have found I can create very good geometry in FreeCAD, including complex surfaces. As I've helped a few others start using FreeCAD I've struggled with the right series to recommend. Yours series is excellent for the beginner and on a topical bases for experienced users transitioning from other sw. Appreciate the time and effort you put into these.
I know everyone has probably already covered this, but I wanted to take a moment to say thank you for sharing your knowledge with me and others. My boss just handed me his own personal project to see if I could model and analyze it, and this helped me knock the challenge right out of the park. Thank you so much.
I just watched the entire video and boy, do I understand everything, hell no, but it did put my feet into the assembly waters. Thank you so much for the way you laid everything down for idiots like myself.
Great Videos! your an Excellent instructor, very practical, educational and you are able to keep me watching. Thank You. Much Appreciated, Steve Marshall,
@@Adventuresincreation, great, looking forward to that. I downloaded and installed Blender today after watching your "Rendering FreeCAD models in Blender - The Easy Way". I did install it about a year ago but got rid of it because it looked very complicated. You make it easy to learn so gonna give it another try. Keep them coming mate, I love your videos and the way you take your time to explain things unlike a lot of other TH-camrs who sound like they are in a speak fast competition! LOL
@@TankTurk I will show how easy it is to animate the same assembly in blender. It is a complicated piece of software but I don't touch most of it just the bits I need. I use it to edit all my videos.
Excellent presentation. It contains the basics of simple part design, incorporates the necessary techniques to create an assembly from parts, and throws in a little extra with the animation. Exactly what I was looking for, the big picture on how to do it without getting side tracked into minutia that, though nice, are not relevant to the learning exercise. Thank you.
Very well organized and presented. Here's a hint to get normal to the sketch. Use the number keys 1 through 6 to display normal to any of the 6 view perspectives and the zero key does an iso projection. Great teaching style and excellent content, thanks.
Very clear and concise tutorial. I would live to see a tutorial on how to import Freecad assemblies into Blender and animate them! That's exactly the workflow I've been looking for...
Great Video! I have to say that for a beginner (me), it was difficult. But in the end, it works! I need to go back and do this several more times to cement the concepts. Thanks!
Assembly is not intuitive in FreeCAD at the moment. I am hoping it will improve and become far more user friendly but for now, it works and you can get there if you just follow the process.
Thank you for great content and congrats on your now 10.5K subs. I stumble upon your channel when I was looking for FreeCAD instructional videos. I'm a jack of all trades DIYer and know how to sketch on paper but I needed to learn a CAD program to help my son, a freshmen mech eng student so we can tinker around with a 3D printer I bought him for Christmas. So far, I was able to design and print an AC vent knob that was broken in my car thanks to your videos and have many other projects FreeCAD will be super useful. Cheers from sunny Puerto Rico.
Well this is a great tutorial on how to create an assembly. You covered many items and equally importantly you pointed out several pitfalls to a new learner. The animation was well done. Great articulation of voice and mouse selections. Really like the mouse beacon that shows the location.......so many videos could use one. Thank you for sharing you fantastic knowledge of this rather complex topic!
When the time is "right" an up[ date of this process using the NEW Assembly work bench would be MUCH APPRECIATED. Sadly... FC documentation leaves A GREAT DEAL TO BE DESIRED!
Another excellent video thank you. I now have an animated video of a freecad designed jar with a screw lid opening and closing. I had no idea this was possible. Thanks :)
@@Adventuresincreation In fact... having considered the logical operators in the function editor for Freecad expressions we can make some interesting moves where the lid turns a half turn and then lifts up slowly out of the way, i.e: my expression is: "Variables.position > 40 ? (Variables.position - 40) / 3 : 0"
I'm a recent subscriber, but I've practically watched all the videos on your channel, an activity that made me sure: if you offer us Blender tutorials with the same mastery with which you've been presenting us with FreeCad videos, no doubt the volume of Blender users in the world will increase considerably.
Really great video - I am self teaching Freecad (the courses only do AutoCad) and have just reached the stage of learning the use and management of Local Co-ordinate systems. I intend to design a submarine system which will use Freecad to calculate variable buoyancy as I flood and empty tanks . I will keep going!
Thank you for your educational video. You explained it very well. I am now trying to use it for my requirement. I'm curious whether it will succeed. I also like your other videos, from which I can also learn a lot.
Hello A.i.C. I did it! But I had to try for a long time. My project consists of two main components, one of which should move in the y axis. My problem. The two main components consist of many bodies and smaller components in the form of compounds or simple copies. When assigning "Datum Objects LCS ́s" I could only select one body at a time. So I created a compound of the two main components in "Parts" and a "simple copy" of it, which I then integrated into the "Model". Then I could enter "variables" and realize the movement on the y axis. However, the conversion via compound and simple copy has the disadvantage, that all selected colors for the areas are lost. By right-clicking on the component, (under Transform) says "Override colors" - so that new colors can be assigned. But it takes a lot of time. ;-( Maby you know a better way to work with assemblies that consist of many bodys? But you helpes me well. Thank You ;-)
Great tutorial. Thank You ... just want to point small detail that it is hard to pause Your videos without rewinding first :), or I'm just too slow. :)
Good tutorial, simple and clear. One thing is that for the master sketch, I think you can just have it as a sketch in the model part. It doesn't have to be in its own body and assembled into the model, unless maybe you want to place it with an LCS also.
