I started working with machine control (NC with Paper Punched Tape) back in the 1960's and progressed through all the horrid CNC / CAD Programs those fiends could devise (Perhaps Pro-E was the most demonic, although Catia was a good contender). Losing my shop several years ago gave me little reason to continue until I found 3D printing. Something that I could do with limited space and budget. Finding Freecad was a bonus until I tried to wrap my head around it.. I thought perhaps I was just too old and dotty to comprehend a new package but surprisingly, after watching your tutorials, throwing over half a century of "knowing how to do it" out of my head, and giving myself up to this freeform program (with your guidance) I am surprising myself that I am able to get a handle on the little peculiarities of this program. I NEVER thought it would be as POWERFUL as it is. You unlocked features and made them understandable to someone whose brain wrinkels had hardened over time.. I've got a lot more to absorb, but you're a fine instructor.
Thank you for sharing your story, I'm guessing you was one of the many that fell to the pandemic? . It's been a double edge sword with many loosing and many starting out. I'm glad you found a potential outlet with 3D printing. This channel was really born out of the lockdown. I was laid off for over a year and knew people were in the same boat as me. I knew people were retraining and couldn't afford the software they used in the industry so I thought I would share my knowledge. I feel honoured that my channel has helped you and others learn the software. There is a large learning curve with Freecad that many will give up within the first few weeks. It's a total different way of thinking. Thank you once again for the comments. I hope you're new venture brings you the opportunity you had with your work shop
We all do it. My technology teacher told me that sometimes it's worth drawing the image on paper from the different angles even if it's just roughly. Sometimes it's helpful If you can try to blank out the features and think of the object in silhouette from the base views to figure out the form and profiles. From there you can decide on how you want to approach the object. We all get caught up in the detail and need to take a step back.
Your teachings have been very valuable to me. I went to school for programming and I'm working hard to basically teach myself electrical and mechanical engineering in pursing a dream I have. Your videos are very informative and very good at explaining the reasoning behind everything. Thank you endlessly for providing this content I have been able to learn a lot from you.
That is great to hear, thank you for the feedback and kind words. You will go a long way with those skills under your belt and I wish you all the best in success. Thank you for supporting the channel. Good luck with accomplishing the dream and never give up.
Fantastic video! I've used the groove before but I never thought about using it as a way to surface an entire face. Really great stuff. A side note, you made the sketch at an irregular angle so you could see the profile of the slot you created. This creates a problem that I cannot seem to solve (same with datum planes at weird angles as well) which is I cannot figure out how, once I've rotated away from the initial perspective in sketcher, to return to a square view of the sketch against the plane. That probably doesn't make a lot of sense so imagine you create a sketch along a regular plane like XY or XZ or whatever and you rotate the view in the sketch to get a better idea of where you are spatially, right? To get back square to the plane of the sketch you can just click on the appropriate face on the navigation cube. I can't figure out how to do that on an irregular plane.
Exactly, I think you have the perfect naming for the tool . It makes life so much easier once you think about models in the more simplistic form by viewing them from the different angles. And working out the bare minimum you need (in this case what you don't need) to create your part.
Really nice! Something I struggled with in a non-exercise project was creating a negative oval shape instead of a negative round shape. I don't remember anymore if I used the groove tool to go along an oval path, or what (I had help with this too, so I didn't figure it out on my own). Could you show us how to create an oval (instead of round) bowl? Also, in .20, it now allows a single sketch to be used to do the grooving for both the top and bottom negative grooves in this exercise. It allows a lot of stuff it didn't used to, in the Sketcher :)
Thanks for the comments 😊I am going to work this into my next couple of tutorials in my beginners series. Notice it something that people have a few problems visualising a workflow for.
@@MangoJellySolutions Yeah, it's really hard to think about how to do something like that, especially when a person is new to FreeCAD. Thanks for adding it to the beginner's series!
