This is the first FreeCAD video that I have watched that didn't irritate the hell out of me. You explained EVERYTHING you were doing. You didn't try to rush through the video. You, obviously scripted everything out, and did so with education and cognitive overload in mind.
Yes, in this series I learned first time that I can delete over-constraints by just „click, DEL“ … sounds trivial but if you do not know, you lose so much time. Great videos that explain everything constantly
Thanks for that, it's been in the making for a while (didn't help I had to reshoot a lot of the content as obs cut off half the screen! ). It's one thing I touched on in my old 3D tutorials from way back before I did the channel but I realised it would be a great thing with Freecad itself. Glad you enjoyed, hopeful it will help a lot of people. The next episode has even more more information but keeping them short under 30 minutes seems to be the sweet spot for absorbing information without overloading.
Thank you, its only easy when you know how. 😊 I tried on screen key displays but I couldn't get any to work the way I wanted them. Its great that you enjoyed.
@@MangoJellySolutions If you can afford it, you might try Camtasia by Techsmith. It's a full-featured screen recorder, with animated graphical widgets that you can insert to highlight the part of the screen that is important, to highlight the mouse, and even show which keys you are pressing. All the widgets remain as separate, editable objects, except in the final render. It really helps improve the quality of training videos.
Every time I rewatch one of your videos I will pickup a new knowledge point or technique that is critical to know and apply. Your videos are well organized and content rich. As a kid I used to watch Bob Ross…an American Painter…..very relaxing and mesmerizing. You are the Bob Ross of FreeCAD ……thank you for sharing your talent and skillset.
This made me chuckle as only yesterday someone said the same. I might have to invest in a ginger afro and beat the devil out of my laptop when freecad crashes lol. Thank you for your kind words, it's great to see viewers like yourself are enjoying the videos and progressing with the learning journey.
Thanks for the tip about refining to prevent broken chamfers. A tip from me: for a tangential edge, only one section needs to be selected for chamfer...
Thank you for the kind comments, I have been dedicating time to help people understand this software and the support of the community have really helped keep me going. Thank you.
Way back in the day I took a course called Structured Basic Programming, where not only did you learn to code but also the thought process to construct a software project. Each week whomever accomplished the homework assignment with the least lines of code would get extra credit. That was probably the single most valuable course I ever took. This approach you are taking to teaching FreeCAD is spot on!
Thank you for your feedback, much appreciated, I really want to do more of these style lessons as they can be used across all CAD packages. Being able to use the package is one thing but capturing something digitally from the real world I find a lot of people struggle with.
Thank you, I want to do more like these as they feel more complete and constructive. They take longer to make but I think it's worth it. Thank you for your kind comment.
Glad you enjoyed the lesson. In answer to your question this could be because when you change the size of the fillet the edges are too small to take the fillet or there is a intersecting edge. I have put together a video on fillet issues and what to watch out for and how to solve them. I may be of help. ua-cam.com/video/sNCWoU2u8S4/v-deo.html
I recently got myself into Freecad and after about 3 weeks of teaching myself the program, finally went into watching some of your videos through the recommendation of the freecad subreddit. The things i learned in 5 days surpassed everything i knew in those 3 weeks. I recently finished a small scale model of my daily use wheelchair and was after i finished the personal project that i started watching your videos. 5 videos in, the stuff i learned couldve made that so much faster. Still needa go through your lattice2 series and curves WB.
Biggest thing i learned was the premise of a master sketch and how to use construction lines to help use the mirror feature. I luckily had the basic understanding of pads, sweeps, pockets, etc. Just there was other ways i couldve went about the project because i did it entirely in part design workbench. Frame, spokes of the rear wheel, everything all part design. And while the end result pleased me, it showed that i had a lot to learn still before i comfortably decide to dip into getting a 3d printer
Thank you for sharing your story . This is the exact reason why I do these videos especially the latest mini series. There needed to be something that could jump start everyone's learning to get them up and running and to reduce frustration. I am glad you found them of use and thank you for taking the time to comment.