For this simple assembly you could but I like this approach as it looks like you can use this to combine an assembly with many more parts which might not connect to each other.
Good video. It is simple to follow. I agree linking would be a better approach to keep parts library seperate from the assembly. The assembly methodology is a bit different than Solidwork. In Solidworks, the part LCS's are drawn automatically no need to add one to the assembly, and parts are assembled using base-assembly edges and surfaces to align parts. Looks like, in FreeCAD, LCS's are the only way to align parts. It is a bit slow. May be macros can come handy to reduce assembly steps. Is there a feature to grab the parts and slide along its access? Can parts be moved in assembly space before being locked to the base assembly? Still it is very versatile. Thanks for such a good work preparing the video.
This is great, but is there an easy way to do sequential animation (other than loads of conditionals in the expressions)? For example make each peg move one at a time.
This is my first foray into "Animation". I enjoyed your presentation and after a few failures could duplicate your design. My question... is there a way to independently move each rod to a height of my choosing ?? In this Video - it appears - only two positions are possible (plus) and (minus) in the same increments of motion, UP/DOWN as well as DISTANCE. Thanks for any feedback
This is just a simple demo but yes you can separate and move the way that you want. You should also take a look at my video that animates using Blender. The tools in there are excellent 👌
Assembly4 was baffling me particularly around the Placement and Attachment properties, but I think now (and maybe with a little practice!) I can make some progress. Thanks!
Brilliant video explaining assembly 4; so thanks for that, as a newbe I was struggling with it, so this was exceptionally well timed for me! I'd also like to say that I'd certainly be interested in a video showing how to export parts to blender and use physics as I think that would be really interesting. Thanks again for making this and keep them coming!
I am glad you liked it. - I will take a look at the Blender one too. I have done some simulations there but it will take me a little while to put that together.
I have been trying to learn the assembly 4 workbench off and on for months. Your video has enlightened me a bit but there is still some head scratching. I'll re watch this several times more and perhaps I'll learn more. I agree with your approach to leave the links out of it for the time being in an attempt to ease the newcomer into the process of assemblies. I understand the benefit of the links but doing it your way here would also allow someone to divorce the assembly file from the individual model files if that was desired. Ie if the individual model files were subsequently moved somewhere else in the computers file system I suspect the assembly would blow up as a result as the links became invalid . This whole workbench is powerful but extremely difficult to learn. I was using assemblies in Fusion 360 in a matter of an hour. I do hope you continue to make videos that feature this aspect of Freecad as the wiki just didn't work for me trying to learn it. Many thanks for your efforts on this- I've been patiently waiting for someone to put out a narrated video on it for months. Cheers from Canada, Lewis
Ian. just got aaround to watching this, and another truly excellent and clearly articulated tutorial. I was just about to ask you for something along these exact same lines - e.g. animating assemblies - and lo and behold, you have already done just that. Personally, I am also trying to get my head around Blender at the same time as Freecad, and would appreciate a video showing the physics in animations such as you suggest. Another great one mate. :)
Nice demo. Do you have any suggestions on an design/assembly tutorial showing something like the carousel with the horses rotating and moving vertically during the rotation. I need to design a mechanism involving four symmetric pressure chambers on a carousel a "virtual horse/piston" that performs in a similar manner. The four horse will be driven by a central axle to which the pressure chambers will be parallel.
At the moment a disk shape with a central axle and four symmetric holes has been created along with a "master rod". The rod and the holes have lcs attached. They will be used to assemble something similar to your demo. Then they will go into a rotating assembly,if all goes well.
You did it in a difficult way. I can see you can create parts right away in the main assembly. Just got to move them into parts folder later. Thanks for tutorial!
Very helpful tutorial, and thanks a lot. I'm having trouble displaying multiple documents in a Combo View when opening documents like you demonstrated at 19:00. How do I need to set it up? Thanks again.
Hi mate! Great tutorial! Not sure I’ve understood why you created both the main sketch and main body.. wasn’t the main body enough with the 3 LCSs in the 3 holes?
Dear "Adventures in creation" thank you for great job! I have a question: I want to "drill" the hole thruogh the few parts within of my Assembly4. After that I want to add the bolt. It is very important to have hole in the originale file of "partdesign". How to do it right? Many thanks.
@@Adventuresincreation Yes. You told about classic way. But I think about packet editing of few parts. It is a pity that Assembly4 doesn't have the such functionality.