Excellent works! Can you please let us know how to understand the 'report view' easily and properly? By the way, Freecad v2.0 is available right now and I'm using it. Is is possible for you to demonstrate the next videos with that version since it's the most recent one? One more suggestion: your videos are very descriptive and explanatory.....but will be even more amazing if you kindly can move on a little bit faster. Regards :)
I started working with machine control (NC with Paper Punched Tape) back in the 1960's and progressed through all the horrid CNC / CAD Programs those fiends could devise (Perhaps Pro-E was the most demonic, although Catia was a good contender). Losing my shop several years ago gave me little reason to continue until I found 3D printing. Something that I could do with limited space and budget. Finding Freecad was a bonus until I tried to wrap my head around it.. I thought perhaps I was just too old and dotty to comprehend a new package but surprisingly, after watching your tutorials, throwing over half a century of "knowing how to do it" out of my head, and giving myself up to this freeform program (with your guidance) I am surprising myself that I am able to get a handle on the little peculiarities of this program. I NEVER thought it would be as POWERFUL as it is. You unlocked features and made them understandable to someone whose brain wrinkels had hardened over time.. I've got a lot more to absorb, but you're a fine instructor.
Thank you for sharing your story, I'm guessing you was one of the many that fell to the pandemic? . It's been a double edge sword with many loosing and many starting out. I'm glad you found a potential outlet with 3D printing. This channel was really born out of the lockdown. I was laid off for over a year and knew people were in the same boat as me. I knew people were retraining and couldn't afford the software they used in the industry so I thought I would share my knowledge. I feel honoured that my channel has helped you and others learn the software. There is a large learning curve with Freecad that many will give up within the first few weeks. It's a total different way of thinking. Thank you once again for the comments. I hope you're new venture brings you the opportunity you had with your work shop
Once again you have reminded me that I need to think about the finished goal before I start adding/subtraction bits. Thank you.
We all do it. My technology teacher told me that sometimes it's worth drawing the image on paper from the different angles even if it's just roughly. Sometimes it's helpful If you can try to blank out the features and think of the object in silhouette from the base views to figure out the form and profiles. From there you can decide on how you want to approach the object. We all get caught up in the detail and need to take a step back.
Your teachings have been very valuable to me. I went to school for programming and I'm working hard to basically teach myself electrical and mechanical engineering in pursing a dream I have. Your videos are very informative and very good at explaining the reasoning behind everything. Thank you endlessly for providing this content I have been able to learn a lot from you.
That is great to hear, thank you for the feedback and kind words. You will go a long way with those skills under your belt and I wish you all the best in success. Thank you for supporting the channel. Good luck with accomplishing the dream and never give up.
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Your videos are excellent! You impart lots of useful information very clearly and effectively. Much appreciated!
Thank you for such kind comments, glad your enjoying them.
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Fantastic video! I've used the groove before but I never thought about using it as a way to surface an entire face. Really great stuff. A side note, you made the sketch at an irregular angle so you could see the profile of the slot you created. This creates a problem that I cannot seem to solve (same with datum planes at weird angles as well) which is I cannot figure out how, once I've rotated away from the initial perspective in sketcher, to return to a square view of the sketch against the plane. That probably doesn't make a lot of sense so imagine you create a sketch along a regular plane like XY or XZ or whatever and you rotate the view in the sketch to get a better idea of where you are spatially, right? To get back square to the plane of the sketch you can just click on the appropriate face on the navigation cube. I can't figure out how to do that on an irregular plane.
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So the grove tool can be looked at as a subtractive revolve? This looks like it really simplifies complex shapes.
Exactly, I think you have the perfect naming for the tool . It makes life so much easier once you think about models in the more simplistic form by viewing them from the different angles. And working out the bare minimum you need (in this case what you don't need) to create your part.
Really nice! Something I struggled with in a non-exercise project was creating a negative oval shape instead of a negative round shape. I don't remember anymore if I used the groove tool to go along an oval path, or what (I had help with this too, so I didn't figure it out on my own). Could you show us how to create an oval (instead of round) bowl? Also, in .20, it now allows a single sketch to be used to do the grooving for both the top and bottom negative grooves in this exercise. It allows a lot of stuff it didn't used to, in the Sketcher :)
Thanks for the comments 😊I am going to work this into my next couple of tutorials in my beginners series. Notice it something that people have a few problems visualising a workflow for.
@@MangoJellySolutions Yeah, it's really hard to think about how to do something like that, especially when a person is new to FreeCAD. Thanks for adding it to the beginner's series!
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Excellent works! Can you please let us know how to understand the 'report view' easily and properly? By the way, Freecad v2.0 is available right now and I'm using it. Is is possible for you to demonstrate the next videos with that version since it's the most recent one? One more suggestion: your videos are very descriptive and explanatory.....but will be even more amazing if you kindly can move on a little bit faster.
Regards :)
The 2 groove sketches could be combined into 1, right? 2 element part!
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