I'm just starting to use cads such as autocad, freecad, sketchup, fusion360, blender. And this is the best detailed, best explained tutorial I've ever seen for a CAD software, keep up the amazing work!
Thank you for popularizing this 1.0 release version. When I am writing this comment, it is already released! Congratulations to us all! Even though Sketcher is not a part of this particular tutorial, it also got fixed and became easier to use, constraints are not ideal, but they got much closer to it. The same old me using 0.21 version of FreeCAD making a rack and me now making the same type of rack in 1.0 sketcher makes a very big difference. Like I only encountered bloody "overconstrained" once for all of the 7 sketches in my model, contrary to the previous case when I almost was ready to give up completely and forfeit FreeCAD because a rack (bookshelf) is too simple of a model for an engineer with more them 10 of 3Dprinted parts of experience in FreeCAD to have even one incomprehensible constraint conflict not to say about 12 of dead end situations where I had to erase half of the sketch! Viva version 1.0! Our savior!
Yes, 1.0 is a big step forward. I do not user sketcher that much but from what I saw and heard, it got lot of improvements in 1.0 version, which is great. It is important to mention, that lot of sketcher improvements came from the Ondsel project, which unfortunately had to shut down before the release of FreeCAD 1.0.
Thanks for the tutorial, but man if FreeCAD draft is inefficient as a 2D cad solution, somebody on the FreeCAD team needs to learn classic AutoCAD and get the Draft Workbench to work more like AutoCAD, in particular offsets, trims, stretching and extending. What it takes 5 mins in AutoCAD in FreeCAD can take up to an hour of endless clicking.
FreeCAD was not developed to be a 2D drafting software. I think currently it is also not the main focus of development. I agree that some of the tools are clumsy when used as a 2D drafting software compared to software created primarily with 2D in mind such as AutoCAD. I think the developers know that, but the problem is that there are not enough resources to fix everything in short time. But they are moving ahead slowly, but surely, in my opinion. Even with the above said, it is still possible to create 2D drawing in FreeCAD, even though sometimes slower than with other specialized tools.
@@FCBlounge I agree with all that you mention, but if FreeCAD is to be successful as a BIM it will have to improve the Draft workbench, most of what is needed is already there, it is mostly a case of mimicking the workflow of a 2D cad program a bit better, I'm not saying they have to clone AutoCAD, but just one example in the video is how the grid doesn't expand automatically to the drawing's extent, and you turn it off, it comes back on on its own.
@@sillonbono3196 I agree with you that there are a lot of powerful tools and that there is a lot of functionality in FreeCAD, which needs to cleaned up. It is true that the grid does not scale dynamically. The grid 'coming back on it's own' is actually a feature - the grid can be setup to turn on automatically when command is started, that is why it showed up and disappeared when the command was finished. I did not mention it in the tutorial, because I wanted to focus on the core task at hand.
Very nice tutorial on the draft workbench, thank you. Only 1 thing I could not do is move the dimension text in edit mode. This is related to my mouse navigation style GESTURE. I could not figure out how to do it, you or anyone else reading this?
It is hard to tell, but I would guess it is not mouse navigation style related. Make sure, that you are in the edit mode. Make sure to turn your snaps off, so that the text does not snap to certain points. Make sure, that you are moving the text edit point. It can be easily confused with the dimension line edit point.
@@FCBlounge If I use REVIT it works. But if I use GESTURE then moving the mouse with left button, it rotates my view in stead of moving the text. I tried holding ALT and other control keys, but it doesn't work for me.
@@edingcnc7685 I am not able to reproduce this, see here using gesture: 1drv.ms/v/c/d058e155a9fc1abb/EfqZQjLDne9Gkn9F1sK-U_EB42f1kXy6PQCDzBa3z5X-Xg?e=ohtdSz Are you on a Linux machine? There have been some gesture problems on Linux I think.
Thanks for the praise. Stay tuned to this channel. If time allows me to, I plan to also do some tutorial on 3D modelling, mainly focused on the AEC field.
I'm just starting to use cads such as autocad, freecad, sketchup, fusion360, blender. And this is the best detailed, best explained tutorial I've ever seen for a CAD software, keep up the amazing work!
Thanks for the praise, Thomas. I am glad you like the tutorial. I hope you will stick with FreeCAD and Blender!
@FCBlounge I definitely will 👍🏼
Excellent tutorial! Thanks!
Thank you for the praise!