I got animation working and then stopped animation and closed all. When I opened AssemblyFile again, "Transform" does not appear in Animate Assembly gear icon.
one thing i seem to be having an issue with. on a number of these videos, he is doing a reverse pocket to achieve his goal. I am only having to do a normal pocket. I must be doing something incorrectly before this step. Any guidance would be appreciatied.
Wow... this really needs to be searchable by the phrase "PropertyLink does not support external object"... Thanks! The key info is at 20min and 22min in to this video. First: Drop your Model Bodies on to the file name of the Assembly4 document. Second: Drag them in to Parts
Hello great job. I have a design that will like to have done. It is very simple I already have it draw very specific. Need it in free cad format and 3d for later printing. Can you help me. It will take me to much time to learn
That's a very well made video and a good introduction to Assembly 4. Congratulations. I'm not sure however why you wouldn't use the link feature to add the parts to your assembly. The link feature is just fantastic. It allows for a file structure such as in SolidWorks where parts are in .sldprt files and assemblies in .sldasm files. The parts can be shared between different assemblies and they can still be opened individually if you need to edit them.
I totally agree that the link feature is great however, I didn't want to make the video any more complicated that it was. I think a lot of people struggle with getting started on Assembly4 (I know I did) so I wanted to keep it simple. - I did mention that in the video as I knew some people would use the link feature in creating assemblies. - I may do a follow up video using the link and step imports (I don't have access to solidworks so nothing from there).
Not the main point of the video, but I've never understood why FC marks items for recompute rather than just recomputing. Is there a situation where you wouldn't want to recompute? I have had nodes that wouldn't recompute due to an error I couldn't figure out.
I'm happy to see FreeCad add-ons for assemblies and animation, but SolidWorks still does this SO much more nicely. I've been hoping for a Linux alternative that does it just as well. I'm not even looking for free. I'd be more than willing to pay the $2-3k/yr subscription. I just don't like to be tied to Microshaft/Apple. I'll play with it, but I since we're talking about shafts going into holes, I hear of you play with it too much, you'll go blind...
This is what I have needed for a good while now. I connect sketch items and check movements regularly. Now i can do the same in 3D! Thank you! FreeCAD has grown into a powerful tool, and your videos provide much needed excellent training. I have learned a LOT of button functions that do what I was doing by brute force, just from watching 3 or 4 your videos. I tend to subscribe too much, so have become more selective: after 3 or 4 of your videos I realized that I hit the motherlode! I will be submitting a request for layers, and another for being able to hide the constraint labels, which often get in the way and interfere with element selection. Just hiding constraint labels alone would be massively helpful. Do you know of a way to hide them, and dimensions, temporarily as to make designing less cluttered? Thank you so much for all your work to help us out!
@@Adventuresincreation That's great! I have searched for a way to do that 'til I'm blue in the face. When an element is quite small, selecting one of the end points can be really difficult, even when zoomed way in. If there are only a few elements I can find them in the elements list, but when there's a bunch it isn't so easy. I look forward to seeing what you find out!
I just experimented with hiding constraints: if you uncheck them in the constraint list they disappear but are still active. Is this something new in version 24291? I didn't see that effect until now. Maybe I am just that unobservant? At this point I'm feeling kind of dumb... Realthunder works great so far. I haven't done a lot in it yet, but I have a significant project that will put it through its paces.
You dont need to create yellow parts for each blue body, you can attach the LCS to the bodies directly. Question: Is the master sketch not redundant? Could you not have just used body parat directly, and link it to LCS of the body (if the body had 3 LCS attached to it).
As I like to point out, this is how I approach the problem. There are undoubtedly many ways to achieve the same end but I like to try and keep it simple and consistent so others can follow along. I appreciate your feedback though, keep designing.
I prefer using the "Insert a link to a Part" feature in order to keep the files separate. I had the Structure toolbar hidden, so I hadn't seen the "Create a link to the selected objects" button until you pointed it out in your video. So, I've never used that and am not sure how it behaves. Using links keeps each part in its own file, so you can modify any of them and the assembly will automatically update (usually - sometimes you need to click Update Assembly). I find it easier because it lets me focus on one thing at a time in each file: one file for each part and another file for the assembly. Using this method, I haven't yet had a need for a separate master sketch. What do you feel is more confusing about links? Edit: I commented before reading the rest of the comments and just saw that it's already been discussed. The video was put together very well - thanks. Subscribed!
Great Video! I will try this. A few thoughts: Adding LCS in every model seems a bit redundant to me? You could add them in the assembly file, and only there, as well, can't you? Also, if you don't link the models, how to maintain consistency to the assembly when a part is changed? You will have to do all the work of inserting the part again I guess. Freecad is a great tool, but it is not always clear how the tools and workbenches are supposed to be used.
