Thanks for showing us all your tricks! I was wondering how you were going get rid of the outside edges. This was a great way to introduce the "utility to apply a thick solid".
I'm new to CAD other than TinkerCad which I've been using for a few years now. I've been making my own designs with TinkerCad for use with my 3d printer but I've outgrown the limited functionality that it offers and have been working with FreeCad for about a month now. I have to say that the single best tip I've found is where you show how to use the "Make A Thick Solid" button...I had no idea! That is a huge game changer for me. Thank you!
Wow! I never even noticed Draft tool and didn't know Thickness could work like _that_ I was wondering how you were going to cut the bottom cavities out :)
Thanks for this nice tutorial, it's a good guick refresher about freecad main functions when you didn't use the software for some time, I had almost forgotten how to use the software :) I'm a CG artist/animator by trade and don't do CAD modeling often, we very rarely need that level of dimension accuracy in the entertainment industry, it's more about the look and shape but with a massive amount of surface detail.
That’s a smart idea to use shell for this later - face palm to myself ;) Actually fun fact because Fusion360 had such a bad documentation and I was a rhino user - I used freecad to understand and learn what a sketch solver is and how constraints work
Curious about this part: When you were selecting the edges to fillet, and the focus was toggling between either face until you were close to the edge... Is there a way to force or focus FreeCAD to focus on *just* those edges the cursor is nearby, to speed workflow? It's not that it wasn't slow at all in your tutorial! I can just envision a situation with a very large, complex drawing, where the drafter is attempting to fillet many, many more edges and has to keep fighting focus on faces when they want edges. Or the opposite, where the drafter wants to use faces, and exclude edges? And... I had one of these plates as part of my camping kit for Cub Scouts, so the 3-cubby plate is tied into fond memories of fun, mosquitoes, eating campfire food, blackflies, rained out camping, and of course, mosquitoes again.
I am running 20.2, and I am watching your vids, but the controls are either different, or something is up. Case in point, you are going "hit ctl h" and your screen gets the pop up. I hit it on my screen, and nothing happens. Are you using a specific control scheme? Did they change something in the update?
@@JokoEngineeringhelp Yeah, I have found it frustrating to try and watch a lot of videos as I am trying to learn the program, but hitting that wall of "how did he do that" so often.
Could someone help me out, maybe obvious that I've missed. How do you list or cycle through objects that exist on top of one another to be able to select the one you want.
If I understand correctly you'd like to access the history of the part? I usually use the space bar to hide the part (the bottom item) and then click the items above it and use the space bar to show the features above.
An example I guess would be say you have three lines meet in a sketch at the same point and you want to dimension to the point of one line to some other reference. How can you cycle between the different end points until you get the one end point of the line you want to dimension to. There are multiple endpoints coinciding with each other. Is there a hot key to let you click through the different points until you get the one you want to select? Hope that helps.
Sir i have one ceilling fan model which has a profile , being very difficult to make.. I can send you step file if you could make that.. Plz sir.. I have been trying since 2 months but not getting any success.. Plz sir make that model..
Never thought I'd learn so much from a child's dinner plate.
Gotta admit Freecad did a great job with this! (Not forgetting yourself of course!)
I love this design! So much to learn from your child's dinner plate. Love that you made her dinner in one of those.
Thanks for showing us all your tricks! I was wondering how you were going get rid of the outside edges. This was a great way to introduce the "utility to apply a thick solid".
I'm new to CAD other than TinkerCad which I've been using for a few years now. I've been making my own designs with TinkerCad for use with my 3d printer but I've outgrown the limited functionality that it offers and have been working with FreeCad for about a month now. I have to say that the single best tip I've found is where you show how to use the "Make A Thick Solid" button...I had no idea! That is a huge game changer for me. Thank you!
My pleasure, thank you.
Always learn about cool freecad tools I rarely touch watching your stuff. So much to learn about efficient design here. Thank you.
