Many thanks! I made it in 40 minutes, with lots of pause/rewind, but this small exercise is packed with many useful concepts. Maybe it is for advanced users, but if you follow precisely the steps everyone should also succeed. Sometimes it is difficult to see where you clicked and my icons are disposed differently, so I must find it elsewhere. You may want to hover 1 second before moving away for an easier tutorial. Nevertheless the pause button is your friend.
I appreciate the format of this tutorial, as I was already familiar with SolidWorks going into FreeCAD and so this type of pacing helps provide a quick rundown of the functions in FreeCAD without overly long introductory sections or low info density. By knowing how I would model this in SolidWorks and watching how you model it in FreeCAD I can find the analogous functions.
Thanks. I love the speedy tutorial, saves my time and I appreciate it. If it's to fast for sb, its youtube, you can pause any time. So don't slow down :) Edit: a better microphone would be good ;)
Woah, what have I been doing. I have STRUGGLED with Sketchup 2017 to make more specific and complex designs....I now see I was utterly wrong and CAD is where it's at.
Hi, thanks for another great tutorial, if you allow me to make a sugestion, could you make a tutorial on how to create, modify the original shape with the intention of generate errors and how to fix them. I've been practicing and sometimes I get some, for example wire not closed or eliminated edges that used to have a chamfer and when the new shape it's finished in the sketch, the missing edge error don't allow the object to reflect it's new shape... a tutorial like that will be very helpful for begginers, including me 😉
Hello! Much thanks for the suggestion! I'm considering you done your previous models in version earlier to the current (FreeCAD 1.0 it's now out as stable version), as 1.0 is considered the big game change for the CAD community maybe in this version that errors you used to find will not appear in this current version. I'm also testing the new FreeCAD 1.0, if I find issues like you mentioned a video of this model solving errors will be available indeed.
@@OffsetCAD Hi, I'm using the version 1.0, I have encountered a few errors, for example... in the first sketch I draw a rectangle of 30mm lenght by 18mm height with a circle of 5.5mm of diameter, with a distance 9 mm from the left border and a height of 9mm from the bottom line, all lines are constrained, finish the sketch, apply Pad of 8mm, then add a chamfer of 2.5mm to the circle and everything is fine, but I change the position of the circle then there is an error with the chamfer, it says border missing or something like that I don't remember the exact description... And I wonder why... there are no other geometries of objects that "colide" with the new position of the circle... It's a little confusing... jajaj sometimes I want to quit and stay with fusion 360, but for some reason I keep returning and giving freecad another chance 😁
A friend used something else: construction lines in the first sketch, with a name like a legend. Then you can link constraints to these names. And if you want to change some dimensions of the sketch, you can extend or shrink these lines easily with the mouse or precisely with a constraint and the sketch changes accordingly.
You can skip spreadsheets nowadays. Use Varset method. Varset icon is in the same Toolbar as Part-Group-Link. That's the one with 2 curves brackets. The is another channel using a lot that method.
it's a very cool video, suitable to introduce stubborn people into freecad but please, please try to avoid unaligned arcs like at 5:26 - i know it's a very quick introduction project, but people will learn this, their designs will break, and they will think freecad is not worth learning it
I messed up the original rectangle radius dimension (entered 6mm instead of 16). When I went back to change it that sketch at 5:26 broke with those arcs. I don't understand it well enough to understand what went wrong though. Spent an hour chasing down the constraints and getting the model back up and running. Whatever I did, apparently it was right since now I can put in whatever radius I want there.
@@mikequinn8780 probably the usual stuff - imported edge changed it's name or orientation when you have changed something the arc sketch relied on. this is what topological naming problem looks like and in my assessment it won't go away completely in FC1.0. however it will drastically decrease the amount of cases it occurs in. tho at that point i will learn doing unbreakable parametric designs on my own :D
Ok, this is nice because it shows how FreeCAD can be used very effectively. *But* this is for skillful designers used to CAD tools. Beginners take notice of that, you have to get a lot of experience to grasp it all. Or put the reproduction speed at 75% or 50% to get a nice "stoned designer mode" view.