As always you are an awesome teacher. I recommend this site to everyone interested in CAD. Thinking in a spatial related way is difficult for some. I have a engineers mind. Great at spatial relation and mental mapping but terrible at spelling. I think in images but can't see words as such. I'm very thankful for spelling autocorrect.
Thank you Stewart for the kind comments and recommending my channel. It's great that you have found it useful. I built the content for the channel with that exact mind set. Making it easier to understand with a visual and kinesthetic approach, learn by doing. One of the main reasons why is: like yourself I have the same difficulties. Doing and visual learning is the way I absorb information. Put a book in front of me and I would absorb nothing. And yes with me spelling is the same (you probably have noticed in my comments lol) Myself being diagnosed as being dyslexic later on in life answered a lot of questions regarding my learning style and being a natural problem solver. I roll this style of learning into the channel and I think it might be one of the reasons why people have stuck with it.
Looking forward to the organic - curves lessons. I am pretty good and hard egde machines, suck at doing anything with an organic shape. Keep refering to your videos before the actual help section. Thanks for channel!!
Nice one! Maybe to save some people from some easy calculations: you can enter 24 - 14 in the dimension box instead of figuring out that this will be 10mm. Works in many other places in FreeCad too.
Thinking is the hardest part of CAD, so really useful series. I haven't managed to break my model this time but I certainly did break them with fillets in the past. I've heard that 'you can't fillet all the way' is an OpenCascade limitation but it's rarely actually voiced. We could have sketched an arc instead of the line there, couldn't we? Would have missed on fillet education though.
I have never heard of that re: opencascade limitation, nice to know thanks. Yes sketching the arc would of been a option but as you say would of missed out on fillet lesson. Glad you think the series is useful. A video that I have been wanting to do for a long time 😊
Thank you. Glad you enjoyed the video. In later videos the mic has been placed in a boom to help stop the vibrations. This year I have been working on increase the quality of the videos as I will have a dedicated space which will also includes 4K 😁
I am trying to model a corner cover for the aluminum pannier on my motorcycle. The basic shape is a triangle. The part is a triangular cup essentially. The complication is that the sides are a different angle from the base than the apexes are. I think this video is what i need to sort this but there are some features in freeCAD that don't seem to be available to me. In the part design workbench I have no access to "view sketch". How do I go abut activating this? Great video by the way. If only I could get access to the tools I need.
I'm having trouble repeating this tutorial using 0.20.2 (adding the arc does not seem to behave in the same way), What version was used record this video? (0.20.0??)
I followed along and only had one difference. I placed the hook edge a little further inward before I padded that sketch. When I got to the last fillet I couldn't go above .6mm. I had to refine the second to last fillet before I could do the final fillet at 1mm. The end result was identical without further refining.
I had same issues in the past with fillets and this video would have cleared such issues (if I had seen it before!). So usually I would have refined the last function but, if I have already done it once (in this case second from last fillet) then it does not need to be done again? I tried on other drawings I made and refining more than once does not seem to make a difference. What issues could it cause of any?
Fantastic! One question, when you refer to external geometry in the sketch, isn't it better (practice) to try to refer to the sketch that drives the part, rather than parts of the extrude?
I am new to freecad and I learned this the hard way too. Referencing edges in the extruded part seems to break if you have to go back and rework a sketch higher up in the tree. I've started making all my constraints reference the axes if I need an external reference to the sketch but I'm going to try your idea of referencing the base sketch itself rather than the body where I can. That makes more sense.
One crucial thing to mention. As of 2024 the option to 'Auto Move Redundant Constraints' is off by default. It also is located in a different spot and is hidden. Look under Tasks => Constraints => Icon with wrench and screwdriver dropdown => Click on 'Auto Move Redundant Constraints'. Without doing this, I was not able to get past the very first step of the video when trying to change the constraint radius. I think it would be good to do an updated tutorial as a lot of the ui layout has changed and it will be hard to follow along.
