Thanks for this. It would be interesting to also count the number of clicks or touches/button press. As a extra, context switching is also a factor. I still struggle along with an old copy of the downloaded version of SketchUp. I’m really hoping I can find a replacement. . I’m just a home diy person and can’t justify the money for a non free tool. Low fee tools might work. But “low” is not a subscription when I use it twice a year. Again, thanks for this.
+1, the Blender measurements are really good, you can add dowels, realistic screws, make pocket holes at SketchUp, Blender, Fusion or any other CAD software?
Sketchup sucks for that at the free tier. Blender has a screw addon but I haven’t played with it too much. I haven’t messed with fusion because of my experience with sketchup and other non-open-source free software. Blender is so good for mocking things up. In the next video, I’ll go into some of how flexible and powerful it is for mocking ideas up.
@@williamweatherall8333 You can create Spreadsheet at Blender or create BOM, cut-list in other way? I am not familiar with any other CAD software, except my woodworking workbench for FreeCAD. I sa some BOM at Fusion but they are not easy to create, I guess.
@github / dprojects / Woodworking you can use online calculators with your dimensions, cut optimizers they are called. I used one for the first time recently and it was pretty good.
How do SketchUp and FreeCAD compare in terms of handling multi-part projects? I've found this challenging when considering a switch from SketchUp to FreeCAD.
@@williamweatherall8333 I've been attempting to use FreeCAD for designing woodworking projects, where the components are primarily rectangular shapes assembled together. I began by following the WayOfWood tutorial available here: ua-cam.com/video/jfNBfdIpzDQ/v-deo.html But then I just got into an analysis paralysis about which assembly plugin I should use: Assembly2, A2plus, Assembly 3, or Assembly 4.
honestly, you can get a good distance without assembly. drive.google.com/file/d/1SMPV704X2Xoq_o-mul_03RSKXuVM2dU-/view?usp=share_link is not amazing but not once did I use assembly. They are kind of only worth the pain of them sometimes IMO@@Trooper266
@@Trooper266 and recently there is an integrated assembly workbench with newer freecad versions. Having tried all the assembly workbenches, except the new integrated one, i find the A2plus the most intuitive. So if you are not up for looking around quite some, i would suggest to use this to begin with. If you continue working with freecad, eventually you will try this and that at some point by yourself. They all come free to use and try and you will see what works the best for your needs. It can be really confusing having all these options, but it's just different people creating what seems to work best for them and giving the choice to everyone else to use them. Good thing.
Thanks for this. It would be interesting to also count the number of clicks or touches/button press. As a extra, context switching is also a factor.
I still struggle along with an old copy of the downloaded version of SketchUp. I’m really hoping I can find a replacement. . I’m just a home diy person and can’t justify the money for a non free tool. Low fee tools might work. But “low” is not a subscription when I use it twice a year.
Again, thanks for this.
Thank you so much for the explanation 🙏🏻
This is just what I was looking for-thanks for a great video! Q: Which of these do you find yourself using most often?
depends on what for. FreeCAD for anything 3D printed. Sketchup for quick mockups. Blender if I want to visualize it.
Part 2 Please
+1, the Blender measurements are really good, you can add dowels, realistic screws, make pocket holes at SketchUp, Blender, Fusion or any other CAD software?
Sketchup sucks for that at the free tier.
Blender has a screw addon but I haven’t played with it too much. I haven’t messed with fusion because of my experience with sketchup and other non-open-source free software.
Blender is so good for mocking things up. In the next video, I’ll go into some of how flexible and powerful it is for mocking ideas up.
@@williamweatherall8333 You can create Spreadsheet at Blender or create BOM, cut-list in other way? I am not familiar with any other CAD software, except my woodworking workbench for FreeCAD. I sa some BOM at Fusion but they are not easy to create, I guess.
@github / dprojects / Woodworking you can use online calculators with your dimensions, cut optimizers they are called. I used one for the first time recently and it was pretty good.
How do SketchUp and FreeCAD compare in terms of handling multi-part projects? I've found this challenging when considering a switch from SketchUp to FreeCAD.
FreeCAD is fine in that regard in my opinion. What are you trying to do?
@@williamweatherall8333 I've been attempting to use FreeCAD for designing woodworking projects, where the components are primarily rectangular shapes assembled together. I began by following the WayOfWood tutorial available here:
ua-cam.com/video/jfNBfdIpzDQ/v-deo.html
But then I just got into an analysis paralysis about which assembly plugin I should use: Assembly2, A2plus, Assembly 3, or Assembly 4.
honestly, you can get a good distance without assembly. drive.google.com/file/d/1SMPV704X2Xoq_o-mul_03RSKXuVM2dU-/view?usp=share_link is not amazing but not once did I use assembly. They are kind of only worth the pain of them sometimes IMO@@Trooper266
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@@Trooper266 and recently there is an integrated assembly workbench with newer freecad versions. Having tried all the assembly workbenches, except the new integrated one, i find the A2plus the most intuitive. So if you are not up for looking around quite some, i would suggest to use this to begin with.
If you continue working with freecad, eventually you will try this and that at some point by yourself. They all come free to use and try and you will see what works the best for your needs. It can be really confusing having all these options, but it's just different people creating what seems to work best for them and giving the choice to everyone else to use them. Good thing.
Fusion 360?
it suffers from the same thing that sketchup does in that they can reduce features any time on it.