Thank you for popularizing this 1.0 release version. When I am writing this comment, it is already released! Congratulations to us all! Even though Sketcher is not a part of this particular tutorial, it also got fixed and became easier to use, constraints are not ideal, but they got much closer to it. The same old me using 0.21 version of FreeCAD making a rack and me now making the same type of rack in 1.0 sketcher makes a very big difference. Like I only encountered bloody "overconstrained" once for all of the 7 sketches in my model, contrary to the previous case when I almost was ready to give up completely and forfeit FreeCAD because a rack (bookshelf) is too simple of a model for an engineer with more them 10 of 3Dprinted parts of experience in FreeCAD to have even one incomprehensible constraint conflict not to say about 12 of dead end situations where I had to erase half of the sketch! Viva version 1.0! Our savior!
Yes, 1.0 is a big step forward. I do not user sketcher that much but from what I saw and heard, it got lot of improvements in 1.0 version, which is great.
It is important to mention, that lot of sketcher improvements came from the Ondsel project, which unfortunately had to shut down before the release of FreeCAD 1.0.
Thanks for the tutorial, but man if FreeCAD draft is inefficient as a 2D cad solution, somebody on the FreeCAD team needs to learn classic AutoCAD and get the Draft Workbench to work more like AutoCAD, in particular offsets, trims, stretching and extending. What it takes 5 mins in AutoCAD in FreeCAD can take up to an hour of endless clicking.
FreeCAD was not developed to be a 2D drafting software. I think currently it is also not the main focus of development.
I agree that some of the tools are clumsy when used as a 2D drafting software compared to software created primarily with 2D in mind such as AutoCAD. I think the developers know that, but the problem is that there are not enough resources to fix everything in short time.
But they are moving ahead slowly, but surely, in my opinion.
Even with the above said, it is still possible to create 2D drawing in FreeCAD, even though sometimes slower than with other specialized tools.
@@FCBlounge I agree with all that you mention, but if FreeCAD is to be successful as a BIM it will have to improve the Draft workbench, most of what is needed is already there, it is mostly a case of mimicking the workflow of a 2D cad program a bit better, I'm not saying they have to clone AutoCAD, but just one example in the video is how the grid doesn't expand automatically to the drawing's extent, and you turn it off, it comes back on on its own.
@@sillonbono3196 I agree with you that there are a lot of powerful tools and that there is a lot of functionality in FreeCAD, which needs to cleaned up.
It is true that the grid does not scale dynamically. The grid 'coming back on it's own' is actually a feature - the grid can be setup to turn on automatically when command is started, that is why it showed up and disappeared when the command was finished. I did not mention it in the tutorial, because I wanted to focus on the core task at hand.
Thank you sir
I am glad you like the tutorial.
Very nice tutorial on the draft workbench, thank you. Only 1 thing I could not do is move the dimension text in edit mode. This is related to my mouse navigation style GESTURE. I could not figure out how to do it, you or anyone else reading this?
It is hard to tell, but I would guess it is not mouse navigation style related.
Make sure, that you are in the edit mode.
Make sure to turn your snaps off, so that the text does not snap to certain points.
Make sure, that you are moving the text edit point. It can be easily confused with the dimension line edit point.
@@FCBlounge if i choose
@@FCBlounge If I use REVIT it works. But if I use GESTURE then moving the mouse with left button, it rotates my view in stead of moving the text. I tried holding ALT and other control keys, but it doesn't work for me.
@@edingcnc7685 I am not able to reproduce this, see here using gesture: 1drv.ms/v/c/d058e155a9fc1abb/EfqZQjLDne9Gkn9F1sK-U_EB42f1kXy6PQCDzBa3z5X-Xg?e=ohtdSz
Are you on a Linux machine? There have been some gesture problems on Linux I think.
Hi, I am new to FreeCAD. Your videos have been very useful, great work, thank you😊 by the way, how do you go about making a 3D model from 2D?
Thanks for the praise. Stay tuned to this channel. If time allows me to, I plan to also do some tutorial on 3D modelling, mainly focused on the AEC field.
print out to pdf is blur，any hints？Techdraw draft view all element stack up in the center
I think this tutorial will give you answers: ua-cam.com/video/rnQ_Gd177NM/v-deo.html
thank you
Thanks, Thomas. I hope it will help people who are starting with the Draft workbench.
@@FCBlounge wonderful. You could make a video about the 3D function of draft e.g. 3d bspline
@@thomasneemann5618 I have not been using the draft WB for any 3D modelling. I guess I also need such a video :)
@@FCBlounge there are a few on my channel
@@thomasneemann5618 Thanks, Thomas. I might look at them, but I am currently looking into different tools.
Are you Czech btw? I can hear it! 😀
Yes, proudly representing Czech Republic!🙂
@@FCBlounge 😀
As a Russian I could not recognize any Slavic accent, his English is that good.
why am i not able to drag click like you are
Not sure about which part of the tutorial you are talking.