This guy demonstrates a 2D CAD system better than 99% of the CAD techies who do know how to pronounce fillet in this context! Been trying to decide between Qcad and nanocad and after seeing your vid I’m going with the nano. Hats off to you Sir. You are a born teacher. Blessings.
Lol, thank you very much Tom! Glad you enjoyed this one. I still use nano CAD for all my knife templates... it's nice to have a no nonsense piece of software.
Great video Sir that is sure to help new users get started with NanoCAD. Here is a little helper tip for accurately making a circle tangent to any two lines. After you click on the circle icon, or type it into the command line, look down at the command line and there you'll see the letters 3P, 2P, and TTR highlighted in blue. Start by clicking on TTR, or type those letters in the command line. It will then ask you to choose the two lines that you want the circle tangent to. Simply select those two lines and it will then ask you what radius you want for your circle, type in that dimension and it will drop your circle exactly tangent to the two lines you selected. All you need to do then is trim what you don't want like you normally do with the TRIM command and your done. Once you master the TTR command, play around with the 3P and 2P commands that allow you to place circles at end points of your choosing. I am a retired engineering tech and used AutoCad Lite, (LT) for many years and though I just learned about, and downloaded NanoCAD just one day ago, after watching a few tutorials including your's, I'm finding that NanoCAD is eerily very much like AutoCad LT so my learning curve hopefully will be short. I also wanted a CAD program that would open DWG and DXF drawings and NanoCAD will. By the way, if I'm not mistaken, the TTR stands for TANGENT, TANGENT, RADIUS which are the lines and dimensions that you have to select and/or specify. The 2P and 3P simply mean 2 Points or 3 Points that you'll connect your circle to. Thanks for taking the time to teach others.
Very nice presentation. The tiny radius at the junction of two intersecting line is called a fillet. the "t" is pronounced. If you are talking about the fillet of fish then the "t" is silent.
Great tutorial. I needed a drafting program that would let me rotate the blade. I’m designing a folder and I needed the rotate function to ensure the blade wouldn’t interfere with any other part of the knife in the folded position. You covered the essential functions very well. Thanks for introducing me to Nanocad. I have been making knives for three years. I find your videos to be very helpful.
I especially liked the one on free-hand bevel grinding. I was able to make my first successful free-hand blade after watching that video. I didn't need to fill a five-gallon bucket with failed blades, as someone suggested was necessary, before making a successful blade.
Dude, awesome vid. I use SketchUp and my structural engineer said I must send him a dwg. I downloaded nanocad and with this tutorial I had my plans done in a couple of hours. Thanks!
After finding reviews on Nanocad, I downloaded it and then began searching for some tutorials for a quick "getting starting" video. I had already created a model using Cardstock Aided Design, as well as a complete technical drawing. I simply needed to learn CAD and create the dmg files to get it to a shop to cut my pieces. I went from no knowledge to 3 completed CAD drawings in dwg in only 3 evenings, thanks to your excellent tutorial. Full disclosure: I have years of experience in graphics programs(PhotoDraw and Sketchup), metal fab, technical drawing and shop skills. I think I also may have found a solution to your issue of proper sizing for achieving full-size patterns on your printer. I found that I had the same problem, and while a work-around is handy, I decided to work on solving the problem. Go into Set the paper size (I used "Letter"). Select "Custom". Set to "Limits". Hopefully, that helps. And thanks again. Your guidance is greatly appreciated. ....And I did Liked and Subscribed.
Heck yeah man! Really happy you found this useful. I think I stumbled onto that solution recently. The 1:1 parameter has been printing true to size. Once again I'm really happy you found this informative and thanks for the tip! I'm sure others will find it.
Thanks for the video. I followed your instructions and created my first drawing. Not perfect, but way better than I would have done without your video.
I don't use CAD software very often, and the tutorials that are out there tend to assume the basics. Your tutorial is appreciated because you show the basics! On a different note, "Fillet" in this usage isn't pronounced "fuh-lay". It is pronounced "fill-it", as in "a concave junction where two surfaces meet". Fillets are usually used to round inside corners, so that may have something to do with why nanoCAD gets confused when you use the tool for outside corners. Thanks!
It's always interesting to see how different people tackle the same issue. Another way to start (how I usually do it) is to draw a rectangle that represents the stock material I'm using (12"x1") to show my max size limits and then I draw 4 circles at the lower-left corner 1" diameter side by side to simulate four fingers (similar to your 4" line). This will give me a guide just in case I want to contour the handles high/low points for just the pointer finger or all four. Just an optional idea I wanted to share.
Thanks a bunch for this video. Been looking for a straight forward 2d cad for some basic drawings. Your tutorial is excellent. Hope you do more videos like this.
I've been testing this software out to see if it's any good and it was incredibly frustrating to use, mainly because my 'snap' was on and I've never used this before so I thought nanoCAD was just clunky because it's free. A few minutes into your video solved my issue right away and has encouraged me to further work with this to see what we (architecturals) can do with it. Thanks.
You just saved me hours of futzing sir. Thank you! Side note, for your timestamps to work properly you need to have the 0:00 comment in there as well. Drove me nuts on my channel for a while. Thanks again!
