I just want to add my voice to the choir: thanks for a great series! This is my first attempt at CAD and if I'm ever going to learn it, it will be thanks to this excellent foundation.
Congrats again, your videos are opening up opportunities for people, myself included. We can all see the potential, and that is why we persist, your video adds a practical solution to workflows. My design intentions are now gaining clarity.
This was a fun video today. At first, I was not interested in this particular area so I skipped the video for a bit, but I got curious and watched. You did a great job of showing and describing the process which I appreciate. I still don't know how I would use this feature, but now I have an understanding of what it does. My favorite part would be the exploded view and bill of materials, they are a pain to create manually.
Excellent tutorial, thank you. Maybe I would figure it out by experimenting, but let’s say your top plate has some clearance built in so it slides without binding. You wouldn’t assemble it as you did with the two edges touching. If, for example, you wanted to assemble a dovetail joint that has a bit of clearance on all surfaces. Is there a way to center out the male part in the female space?
Did you try affixing the brackets using a revolute on the first hole and a fixed on the second hole. This seems logically that it would be the proper way to assemble those two parts.
You can assign materials with the Material command, allowing Python to access e.g: weight = FreeCAD.Units.Quantity(obj.Shape.Volume, FreeCAD.Units.Volume) * FreeCAD.Units.parseQuantity(obj.ShapeMaterial.Properties['Density']) This could be used in a macro to fill in a weight column. I don't think Assembly CreateBom has a feature to describe new columns, though. I also think expressions (like in spreadsheet) can't do indirect object lookups via names in other fields. Material seems more meant for the FEM system, but we can improve it.
@@0LoneTech I think you are right, I could not access these attributes from the spreadsheet or the bom directly. It would have to be a separate macro that populates the spreadsheet. It's definitely food for thought.
@@0LoneTech OK, a little further investigation and I could access Area and Volume directly in the BOM but the density proved more tricky. The method __getitem__ does not appear to be accessible in the BOM directly so I had to use the python console (or a Macro) to read the item from the ShapeMaterial.properties dictionary for density. I could populate a spreadsheet cell with the entire dictionary but could not index one item using FacePlate.ShapeMaterial.Properties.__getitem__('Density') - There is definitely a lot of potential there.
I wonder if there is a way to create new part during assembly (for example to adjust new part for existing one). In Autodesk Inventor is the best I know - you create new part and you can cast geometry from other parts to new part sketches. Then design process is much easier, at least for me.
I just want to add my voice to the choir: thanks for a great series! This is my first attempt at CAD and if I'm ever going to learn it, it will be thanks to this excellent foundation.
Thank you!
This was a very valuable video. 1.0 is really nice. Thanks for the videos.
You're very welcome!
Congrats again, your videos are opening up opportunities for people, myself included. We can all see the potential, and that is why we persist, your video adds a practical solution to workflows. My design intentions are now gaining clarity.
I am glad to hear it. Thanks!
I would vote this video as your best one to date! Everything I design requires assembly and this workbench looks like it will be one of my favorites.
Excellent, glad to hear that!
love your videos, thank you for making these
You are welcome 😉
Really good! I hope you keep doing the others assembly tools too! 👍
Thanks, I am working on the next topic.
Thank you for these videos they are a great help in my learning curve
I am very glad to hear that.
That seems so much easier than my stumbling attempts with Assembly4 many months ago. I'm going to explore!
I agree, it's the best assembly workbench so far.
Super insightful, thanks a lot for the video!
You are welcome 😉
This was a fun video today. At first, I was not interested in this particular area so I skipped the video for a bit, but I got curious and watched. You did a great job of showing and describing the process which I appreciate. I still don't know how I would use this feature, but now I have an understanding of what it does. My favorite part would be the exploded view and bill of materials, they are a pain to create manually.
I use it for woodworking projects. It's a great feature.
Great videos! 🎉
Thanks!
Im loving this bracket ,,,
Ha ha 🤣
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I am loving this TH-cam channel.
At 17:38, you can see that the fixed joint has pulled the pin and sunk the right hand side of your bracket into the base.
Yeah, I thought it would be good to demo how to fix that.
Excellent tutorial, thank you. Maybe I would figure it out by experimenting, but let’s say your top plate has some clearance built in so it slides without binding. You wouldn’t assemble it as you did with the two edges touching. If, for example, you wanted to assemble a dovetail joint that has a bit of clearance on all surfaces. Is there a way to center out the male part in the female space?
There is a distance joint that you could use. Especially if you are looking to confirm fit and clearance.
Did you try affixing the brackets using a revolute on the first hole and a fixed on the second hole. This seems logically that it would be the proper way to assemble those two parts.
I did but it didn't work the way I would have expected. It's definitely something to play with.
Could Freecad 1.0 assembly workbench be used to update an older Freecad A2+ workbench assembly?
I don't think that would work but, great practice to recreate it.
Great video----What about weight and materiale of each part in the BOM?
I think they would be manual adds.
You can assign materials with the Material command, allowing Python to access e.g:
weight = FreeCAD.Units.Quantity(obj.Shape.Volume, FreeCAD.Units.Volume) * FreeCAD.Units.parseQuantity(obj.ShapeMaterial.Properties['Density'])
This could be used in a macro to fill in a weight column. I don't think Assembly CreateBom has a feature to describe new columns, though. I also think expressions (like in spreadsheet) can't do indirect object lookups via names in other fields. Material seems more meant for the FEM system, but we can improve it.
@@0LoneTech Thanks for the tip, I will give that a try and see if I can get it to show up in the BOM. - I'll let you know.
@@0LoneTech I think you are right, I could not access these attributes from the spreadsheet or the bom directly. It would have to be a separate macro that populates the spreadsheet. It's definitely food for thought.
@@0LoneTech OK, a little further investigation and I could access Area and Volume directly in the BOM but the density proved more tricky. The method __getitem__ does not appear to be accessible in the BOM directly so I had to use the python console (or a Macro) to read the item from the ShapeMaterial.properties dictionary for density. I could populate a spreadsheet cell with the entire dictionary but could not index one item using FacePlate.ShapeMaterial.Properties.__getitem__('Density') - There is definitely a lot of potential there.
I wonder if there is a way to create new part during assembly (for example to adjust new part for existing one).
In Autodesk Inventor is the best I know - you create new part and you can cast geometry from other parts to new part sketches. Then design process is much easier, at least for me.
Yes, it's quite easy to do. You can literally switch the referenced part. I almost showed that but the video was too long.