FreeCAD 0.20 For Beginners | 24 | Lid & Box / Enclosure | Threaded Holes Cross File Sub Shape Binder
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- Use FreeCAD to build a basic lidded enclosure, screw down lid and threaded holes using a FreeCAD Part Design workflow using a shape binder across multiple files keeping the lid and box separate. We finish by creating a assembly with the lid and the box without using an assembly workbench but using the link feature.
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You have saved my ass many times already in the short time I have been bungling my way up the Freecad learning curve. Follow along, make mistakes, try again... repeat as often as necessary. Thank you for making so many great walkthroughs.
It's all in the learning process we learn from our mistakes, glad they are helping and thank you for the comments, it's really great to see everyone is enjoying 😊
Challenge blown away! Thank you Mango!! You are the best in FreeCAD tutorials. I enjoy all your videos. You Sir are #1 in my honest opinion. Please keep up the excellent content. I can't wait to see the coming presentations.
Thank you glad it was what you wanted. I was trying to find your original comment so I could post a link for you but you saved me a job. You also saved me thinking up a practical example for cross file shape binders for a tutorial 😁👍
@@MangoJellySolutions I am glad i could help i have plenty of ideas. Can't wait to put them to use. After finding your videos it has made using FreeCAD so much easier for me and others i am sure. Thank you again.
Thanks so much. Planning to go through all the lessons. When you are a new girl in the block, it seems too much. The clear explanation in the video's are a fine way to learn the program.
I just want to say thank you !!
Thank you! I'm making something similar and learned new things along the way.
One of the best FreeCAD tutorials I've seen.
Shows a solution for many problems in such a short time.
Thank you!
Thank you 😁👍
Another brilliant FreeCAD tutorial!
Excellent Video, thanks!
I'm glad to see that shape binder in action again, and the rest, very useful. Thank you, Cheers.
I followed this tutorial a couple of days back and 3D printed this box successfully. Thanks for the tutorial!
Ah great to hear :)
I really enjoyed working through this video! Great job as always.
Outstanding, ty.
That was great! Thanks!
This is what I've been looking for! That button to import previous points is a GAME CHANGER. I knew I was missing something to attach new sketches to the object in a captive way, ty so much!
Great to hear this helps you move forward.
Yup. I am finding that by watching a vid you might not think applies to your projects, you pick up all these functions 👍
Thank you, MJ. This assembly procedure is a useful way of creating print in place articulated models.
This is good one. Was easy to follow thru.
Ahhh.. linking the bodies worked first time. Then I had more hair tearing out when practising. I found I could not move the lid. Then I found my error. Dont select the model to link from the graphic. Pick it from the design tree. Highlight the BODY of what you want from there. 👍
Thank you very much. Learn so much 🙂
Very much new ideas in one video.
That was fun ! managed to get through it with minimal rewinding of video. Thank you again for another great lesson :)
Great to hear, sounds like your progressing and getting the hang of freecad. It has quite a learning curve. Thank you. 😊👍👍
Hi All, Like many others making good progress. A tip for what it's worth @ 28:56 when initiating the Hole Subtract I got a recompute error and no model when the Hole Side Menu appears. I back tracked and discovered an error I thought I had corrected earlier (Selecting the circles & imported geometry then making them equal). It seems even though I had deleted the incorrect part of the sketch a circle element remained in the elements side bar to the left of screen causing the recompute error. I'm working very slowly through theses Tuts & starting to realise that you need to be very precise and aware of not only the sketch but also the Elements as you edit them. I take this to be some kind of programming feature. No complaints and perhaps I'm starting to appreciate the various relationships of the GUI.
You make this so fun to learn!
Glad you enjoyed 😊
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Amazing crash course. Thank you
Thank you 😊😊 Glad your enjoying
Please make a video on how to make PCB enclosures, derived from KiCAD. Thanks
Loving your videos! and learned a lot from it.
Excellent 😊I have now to replicate this…..gonna take some time😂!
I enjoy your tutorials and learned some new tricks from this one. Thanks!
Great to hear!
I needed a small simple box and lid to print. Easy to download something and did it before. But because I'm learning FreeCAD, I Googled and found your video. I've learned so much today following your video and designed my own. Thank you! Subscribed.
PS: I can also see why you left the threaded holes to the end. As I had to go back and add a hole to the box. Now rendering is slower. Good to remember.
This is great to hear, so glad people like yourself are enjoining and learning from these videos. Welcome to the journey. And thank you for the kind comment
I thought u need to
create a datum plane on the face you are sketching on. But apparently that is not necessary anymore. I think it had something to do with the topological error. Thanks for the video mate. Linking bodies i have not done so far!
Brilliant Tutorial, Very easy to follow and apply to other projects, Thank you so much.
Thank you, glad you liked
It would be helpful if you named your sketches, pockets, pads etc. Not only would it make the videos easier to follow as we backtrack to correct our mistakes, but it's a very good practice to boot.