Fantastic tutorial. Are you a teacher? If not ... you should be! I'm a complete beginner and your video taught me more than i learned in hours on the Nanocad videos. Thank you
So, I build knives for myself/friends which is what brought me to your site. Then I spotted the NanoCad download video in your list. AutoCAD and I have been going around on support for a 2007 product which I use for everything. Anyway, I downloaded and got a license for this CAD. Haven't time to really get into it yet, but so far this could be a carbon copy of AutoCAD Light for 2D. I just wanted to thank you and also say how much I've enjoyed your videos.
Hey Jim, I really appreciate your comment! You're right, it's just like AutoCAD controls. Works great for what I do. I love that it's free for us hobbyist.
Excellent video. I like your presentation style. I hadn't heard of nanoCAD before but now I'm going to give it a try. One thing I've done frequently with projects like this is to just draw a line that's exactly 10.00" long at the top or bottom. When you print your pattern out you can quickly measure that line and check if your scale is correct. If not the 10.00 inch value is easy to use to calculate your scaling factor.
Hey man, thanks for the comment. That is the exact method I use! Very useful, and also a good check! Interestingly enough the 1:1 printing works flawlessly for me when using millimeters.
If this program is as close to ACAD as it appears, I think if you plot Window (near the knife) @ 1:1, you "should" get a 1:1 plot. Or plot extents around a rectangle drawn at the max paper size for your plotter you should be good. Even if you plot extents 1:1 around a rectangle (paper size) 8.5x11 your plot should come out 1:1 - it will just push a horizontal and vertical line off the sheet. That's probably as clear as mud. I have been using AuroCAD for about 30 years. Hit me up if you have questions.
Great video awesome detail. I did download the program I can have my knife drawn but for some reason when I do the filet button it won't let me how to stuff I don't want so I got a bunch of circles and weird stuff everywhere that I can't get rid of. It will probably be nice to have regular erase button Windows paint used to I'm just going to delete this crap cuz it's frustrating and keep drawing it by hand
Couple tips for you: *Don't need to preselect items when using fillet (you will notice it automatically deselects them when you start the fillet command) *Workaround when fillet isn't working: instead of trying to freehand align a circle, use the Circle TTR option (Tan Tan Radius), then you select the 2 lines you want to be tangent to and type a desired radius. Then your trims will come out right without any moving around *those tangents coming out right matters (very visible) if you ever try to use your drawings for a cnc cutting machine (laser, router, etc). If you are using a belt sander, you can quickly clean them up, but then you lose your precise geometry and require cleanup steps. Even with ALU, hand cleaning those with a file can take a while (maybe longer than the machine took to make the part). *your drawing are probably getting their scale messed up in the printers own settings (eg it's auto paper fitting). You can scale workaround as you suggested, but then every scale will still be off and require special calculating to make them work (eg 2:1 won't be 2:1). Better to fix your printer's setting and turn off those auto fit settings. *for anyone struggling to fix this, I'm not talking about the print dialog box in your cad program, though it may have a button get to the printer's settings. I'm talking about going into "devices & settings" or "printers and devices" or whatever windows decided to rename it to this week, and going to your printer and changing it's base/global settings that every use defaults to.
Dear Sir: Hi! You seems to be a good heart person, thanks for your tutorial. I am a drafterperson trained in Autocad and in other 3d modeling software and you help me to see the functionality of the basics commands of nanocad, which are exactly the same of the ones of Autocad. Regarding the plot setting I think that if you want to put a mark to your template for a letter paper format of 8 1/2" x 11", you need to put two diagonal points for marking the paper letter format and draw a rectangle within that limit of the letter format. when you print you should use those diagonal points and print fit to paper. That will print exactly the area of 8 1/2" x 11" and you will see the mark you made to the template exactly as you set it in your model space of NanoCad. That should works but try it and tell me if I am correct. Thank you my friend again for your tutorial; Martin Ibn-Rubain
Can't believe how closely that resembles AutoCAD!! Thanks for sharing, I didn't know NanoCAD existed. Now if I could just get a free version of SolidWorks... LoL
Very timely video James. Was looking to try something with CAD. Have used Inkscape but most of my designs are drawn freehand. Want to start getting everything in a program.
Nick Riggi awesome Nick! This program handles very much like the expensive autoCad from a 2d drawing perspective. I’ve found the skills are transferable. So are the working files if you ever change over. Good luck!
Jerry Swatsell Thank you very much sir! Glad you were able to get something out of this video. It’s not as “flashy” as a knife build, but I think it will help out some looking to try out CAD for the first time.
@@RedBeardOps I took Windows 2000 network administration years ago just out of interest. I've Always been into software. Anyway, thanks again. Love the detailed tutorials.
Thanks for the excellent tutorial, my friend. While I've been designing in 3D models for a while, it was still refreshing to see an actual knife maker draw a knife vs a CAD designer explaining the technicalities of how to draw a proper line, etc. I realize it would be a ton of work but sometime in the future could you make a similar video explaining the "why" of some of your personal design choices? Why a certain thickness of the material, why pick certain pinhole sizes, why a certain "point" profile, etc? I know there are volumes of books on the subject but to hear it from someone "in the trenches" actually MAKING the knives (not just academically theorizing on knife design) would be very nice. Thanks again.
As Dan said below, it is VERY similar to AutoCAD. FYI (not being a jerk) the fillet command is often times mispronounced to make it sound like a steak cut, but it is pronounced "fill-et". Long time CAD user. Love your videos!