The author is hard coding measurements and using fragile geometry like fillets for reference construction geometry. That's in keeping with novice approaches.
great videos. Could you please let us know your profile settings? I like the way your user interface looks. It is very clear and easy to work with. Thank you
Experimente seguir exemplos simples primeiro. O mais difícil em CAD é a maneira de se conceber uma peça. Há quase sempre pelo menos mais que 2 maneiras de o fazer (especialmente com o FreeCAD). Também convém ter em mente qual o processo irá ser usado para passar do modelo CAD para o modelo real (materializado), se por 3D Print (nas suas várias vertentes), se por CAM. Isto requer abordagens diferentes na modelagem. É preciso praticar e auto-desafiar-se a conceber por imaginação própria... Boa sorte! ... E muita paciência (menos agora que a versão FreeCAD está deveras muito melhorada, nas versões anteriores 0.16/ 0.17 era desesperante) !!!
@@LFANS2001 Normalmente construo peças para imprimir e tenho o cuidado de as construir de modo a terem o menos suporte possível, ou então construo duas peças e as logo por parafusos, ou faço um entalhe. Já tive de refazer desenhos, por causa dos suportes.
Thanks so much for the tutorial, love to step by step style without explanation! Unfortunatly i already stumbled at 1:15 because i got a dotted Red line (instead of a continious one) as i used the link external geometry tool and after creating the polyline i got an error when trying to define the length of the lines... is there a connection between the Dotted line and me Not beeing able to define the length? Thanks again!
10:25 at this point i all ready have cnc program that milling it from aluminium. all measures we all ready knew. punch them cnc and cut xD we not need draw nothing
Hey, a small tipp for you: please look for new video tutorials only, That will make you learn faster since you will avoid unnecassary extra steps due to lack of features from old versions. FreeCAD 1.0 RC1/RC2 is the most current versions. I hope the stable version will come out soon.
@@johang1293 Thank you.. For some reason I hard a hard time drawing this part, try several times following the video, but have a redundancy constrain errors. I use FreeCAD 1.0 RC2. In the end I was able to make that extrusion, but not sure if I can make the same again. 😁
@@Sokol10try again. As it worked for me in the video, will work with you too. Don't give up. I remember when I discovered FreeCAD 2 years ago. In my first interaction got several problems.😂😂😂
Thank you for the tutorial. As a noob I can tell you is very hard to follow. Please try to speak clearer. Lots of tools names come out just some "babble" and not even an AI can understand. Subsequently operations are hard to follow because I need to alt tab 100 times just to see where you click every single time as the words are barely understandable. Now for advanced users it might be easy. I am a zero and is unbelievable hard to understand what you say for a... tutorial. Thanks again!
Sorry for my English! Actually, my language is Portuguese, I have a lot of difficulty pronouncing English, so I'm sorry if some things aren't clear. And about the video, it's not for beginners in FreeCAD. It's more for those who already understand the basics of modeling within it. Cheers.
@@OffsetCAD Hi thanks for reply. No big worries, I can understand. I am Romanian so very close to Portuguese regarding difficulty in pronouncing English. I was watching with auto-subtitles and the AI was naming the tools like nothing understandable LOL. I am not a 100% tabula rasa. I now a bit of Blender especially polygonal modeling and also have FreeCAD on my PC since early beta but I use it only to export stuff to STL from STEP etc. I tried to learn it several times but is very counter intuitive for someone like me that knows a little bit of hard surface modeling enough for 3d printing etc. Thanks again for you tutorials. Don't worry too much English will come slowly.
Is this practice to avoid TNP issues? I see you are creating sketches on primary places(XZ,YZ,XY) and then adding offset. You are extruding to a fixed distance. This is when you want your extrusion to go from one face on object to another. In Solidworks, I would've created sketch on one face and extruded till another face.
Hey, Solidworks hat like an half century to grow like it is today. FreeCAD had like 10 years of hobby programming, like 10 years of active open source programming and 1 year of professional programming behind. So the core has to improve while new features will be added step by step. I think that this software is the future of CAD for hobby, school, university and small bussiness. As it gets better, it will get more mainstream and this will result in more open source programmers which will improve the software.