I agree it's one thing that I don't do as I thought it would be better to keep the video short as possible. But I do think this would help especially with the bigger build and I will start doing this in the future. Thank you for this, really helps make the videos more easier to follow.
@@MangoJellySolutionsI see the logic of this, but if you are doing a one off part, no point.
I have been away from FreeCAD a while. This video is packed full of techniques that everyone must master. I have re-watched this a few times and keep picking up fine details of your workflow. Links between documents….interesting but what do I gain/lose from that. I think the video intent was to show that functionality as it applies to other project but not a requirement to actually make the lid. As always I appreciate your wonderful teaching skills and passing that to us!❤
Glad you enjoyed it. With the links between documents they come in useful if you have a part that you reuse in other projects so it's just something to add to your knowledge. Personally I don't often use them as I don't reuse parts that often. Thanks for the comments :)
Thanks
Thank you 😊👍
Insanely good tutorial. Thanks.
One thing bothers me so much in FreeCAD compared to other software that feature tree is so confusing to me. Other than that it's getting quite ok to use these days.
I found the toolbar confusing, too. To help, I moved the bars over to the left vertical side, leaving only the “iso view” tools on the main toolbar. It provides a little more height to the work window and, for me, an easier feature point and click on the left. Of course you could put the toolbars pretty much anywhere in the window to suit your working style.
great useful video, can a spreadsheet be used for this to make it parametric??
I made a larger box using this video also cut a hole for a display through the top, one thing is the recessed holes in the lid for the screws failed a bit due to the print of those is inverted, so I printed without the recess all okay, maybe if I used counter sunk screw holes it would be fine in future 🙂
Thanks for posting an update in regards to what you used this for. And saying about the challenges you had. Great to hear
This is a very useful video for me.Thanks a lot.
I replicated the steps shown in your video (just adapted the box dimensions for my project).
In my model I created two sizes of screw posts viz. for M3 and M2. The. complete model (box + lid) including the M2 and M3 threads came out very well.
I exported the ".stl " file for box to "Ultimaker Cura, V5.2.2" and printed the sliced file using the "Ultimaker 2+ Connect", 3D printer.
The box came out perfect but the M2 and M3 hole diameters are by far not large enough to accomodate the M2 and/or M3 screws. :-((.
I have double checked the M2/M3 stuff in the model, they are corect!
Any idea or suggestion what could possibly have gone wrong?
B.t.w. I am using FreeCad version 0.20.2
Thanks for your help in advance.
TIL that shape binders work across file. 🎉
Very good! You'll get a coffee on me.
Question - when I am in Sketcher, I cannot rotate the view unless I press on the curvy arrows or faces on the upper right hand corner of the view screen. But in your video, I see you were rotating the sketch view smoothly as will with the cursor.
How did you do that?
Thank you 😊, so I rotate the view using a key on the keyboard and moving the mouse. If you look down to the bottom right of freecad you will see a button with a mouse on it, this changes the navigation method you are using. If you click on that you can choose the different types such as CAD, Blender etc. If you roll the mouse over the icon a pop up will appear. That will show what keys and mouse combinations to use to control the movement. The pop up will look similar to the diagrams in the freecad wiki wiki.freecad.org/Mouse_navigation#:~:text=CAD%20navigation,-This%20is%20the&text=Alternate%20method-,Press%20the%20left%20mouse%20button%20over%20an%20object%20you%20want,to%20zoom%20in%20and%20out.
Thank you, I am past this level, but watch all your videos because your workflow is often smarter/more efficient - and I can learn a trick or two.
But what is the advantage of separate files? Why not have both bodies in the same file?
Thanks, and thank you for the feedback. The seperate file is there just for choice. The main file might get cluttered with lots of bodies so this is just a way of given the designer more options to work in their preferred way. Shape binders can be used in any workbench not just part design. Which opens up many possibilities (I will be going into that soon)
Thanks for your explendid FreeCAD tutorials throughout these years. I've being watching almost all of your videos for the last 2 years since I found this software. I found out that I'm still a beginner... The Mirrored features in one go only at 25:50 was something amazing... THE JUICE of today's lesson😵💫... I was doing it on a "slughish" way. You've been really "hamering" on FreeCAD, 😂😂😂.
Any chances for us to watch any tutorials with Arch workbench? Cheers and thanks again|
Thanks for your continued support all these years, you and the community have really helped this channel grow. I just wish I can make more time to share more of the knowledge I have. Maybe sometime in the future I can give up my job and go full time, because the channel has taken me back to my roots and I wish I did this so much earlier. Believe it or not I am working on arch workbench tutorials . The good this with this workbench is that it has structured workflow like the part design and had allows for IFC aling with 2D and 3D plans. Thank you once again for your kind words.
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Thanks for your reply.
Looking forward for those tutorials of yours.
