And with FreeCAD, picking your planes and assigning planes was important when doing parametric designs. What parts to start with, should I extrude, should I split, should I rotate, etc. One of the main take-aways from doing both F360 and FreeCAD was that learning how to start a design was just as important as the steps after that choice. They were correct, with just a little basic CAD training I was able to work my way through FreeCAD and when I hit a issue or bug the FreeCAD forum users were quick to respond. After enough of those I went back and contacted a couple of those who posted the comments and they said that FreeCAD 0.19(beta) was very much usable compared to previous versions and that I shouldn’t have a problem. So I started looking at all the forums discussing what Autodesk was doing and often FreeCAD showed up with comments like “I switched to FreeCAD from F360 and didn’t look back”. A couple weeks later and Autodesk announced changes to their licensing and features which included removing STL export. There was a update the week before and he updated and that update also broke F360 from running in WINE and I was unable to load his file in the previous week’s version. I then had an issue with a project I was going to 3D print and shared my design with the tutor, he both described his work-around for the bug I was hitting and supplied the file which I was going to use the histogram to observe his eact actions. Also was able to import a picture, scale it, trace it then manipulate it into 3D. I was making things after 8 weeks making sketch drawings and then manipulating them. It was a weekly Zoom meeting for 1 hour of ‘teaching’ and 1 hour of general discussion. When did you try to learn FreeCAD last? I had tried to learn FreeCAD a few times over a number of years and went back to OpenSCAD until… I guy in a maker group offered to teach F360 over Zoom and at that point I was successful in getting it to run in WINE. Licenses are expensive, and the versions they give out for free use are often so crippled as to be of less use than a genuinely free (beer and frredom) program that has less functionality but no artificial limits. Not everyone can afford to use commercial software. Something that looks backwards to you may be the most rational way to understand it for someone else.ĥ. Just because a program doesn’t work the way you prefer doesn’t make it wrong. “That piece of **** doesn’t work” isn’t a bug description.Ĥ. Write a clear and fair bug description for the programmers when you have trouble using it. Reading and using the description the first time through can take a new user twenty minutes or more – and thereafter only seconds because they’ve learned how.ģ. It generally takes me a couple of hours to make photos and describe the process. It takes seconds to thread one for use if you know how. I write descriptions of how to use old sewing machines. It often takes far more time to describe something than to do it. The time you take to learn how to do something new in a new way can’t be weighed against what you might have earned at work in the same amount of time.Ģ. Posted in how-to Tagged cad, curves, design, freecad, Twist Post navigationġ. As for mechanical drawings themselves, we’ve seen FreeCAD can be used to make those, too. The video below is also pretty good overall demonstration of what designing a part from a mechanical drawing looks like when done in FreeCAD. This twisted bracket is a simple part that is nevertheless nontrivial from a CAD perspective, and that makes it a good candidate for showing off the different workbenches and tools. In that spirit, created a video demonstrating how to model a twisted part in FreeCAD, showing the entire workflow of creating the part as a blend of surfaces and curves that get turned into a solid.įreeCAD is organized using the concept of multiple “workbenches” which are each optimized for different tools and operations, and walks through doing the same jobs in a few different ways. Quick references are handy, but sometimes it’s nice to have a process demonstrated from beginning to end.
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