Strange how most other FreeCAD demos take a simple part and make it seem really complicad.
You’ve taken a pretty complicated assembly and made it simple.
Well done mate, cheers for that.
You are welcome, thanks for the feedback ☺️
FreeCAD初心者です。
アッセンブリのアニメーション化で困っていました。
部品の組み合わせだけではなく、移動したファイルの処理なども説明されていて、すごく分かり安かったです。
初めは上手くいかず、何度も冒頭から作業を進めましたが、今ではこのVTRを見ずに作業することができるようになりました。
ありがとうございました。
どういたしまして
Excellent tutorial, you have made Assembly 4 animation and LCS's so much clearer to me than many other tutorials I have also viewed in TH-cam. Thank you.
Glad it helped!
Yes Really this is very nicely presented. No ugly music and fast talking bla bla. I learned lot and I just started using FreeCAD because
Fusion is very restricted. Thanks for the nice works.
You are welcome.
20+ years ago I used Auto cad 10, 11, and then 14. I just found FreeCad about a month ago. Thanks to FreeCad and tutorials like yours I am better now than I was then. I have not used a cad program for 15 years and only use it now as a memory exercise. I agree completely with pieter cloete,s comment. Looking forward to more tutorials from you.
Thanks James, a new one coming tomorrow. I too used Autocad a long time ago 😉
I've been watching this series of videos. You're making difference. It helps a complete noob to 3d cad drawing to watch someone use the software's tools in simple examples. Thanks for putting in the time for us.
You are welcome John, glad to hear it, thanks for taking the time to give me feedback
Calm voice speaking at the perfect speed and axplaining what you are doing. So miny Tubers are so fast and then only playing some music with no explanation. Still love that pointer.
Thanks, glad the pointer works for you.
Glad Ifound your channel this is the first assembly tutorial I have watched. I am amazed at how much freecad offers and for free.
Thanks, it is a really powerful tool for designers.
Your videos are perfect for ramping folks with little CAD experience to doing useful work in FreeCAD. I'm a long term technical CAD user (Catia, NX, ...) and have found I can create very good geometry in FreeCAD, including complex surfaces. As I've helped a few others start using FreeCAD I've struggled with the right series to recommend. Yours series is excellent for the beginner and on a topical bases for experienced users transitioning from other sw. Appreciate the time and effort you put into these.
Thanks, I appreciate the feedback ☺️
I know everyone has probably already covered this, but I wanted to take a moment to say thank you for sharing your knowledge with me and others. My boss just handed me his own personal project to see if I could model and analyze it, and this helped me knock the challenge right out of the park. Thank you so much.
That is great to hear Lucas. Well done!
Great for helping to understand the possibilities with Assembly 4 - Thanks very much.
It's a good start to an assembly workbench
I just watched the entire video and boy, do I understand everything, hell no, but it did put my feet into the assembly waters. Thank you so much for the way you laid everything down for idiots like myself.
Thanks for the feedback 😉
The best assembly4 tutorial that Ive seen - Thanks
Thanks!
Loving your tutorials. Creating designs is becoming easier and easier. Keep it up.
Thank you
Excellent, very good explanation a real teacher! keep it up!
Thanks!
Great Videos! your an Excellent instructor, very practical, educational and you are able to keep me watching. Thank You.
Much Appreciated,
Steve Marshall,
That's good to hear, thanks for watching. I am glad the videos are helping.
I just installed Assemly 4 yesterday and today I find your video on it. Thanks for another great video
You are welcome, glad it was timely for you. I am working on doing a similar animation in blender for those parts.
@@Adventuresincreation, great, looking forward to that. I downloaded and installed Blender today after watching your "Rendering FreeCAD models in Blender - The Easy Way". I did install it about a year ago but got rid of it because it looked very complicated. You make it easy to learn so gonna give it another try. Keep them coming mate, I love your videos and the way you take your time to explain things unlike a lot of other TH-camrs who sound like they are in a speak fast competition! LOL
@@TankTurk I will show how easy it is to animate the same assembly in blender. It is a complicated piece of software but I don't touch most of it just the bits I need. I use it to edit all my videos.
Really this tutorial helped me a lot to know the technics of assembly and animation. Thanks.
Thanks for the feedback
Excellent presentation. It contains the basics of simple part design, incorporates the necessary techniques to create an assembly from parts, and throws in a little extra with the animation. Exactly what I was looking for, the big picture on how to do it without getting side tracked into minutia that, though nice, are not relevant to the learning exercise. Thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for making a complicated topic relatively easy to understand.
You are welcome
Very well organized and presented. Here's a hint to get normal to the sketch.
Use the number keys 1 through 6 to display normal to any of the 6 view perspectives
and the zero key does an iso projection. Great teaching style and excellent content, thanks.
Thanks Dan.
This is a very clear and easy to understand tutorial - THANK YOU
Glad it was helpful!
Looking forward to the blender video!