Hey Jake, you have just solved a problem I have had for a decade ! what software is simple to use and great for 2D, Iv'e really Missed Auto-cad 2007 but here it is with a new name and is running post XP! whats more you demonstrated how good it is. Also thanks to you I have now learnt how to radius the corners without the work around!!! your the man! Will
Glad you like it Will. As a side note I generally use Fusion 360 now for drafting. It's also free and more powerful. If you're interested - th-cam.com/video/EKFgSmgQ_DM/w-d-xo.html
Thanks for this. I started with Draftsight and then tried LibreCad when the pricing model changed on Draftsight. LibreCad is less intuitive than this. Do you every use layers? I want to use this for slipjoints and have different layers for spring, blade, scales.
Very cool man, I have not used layers on my designs since they're all simple fixed blade full tang knives! I would imagine it would work just fine though.
Do you have a video showing you actually printing it out. I figured to work around the trim feature but now I can't print it out it says I need permission from the website to print it out
Takes some practice for sure. Nowadays I use Fusion 360 for my drafting. Also free - th-cam.com/video/EKFgSmgQ_DM/w-d-xo.html You shouldn't need any permissions from a website to print it out.
This is the best man, I love this! I was sick of drawing them and I have a great computer, so this is ideal! I managed an in-house plotting team for a civil engineering firm and was super close to getting a job as a CAD programmer for a surveying team, so it’s nice to use this and get a feel for what might have been. =] Great program! Ive been missing out for all these years on a great program for mapping out my future projects. Stumbled onto a goldmine! Lol, thanks again brother!
nice video I have some problems about dimension. When I click on a line or circle, it's always displayed "0". How did you click when you are dimension. TKS
OMG I'm so confused. I have been attempting to learn this on one program or the other for oover 3 years now. This video may be my ticket after I've watched it 20 or 30 times. I was following for a while but the further you went the more lost I got. Seriusly though You did a really goood job of showing the program and how to use it. Hwat I'm going to do is get out the laptop and my tablet. Watch the video on the tablet as I try to do it on the laptop. That way I'm doing it as you explain it. Hopefully I'll finally get it because at this point I am doing it all the old fashion way. All to scale but by hand. Thanks for taking the time to do this video. Very helpful.
Jim Patterson hey Jim, thanks for your comment. If you have any issues I’ll do my best to answer. It’s a handy program for sure! Takes a little time to get comfortable in it though. If you have specific questions google is a good resource as well. I’ve had to do that myself a few time. Good luck sir!
Dave Branson thank you Dave! It will give me a little leeway down the road if I want to expand. (Tool reviews, restorations, etc). Hope to see you around the comment section! Cheers!
That was a phenomelly helpful video. Thank you so much. Now I have an idea how to get started designing knives! And I know why when I printed your design that it came out too small haha.
Cheers Jeremiah, glad it helped. You can also screen shot a PDF, bring it into powerpoint and scale it to print correctly. Kinda a pain, but I've had to do that before.
Great tutorial brother, I have already downloaded the cad program and I'm going to give it a try. Thanks for putting this out there, I think it's really going to help me out.
Jason M. Copeland Hey Jason, I’m extremely happy to hear that! While there is much nuance with a topic like this, I’m happy you found it helpful. Let me know if you run into any issues and I’ll do my best to help.
Wow, this is a perfect replacement as an emergency solution for autocad LT :-) ... practically the same controls and options Thank you very much for your effort, very pleased to have found this video 👍👍👍
Armadillo Forge thank you sir! Glad you enjoyed it. I know this topic will be dry for many, but I figured some would appreciate the “beginners course” sorta speak. Cheers
@@RedBeardOps I sometimes am speaking to a guy in our local supermarket here in ireland and he also makes hand made knives and sells them online, interesting hobby.
@@RedBeardOps no it was in the lower left corner of the nanocad page i got it DL'ed going to try loading and checking it out tomorrow.....i bet you will have so many views on this video lol i know i will watch it several times following you instruction........ Thanks much Brother
Not perfect but as close to autocad as you can get for free. I use acad at office and nanocad when working at home commands and interface and nearly identical. Great program.
So you are WRONG about nanocad. Compared to draft sight nano is very hard to use. I am trying but draftsight for $100 a years is far and away much more user friendly. SORRY
@@RedBeardOps... one rare person who answers all posts! Your video is simple straight to the point and valuable to many. No babble, no condescending approach... just pure... done. T.y. I have browsed all I could to see if nanoCAD has 3D functionality, and for the life of me, I do not see anything to point me in that direction readily, easily. One of their demo on their web site shows a 3D picnic table but under the plot command. Confusing!? [ UPDATE: 1 of 2, - picnic table - www.nanocad.com/page/VT11 ] UPDATE: 2 of 2, - I have found the 1 source that explain it ALL with prices! No need for added research, complete... yeah, a rare gem! - nanoCAD Plus and nanoCAD Pro - No Limits No More. Watch the webinar! - th-cam.com/video/PgOx5avJNFg/w-d-xo.html I need something that can do simple mechanics in 3D, like axles, gears, belts, pulleys, ... with simple 3D printing functionality. I design simple wood toys, to play in the dirt. I can't afford Solidworks or even Sketchup which used to be my software. SKETCHUP: now priced out of reach. ...or they force you to a shared web BS version. ...and I am not fond of people who claim to offer a free product when it is NOT! Phck Trimble! They lured me into upgrading to a version which no longer is free, so I lost my free version 17 and all my work is not accessible any longer! bastards! They could have warned so that I could at least have kept a tool to use my existing work! FreeCAD: is the only other software I found that is truly free at a decent level of functionality, but it is crap, it crashes constantly and is nastily awkward, cumbersome to use, if not completely horrible. All the others I have been lured into, claim to be free yet become very expensive fast! pack of lies... nanoCAD: seems to be legit, it shows to be the best approach to resolve the world issue on CAD availability to the small people. It is not free, but affordable. I have downloaded nanoCAD 5 trying to see if I can create some simple object and click a button to see it in 3D(frame and solid). Gonna have to spend time in their forum to see what level of activation gets me the 3D mechanical. They do have the 2D nanoCAD MECHANICA... and it looks damn good! What bothers me is that it seems this would be made obvious without having to burn the time to try something to find out it does not meet the requirement. I am tired of trying software after software that wastes my time.
