I've been thoroughly enjoying this series. I'm new to CAD and have binged this series this past week, practising alongside in FreeCAD. I've learned so much in such a short period. Thank you very much from a new subscriber who's looking forward to the next drop!
Ah excellent to hear :) This is the only way I can get feedback for the videos and after the last series I ran I made a number of changes and delivered the content somewhat differently. So glad they are helping you out and thank you for the kind words.
Great tutorial as usual. I didn't know you could offset sketch like that and then use it for lofts. This is much faster and easier than creating offset plane and than creating a sketch on that plane.
Thanks, great as usual! A very interesting additional topic would be weighted tangency in lofts (perpendicular to the profiles or continuously attaching to an adjacent surface from e.g. another loft or surface).
It's all to do with local and global coordinate systems. I covered this in lesson 16 in the course (Basic Attachment & Map Modes), it can be a bit of a brain melt. The sketch when attached is attached via a mode whether on a plane or a face of another operation. The Z of the sketch will, if flat face, be in the same direction of where it's mapped flat. In the attachment lesson I explained this as if you was hanging a picture on a wall. You would go say 100 along the X of the wall and 200 along the Y. The Z would be how far out from the wall the picture is. If that wall tilted 45 degrees it would still have the same location. If this was done in the global coordinate space then the equivalent will be a XYZ position in latitude, longitude and elevation of that picture on your wall. So if the wall was slanted you would have to affect the XY and Z position rather than nudging it just a couple of mm on one axis. This is know as placement. Depending on the attachment mode will depend on where those axis are aligned. Hope that helps.
@@MangoJellySolutions Thanks, that does help. I've been jumping around a bit in the videos and missed that one. I'll go back and view it now. I'm hoping there's a way to show the axis cross that corresponds to the local coordinates.
@@MangoJellySolutions thank you. Your metaphors explain it clearly. I did watch the video you refer to however I will go back for a refresher now I have those analogies in mind. Thank you.
I started using FreeCAD recently with 1.0 and I found it ultra frustrating with the ressources all being dated and clearly low quality. The official wiki wasn't that great either. But I will definitely follow your tutorials on v1 because they are great.
Thank you so much for the feedback, glad your finding the tutorials useful. I find quite a lot of the written resources out there don't explain fully what is needed and quite hard to follow. Only yesterday I was reading a wiki about how to use a certain operation and it's taken me two days to finally figure it out. I know exactly how you feel so don't worry, your not alone. I will be feeding back what I learnt with something that others can follow.
at 14:41 you rotated the square on the end(sketch 2) 90 degrees but when i tried to do this my object looks the same as when it was zero degrees. do i need to do a split edge on the square on the end?
if you use OpenDark Preference pack and copy the user.cfg from Ondsel into FreeCAD's configuration directory where it has system.cfg and user.cfg you will automatically get the Task panel to the right hand side. Imo, the default Ondsel ES UI is more like a professional Parametric CAD package
I’m learning FreeCAD as an alternative to Fusion 360. One of the things I was trying to do is this, but in Fusion, it’s done by creating a separate plane. Can the same be done in FreeCAD?
If you mean creating a new datum plane for each sketch, then yes that is reasonably easy. It's the tilted rectangle icon to the right of the sheep (clone). If you mean creating surfaces one at a time, there is a ruled surface tool somewhere...
Yes you can, I would recommend the addative and subtractive pipe operations, you be happy to know I be going into that in the upcoming lessons as I am moving into that area for the next subject.
It confuses me totally, that the attachment offset for the sketches is on z, but the sketches move on x-axis? And then we postion 25 mm on y but the sketch moves up along z-axis?? Please be so kind to elaborate. Thank you in advance :)
Hi MangoJelly Solutions, is there a proper way where I can get in contact with you privately somehow? By mail? By chat? I would like to ask you something. Best regards Matt
Best FreeCad Tutorial Channel!
Thatch you so much 😊👍
I can't thank you enough. I've come such a long way because of your courses..
You're very welcome! Great to year that I have been able to help such a supportive community.
I've been thoroughly enjoying this series. I'm new to CAD and have binged this series this past week, practising alongside in FreeCAD. I've learned so much in such a short period. Thank you very much from a new subscriber who's looking forward to the next drop!
Ah excellent to hear :) This is the only way I can get feedback for the videos and after the last series I ran I made a number of changes and delivered the content somewhat differently. So glad they are helping you out and thank you for the kind words.
Great tutorial as usual. I didn't know you could offset sketch like that and then use it for lofts. This is much faster and easier than creating offset plane and than creating a sketch on that plane.
Glad to help and share the knowledge. Glad you enjoyed and hope you find it useful 😊😊
Thanks, great as usual! A very interesting additional topic would be weighted tangency in lofts (perpendicular to the profiles or continuously attaching to an adjacent surface from e.g. another loft or surface).
i wondered how to create lofts like what you previewed for next video, cant wait!