I think that would be fun
Nicely done video. The narration and pace was very good and the pointer was perfect
Thanks for the feedback
Discovered your channel by chance after looking at some freecad tutorials. Yours are splendid. Clear speech, speed right and interesting.
Glad to hear it.
@@Adventuresincreation I am now using sketcher much more and parameter driven designs where appropriate; Many thanks.
@@alanfryd that's great to hear.
This is a perfect tutorial. Very good explanation and a good example you chose. Thank you!!!
Thanks for the feedback
I love your tutorials, just what you need to get it done. Please continue with these tutorials :).
Thanks, will do!
Very clear and concise tutorial. I would live to see a tutorial on how to import Freecad assemblies into Blender and animate them! That's exactly the workflow I've been looking for...
Keep looking at the videos there is one that shows that work flow. Look in the blender playlist
Excellent approach for conveying learning, appreciate very much your generosity sharing. Thanks so much
Glad it was helpful!
First video after dozens similar which helps me to understand
I am happy that it helped
Great Video! I have to say that for a beginner (me), it was difficult. But in the end, it works! I need to go back and do this several more times to cement the concepts. Thanks!
Assembly is not intuitive in FreeCAD at the moment. I am hoping it will improve and become far more user friendly but for now, it works and you can get there if you just follow the process.
Thank you for great content and congrats on your now 10.5K subs. I stumble upon your channel when I was looking for FreeCAD instructional videos. I'm a jack of all trades DIYer and know how to sketch on paper but I needed to learn a CAD program to help my son, a freshmen mech eng student so we can tinker around with a 3D printer I bought him for Christmas. So far, I was able to design and print an AC vent knob that was broken in my car thanks to your videos and have many other projects FreeCAD will be super useful. Cheers from sunny Puerto Rico.
Thanks Fred, you and your son will have great fun together.
Very nice coverage of Assembly 4. Thank you!
You are welcome
Well this is a great tutorial on how to create an assembly. You covered many items and equally importantly you pointed out several pitfalls to a new learner. The animation was well done. Great articulation of voice and mouse selections. Really like the mouse beacon that shows the location.......so many videos could use one. Thank you for sharing you fantastic knowledge of this rather complex topic!
Thanks for the feedback
When the time is "right" an up[ date of this process using the NEW Assembly work bench would be MUCH APPRECIATED.
Sadly... FC documentation leaves A GREAT DEAL TO BE DESIRED!
Great idea, I will do that.
Another excellent video thank you. I now have an animated video of a freecad designed jar with a screw lid opening and closing. I had no idea this was possible. Thanks :)
That is so cool 😎
@@Adventuresincreation In fact... having considered the logical operators in the function editor for Freecad expressions we can make some interesting moves where the lid turns a half turn and then lifts up slowly out of the way, i.e: my expression is:
"Variables.position > 40 ? (Variables.position - 40) / 3 : 0"
I'm a recent subscriber, but I've practically watched all the videos on your channel, an activity that made me sure: if you offer us Blender tutorials with the same mastery with which you've been presenting us with FreeCad videos, no doubt the volume of Blender users in the world will increase considerably.
Thanks for the feedback, I really appreciate it. I am not a blender expert but I love to create animations with it.
Really great video - I am self teaching Freecad (the courses only do AutoCad) and have just reached the stage of learning the use and management of Local Co-ordinate systems. I intend to design a submarine system which will use Freecad to calculate variable buoyancy as I flood and empty tanks . I will keep going!
Brilliant!
Great intro to assembly in freecad
Thanks!
This is exactly what I needed! Thank you for explaining this so easily.
You are welcome
Excellent Video ! Easy watchable. Thanks !
Glad you enjoyed it!
Excelente, gran video.
Gracias por enseñar Freecad.
Saludos desde Chile.
Thanks, I am happy that you enjoyed it.
Great. Thanks. For the chamfers use transparency mode to select all the edges without moving the part.
You are welcome, thanks for the tip
Thank you for your educational video. You explained it very well. I am now trying to use it for my requirement. I'm curious whether it will succeed.
I also like your other videos, from which I can also learn a lot.
You are welcome
Hello A.i.C. I did it! But I had to try for a long time.
My project consists of two main components, one of which should move in the y axis. My problem. The two main components consist of many bodies and smaller components in the form of compounds or simple copies. When assigning "Datum Objects LCS ́s" I could only select one body at a time.
So I created a compound of the two main components in "Parts" and a "simple copy" of it, which I then integrated into the "Model". Then I could enter "variables" and realize the movement on the y axis.
However, the conversion via compound and simple copy has the disadvantage, that all selected colors for the areas are lost. By right-clicking on the component, (under Transform) says "Override colors" - so that new colors can be assigned. But it takes a lot of time. ;-(
Maby you know a better way to work with assemblies that consist of many bodys? But you helpes me well. Thank You ;-)
done. It works after 1 hour practice. Thank you so much
Excellent, well done.