@@RedBeardOps If you're going to fillet, do it properly. It's very bad practice to pop a circle there and trim it without joining the points together. And if joining two curves together one going the other way, you need a geometric construct to get it perfect.
This is the best man, I love this! I was sick of drawing them and I have a great computer, so this is ideal! I managed an in-house plotting team for a civil engineering firm and was super close to getting a job as a CAD programmer for a surveying team, so it’s nice to use this and get a feel for what might have been. =] Great program! Ive been missing out for all these years on a great program for mapping out my future projects. Stumbled onto a goldmine! Lol, thanks again brother!
This guy demonstrates a 2D CAD system better than 99% of the CAD techies who do know how to pronounce fillet in this context! Been trying to decide between Qcad and nanocad and after seeing your vid I’m going with the nano. Hats off to you Sir. You are a born teacher. Blessings.
Lol, thank you very much Tom! Glad you enjoyed this one. I still use nano CAD for all my knife templates... it's nice to have a no nonsense piece of software.
Totally agree. Lots of useful info, efficiently presented and demonstrated. Better than anything else I've seen online. Fillet like a pro! 😃😃
Great video Sir that is sure to help new users get started with NanoCAD. Here is a little helper tip for accurately making a circle tangent to any two lines. After you click on the circle icon, or type it into the command line, look down at the command line and there you'll see the letters 3P, 2P, and TTR highlighted in blue. Start by clicking on TTR, or type those letters in the command line. It will then ask you to choose the two lines that you want the circle tangent to. Simply select those two lines and it will then ask you what radius you want for your circle, type in that dimension and it will drop your circle exactly tangent to the two lines you selected. All you need to do then is trim what you don't want like you normally do with the TRIM command and your done.
Once you master the TTR command, play around with the 3P and 2P commands that allow you to place circles at end points of your choosing. I am a retired engineering tech and used AutoCad Lite, (LT) for many years and though I just learned about, and downloaded NanoCAD just one day ago, after watching a few tutorials including your's, I'm finding that NanoCAD is eerily very much like AutoCad LT so my learning curve hopefully will be short. I also wanted a CAD program that would open DWG and DXF drawings and NanoCAD will. By the way, if I'm not mistaken, the TTR stands for TANGENT, TANGENT, RADIUS which are the lines and dimensions that you have to select and/or specify. The 2P and 3P simply mean 2 Points or 3 Points that you'll connect your circle to. Thanks for taking the time to teach others.
Awesome man, thanks for your comment! I'm sure it will help some others in the future as well.
1:02 - Where to Download
1:38 - Initial Setup (Snap/Dimensions)
3:49 - Shapes and Objects
6:35 - Selecting Items (nuances)
8:31 - Commands (Trim/Fillet/Mirror/etc)
15:19 - Drawing a Knife Template
26:35 - Dimensions (and settings)
29:45 - Printing / Plotting
32:50 - Send in your cool knife templates?
Best intro to nanoCAD I've seen yet. Thanks.
Thank you Peter. Happy you liked it!
Congrats, it is one of the best tutorials I have found so far. Thanks for sharing!
Glad it was helpful!
Very nice presentation. The tiny radius at the junction of two intersecting line is called a fillet. the "t" is pronounced. If you are talking about the fillet of fish then the "t" is silent.
Thank you sir!
Not in the uK, it isn't!!🤣
Great tutorial. I needed a drafting program that would let me rotate the blade. I’m designing a folder and
I needed the rotate function to ensure the blade wouldn’t interfere with any other part of the knife in the folded position.
You covered the essential functions very well. Thanks for introducing me to Nanocad.
I have been making knives for three years. I find your videos to be very helpful.
Hey Hugh, I really appreciate your comment! Have a great week, sir!
I especially liked the one on free-hand bevel grinding. I was able to make my first successful free-hand blade after watching that video.
I didn't need to fill a five-gallon bucket with failed blades, as someone suggested was necessary, before making a successful blade.
The way you explained and showed examples of how to do things is super simple and easy to understand, thank you
Glad it was helpful!
Dude, awesome vid. I use SketchUp and my structural engineer said I must send him a dwg. I downloaded nanocad and with this tutorial I had my plans done in a couple of hours.
Thanks!
Heck yeah, happy it worked out for you. Cheers man!
