I've been using Solidworks for 15 years but now I'm moving to FreeCad. - One point was the high integration with python (I wrote a lot of stuff for Solidworks in VBA too). - The next point was that I can use in Linux environment. I find some things/commands/methods not so straightforward as in SW but I'm sure, I just need some more time. There is one thing I couldn't find yet: Fill pattern. I'm in the chemical industry and I've got a lot of heat exchangers with tube-to-tubesheet connection. In SW it was easy. I just draw a circle for the first hole, then the two perpendicular lines then fill patern, I gave the pitch and BANG. And Joko E - I learnt a lot of things from your videos. Thank you.
Thank you for sharing. Great video! I couldn't agree more. Using a CAD system (whichever that one might be) is not about pressing the "right" buttons but about using the "right" philosophy with the "right" mindset.
Totally right, and will apply to most software and tools, as a musician and software developer, it apply to those fields too, especially "non intuitive" tools and software, if you try to force them a way they were not built around, any tools and experience with them will be bad, even if sometimes some "lucky result" may occurs. I'm using FreeCAD as a "hobbyist" (or 'non essential' stuffs for professional purpose), everyone around me, despite being hobbyist too regarding CAD use Fusion and try to "convert me" saying it's way more easy, and if grabing a mouse and directly "doing stuff" is the definition of easy, yes it is. But watching this channel and the will to not use autodesk initially was the motivation I had and they don't that led me to watching hours of tutorial around FreeCAD, and I feel now I'm a bit more in control of what I'm doing than some of them, relying on "intuitive stuffs". Would also say that, even if simple thing might take way more time, it's at the benefit of not feeling like I'll hit a roof about what I can achieve if complexity increase, despite my modest skills (maybe a bit naive, but reassuring long term) The same apply to LibreCAD for me.
Lots of work benches in FreeCAD. I prefer it to those programs that try and cram all the tools on one page. By spreading the tools out over various work benches it leaves the drawing area larger.
i am also of the opinion that freecad is commercially viable. e.g. Timber construction, metal construction, architectural design, point cloud processing, etc.
Just from watching Jokos videos I would have to agree. Looks awesome for smaller scale companies and especially the technological transition for developing nations.
Hola Joshua Interesante entrevista. Definitivamente FreeCAD puede usarse comercialmente y tiene un futuro espléndido gracias al desarrollo que ya tenido. Por otro lado me gustaría que entrevistaras otros 'divulgadores' de FreeCAD como OficineRobotica, MangoJelly, Bugman y Thomas Neemann entre otros que tienen canales tan interesantes como el tuyo y abordan temáticas que pueden ser complementarias y enriquecedoras. Espero sea posible en futuros vídeos llegar a ver tales entrevistas. Gracias por compartir tus experiencias en FreeCAD
Nice interview. Hope you make any macOS tutorial (but everything you show in windows/or Linux applied to the Mac) ...would be nice if you can organize you FreeCad playlist content between Basic/beginners and another for specific topics ...just a recommendation. l like your teaching style. Hope to keep learning at your channel. Thanks
FreeCAD is a perfect example of what is wrong with open source. It is unstable, has a very bad performance and aside from youtube there is very limited usable documentation. It could be great but really is not at the moment.
Why not improve the documentation, you are encouraged to help. Often open source software is open to improvement suggestions when proprietary software is not.
@@freecadfundamentals292 As I said there is youtube. There are many tutorials available and over half of it is over my head (unfortunately) so I am not a huge help here. Fun fact: I wanted to send some money to freeCAD but all I could find within the time I was looking for was some kind of weekly payment. I am pro FreeCAD due to the lack of subscription model. Maybe it is different now but from my perspective there is so much wrong with FreeCAD. Yet I am super glad it exists!
If the only audio you are recording is the audio transmitted over the internet by your video conferencing app, then you have decided that it's OK if your audience can't tell what you are saying. Record each person's audio separately, with a device at their location, then merge that in post production.
@@oneman29 I could. And often I do. However, there are times when a video is so inexcusably bad that I want the videos creator to suffer the same pain I went through trying to watch their video. I want them to see that their utter negligence actually irritates their target audience. You might try to claim that these people are posting these videos out of the goodness of their hearts... for ME. For FREE. But you would be incorrect. They are posting videos for their own purposes. Whether to promote their organization, to boost their resume, to satisfy a requirement of some funding grant, or just to make money. Not irritating their audience is a fundamental requirement of all of those goals. But, if they expect me to spend my time watching their video to the end, thus accomplishing THEIR goals, then the least they can do is, I don't know... Not make the thing unintelligible. You know, at the minimum.
@@GrantSR I agree with what you're saying, the audio quality can be improved and no one can do something entirely for free, but this is as close as it get as an end consumer of knowledge from a video. I appreciate that it exists at all in order to aid people develop their skill set. The same can't be said about your internet demeanor, which is something I've been at fault for as well in the past tbf mate 😅
No way, the open source and free to use is way to engrained in freecad and the freecad developers and community. But surely someone, or some company, will take the source code and make a more developed and polished version to sell. And that's a good thing. It usually means more development.
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I've been using Solidworks for 15 years but now I'm moving to FreeCad.
- One point was the high integration with python (I wrote a lot of stuff for Solidworks in VBA too).
- The next point was that I can use in Linux environment.
I find some things/commands/methods not so straightforward as in SW but I'm sure, I just need some more time.
There is one thing I couldn't find yet: Fill pattern.