Amazing video. I have been looking for something like this for a very long time. Thank you
Glad it was helpful!
Great Job! Easy to follow Assembly 4 Video.
Thanks I am glad it was easy to follow
Thank u for the beautiful explanation . What is the needed of the master sketch?
It's one way to achieve the result you want
Great tutorial. Thank You ... just want to point small detail that it is hard to pause Your videos without rewinding first :), or I'm just too slow. :)
Glad you enjoyed it.
Good tutorial, simple and clear. One thing is that for the master sketch, I think you can just have it as a sketch in the model part. It doesn't have to be in its own body and assembled into the model, unless maybe you want to place it with an LCS also.
Thanks for the feedback. To be honest I think there are many ways to reach the same end. I just wanted to show how I get there.
For this simple assembly you could but I like this approach as it looks like you can use this to combine an assembly with many more parts which might not connect to each other.
Good video. It is simple to follow. I agree linking would be a better approach to keep parts library seperate from the assembly. The assembly methodology is a bit different than Solidwork. In Solidworks, the part LCS's are drawn automatically no need to add one to the assembly, and parts are assembled using base-assembly edges and surfaces to align parts. Looks like, in FreeCAD, LCS's are the only way to align parts. It is a bit slow. May be macros can come handy to reduce assembly steps. Is there a feature to grab the parts and slide along its access? Can parts be moved in assembly space before being locked to the base assembly? Still it is very versatile. Thanks for such a good work preparing the video.
Thanks for the feedback
This is great, but is there an easy way to do sequential animation (other than loads of conditionals in the expressions)? For example make each peg move one at a time.
It's a little bit laborious. I like to animate in blender you export your models into blender then you have lots of animation tools.
Doing a good Job, I subscribed. Best Tutorials so far. Easy to understand, seems to be doing a good job. Like it.
Thanks for the sub! I appreciate it.
This is my first foray into "Animation". I enjoyed your presentation and after a few failures could duplicate your design. My question... is there a way to independently move each rod to a height of my choosing ?? In this Video - it appears - only two positions are possible (plus) and (minus) in the same increments of motion, UP/DOWN as well as DISTANCE.
Thanks for any feedback
This is just a simple demo but yes you can separate and move the way that you want. You should also take a look at my video that animates using Blender. The tools in there are excellent 👌
Assembly4 was baffling me particularly around the Placement and Attachment properties, but I think now (and maybe with a little practice!) I can make some progress. Thanks!
Excellent
Another one of our great videos, keep 'em coming!
Thanks! Will do!
Oops, my fat fingers typed "OUR" and should most certainly have been "YOURS"...
Great video! I just started learning CAD and your channel has really helped.
Glad to hear that. I hope you will keep watching.
Thank you once again for a brilliant video.
Thanks Patrick
Brilliant video explaining assembly 4; so thanks for that, as a newbe I was struggling with it, so this was exceptionally well timed for me! I'd also like to say that I'd certainly be interested in a video showing how to export parts to blender and use physics as I think that would be really interesting. Thanks again for making this and keep them coming!
I am glad you liked it. - I will take a look at the Blender one too. I have done some simulations there but it will take me a little while to put that together.
I am a newbie to the FreeCad, I wonder about the reason you create "MasterSketch" while we can add LCSs directly to "mainBody". Thank for your Video.
It's just one technique. You can do whatever works for you.
Hi, If you saved the cylinder and the piston, how can you move and animate the cylinder again next time when you load it?
You can reset the position.
What screen recorder you use? It's easy to understand what you doing with the mouse and keyboard
I use OBS to record the screen but I use a highlighter for the mouse and keyboard. The link is in the video description.
@@Adventuresincreation Thanks 👍🏽
very good instruction clear and concise
Thanks for the feedback
I have been trying to learn the assembly 4 workbench off and on for months. Your video has enlightened me a bit but there is still some head scratching. I'll re watch this several times more and perhaps I'll learn more. I agree with your approach to leave the links out of it for the time being in an attempt to ease the newcomer into the process of assemblies. I understand the benefit of the links but doing it your way here would also allow someone to divorce the assembly file from the individual model files if that was desired. Ie if the individual model files were subsequently moved somewhere else in the computers file system I suspect the assembly would blow up as a result as the links became invalid .
This whole workbench is powerful but extremely difficult to learn. I was using assemblies in Fusion 360 in a matter of an hour. I do hope you continue to make videos that feature this aspect of Freecad as the wiki just didn't work for me trying to learn it.
Many thanks for your efforts on this- I've been patiently waiting for someone to put out a narrated video on it for months.
Cheers from Canada,
Lewis
Let me know if you need any more help. I think if you follow the video you will get there.
I agree ,compared to the other workbenches this one is overly complicated and confusing
@@ronson66 stick with it, once you get it, it's very powerful. Also, take a look my video on making the Desk Caddy, that has more assembly 4 in it.