I was really wondering why .99mm and not 1mm... until I saw your full video. Actually, I would have found it easier to have the full shape of the hook in a sketch, without having to fillet it at the end. In order to comply to your drawing, I had to make the R2 and R4 curves non-concentric ;-)
When you show the simulation at about 0.30 onwards, no real latch moves like that. When a person opens the latch, the wire bar releases from the hook, with the hook remaining stationary. The simulation has the wire bar joined to the hook so they move together. With everything horizontal, the wire bar should slide across the hook from right to left. For a challenge, simulate it in a vertical position, so that as the wire bar frees from the hook, gravity takes over and flips it backwards.
Sorry for late reply. I believe this was in standard 2.0. There has been a lot of bug fixes since and I have ran through the process with 0.21 and all seems good.
This is the first FreeCAD video that I have watched that didn't irritate the hell out of me. You explained EVERYTHING you were doing. You didn't try to rush through the video. You, obviously scripted everything out, and did so with education and cognitive overload in mind.
Yes, in this series I learned first time that I can delete over-constraints by just „click, DEL“ … sounds trivial but if you do not know, you lose so much time.
Great videos that explain everything constantly
Thanks for that, it's been in the making for a while (didn't help I had to reshoot a lot of the content as obs cut off half the screen! ). It's one thing I touched on in my old 3D tutorials from way back before I did the channel but I realised it would be a great thing with Freecad itself. Glad you enjoyed, hopeful it will help a lot of people. The next episode has even more more information but keeping them short under 30 minutes seems to be the sweet spot for absorbing information without overloading.
Thank you, its only easy when you know how. 😊 I tried on screen key displays but I couldn't get any to work the way I wanted them. Its great that you enjoyed.
@@MangoJellySolutions If you can afford it, you might try Camtasia by Techsmith. It's a full-featured screen recorder, with animated graphical widgets that you can insert to highlight the part of the screen that is important, to highlight the mouse, and even show which keys you are pressing. All the widgets remain as separate, editable objects, except in the final render. It really helps improve the quality of training videos.
Every time I rewatch one of your videos I will pickup a new knowledge point or technique that is critical to know and apply. Your videos are well organized and content rich. As a kid I used to watch Bob Ross…an American Painter…..very relaxing and mesmerizing. You are the Bob Ross of FreeCAD ……thank you for sharing your talent and skillset.
This made me chuckle as only yesterday someone said the same. I might have to invest in a ginger afro and beat the devil out of my laptop when freecad crashes lol. Thank you for your kind words, it's great to see viewers like yourself are enjoying the videos and progressing with the learning journey.
Always learning off you!
Great to hear, thank you 😊
super ,thanks
Excellent video. Well done
Thank you. Great for me 🙂
Thanks for the tip about refining to prevent broken chamfers. A tip from me: for a tangential edge, only one section needs to be selected for chamfer...
Thanks for sharing 👍😁
Can you explain more? Tangential edge to what?
I'm always amazed at how didactically you explain your techniques. Just thank you again for sharing your knowledge
Thank you for the kind comments, I have been dedicating time to help people understand this software and the support of the community have really helped keep me going. Thank you.
Way back in the day I took a course called Structured Basic Programming, where not only did you learn to code but also the thought process to construct a software project. Each week whomever accomplished the homework assignment with the least lines of code would get extra credit. That was probably the single most valuable course I ever took. This approach you are taking to teaching FreeCAD is spot on!
Thank you for your feedback, much appreciated, I really want to do more of these style lessons as they can be used across all CAD packages. Being able to use the package is one thing but capturing something digitally from the real world I find a lot of people struggle with.
Well done. Thank you for the explanations.
Well done from the start to the end.!!!!
This is great, very explanatory, nice manner, and not rushed. Awesome. Thank you
Glad you enjoyed it! And thank you for the comment and feedback
Just what I have been searching for thanks mate.