I'm in the chemical industry and I've got a lot of heat exchangers with tube-to-tubesheet connection. In SW it was easy. I just draw a circle for the first hole, then the two perpendicular lines then fill patern, I gave the pitch and BANG.
And Joko E - I learnt a lot of things from your videos. Thank you.
Thank you all for your tutorials
Thank you for sharing. Great video!
I couldn't agree more.
Using a CAD system (whichever that one might be) is not about pressing the "right" buttons but about using the "right" philosophy with the "right" mindset.
Totally right, and will apply to most software and tools, as a musician and software developer, it apply to those fields too, especially "non intuitive" tools and software, if you try to force them a way they were not built around, any tools and experience with them will be bad, even if sometimes some "lucky result" may occurs.
I'm using FreeCAD as a "hobbyist" (or 'non essential' stuffs for professional purpose), everyone around me, despite being hobbyist too regarding CAD use Fusion and try to "convert me" saying it's way more easy, and if grabing a mouse and directly "doing stuff" is the definition of easy, yes it is. But watching this channel and the will to not use autodesk initially was the motivation I had and they don't that led me to watching hours of tutorial around FreeCAD, and I feel now I'm a bit more in control of what I'm doing than some of them, relying on "intuitive stuffs". Would also say that, even if simple thing might take way more time, it's at the benefit of not feeling like I'll hit a roof about what I can achieve if complexity increase, despite my modest skills (maybe a bit naive, but reassuring long term) The same apply to LibreCAD for me.
@@EmmanuelIstace Yes, you need a strong will to stop old habits. I even deleted my windows boot sector to stop going to fusion 😁
This was very interesting! Thanks to you both.
Interesting video 👍👍
Thanks for sharing your experience with all of us 👍😀
Ahí estamos… genial 🤙🏻
Thanks for a very interesting and encouraging interview.
Lots of work benches in FreeCAD. I prefer it to those programs that try and cram all the tools on one page. By spreading the tools out over various work benches it leaves the drawing area larger.
i am also of the opinion that freecad is commercially viable. e.g. Timber construction, metal construction, architectural design, point cloud processing, etc.
Just from watching Jokos videos I would have to agree. Looks awesome for smaller scale companies and especially the technological transition for developing nations.
Hola Joshua
Interesante entrevista. Definitivamente FreeCAD puede usarse comercialmente y tiene un futuro espléndido gracias al desarrollo que ya tenido.
Por otro lado me gustaría que entrevistaras otros 'divulgadores' de FreeCAD como OficineRobotica, MangoJelly, Bugman y Thomas Neemann entre otros que tienen canales tan interesantes como el tuyo y abordan temáticas que pueden ser complementarias y enriquecedoras. Espero sea posible en futuros vídeos llegar a ver tales entrevistas. Gracias por compartir tus experiencias en FreeCAD
Great talk, thank you guys!
Lol...I really love this
Nice interview. Hope you make any macOS tutorial (but everything you show in windows/or Linux applied to the Mac) ...would be nice if you can organize you FreeCad playlist content between Basic/beginners and another for specific topics ...just a recommendation. l like your teaching style. Hope to keep learning at your channel. Thanks
Just install Ubuntu as the main OS and put mac OS in a virtualbox whenever you need it
I'd like to contact Octavio but it's not possible in the link you left here. Do you know other way to reach him?
FreeCAD is a perfect example of what is wrong with open source. It is unstable, has a very bad performance and aside from youtube there is very limited usable documentation. It could be great but really is not at the moment.
Why not improve the documentation, you are encouraged to help.
Often open source software is open to improvement suggestions when proprietary software is not.
@@freecadfundamentals292 As I said there is youtube. There are many tutorials available and over half of it is over my head (unfortunately) so I am not a huge help here. Fun fact: I wanted to send some money to freeCAD but all I could find within the time I was looking for was some kind of weekly payment. I am pro FreeCAD due to the lack of subscription model. Maybe it is different now but from my perspective there is so much wrong with FreeCAD. Yet I am super glad it exists!
If the only audio you are recording is the audio transmitted over the internet by your video conferencing app, then you have decided that it's OK if your audience can't tell what you are saying. Record each person's audio separately, with a device at their location, then merge that in post production.
you could give the same constructive advice in a more pleasant manner.
@@oneman29 I could. And often I do. However, there are times when a video is so inexcusably bad that I want the videos creator to suffer the same pain I went through trying to watch their video. I want them to see that their utter negligence actually irritates their target audience.
You might try to claim that these people are posting these videos out of the goodness of their hearts... for ME. For FREE. But you would be incorrect. They are posting videos for their own purposes. Whether to promote their organization, to boost their resume, to satisfy a requirement of some funding grant, or just to make money. Not irritating their audience is a fundamental requirement of all of those goals. But, if they expect me to spend my time watching their video to the end, thus accomplishing THEIR goals, then the least they can do is, I don't know... Not make the thing unintelligible. You know, at the minimum.
@@GrantSR I agree with what you're saying, the audio quality can be improved and no one can do something entirely for free, but this is as close as it get as an end consumer of knowledge from a video.
I appreciate that it exists at all in order to aid people develop their skill set.
The same can't be said about your internet demeanor, which is something I've been at fault for as well in the past tbf mate 😅
@@GrantSR I had no trouble following it.
THE TIME FOR FREE CAD TO BE FREE IS NEARING TO AND END
I hope not, that's totally against the main ethos of open source?
No
So download now and have forever
No way, the open source and free to use is way to engrained in freecad and the freecad developers and community. But surely someone, or some company, will take the source code and make a more developed and polished version to sell. And that's a good thing. It usually means more development.