After finding reviews on Nanocad, I downloaded it and then began searching for some tutorials for a quick "getting starting" video. I had already created a model using Cardstock Aided Design, as well as a complete technical drawing. I simply needed to learn CAD and create the dmg files to get it to a shop to cut my pieces. I went from no knowledge to 3 completed CAD drawings in dwg in only 3 evenings, thanks to your excellent tutorial. Full disclosure: I have years of experience in graphics programs(PhotoDraw and Sketchup), metal fab, technical drawing and shop skills.
I think I also may have found a solution to your issue of proper sizing for achieving full-size patterns on your printer. I found that I had the same problem, and while a work-around is handy, I decided to work on solving the problem.
Go into
Set the paper size (I used "Letter").
Select "Custom".
Set to "Limits".
Hopefully, that helps. And thanks again. Your guidance is greatly appreciated. ....And I did Liked and Subscribed.
Heck yeah man! Really happy you found this useful. I think I stumbled onto that solution recently. The 1:1 parameter has been printing true to size.
Once again I'm really happy you found this informative and thanks for the tip! I'm sure others will find it.
Thanks for the video. I followed your instructions and created my first drawing. Not perfect, but way better than I would have done without your video.
Glad it helped!
I don't use CAD software very often, and the tutorials that are out there tend to assume the basics. Your tutorial is appreciated because you show the basics!
On a different note, "Fillet" in this usage isn't pronounced "fuh-lay". It is pronounced "fill-it", as in "a concave junction where two surfaces meet". Fillets are usually used to round inside corners, so that may have something to do with why nanoCAD gets confused when you use the tool for outside corners.
Thanks!
Thanks!
It's always interesting to see how different people tackle the same issue. Another way to start (how I usually do it) is to draw a rectangle that represents the stock material I'm using (12"x1") to show my max size limits and then I draw 4 circles at the lower-left corner 1" diameter side by side to simulate four fingers (similar to your 4" line). This will give me a guide just in case I want to contour the handles high/low points for just the pointer finger or all four. Just an optional idea I wanted to share.
Very neat, thank you!
That was a very good lesson mr. I was wondring about this things. Thanks for doing this.
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for sharing. To fix the dimension size you change the scale to 5 or 10 in the fit tab. Hope that helps.
Thank you sir!
Thanks a bunch for this video. Been looking for a straight forward 2d cad for some basic drawings. Your tutorial is excellent. Hope you do more videos like this.
Thank you very much! Glad you got something out of it!
This is the best video ive found sofar on Nanocad5, certainly cleared up plenty for me, thanks
Awesome!!
nanoCAD Free looks like it has the basics I' m after. I tried LibreCAD and its limitations drove me crazy.
I've been testing this software out to see if it's any good and it was incredibly frustrating to use, mainly because my 'snap' was on and I've never used this before so I thought nanoCAD was just clunky because it's free. A few minutes into your video solved my issue right away and has encouraged me to further work with this to see what we (architecturals) can do with it. Thanks.
Glad I could help!
Great presentation! Your video is more informative than Nanocad's videos.
Thanks Marty! Glad you got something out of this guy.
You helped me learn Draftsight, so glad you have found another free cad and provided lessons, thanks. Like the name change of your channel.
Thanks man. Figured it could open it up down the road. Really happy you enjoyed this one. Thank you!
You just saved me hours of futzing sir. Thank you! Side note, for your timestamps to work properly you need to have the 0:00 comment in there as well. Drove me nuts on my channel for a while. Thanks again!
Thanks for the tip!
Fantastic tutorial. Are you a teacher? If not ... you should be! I'm a complete beginner and your video taught me more than i learned in hours on the Nanocad videos. Thank you
Hey Joe, thanks man! I'm not a teacher, but enjoy sharing the stuff I learn! Have a great weekend.
brilliant tutorial, clear, easy to follow. many thanks
Glad you liked it!
So, I build knives for myself/friends which is what brought me to your site. Then I spotted the NanoCad download video in your list. AutoCAD and I have been going around on support for a 2007 product which I use for everything. Anyway, I downloaded and got a license for this CAD. Haven't time to really get into it yet, but so far this could be a carbon copy of AutoCAD Light for 2D. I just wanted to thank you and also say how much I've enjoyed your videos.
Hey Jim, I really appreciate your comment! You're right, it's just like AutoCAD controls. Works great for what I do. I love that it's free for us hobbyist.
Excellent video. I like your presentation style. I hadn't heard of nanoCAD before but now I'm going to give it a try.
One thing I've done frequently with projects like this is to just draw a line that's exactly 10.00" long at the top or bottom. When you print your pattern out you can quickly measure that line and check if your scale is correct. If not the 10.00 inch value is easy to use to calculate your scaling factor.
Hey man, thanks for the comment. That is the exact method I use! Very useful, and also a good check! Interestingly enough the 1:1 printing works flawlessly for me when using millimeters.
Interesting. So it works in millimeters but maybe or maybe not when using inches? It's a conspiracy I tell you! :)
@@bbowling4979 LOL, that's right! Guess it is a conspiracy!
If this program is as close to ACAD as it appears, I think if you plot Window (near the knife) @ 1:1, you "should" get a 1:1 plot. Or plot extents around a rectangle drawn at the max paper size for your plotter you should be good. Even if you plot extents 1:1 around a rectangle (paper size) 8.5x11 your plot should come out 1:1 - it will just push a horizontal and vertical line off the sheet. That's probably as clear as mud. I have been using AuroCAD for about 30 years. Hit me up if you have questions.