Thank you very much. Your video helped me a lot!
I am glad to hear that.
Ian. just got aaround to watching this, and another truly excellent and clearly articulated tutorial. I was just about to ask you for something along these exact same lines - e.g. animating assemblies - and lo and behold, you have already done just that. Personally, I am also trying to get my head around Blender at the same time as Freecad, and would appreciate a video showing the physics in animations such as you suggest. Another great one mate. :)
Thanks Noel. I am glad you enjoyed it.
Nice demo.
Do you have any suggestions on an design/assembly tutorial showing something like the carousel with the
horses rotating and moving vertically during the rotation. I need to design a mechanism involving four symmetric pressure chambers on a carousel a "virtual horse/piston" that performs in a similar manner. The four horse will be driven by a central axle to which the pressure chambers will be parallel.
I do not know of any videos that show that kind of mechanism however, all the techniques you need are available
At the moment a disk shape with a central axle and four symmetric holes has been created along with a "master rod". The rod and the holes have lcs attached. They will be used to assemble something similar to your demo. Then they will go into a rotating assembly,if all goes well.
@@markwilliams8892 sounds like good progress, let me see it when you get it done.
You did it in a difficult way. I can see you can create parts right away in the main assembly. Just got to move them into parts folder later. Thanks for tutorial!
Yes, you can organize the models for use.
Nice tutorial, thanks. I would love to see what you mentioned at the end - exporting from FreeCAD into Blender and animating there.
You are in luck 🤞 check out my channel, I created a video that shows exactly how to do that. Here's the link th-cam.com/video/V03lxoE2gzg/w-d-xo.html
If you change the length of the Rod part, will it also change for the three rods in the assembly?
Yes, if you change the model it will change all instances.
@@Adventuresincreation thanks you! Can you also add subassemblies to the assemblyfile?
Nice explaning bro keep it up
Thanks!
Отличное видео! Все понятно.
Спасибо!
Лайк + подписка.
Thanks for subscribing, I am glad you liked the video
Спасибо за подписку, рад, что вам понравилось видео
Very helpful tutorial, and thanks a lot. I'm having trouble displaying multiple documents in a Combo View when opening documents like you demonstrated at 19:00. How do I need to set it up? Thanks again.
I am glad you are finding it helpful. To see multiple documents you just open a second and a third document from the file menu in FreeCAD.
Hi mate! Great tutorial! Not sure I’ve understood why you created both the main sketch and main body.. wasn’t the main body enough with the 3 LCSs in the 3 holes?
I am not sure which bit you are referring to?
Great video! I learned a lot. My gears are rotating...😀
Excellent!
Which version of freecad are you using and what is the minimum configuration of hardware to run the tutorial ?
Version 0.19
Hello. If I just want 5 layers to appear one above another with a click or animation, how do I do it in freecad? Or shud I use blender?
I think that is trivial in blender
It's easy to export to a video or gif?
You can export an animation
wonderful video. thank you.
You are welcome 😉
Dear "Adventures in creation" thank you for great job!
I have a question:
I want to "drill" the hole thruogh the few parts within of my Assembly4. After that I want to add the bolt. It is very important to have hole in the originale file of "partdesign". How to do it right?
Many thanks.
Thanks for the feedback. You can go back to your original part and create the hole.
@@Adventuresincreation Yes. You told about classic way. But I think about packet editing of few parts.
It is a pity that Assembly4 doesn't have the such functionality.
I got animation working and then stopped animation and closed all. When I opened AssemblyFile again, "Transform" does not appear in Animate Assembly gear icon.
Maybe a bug, I am not sure.
one thing i seem to be having an issue with. on a number of these videos, he is doing a reverse pocket to achieve his goal. I am only having to do a normal pocket. I must be doing something incorrectly before this step. Any guidance would be appreciatied.
If you watch my latest video on FreeCAD 1.0 part 3 it explains that.
Wow... this really needs to be searchable by the phrase "PropertyLink does not support external object"... Thanks!
The key info is at 20min and 22min in to this video. First: Drop your Model Bodies on to the file name of the Assembly4 document.
Second: Drag them in to Parts
Thanks!
Nice explaination! Thank you
Glad it was helpful!
Hello great job. I have a design that will like to have done. It is very simple I already have it draw very specific. Need it in free cad format and 3d for later printing. Can you help me. It will take me to much time to learn
Sure, what is it?
If you hold Alt while dragging the bodies from the original files into the assembly file, it makes a duplicate
Excellent!
That's a very well made video and a good introduction to Assembly 4. Congratulations.
I'm not sure however why you wouldn't use the link feature to add the parts to your assembly. The link feature is just fantastic. It allows for a file structure such as in SolidWorks where parts are in .sldprt files and assemblies in .sldasm files. The parts can be shared between different assemblies and they can still be opened individually if you need to edit them.