Great to hear 👍😊
Thanks a lot for such a superb explanation.
Thank you
Your level of engineering awesome. Thanks !
Thank you for your kind words 😊
This guy is legend. Another great tutorial series.
Thank you, glad you enjoyed
I’ve watched many many of your videos, but this is one of your best! I love the explanations of WHY things happen in FreeCAD.
Thank you, I want to do more like these as they feel more complete and constructive. They take longer to make but I think it's worth it. Thank you for your kind comment.
Thank you! Great lesson. I don't know why, but I was able to change that hook to 12mm without it breaking the fillets. I'm using FreeCAD 0.21.2.
Glad you enjoyed the lesson. In answer to your question this could be because when you change the size of the fillet the edges are too small to take the fillet or there is a intersecting edge. I have put together a video on fillet issues and what to watch out for and how to solve them. I may be of help. ua-cam.com/video/sNCWoU2u8S4/v-deo.html
I recently got myself into Freecad and after about 3 weeks of teaching myself the program, finally went into watching some of your videos through the recommendation of the freecad subreddit. The things i learned in 5 days surpassed everything i knew in those 3 weeks. I recently finished a small scale model of my daily use wheelchair and was after i finished the personal project that i started watching your videos. 5 videos in, the stuff i learned couldve made that so much faster. Still needa go through your lattice2 series and curves WB.
Biggest thing i learned was the premise of a master sketch and how to use construction lines to help use the mirror feature. I luckily had the basic understanding of pads, sweeps, pockets, etc. Just there was other ways i couldve went about the project because i did it entirely in part design workbench. Frame, spokes of the rear wheel, everything all part design. And while the end result pleased me, it showed that i had a lot to learn still before i comfortably decide to dip into getting a 3d printer
Thank you for sharing your story . This is the exact reason why I do these videos especially the latest mini series. There needed to be something that could jump start everyone's learning to get them up and running and to reduce frustration. I am glad you found them of use and thank you for taking the time to comment.
As always you are an awesome teacher. I recommend this site to everyone interested in CAD. Thinking in a spatial related way is difficult for some. I have a engineers mind. Great at spatial relation and mental mapping but terrible at spelling. I think in images but can't see words as such. I'm very thankful for spelling autocorrect.
Thank you Stewart for the kind comments and recommending my channel. It's great that you have found it useful. I built the content for the channel with that exact mind set. Making it easier to understand with a visual and kinesthetic approach, learn by doing. One of the main reasons why is: like yourself I have the same difficulties. Doing and visual learning is the way I absorb information. Put a book in front of me and I would absorb nothing. And yes with me spelling is the same (you probably have noticed in my comments lol) Myself being diagnosed as being dyslexic later on in life answered a lot of questions regarding my learning style and being a natural problem solver. I roll this style of learning into the channel and I think it might be one of the reasons why people have stuck with it.
That very well explains your teaching style and why it is so well excepted. Keep up the great work.
Looking forward to the organic - curves lessons. I am pretty good and hard egde machines, suck at doing anything with an organic shape. Keep refering to your videos before the actual help section. Thanks for channel!!
Glad your enjoying the channel. Yep looking forward to filming that one myself. 😊
Nice info, thank you for sharing it :)
Have to remember when I run into problems with filets to try refining things like that. I had no idea it could solve an issue like it does.
Glad your finding new things out from the video 😊
Nice one! Maybe to save some people from some easy calculations: you can enter 24 - 14 in the dimension box instead of figuring out that this will be 10mm. Works in many other places in FreeCad too.
Thinking is the hardest part of CAD, so really useful series.
I haven't managed to break my model this time but I certainly did break them with fillets in the past. I've heard that 'you can't fillet all the way' is an OpenCascade limitation but it's rarely actually voiced.
We could have sketched an arc instead of the line there, couldn't we? Would have missed on fillet education though.