You can do that as well in FreeCAD. I think this video just shows you all of the variables you can adjust if needed. It also means you can get precise placement if you need to.
I never used SolidWorks before, so I can't say anything about it. I worked with AutoCAD and merged to FreeCAD. My commons problem during design is always fillet, Chamfer, thickness and shape destroyed. It's very hard for me to find the called "Topological naming problem" as I understand how to proceed well in FreeCAD.
@@OffsetCAD Oh ohkay. New features when based on previous features used to break because of TNP issue. I suspected what you did might be a practice to avoid such issues. Nevertheless, great video.
Hey, Solidworks hat like an half century to grow like it is today. FreeCAD had like 10 years of hobby programming, like 10 years of active open source programming and 1 year of professional programming behind. So the core has to improve while new features will be added step by step. I think that this software is the future of CAD for hobby, school, university and small bussiness. As it gets better, it will get more mainstream and this will result in more open source programmers which will improve the software.
@Paulklampeeps could you explain how that tool could work in this model design? I don't understand well why people are fulling TH-cam videos with "external geometry tool" in comments section. I was able to design this model without any problem. How that tool could improve the design process?
Sorry, but I can’t benefit from your video. Your doing everything way too fast and it’s very hard for me to understand you. I was trying RC2 of FreeCAD 1.0 the last days, but it crashed on my M1 Mac regularly. 😢
@@adrianmack3 I agree. Also there are many other 'slow' tutorials for beginner. Some of us would benefit from tutorial that help speed up the designing process, provides designing shortcuts, copy and paste tricks etc.
WOW, when i seen title i knew im gonna learn a lot from you! so good!
Many thanks!
I made it in 40 minutes, with lots of pause/rewind, but this small exercise is packed with many useful concepts.
Maybe it is for advanced users, but if you follow precisely the steps everyone should also succeed.
Sometimes it is difficult to see where you clicked and my icons are disposed differently, so I must find it elsewhere. You may want to hover 1 second before moving away for an easier tutorial.
Nevertheless the pause button is your friend.
this channel deserves more subscribers, today I learned M while drawing polyline, not sure how I could miss that
While the video is fast paced the steps are clear. I learned a lot with this tutorial.
This tutorial contains so much information. I think alone by watching this I could model many different parts
thanks
I appreciate the format of this tutorial, as I was already familiar with SolidWorks going into FreeCAD and so this type of pacing helps provide a quick rundown of the functions in FreeCAD without overly long introductory sections or low info density. By knowing how I would model this in SolidWorks and watching how you model it in FreeCAD I can find the analogous functions.
Thank you!❤️❤️❤️
This is exactly how the tutorials should be! Great job. Thanks!
Thank you!
Thanks. I love the speedy tutorial, saves my time and I appreciate it. If it's to fast for sb, its youtube, you can pause any time. So don't slow down :) Edit: a better microphone would be good ;)
Freecad 1.0 definitely feels like its getting much better. Still trying to get the hang of it for designing 3d printed assemblies
One of the other FreeCAD TH-camrs uses an app which flashes key strokes and mouse clicks on screen. Useful.
Yeah, I stopped to use it.
I love this tutorial. Thank you.
I learned so, so much.
This is cool, FreeCAD has come a long way.
Very cool.
Wonderful video. I have learned a lot from following it. Thank you so much. Would love to see the lid for this box if you can manage to get the time.
Yes.
Thank you.
Yes!
Just a time.
wow, learned so much from such a quick video.
WoW!
Awesome! I loved it. Thanks
So glad!
Great. Thank you very much 🙂
Woah, what have I been doing. I have STRUGGLED with Sketchup 2017 to make more specific and complex designs....I now see I was utterly wrong and CAD is where it's at.
Hi, thanks for another great tutorial, if you allow me to make a sugestion, could you make a tutorial on how to create, modify the original shape with the intention of generate errors and how to fix them. I've been practicing and sometimes I get some, for example wire not closed or eliminated edges that used to have a chamfer and when the new shape it's finished in the sketch, the missing edge error don't allow the object to reflect it's new shape... a tutorial like that will be very helpful for begginers, including me 😉
Hello! Much thanks for the suggestion!