@@briangasseling3489 It does seem to work when working in millimeters.. but inches I have to put in a ratio to get the right printed scale. It seems
Excellent Tutorial. Thanks for the help.
You're welcome! Glad it helped!
[Puts pot of coffee on] I have a cold and was GOING to bed early tonight. Not anymore! Great video brother, thank you.
ApexMitch thank you sir! Glad you liked it. Make sure to get some sleep though!
Really good info here, I intend to use this a lot!
Glad you liked it Jack!
Great video awesome detail. I did download the program I can have my knife drawn but for some reason when I do the filet button it won't let me how to stuff I don't want so I got a bunch of circles and weird stuff everywhere that I can't get rid of. It will probably be nice to have regular erase button Windows paint used to I'm just going to delete this crap cuz it's frustrating and keep drawing it by hand
Takes some practice for sure. Nowadays I use Fusion 360 for my drafting. Also free - th-cam.com/video/EKFgSmgQ_DM/w-d-xo.html
This is an excellent tutorial. Thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
Couple tips for you:
*Don't need to preselect items when using fillet (you will notice it automatically deselects them when you start the fillet command)
*Workaround when fillet isn't working: instead of trying to freehand align a circle, use the Circle TTR option (Tan Tan Radius), then you select the 2 lines you want to be tangent to and type a desired radius. Then your trims will come out right without any moving around
*those tangents coming out right matters (very visible) if you ever try to use your drawings for a cnc cutting machine (laser, router, etc). If you are using a belt sander, you can quickly clean them up, but then you lose your precise geometry and require cleanup steps. Even with ALU, hand cleaning those with a file can take a while (maybe longer than the machine took to make the part).
*your drawing are probably getting their scale messed up in the printers own settings (eg it's auto paper fitting). You can scale workaround as you suggested, but then every scale will still be off and require special calculating to make them work (eg 2:1 won't be 2:1). Better to fix your printer's setting and turn off those auto fit settings.
*for anyone struggling to fix this, I'm not talking about the print dialog box in your cad program, though it may have a button get to the printer's settings. I'm talking about going into "devices & settings" or "printers and devices" or whatever windows decided to rename it to this week, and going to your printer and changing it's base/global settings that every use defaults to.
Thanks ANdrew!
Dear Sir:
Hi! You seems to be a good heart person, thanks for your tutorial. I am a drafterperson trained in Autocad and in other 3d modeling software and you help me to see the functionality of the basics commands of nanocad, which are exactly the same of the ones of Autocad. Regarding the plot setting I think that if you want to put a mark to your template for a letter paper format of 8 1/2" x 11", you need to put two diagonal points for marking the paper letter format and draw a rectangle within that limit of the letter format. when you print you should use those diagonal points and print fit to paper. That will print exactly the area of 8 1/2" x 11" and you will see the mark you made to the template exactly as you set it in your model space of NanoCad. That should works but try it and tell me if I am correct.
Thank you my friend again for your tutorial;
Martin Ibn-Rubain
Thank you greatly Martin! I think the issue was with my printer. It is now scaling appropriately.
Can't believe how closely that resembles AutoCAD!! Thanks for sharing, I didn't know NanoCAD existed. Now if I could just get a free version of SolidWorks... LoL
lol, cheers Dan. really glad you enjoyed the video. Free SolidWorks would be legit!
it's called fusion 360 ;)
Very timely video James. Was looking to try something with CAD. Have used Inkscape but most of my designs are drawn freehand. Want to start getting everything in a program.
Nick Riggi awesome Nick! This program handles very much like the expensive autoCad from a 2d drawing perspective. I’ve found the skills are transferable. So are the working files if you ever change over. Good luck!
I really appreciate your educational/ tutorial videos and your attention to detail. You go far beyond most. Thanks so much. - Jerry
Jerry Swatsell Thank you very much sir! Glad you were able to get something out of this video. It’s not as “flashy” as a knife build, but I think it will help out some looking to try out CAD for the first time.
@@RedBeardOps I took Windows 2000 network administration years ago just out of interest. I've Always been into software. Anyway, thanks again. Love the detailed tutorials.
Thanks for the excellent tutorial, my friend. While I've been designing in 3D models for a while, it was still refreshing to see an actual knife maker draw a knife vs a CAD designer explaining the technicalities of how to draw a proper line, etc. I realize it would be a ton of work but sometime in the future could you make a similar video explaining the "why" of some of your personal design choices? Why a certain thickness of the material, why pick certain pinhole sizes, why a certain "point" profile, etc? I know there are volumes of books on the subject but to hear it from someone "in the trenches" actually MAKING the knives (not just academically theorizing on knife design) would be very nice. Thanks again.
That would be a good idea for sure. Cheers sir. Glad you enjoyed this one.
As Dan said below, it is VERY similar to AutoCAD. FYI (not being a jerk) the fillet command is often times mispronounced to make it sound like a steak cut, but it is pronounced "fill-et". Long time CAD user. Love your videos!
Lol, thanks man! I figured I was butchering it! Thanks for the kind words and thanks for watching!
Great video. Helped me out a lot.
Awesome, thank you! Glad it helped out
Hey Jake, you have just solved a problem I have had for a decade ! what software is simple to use and great for 2D, Iv'e really Missed Auto-cad 2007 but here it is with a new name and is running post XP! whats more you demonstrated how good it is. Also thanks to you I have now learnt how to radius the corners without the work around!!! your the man!