I have never heard of that re: opencascade limitation, nice to know thanks. Yes sketching the arc would of been a option but as you say would of missed out on fillet lesson. Glad you think the series is useful. A video that I have been wanting to do for a long time 😊
Great video! You may want to either move your mic off from your desk therefore it doesn’t pick any noise from you pressing the kb/mouse.
Thank you. Glad you enjoyed the video. In later videos the mic has been placed in a boom to help stop the vibrations. This year I have been working on increase the quality of the videos as I will have a dedicated space which will also includes 4K 😁
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I am trying to model a corner cover for the aluminum pannier on my motorcycle. The basic shape is a triangle. The part is a triangular cup essentially. The complication is that the sides are a different angle from the base than the apexes are. I think this video is what i need to sort this but there are some features in freeCAD that don't seem to be available to me. In the part design workbench I have no access to "view sketch". How do I go abut activating this? Great video by the way. If only I could get access to the tools I need.
I'm having trouble repeating this tutorial using 0.20.2 (adding the arc does not seem to behave in the same way), What version was used record this video? (0.20.0??)
I followed along and only had one difference. I placed the hook edge a little further inward before I padded that sketch. When I got to the last fillet I couldn't go above .6mm. I had to refine the second to last fillet before I could do the final fillet at 1mm. The end result was identical without further refining.
Oh, I guess I didn't do the 10mm pad either. I did 12 the first time. Commented too soon there didn't I?
But you got the same result and found a way round the issue so all good 😊😊👍👍
I had same issues in the past with fillets and this video would have cleared such issues (if I had seen it before!). So usually I would have refined the last function but, if I have already done it once (in this case second from last fillet) then it does not need to be done again? I tried on other drawings I made and refining more than once does not seem to make a difference. What issues could it cause of any?
Fantastic!
One question, when you refer to external geometry in the sketch, isn't it better (practice) to try to refer to the sketch that drives the part, rather than parts of the extrude?
I am new to freecad and I learned this the hard way too. Referencing edges in the extruded part seems to break if you have to go back and rework a sketch higher up in the tree. I've started making all my constraints reference the axes if I need an external reference to the sketch but I'm going to try your idea of referencing the base sketch itself rather than the body where I can. That makes more sense.
One crucial thing to mention. As of 2024 the option to 'Auto Move Redundant Constraints' is off by default. It also is located in a different spot and is hidden. Look under Tasks => Constraints => Icon with wrench and screwdriver dropdown => Click on 'Auto Move Redundant Constraints'.
Without doing this, I was not able to get past the very first step of the video when trying to change the constraint radius.
I think it would be good to do an updated tutorial as a lot of the ui layout has changed and it will be hard to follow along.
When you do organics, make sure you show how to mąkę a shape from a cross-cut at a compound angle.
I was really wondering why .99mm and not 1mm... until I saw your full video. Actually, I would have found it easier to have the full shape of the hook in a sketch, without having to fillet it at the end. In order to comply to your drawing, I had to make the R2 and R4 curves non-concentric ;-)
Thank for sharing your experience and tips, all comments like these enriches these videos and people's learning experience.
Could the fillet problem be solved by inserting the hook part deeper into the flat one? This should move some of the edges out of the fillet way :)
oke so i can not get freecad to work propperly.. when i try to apply the constrain diameter i get error messages
How to teach...thanks. 🙏
When you show the simulation at about 0.30 onwards, no real latch moves like that. When a person opens the latch, the wire bar releases from the hook, with the hook remaining stationary. The simulation has the wire bar joined to the hook so they move together. With everything horizontal, the wire bar should slide across the hook from right to left.
For a challenge, simulate it in a vertical position, so that as the wire bar frees from the hook, gravity takes over and flips it backwards.
It does seem to work better with 0.20
Sorry for late reply. I believe this was in standard 2.0. There has been a lot of bug fixes since and I have ran through the process with 0.21 and all seems good.