I'm considering you done your previous models in version earlier to the current (FreeCAD 1.0 it's now out as stable version), as 1.0 is considered the big game change for the CAD community maybe in this version that errors you used to find will not appear in this current version. I'm also testing the new FreeCAD 1.0, if I find issues like you mentioned a video of this model solving errors will be available indeed.
@@OffsetCAD Hi, I'm using the version 1.0, I have encountered a few errors, for example... in the first sketch I draw a rectangle of 30mm lenght by 18mm height with a circle of 5.5mm of diameter, with a distance 9 mm from the left border and a height of 9mm from the bottom line, all lines are constrained, finish the sketch, apply Pad of 8mm, then add a chamfer of 2.5mm to the circle and everything is fine, but I change the position of the circle then there is an error with the chamfer, it says border missing or something like that I don't remember the exact description... And I wonder why... there are no other geometries of objects that "colide" with the new position of the circle... It's a little confusing... jajaj sometimes I want to quit and stay with fusion 360, but for some reason I keep returning and giving freecad another chance 😁
Obrigado pelo tutorial, bem explicadinho em todos detalhe . O FreeCAD 1.0RC2 este ficando da hora.
Pois é!
E olha que o programa é free.
I Never heard about this!! It seems preety cool!! I'll try it!! Nice video!!
It comes with an asembler of multiple pieces?
@@Xplouding Watch his new video with assembly
Just need to add some spreadsheets t o it enabling some user configurable. Very nice.
And did you done that?
A friend used something else: construction lines in the first sketch, with a name like a legend.
Then you can link constraints to these names.
And if you want to change some dimensions of the sketch, you can extend or shrink these lines easily with the mouse or precisely with a constraint and the sketch changes accordingly.
You can skip spreadsheets nowadays. Use Varset method. Varset icon is in the same Toolbar as Part-Group-Link. That's the one with 2 curves brackets. The is another channel using a lot that method.
really apricate. very goood tuto
Amazing, 5 times slower and displaying the shortcuts would be great!
Yeah, I know it. Currently I can't properly use any program which shows the entered keyboard keys.
Thank you !
I enjoyed this! Thanks
it's a very cool video, suitable to introduce stubborn people into freecad
but please, please try to avoid unaligned arcs like at 5:26 - i know it's a very quick introduction project, but people will learn this, their designs will break, and they will think freecad is not worth learning it
Thank you.
I messed up the original rectangle radius dimension (entered 6mm instead of 16). When I went back to change it that sketch at 5:26 broke with those arcs. I don't understand it well enough to understand what went wrong though. Spent an hour chasing down the constraints and getting the model back up and running. Whatever I did, apparently it was right since now I can put in whatever radius I want there.
@@mikequinn8780 probably the usual stuff - imported edge changed it's name or orientation when you have changed something the arc sketch relied on. this is what topological naming problem looks like and in my assessment it won't go away completely in FC1.0. however it will drastically decrease the amount of cases it occurs in. tho at that point i will learn doing unbreakable parametric designs on my own :D
Ok, this is nice because it shows how FreeCAD can be used very effectively. *But* this is for skillful designers used to CAD tools. Beginners take notice of that, you have to get a lot of experience to grasp it all. Or put the reproduction speed at 75% or 50% to get a nice "stoned designer mode" view.
The author is hard coding measurements and using fragile geometry like fillets for reference construction geometry. That's in keeping with novice approaches.
great videos. Could you please let us know your profile settings? I like the way your user interface looks. It is very clear and easy to work with. Thank you
Do you still need that?
@@OffsetCAD yes. I would appreciate it. Thank you
Nice one!!
Thank you sir
wow.... I need your skills.
Genial, excelente calidad
What a skill
😍😍😍Thank you.
Esta versão RC2 está mesmo boa. Obrigado
De nada! Feliz aprendizado.
Thank you so much for this video! How did you do the rotating tech drawing shown in the first 20 seconds?
Hooo, that's not a TechDraw drawing. Is only a 3d model with 3D dimensions.
So that's why I could rotate it.
@@OffsetCAD Ok! So how can I add dimensions like these? (Might be good for another video)
+1 I have the same question.