Ah so that going to help you which is great news. Also I be going through using the carbon copy tool.
Very cool and powerful lofts. I look forward to when can apply the thickness tool again to make ducts. As 1.0 does not work on complex lofts anymore.
Wow! I wish I knew the split-edge trick before. Thanks!!!!
No problems glad to help 😊😊
Great tutorial!
Thank you! 👍👍
awesome work
Great. Thank you very much 🙂
You are welcome 😊
Thank you. Again.
My pleasure 👍👍
Thank You. Very much Appreciated. 🙂
You're welcome 😊👍
@@MangoJellySolutions I can't thank you enough. I've come such a long way because of your courses..
Very useful tutorial, thank you. Could you possibly produce a tutorial of how to thickness a complicated loft ?
Glad you enjoyed. I think you will enjoy the next video in the series as it will help answer your question 😊😊👍👍
At about 3:00 you move the sketches along the z-axis? I see them moving in x direction (red color arrow). Am I missing something here?
I'd like to know the answer to this one also. I had to rewind several times to double-check I didn't mishear.
@@Denis_mkay I too am interested in this, as it's always bugged me how the axes move about.
It's all to do with local and global coordinate systems. I covered this in lesson 16 in the course (Basic Attachment & Map Modes), it can be a bit of a brain melt. The sketch when attached is attached via a mode whether on a plane or a face of another operation. The Z of the sketch will, if flat face, be in the same direction of where it's mapped flat. In the attachment lesson I explained this as if you was hanging a picture on a wall. You would go say 100 along the X of the wall and 200 along the Y. The Z would be how far out from the wall the picture is. If that wall tilted 45 degrees it would still have the same location. If this was done in the global coordinate space then the equivalent will be a XYZ position in latitude, longitude and elevation of that picture on your wall. So if the wall was slanted you would have to affect the XY and Z position rather than nudging it just a couple of mm on one axis. This is know as placement. Depending on the attachment mode will depend on where those axis are aligned. Hope that helps.
@@MangoJellySolutions Thanks, that does help. I've been jumping around a bit in the videos and missed that one. I'll go back and view it now. I'm hoping there's a way to show the axis cross that corresponds to the local coordinates.
@@MangoJellySolutions thank you. Your metaphors explain it clearly. I did watch the video you refer to however I will go back for a refresher now I have those analogies in mind. Thank you.
I started using FreeCAD recently with 1.0 and I found it ultra frustrating with the ressources all being dated and clearly low quality. The official wiki wasn't that great either. But I will definitely follow your tutorials on v1 because they are great.
Thank you so much for the feedback, glad your finding the tutorials useful. I find quite a lot of the written resources out there don't explain fully what is needed and quite hard to follow. Only yesterday I was reading a wiki about how to use a certain operation and it's taken me two days to finally figure it out. I know exactly how you feel so don't worry, your not alone. I will be feeding back what I learnt with something that others can follow.
at 14:41 you rotated the square on the end(sketch 2) 90 degrees but when i tried to do this my object looks the same as when it was zero degrees. do i need to do a split edge on the square on the end?
if you use OpenDark Preference pack and copy the user.cfg from Ondsel into FreeCAD's configuration directory where it has system.cfg and user.cfg you will automatically get the Task panel to the right hand side.
Imo, the default Ondsel ES UI is more like a professional Parametric CAD package
Thank you for sharing that, great tip. I wonder if they are going to offer that in the add on mannager at some point. It be useful.
I’m learning FreeCAD as an alternative to Fusion 360. One of the things I was trying to do is this, but in Fusion, it’s done by creating a separate plane. Can the same be done in FreeCAD?
If you mean creating a new datum plane for each sketch, then yes that is reasonably easy. It's the tilted rectangle icon to the right of the sheep (clone). If you mean creating surfaces one at a time, there is a ruled surface tool somewhere...
@LightAndSportyGuy great thanks
Thanks for the video, it was very informative. Is it also possible to make an Y-shaped pipe (square section). Is loft or other tools used?
Yes you can, I would recommend the addative and subtractive pipe operations, you be happy to know I be going into that in the upcoming lessons as I am moving into that area for the next subject.
Is there good manuals for freecad
I don't understand how the offset is working @2:45minutes. You change the Z offset but the sketches appear to move along the X axis.
local vs global coordinates. Its explained in an earlier episode.
idk if you did it on purpose but this ep and the last one (chapter 5) are Unlisted
Are you a patreon?
It confuses me totally, that the attachment offset for the sketches is on z, but the sketches move on x-axis? And then we postion 25 mm on y but the sketch moves up along z-axis?? Please be so kind to elaborate. Thank you in advance :)
Hi MangoJelly Solutions, is there a proper way where I can get in contact with you privately somehow? By mail? By chat? I would like to ask you something. Best regards Matt
If you look at my about page you will be able to see my email address in there. If I drop it in the comments, it gets removed :(