Will
Thanks Will! Glad you got something out of this one. Cheers man
Glad you like it Will. As a side note I generally use Fusion 360 now for drafting. It's also free and more powerful. If you're interested - th-cam.com/video/EKFgSmgQ_DM/w-d-xo.html
Thanks for this. I started with Draftsight and then tried LibreCad when the pricing model changed on Draftsight. LibreCad is less intuitive than this. Do you every use layers? I want to use this for slipjoints and have different layers for spring, blade, scales.
Very cool man, I have not used layers on my designs since they're all simple fixed blade full tang knives! I would imagine it would work just fine though.
Incredibly useful and clear! Thank you
Glad you liked it sir!
What was the scaling used???
Hey Shailja, I think it was due to my printer. It works with 1:1 selected now.
@@RedBeardOps Ok Got it..Thanks
this was a game changer for me, Thanks!
Glad it helped!
Thanks very much for putting this together! It was really helpful as you are a very good communicator.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Hey great basic demo. But how can i import dwg files ????
Hey Ralph, you can import JPEGs and then trace them manually
I've seen in another video that the surface isn't black but white, how can you change it to be White?
Hey Duke, I'm not sure... sorry about that
With all the designs people sent in, would it be possible to make a public collection of them? Maybe on google drive. So everyone can use them?
I put most of mine on Patreon
How to plot a drawing as monochrome? I have played a bit with monochrome plot style but without success, any suggestion?
Sorry sir, I’m not sure
Do you have a video showing you actually printing it out. I figured to work around the trim feature but now I can't print it out it says I need permission from the website to print it out
Takes some practice for sure. Nowadays I use Fusion 360 for my drafting. Also free - th-cam.com/video/EKFgSmgQ_DM/w-d-xo.html
You shouldn't need any permissions from a website to print it out.
@@RedBeardOps thank you sir. It took some time but I figured it out but I will definitely look up the other one thank you
This is the best man, I love this! I was sick of drawing them and I have a great computer, so this is ideal! I managed an in-house plotting team for a civil engineering firm and was super close to getting a job as a CAD programmer for a surveying team, so it’s nice to use this and get a feel for what might have been. =] Great program! Ive been missing out for all these years on a great program for mapping out my future projects. Stumbled onto a goldmine! Lol, thanks again brother!
Glad I could help! Cheers man!
what version of nano cad are you using , there are a few options.
I've been using 5.0
Totally Excellent Tutorial, thanx
Glad it was helpful!
nice video
I have some problems about dimension.
When I click on a line or circle, it's always displayed "0".
How did you click when you are dimension. TKS
Hey Lin, not sure if I understand your question. When I select the dimension-ing tool I just left click on the points I want to dimension between.
@@RedBeardOps that what I do, but it's only displayed "0". and I can't select the second point.
simplesmente o que procuro há 1 ano. você é demais!
Que bom que ajudou!
OMG I'm so confused. I have been attempting to learn this on one program or the other for oover 3 years now. This video may be my ticket after I've watched it 20 or 30 times. I was following for a while but the further you went the more lost I got. Seriusly though You did a really goood job of showing the program and how to use it. Hwat I'm going to do is get out the laptop and my tablet. Watch the video on the tablet as I try to do it on the laptop. That way I'm doing it as you explain it. Hopefully I'll finally get it because at this point I am doing it all the old fashion way. All to scale but by hand. Thanks for taking the time to do this video. Very helpful.
Jim Patterson hey Jim, thanks for your comment. If you have any issues I’ll do my best to answer. It’s a handy program for sure! Takes a little time to get comfortable in it though. If you have specific questions google is a good resource as well. I’ve had to do that myself a few time. Good luck sir!
Thanks so much for this, I just downloaded it and wanted to get into it.
Awesome Adam! Good luck with your work.
You just saved me a lot of time! Thanks a lot bro!
Glad I could help!
Red Beard Ops sounds good
Dave Branson thank you Dave! It will give me a little leeway down the road if I want to expand. (Tool reviews, restorations, etc). Hope to see you around the comment section! Cheers!
That was a phenomelly helpful video. Thank you so much. Now I have an idea how to get started designing knives! And I know why when I printed your design that it came out too small haha.
Cheers Jeremiah, glad it helped. You can also screen shot a PDF, bring it into powerpoint and scale it to print correctly. Kinda a pain, but I've had to do that before.
Great tutorial brother, I have already downloaded the cad program and I'm going to give it a try. Thanks for putting this out there, I think it's really going to help me out.
Jason M. Copeland Hey Jason, I’m extremely happy to hear that! While there is much nuance with a topic like this, I’m happy you found it helpful. Let me know if you run into any issues and I’ll do my best to help.
@@RedBeardOps Absolutely
thanks so much, very detailed tutorial.
Thank you!
very clear and helpful, thank you!
Awesome Ali, glad you found some use in this video. Have a great weekend.
Good Tutorial, thanks.
Glad it was helpful!
Very good software, especially with this tutorial. Thank you.
Glad you liked it! Cheers!
Wow, this is a perfect replacement as an emergency solution for autocad LT :-) ... practically the same controls and options
Thank you very much for your effort, very pleased to have found this video 👍👍👍
Awesome! Glad you liked it sir! Thanks for your comment and have a great week
Very interesting.......Thanks for sharing this knowledge
Cheers Duane!