@@mitchdavis8622 there is the basic "how to":
th-cam.com/video/rRXVlwl4Qlc/w-d-xo.html
@@LeonardoMuttoni
::::th-cam.com/video/rRXVlwl4Qlc/w-d-xo.html
cool!
Ao ver isto, vejo como sou um básico.
Sério isso?
Experimente seguir exemplos simples primeiro.
O mais difícil em CAD é a maneira de se conceber uma peça.
Há quase sempre pelo menos mais que 2 maneiras de o fazer (especialmente com o FreeCAD).
Também convém ter em mente qual o processo irá ser usado para passar do modelo CAD para o modelo real (materializado), se por 3D Print (nas suas várias vertentes), se por CAM. Isto requer abordagens diferentes na modelagem.
É preciso praticar e auto-desafiar-se a conceber por imaginação própria...
Boa sorte!
... E muita paciência (menos agora que a versão FreeCAD está deveras muito melhorada, nas versões anteriores 0.16/ 0.17 era desesperante) !!!
Porque normalmente faço as minhas peças com meia dúzia de funções e se soubesse utilizar estas por vezes as faria, em muito menos tempo.
@@LFANS2001 Normalmente construo peças para imprimir e tenho o cuidado de as construir de modo a terem o menos suporte possível, ou então construo duas peças e as logo por parafusos, ou faço um entalhe. Já tive de refazer desenhos, por causa dos suportes.
wow 🎉
thanx!!!
Thanks so much for the tutorial, love to step by step style without explanation! Unfortunatly i already stumbled at 1:15 because i got a dotted Red line (instead of a continious one) as i used the link external geometry tool and after creating the polyline i got an error when trying to define the length of the lines... is there a connection between the Dotted line and me Not beeing able to define the length? Thanks again!
I got the dotted line also for the external geometry and it worked fine. I think that is just a setting in Preferences.
10:25 at this point i all ready have cnc program that milling it from aluminium. all measures we all ready knew. punch them cnc and cut xD we not need draw nothing
I can't understand you.
@@OffsetCAD no one can.
Just correct the title, according to comments, "How I do this part in less than..."
Second, there is no drafting angle, which is mandatory for DFM
DFM means?
No need to change the title!
2:44 - What is the command - "press ??? three times" for change the polyline cursor to circle?
Press the m key to change the polyline key
Hey, a small tipp for you:
please look for new video tutorials only, That will make you learn faster since you will avoid unnecassary extra steps due to lack of features from old versions. FreeCAD 1.0 RC1/RC2 is the most current versions. I hope the stable version will come out soon.
@@johang1293 Thank you..
For some reason I hard a hard time drawing this part, try several times following the video, but have a redundancy constrain errors. I use FreeCAD 1.0 RC2.
In the end I was able to make that extrusion, but not sure if I can make the same again. 😁
The command is "Polyline".
@@Sokol10try again. As it worked for me in the video, will work with you too.
Don't give up.
I remember when I discovered FreeCAD 2 years ago. In my first interaction got several problems.😂😂😂
"create this in less than 15 min?" Nah. Bro, this would easily take 2, maybe 3 and a half years to create. 😮
I have learned CATIA back in 2011. A profi horror tool…
😂
Thank you for the tutorial. As a noob I can tell you is very hard to follow. Please try to speak clearer. Lots of tools names come out just some "babble" and not even an AI can understand. Subsequently operations are hard to follow because I need to alt tab 100 times just to see where you click every single time as the words are barely understandable. Now for advanced users it might be easy. I am a zero and is unbelievable hard to understand what you say for a... tutorial.
Thanks again!
Sorry for my English! Actually, my language is Portuguese, I have a lot of difficulty pronouncing English, so I'm sorry if some things aren't clear.
And about the video, it's not for beginners in FreeCAD. It's more for those who already understand the basics of modeling within it.
Cheers.
@@OffsetCAD Hi thanks for reply. No big worries, I can understand. I am Romanian so very close to Portuguese regarding difficulty in pronouncing English. I was watching with auto-subtitles and the AI was naming the tools like nothing understandable LOL.