Wow! I never even noticed Draft tool and didn't know Thickness could work like _that_
I was wondering how you were going to cut the bottom cavities out :)
Nice tutorial! Good example of using multiple FreeCAD features in one object.
Great walkthrough of the process
Thanks for sharing your experiences with all of us :-)
Thanks for this nice tutorial, it's a good guick refresher about freecad main functions when you didn't use the software for some time, I had almost forgotten how to use the software :)
I'm a CG artist/animator by trade and don't do CAD modeling often, we very rarely need that level of dimension accuracy in the entertainment industry, it's more about the look and shape but with a massive amount of surface detail.
Upvoted for the update! Great video.
Thank you for this tutorial. Now my kids dont have to eat off of a cube, because thats everything I am able to model.
Splendid!
Thankyou very much really enjoyed
That’s a smart idea to use shell for this later - face palm to myself ;)
Actually fun fact because Fusion360 had such a bad documentation and I was a rhino user - I used freecad to understand and learn what a sketch solver is and how constraints work
I love my food organized!
Sometimes as an adult I'm jealous of her little compartments
make thick solid blew my mind.
7:53 - magic
Curious about this part: When you were selecting the edges to fillet, and the focus was toggling between either face until you were close to the edge...
Is there a way to force or focus FreeCAD to focus on *just* those edges the cursor is nearby, to speed workflow?
It's not that it wasn't slow at all in your tutorial! I can just envision a situation with a very large, complex drawing, where the drafter is attempting to fillet many, many more edges and has to keep fighting focus on faces when they want edges. Or the opposite, where the drafter wants to use faces, and exclude edges?
And... I had one of these plates as part of my camping kit for Cub Scouts, so the 3-cubby plate is tied into fond memories of fun, mosquitoes, eating campfire food, blackflies, rained out camping, and of course, mosquitoes again.
Would these be stackable if you were to produce multiples?
I am running 20.2, and I am watching your vids, but the controls are either different, or something is up. Case in point, you are going "hit ctl h" and your screen gets the pop up. I hit it on my screen, and nothing happens. Are you using a specific control scheme? Did they change something in the update?
They changed the hotkeys in the later version. It's a huge disappointment because it takes away from the ability to easily have two handed controls.
@@JokoEngineeringhelp Yeah, I have found it frustrating to try and watch a lot of videos as I am trying to learn the program, but hitting that wall of "how did he do that" so often.
These types of plates can keep very young children enthralled for age’s, just add a piece of tinned peach 🍑 to the plate in front of them.
Agreed! My little one loves fruit
can this be used to make a mold of it? inverse the positive space? then use path workbench to mill a mold of the item for injecting plastic?
Yes, I would probably stay in part design, make a rectangular body and use boolean subtract to generate mold tooling
@@JokoEngineeringhelp thanks. does freecad have a tool, to unfold an object to show how to fold sheet metal, to make the object?
@@kelargo Yes the sheet metal workbench. Tools>Addon Manager>Sheet Metal
Could someone help me out, maybe obvious that I've missed. How do you list or cycle through objects that exist on top of one another to be able to select the one you want.
If I understand correctly you'd like to access the history of the part? I usually use the space bar to hide the part (the bottom item) and then click the items above it and use the space bar to show the features above.
An example I guess would be say you have three lines meet in a sketch at the same point and you want to dimension to the point of one line to some other reference. How can you cycle between the different end points until you get the one end point of the line you want to dimension to. There are multiple endpoints coinciding with each other. Is there a hot key to let you click through the different points until you get the one you want to select? Hope that helps.
Sir i have one ceilling fan model which has a profile , being very difficult to make.. I can send you step file if you could make that.. Plz sir.. I have been trying since 2 months but not getting any success.. Plz sir make that model..
I can take a look at the file.
@@JokoEngineeringhelp ok sir.. What is your gmail adress
@@jak3460 It's in the description