I totally agree that the link feature is great however, I didn't want to make the video any more complicated that it was. I think a lot of people struggle with getting started on Assembly4 (I know I did) so I wanted to keep it simple. - I did mention that in the video as I knew some people would use the link feature in creating assemblies. - I may do a follow up video using the link and step imports (I don't have access to solidworks so nothing from there).
Excellent tutorial!
Thanks!
double work ?
Not sure what you mean?
Very clear, thanks 👍✌🥃
Appreciate it.
Not the main point of the video, but I've never understood why FC marks items for recompute rather than just recomputing. Is there a situation where you wouldn't want to recompute? I have had nodes that wouldn't recompute due to an error I couldn't figure out.
I think sometimes the recompute can take a while so you get to decide when to do it but, at some point you have to bite the bullet 😉
@@Adventuresincreation Ok makes sense. I guess nothing I've done has required that much compute time yet!
I'm happy to see FreeCad add-ons for assemblies and animation, but SolidWorks still does this SO much more nicely. I've been hoping for a Linux alternative that does it just as well. I'm not even looking for free. I'd be more than willing to pay the $2-3k/yr subscription. I just don't like to be tied to Microshaft/Apple.
I'll play with it, but I since we're talking about shafts going into holes, I hear of you play with it too much, you'll go blind...
Ha ha Jason 🤣 I think freecad has a long way to go with assemblies but it is being actively developed. I expect it to get significantly better
This is what I have needed for a good while now. I connect sketch items and check movements regularly. Now i can do the same in 3D! Thank you!
FreeCAD has grown into a powerful tool, and your videos provide much needed excellent training. I have learned a LOT of button functions that do what I was doing by brute force, just from watching 3 or 4 your videos. I tend to subscribe too much, so have become more selective: after 3 or 4 of your videos I realized that I hit the motherlode!
I will be submitting a request for layers, and another for being able to hide the constraint labels, which often get in the way and interfere with element selection. Just hiding constraint labels alone would be massively helpful.
Do you know of a way to hide them, and dimensions, temporarily as to make designing less cluttered?
Thank you so much for all your work to help us out!
I am not in front of a computer at the moment but I will take a look and see how difficult it is to hide constraints.
@@Adventuresincreation That's great! I have searched for a way to do that 'til I'm blue in the face. When an element is quite small, selecting one of the end points can be really difficult, even when zoomed way in. If there are only a few elements I can find them in the elements list, but when there's a bunch it isn't so easy.
I look forward to seeing what you find out!
I just experimented with hiding constraints: if you uncheck them in the constraint list they disappear but are still active. Is this something new in version 24291? I didn't see that effect until now. Maybe I am just that unobservant? At this point I'm feeling kind of dumb...
Realthunder works great so far. I haven't done a lot in it yet, but I have a significant project that will put it through its paces.
you r good i liked and subscribed
Thanks!
You dont need to create yellow parts for each blue body, you can attach the LCS to the bodies directly. Question: Is the master sketch not redundant? Could you not have just used body parat directly, and link it to LCS of the body (if the body had 3 LCS attached to it).
As I like to point out, this is how I approach the problem. There are undoubtedly many ways to achieve the same end but I like to try and keep it simple and consistent so others can follow along. I appreciate your feedback though, keep designing.
Great video
Glad you enjoyed it
I assume LCS stands for something, but I didn't discover what from this video, or a quick googling.
LCS = local coordinate system
@@Adventuresincreation Thanks. I stumbled across that elsewhere. It's one of those things that everybody knows, except those that don't. :0)
Great video. Thank you for sharing.
And ... I did subscribe :)
Thanks for the feedback and the subscription
I prefer using the "Insert a link to a Part" feature in order to keep the files separate. I had the Structure toolbar hidden, so I hadn't seen the "Create a link to the selected objects" button until you pointed it out in your video. So, I've never used that and am not sure how it behaves.
Using links keeps each part in its own file, so you can modify any of them and the assembly will automatically update (usually - sometimes you need to click Update Assembly). I find it easier because it lets me focus on one thing at a time in each file: one file for each part and another file for the assembly. Using this method, I haven't yet had a need for a separate master sketch.
What do you feel is more confusing about links?
Edit: I commented before reading the rest of the comments and just saw that it's already been discussed. The video was put together very well - thanks. Subscribed!
Thanks for the input. I agree that the Links are a good option.
Great Video! I will try this.
A few thoughts:
Adding LCS in every model seems a bit redundant to me? You could add them in the assembly file, and only there, as well, can't you? Also, if you don't link the models, how to maintain consistency to the assembly when a part is changed? You will have to do all the work of inserting the part again I guess.
Freecad is a great tool, but it is not always clear how the tools and workbenches are supposed to be used.
The lcs is used to align the part on import so it makes most sense to add it in each part.