I am not a 100% tabula rasa. I now a bit of Blender especially polygonal modeling and also have FreeCAD on my PC since early beta but I use it only to export stuff to STL from STEP etc. I tried to learn it several times but is very counter intuitive for someone like me that knows a little bit of hard surface modeling enough for 3d printing etc.
Thanks again for you tutorials. Don't worry too much English will come slowly.
If you are a beginner, I would advise watching Mango Jelly Solutions beginner series. This is really for intermediate or advanced FreeCAD users.
@@OffsetCAD Your English is very good and easy to understand. Thank you for the video. Look forward to seeing the lid. ;)
Thank you very much for the suggestion!
Hello. How to make the grid permanent in a sketch? When creating a new sketch, it has to be turned on again.
In custom preferences I think.
@@OffsetCAD Thanks for the video!!!
Press two time what ?
The "M" key for arc in Polyline tool.
Is this practice to avoid TNP issues?
I see you are creating sketches on primary places(XZ,YZ,XY) and then adding offset. You are extruding to a fixed distance.
This is when you want your extrusion to go from one face on object to another.
In Solidworks, I would've created sketch on one face and extruded till another face.
Hey, Solidworks hat like an half century to grow like it is today. FreeCAD had like 10 years of hobby programming, like 10 years of active open source programming and 1 year of professional programming behind. So the core has to improve while new features will be added step by step. I think that this software is the future of CAD for hobby, school, university and small bussiness. As it gets better, it will get more mainstream and this will result in more open source programmers which will improve the software.
You can do that as well in FreeCAD. I think this video just shows you all of the variables you can adjust if needed. It also means you can get precise placement if you need to.
I never used SolidWorks before, so I can't say anything about it.
I worked with AutoCAD and merged to FreeCAD.
My commons problem during design is always fillet, Chamfer, thickness and shape destroyed. It's very hard for me to find the called "Topological naming problem" as I understand how to proceed well in FreeCAD.
I could create the sketch in faces. But even so, you seen which attachment skills you can use.
@@OffsetCAD Oh ohkay.
New features when based on previous features used to break because of TNP issue. I suspected what you did might be a practice to avoid such issues.
Nevertheless, great video.
Still no proper external geometry tool 🥲
sad
It is called shape binder.
@@leholaaser so tedious tho unlike the link branch version. The link branch is based on an older version of freecad so the sketcher sucks.
Hey, Solidworks hat like an half century to grow like it is today. FreeCAD had like 10 years of hobby programming, like 10 years of active open source programming and 1 year of professional programming behind. So the core has to improve while new features will be added step by step. I think that this software is the future of CAD for hobby, school, university and small bussiness. As it gets better, it will get more mainstream and this will result in more open source programmers which will improve the software.
@Paulklampeeps could you explain how that tool could work in this model design?
I don't understand well why people are fulling TH-cam videos with "external geometry tool" in comments section.
I was able to design this model without any problem.
How that tool could improve the design process?
I still don't believe that you are able to model something like this in F360. Personally i have troubles even with "simple" exercises.
This is not Fusion 360, it's FreeCAD. 😅
Sorry, but I can’t benefit from your video. Your doing everything way too fast and it’s very hard for me to understand you. I was trying RC2 of FreeCAD 1.0 the last days, but it crashed on my M1 Mac regularly. 😢
His thumbnail text clearly describes designing a somewhat complicated model in less than 15 minutes, which implies he would be modelling it quickly.
@@adrianmack3 I agree. Also there are many other 'slow' tutorials for beginner. Some of us would benefit from tutorial that help speed up the designing process, provides designing shortcuts, copy and paste tricks etc.
Wouuu, there person's with preferences like me here.
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Sorry for disturbing!
Don't give up; this exercise offers a lot to learn, the pause button is your friend (the TH-cam one of course ;-)
The UI of FreeCAD is so ugly compared to Fusion360, that is sad because it is important...
doesn't seem so bad to me: i.postimg.cc/s33LKmmd/Screenshot-20241030-095247.png
it definetly got better and it will get even better
Are you sure?
Yeah, we only have to continuing supporting the devs team.
New official themes are coming which is closer to how Blender looks.
sir hindi me banaeye
He don't speak this language.