That was really helpful, thank you, sir!
Thanks Bob!
Best tutorial ever
se puede descarga el tuturial
Gracias
Pretty cool as nice share....Good stuff....
Thank you Scott! Cheers man.
Well done, easy to follow 😊
Armadillo Forge thank you sir! Glad you enjoyed it. I know this topic will be dry for many, but I figured some would appreciate the “beginners course” sorta speak. Cheers
Thank you! It helps a lot!
Glad it helped!
Great video, thank you very much.
Glad you liked it!
Great effort
Thanks a lot!
@@RedBeardOps I sometimes am speaking to a guy in our local supermarket here in ireland and he also makes hand made knives and sells them online, interesting hobby.
Had issues with the DL ..............did you have to use a link sent to your email and did you get a warning about DLing this file?
Duane T64 if I remember right I did need to use the link in the email. It was a bit ago. Are you getting a warning from windows?
@@RedBeardOps no it was in the lower left corner of the nanocad page i got it DL'ed going to try loading and checking it out tomorrow.....i bet you will have so many views on this video lol i know i will watch it several times following you instruction........ Thanks much Brother
Duane T64 hahaha, thank you sir!!
This guy makes knives in the program that I have
Now days I use Fusion 360, but NanoCad was fun!
A red beard draws a knife in nanoCAD. Now I'm gonna search for a black beard drawing a house in QCAD.
lol
excellent !!
Thank you! Glad you found it helpful.
Not perfect but as close to autocad as you can get for free. I use acad at office and nanocad when working at home commands and interface and nearly identical. Great program.
Thank you sir! I agree. Very handy for me.
Cool!
I’d use the metric system, being a limey 😊
🇬🇧🤜⚡️🤛🇺🇸🍻
Lol! I need to learn it better for sure.
Red Beard Ops 🤣🤣 🇬🇧🤜⚡️🤛🇺🇸
i use cad on the daily
So you are WRONG about nanocad. Compared to draft sight nano is very hard to use. I am trying but draftsight for $100 a years is far and away much more user friendly. SORRY
To each his own. It's been working great for me. Cheers
Go ahead contact me and show me how much easier nano is. And nano will not open all out side flies
To each his own. It's been working great for me. Cheers
that's just 2D
Sure is!
@@RedBeardOps... one rare person who answers all posts!
Your video is simple straight to the point and valuable to many. No babble, no condescending approach... just pure... done. T.y.
I have browsed all I could to see if nanoCAD has 3D functionality, and for the life of me, I do not see anything to point me in that direction readily, easily.
One of their demo on their web site shows a 3D picnic table but under the plot command. Confusing!?
[ UPDATE: 1 of 2,
- picnic table - www.nanocad.com/page/VT11 ]
UPDATE: 2 of 2,
- I have found the 1 source that explain it ALL with prices! No need for added research, complete... yeah, a rare gem!
- nanoCAD Plus and nanoCAD Pro - No Limits No More. Watch the webinar!
- th-cam.com/video/PgOx5avJNFg/w-d-xo.html
I need something that can do simple mechanics in 3D, like axles, gears, belts, pulleys, ... with simple 3D printing functionality.
I design simple wood toys, to play in the dirt. I can't afford Solidworks or even Sketchup which used to be my software.
SKETCHUP: now priced out of reach.
...or they force you to a shared web BS version. ...and I am not fond of people who claim to offer a free product when it is NOT! Phck Trimble!
They lured me into upgrading to a version which no longer is free, so I lost my free version 17 and all my work is not accessible any longer! bastards! They could have warned so that I could at least have kept a tool to use my existing work!
FreeCAD: is the only other software I found that is truly free at a decent level of functionality, but it is crap, it crashes constantly and is nastily awkward, cumbersome to use, if not completely horrible.
All the others I have been lured into, claim to be free yet become very expensive fast! pack of lies...
nanoCAD: seems to be legit, it shows to be the best approach to resolve the world issue on CAD availability to the small people. It is not free, but affordable.
I have downloaded nanoCAD 5 trying to see if I can create some simple object and click a button to see it in 3D(frame and solid).
Gonna have to spend time in their forum to see what level of activation gets me the 3D mechanical. They do have the 2D nanoCAD MECHANICA... and it looks damn good!
What bothers me is that it seems this would be made obvious without having to burn the time to try something to find out it does not meet the requirement.
I am tired of trying software after software that wastes my time.
@@DormantIdeasNIQ Thank you greatly for your post! I'm sure this one could help someone out in the future for sure.
Too many bad practices
Sorry David!
@@RedBeardOps If you're going to fillet, do it properly. It's very bad practice to pop a circle there and trim it without joining the points together. And if joining two curves together one going the other way, you need a geometric construct to get it perfect.
@@Maisemore Good tips, cheers David
Does it works for elektrik diagram for houses ?
Hey Ioannis, i really don't know
This is the best man, I love this! I was sick of drawing them and I have a great computer, so this is ideal! I managed an in-house plotting team for a civil engineering firm and was super close to getting a job as a CAD programmer for a surveying team, so it’s nice to use this and get a feel for what might have been. =] Great program! Ive been missing out for all these years on a great program for mapping out my future projects. Stumbled onto a goldmine! Lol, thanks again brother!
Glad I could help! Cheers man!