Before watching this vid tried to do it myself. Decreased my optimism in freecad, though it RC2, so it's only "somewhat". Initially I made one big sketch with lots of lines wanting to make pad part of edge clicking on edges trick. Then I converted center big circle to construction line, then tried to make geom lines that go over the circle. Had "Autoconstraints cause conflicting constraints. Please report!". Worked around. Then I notices that holes in the legs are actually pockets and had more problems: I made a box, rotated it 3 times and wanted to fuse with the model. However the only thing I got was XY plane for some reason. I decided to restart and use simpler techniques (no multiple extrusions from a single sketch). My secret sauce was to do 2 pads: one 22-4 up. one 4 down. This way plane for groove is aligned at Z=4 from where diagonal cut is started. Only during video watching I realized pad should have been 5.2 Also I feel that using macros to make script that creates model from scratch might provide some pluses as you can rely on exact coordinates more freely. Though it'll take significantly more time.
You make this look so simple, im brand new to CAD, but challenged myself with a complex project to start with, I seem to have hit a wall when it comes to keeping a model fully parametric all the way through the design. I eventually need to edit something designed early on which inturn breaks my entire design. I'm also not understanding something when it comes to referencing faces or edges within the same part but a different body, sometimes I can reference but some it wont allow., what I mean by this is I have started the file several times over and starting from a different design part and working through in different directions, but always seem to hit a point I can't progress past, and because I don't know what is causing the actual issue I'm finding it hard to teach my self the fix lol. any way very informative vid I now understand how to use patterns, which I'm not actually using in this project but very handy none the less, and construction geometry I now understand a little, and constraining arcs with this I never though of. Thanks very much
"Toggle driving/reference constraint" K+X/Z is the old "Toggle to reference" just a new icon. The geometry element turns into dashed line instead of blue as is was.
Hi, just finished these 2 exercises, as I have been using the older versions for a while now I found that having to learn the differences between the two made it a little slower using ver1.0 but I did get there in the end :) I am now trying to make drawings with TechDraw work bench but am having a lot of trouble trying to produce drawings similar to that of the ones on your examples. Would you consider making videos of making Tech drawings using the same example on both version of the programs. Thanks.
Nice video! I've seen, that the new version also supports multiple extrusions from a single sketch like fusion 360. My initial thought, was to basically recreate all vertical elements in the first sketch, since I wouldn't have to use any external geometries, and extrude everything from there. What are your thoughts about it and would it be possible at all? I liked how you only did a third of the outer wire initially. Is it possible to multiply this wire in the sketch and continue from there?
it will not let me set tangency to points. I am using 1.0RC2 weekly build and now it needs you to select at least 2 objects in order to set a tangency. drives me crazy that it changed
I am new to Freecad and really like this tutorial!
Very intuitive. Keep up the good work.
Before watching this vid tried to do it myself. Decreased my optimism in freecad, though it RC2, so it's only "somewhat". Initially I made one big sketch with lots of lines wanting to make pad part of edge clicking on edges trick.
Then I converted center big circle to construction line, then tried to make geom lines that go over the circle. Had "Autoconstraints cause conflicting constraints. Please report!". Worked around. Then I notices that holes in the legs are actually pockets and had more problems: I made a box, rotated it 3 times and wanted to fuse with the model. However the only thing I got was XY plane for some reason.
I decided to restart and use simpler techniques (no multiple extrusions from a single sketch).
My secret sauce was to do 2 pads: one 22-4 up. one 4 down. This way plane for groove is aligned at Z=4 from where diagonal cut is started. Only during video watching I realized pad should have been 5.2
Also I feel that using macros to make script that creates model from scratch might provide some pluses as you can rely on exact coordinates more freely. Though it'll take significantly more time.
Thank you !
You make this look so simple, im brand new to CAD, but challenged myself with a complex project to start with, I seem to have hit a wall when it comes to keeping a model fully parametric all the way through the design. I eventually need to edit something designed early on which inturn breaks my entire design. I'm also not understanding something when it comes to referencing faces or edges within the same part but a different body, sometimes I can reference but some it wont allow., what I mean by this is I have started the file several times over and starting from a different design part and working through in different directions, but always seem to hit a point I can't progress past, and because I don't know what is causing the actual issue I'm finding it hard to teach my self the fix lol.
any way very informative vid I now understand how to use patterns, which I'm not actually using in this project but very handy none the less, and construction geometry I now understand a little, and constraining arcs with this I never though of.
Thanks very much
Are you using RC1?
@OffsetCAD the latest off of the freecad site. And I'm working with lofts and curved surfaces mainly.
You are using the 0.21.2 version.
"Toggle driving/reference constraint" K+X/Z is the old "Toggle to reference" just a new icon. The geometry element turns into dashed line instead of blue as is was.
Thank you!
Can you provide a tutorial on how to set material and dimensions to get a view like the one you based the tutorial on.
Check this:
ua-cam.com/video/G_MjlzeXrTE/v-deo.html
Hi again, that was good. I noticed that this version you didn't get the lines on the centre spigot. I'll give this a try soon.
Hi, just finished these 2 exercises, as I have been using the older versions for a while now I found that having to learn the differences between the two made it a little slower using ver1.0 but I did get there in the end :) I am now trying to make drawings with TechDraw work bench but am having a lot of trouble trying to produce drawings similar to that of the ones on your examples. Would you consider making videos of making Tech drawings using the same example on both version of the programs.
Thanks.
Humm, thank you! I will work on it! Please give me some time, I'm well biz these days.
The bug you showed at the final of part 1 video are not present in this new version. FC is turning better every day.
Very good!
Nice video! I've seen, that the new version also supports multiple extrusions from a single sketch like fusion 360. My initial thought, was to basically recreate all vertical elements in the first sketch, since I wouldn't have to use any external geometries, and extrude everything from there. What are your thoughts about it and would it be possible at all? I liked how you only did a third of the outer wire initially. Is it possible to multiply this wire in the sketch and continue from there?
Yes, using copy paste, offset, mirror.
it will not let me set tangency to points. I am using 1.0RC2 weekly build and now it needs you to select at least 2 objects in order to set a tangency. drives me crazy that it changed