I do prefer machines projects, but recently I put in my mind to represent in a 3D model a kind of warehouse/workshop that was built, with 50x20x20 concrete blocks, by a local bricklayer and where I "stuffed in" my tools and machines to perform some light repairs on my vehicles and agriculture farm equipment touch ups.
It's a simple 10 X 6 m rectangle (top viewed) construction with an inner L shaped wall at of the corners for a separated compartment.
The roof is made of sandwich type panels with expanded PU in the middle.
The 6 roof panels are sitting over a set of 5 Omega shaped galvanized beams 10 meters long, 1.5m apart from each other approx.
The 6 roof panels are 6 x 1m each.
There is a 12.1º inclination on the roof and of course the same 12.1º cut at the top edges of 2 opposite walls.
The other 2 walls (10 m long - rectangular faces) have around 2.4 and 4-meters height.
I've done the model in Part design workbench but in Arch workbench I can't figure out the way to get the 12.1º cut on the top edge of the 2 walls (non-rectangular faces) to accommodate the beams and the roof panels.
This is a challenge indeed. I would appreciate anyone's solution on this......🙉.
Regards
So wall in arc workbench can be made from a base shape. This can be a line or a solid. If you have the right shaped wall in part or part design you can add them into a wall in arc workbench. Does that help at all?
Having a great time learning from your tutorial!
Just a note, I'm at about 10:55 and when I create the new file for the lid, it doesn't show up in the tree view unless I bring that tab into focus. After a little digging I found a setting under View -> TreeView actions -> Multi document that shows both documents in the tree view like in the video. I don't know if this is the default in 0.20 or not; I'm using 0.21.1.
Thanks again for the great tutorials!
Thank you for adding that, I wasn't aware of that setting as I have always seen them showing up. Thank you for adding that as it will help others. Much appreciated.
Another great tutorial, MJ...thanks.
Question: What is the motivation for breaking the box parts out into two separate files, versus keeping them in one, multi-body file?
Thank you glad you enjoyed. The motivation is just to show, well just that you can 😁. It's down to your preference at the end of the day. If you have multiple parts and the file starts to get 'busy' then you have this option. Also I wanted to demonstrate the flexibility of the shape binder across multiple files so to expand the designers options.
@@MangoJellySolutions Ah, OK.
I'm sticking with the single project method for the time being. :)
Very helpful for someone new to FreeCad you are coaching good technique. I have one concern: I think the symetry operation has turned the new threads to left handed. If so maybe add threads to all holes after symmetry?
Thank you thanks for the kind words. I didn't spot that re the symmetry, I am going to have to check that as I 3d printed it for a friend who's using it at the moment. If it is the case yes you can add it as the last feature. Great spot. Thanks for highlighting that.
@@MangoJellySolutions Ive just recreated what you did and can see that the thread is left handed on the symetry plane copy. It makes full sense as that is what you asked to do with the symmetry operation. Otherwise all epic! By the way are 3D prints such as this expensive in materials if yuo have a printer, or if you use a service to print?
Thanks for the update. In regards to printing I have never used a 3D printing service before. I must give them a go and see how they compare.
Sir, what happens to the cross body link of the shape binder if the files are separated for use in different models later? i.e. will an update to BoxBody still have an affect on the BoxLid if they are used in different parts in different models? I hope you can follow my question. I wouldn't want unexpected changes showing up else where. Thank you for all the awesome teaching. 🍎
This question was left to mark my thought process. I see the shape binder is being used as a reference to new geometry and should not affect later models. But I'm seeing the binder might still be changed.
Sorry for the late reply. Are you describing the file being moved to another location on the pc? And thank you for the kind comments.
Having trouble on 12:12, I can't select the frame and the 4 circles in Pad like you did. This is right when starting the box lid. Can you help me?
Proper MIc? Nice sound!
Yes new mic along with some sound editing. 😁😁
At about 8:30, you mention that we're putting off the holes in the posts to avoid topological issues. Would you explain this?
When you build parts on PartDesign they are automatically fused. So the next feature is built upon the previous. When you change something further up the tree everything after will reconfigure and recompute. When this havens sometimes a edge will be named different than it was before. Anything referencing that edge will move to the new edge. This will be better managed in the future release of freecad.
@@MangoJellySolutions Thanks for clarifying - I think I've run into this before and didn't understand what I did wrong. I do hope they fix this.
@@leroycasterline1122use the Realthunder link branch, it’s fixed in that version
@@roofoofighter Thank you.
for an absolute beginner, this stuff is overly complex. I've done a lot of 3d design, and am pretty good at it, but this UX is aweful. I really do appreciate your tutorial, but one small tip: explain as you go. because something as simple as hiding a body is probably evident for you, but after googling for a few minutes I realized you hit space bar instead of double clicking it. and that goes for a lot of actions anyone familiar with this software takes on youtube... I'm also clicking the exact same things as you and getting errors, even after rewinding and trying again several times