FreeCAD Tutorial for Beginners
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- Опубліковано 24 лип 2024
- This is a CAD tutorial for the free application FreeCAD. The tutorial is for beginners to the program and I show the part design mode to point out the differecne to modeling applictions like Blender or Maya because you create a 2d sketch first and extrude the model from this.
It is an introduction for beginners to freecad, please let me know if you are interested in more CAD tutorials.
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For anyone in 2024 that is seeing this. The Auto Remove Redundants option for constraints can be found under Edit > Preferences > Sketcher > Genera,l it its the first option shown. Also, the grid can be turned on from the top right corner by clicking the grid like looking icon, hope this is useful!
Cheers, I was following along and was about to start searching google for that!
you just saved my monitor from keyboard🤣
Thank you so much!
As an example, the hint above... Edit has no "preferences" tab on my version.0.21.2-33771 mac
Thank you! I was wondering what that redundant thing meant until I ran into it 😆
Just got my first 3D printer and I can’t wait to start making my own original designs. Thank you for making this!
You are so welcome!
For years I've been trying to use something else than SketchUp and I've tried numerous Tutorials. Never get to understand HOW you have to approach designing in the software. Watched this video and it instantly became clear. Thank you!
This is a great tutorial. I'm just starting to use FreeCAD and would love to see more tutorials like this. Thank you!
Genuinely one of the most useful and straightforward videos I've ever seen! Now I can finally design all the things I've put off learning to design!
I hope FreeCAD gets more love after Autodesk revealed it's corporate greedface once again.
I hope so... next tutorial comes this week.
@@JayAnAm Try out RealThunders version of FreeCAD. It's way better than 0.19! And guys support him on patreon (thunderreal)! He's the FreeCAD dev we're all looking for!
Please, make a freecad tutorial for beginners
Yep... I switched. Its truly ironic to see technology championing 'digital communism' than actual revolution as had been predicted by Marx
Technically it is "corporate greed", but I don't hold it against them to want to make money. The ARE a corporation, so profit is a thing by definition. To expect a corporation NOT to make money from their products is kinda stupid and folks should expect that out of the gate.
What I hold against them is the way they did it.
If the full free version was a mistake and they should have limited it more from the beginning so free users didn't "abuse" it, then I'm sorry, but any corporate manager should have known what was going to happen on that from the beginning. That is simple stupidity.
To let it be free for so long that tons of people got used to it, then dramatically neuter usability, is either stupid or shady (I suspect some of both). I'm sure the original premise is that the free version whets the appetite so that users learn to use it, like it, depend on it, then want to buy it. The addiction method.
Lacking a free version, nobody would know to want it. Makes sense to have one just to encourage exposure. But they could have, should have, and maybe DID know better than to include such functionality in the free version from the start. To change it midstream like this points to a lack of competency OR manipulative marketing. Take your pick - neither one is a good look.
Even if you didn't use the features they removed, or even didn't use Fusion at all, if you've heard of the debacle, you now think less of Autodesk. Had they limited it from the start in a smart way, folks would love it almost as much and not have a reason to be pissed today.
I never have liked any software being tied to a subscription and I never will. You can never say never I guess, but I don't ever expect to even explore a single piece of software that I can only rent. Either I own it from the time of purchase, or I'm not interested. So in my view, Autodesk has been on the wrong side of this issue from the time they started it. No thanks.
Personally, I would rather use FreeCAD or whatever from the start, even IF it were half as good, just because I'm NEVER going to let myself rely on something that can change on a dime at the whim of some corporate board somewhere. Yeah, that just happened. Which leads me to conclude that those that are pissed off at Autodesk for what they've recently done, should instead look into the mirror to see the cause of their current grief. I can grok that lots of folks didn't understand this going in, but they should now. Let this just be a lesson as you move forward. Don't let yourself be placed in such a precarious stance from now on. The subscription paradigm alone should have been enough of a red flag if you were paying attention.
This video has great audio! Thank you for taking the time to have clear and crisp sound.
I've never touched FreeCAD in my life, I just come back to these tutorials every so often bc its like asmr to me
This is an amazing tutorial, no waffling or superfluous information, gives you the basic information you need as succinctly as possible and assumes the viewer has used a computer before. I picked this one because it was 6 minutes, as opposed to the often 30 minute or longer tutorials elsewhere, and it was exactly what I'd hoped for :)
Glad to hear that, thx
The most concise - get you moving - tutorial for FreeCAD there is.
thats not saying alot !
Thank you! You made freecad seem so much more beginner friendly than other tutorials.
This was my very first tutorial using FreeCAD! Thank you for explaining things with detail rich instructions, slow, and in a complete way! +1 for you!
Thank you, also see the second part: ua-cam.com/video/iy9amRGcCCA/v-deo.html
New Fusion 360 refugee here, and I have to say this was a great introduction. Thanks a lot.
Thx m8, I have the next in planning after the Blender hard surface sculpting videos
Im donating to the developers to help make it better and more powerful. I cant justify 500/yr on fusion at the hobby level. If they had a one time payment I would but until then, freecad.
me 2 ; i'll donate a few $$; this is good. $500/y for Fusion is not for the hobbyist :(
Yes 360 refugee as well. This was a great tutorial.
But the amount of tedium compared to fusion is insane.
All the love. Thank you so very much. This helped me get moving and I will watch any and all videos you have on FreeCad for sure.
Thank you for you're clear instructions on how to use Free Cad.
Thanks to you're instructions I'm finally able to make my first drawing on a computer, and so setting me on my way to making my first 3D designs for my projects .
Thank you, and pls continue making more tutorials on Free Cad
Your teaching style is always very precise you have a knack into progressive teaching I will say that all you teach is awesome and for the learner an invaluable resource. Thank you very much for your time effort and dedication. Over the years I have learned quite a bit from various sources but you excel at making it easy.... The purpose of learning is to get results. And you provide me the tools and information I need.
Nice to see you doing some freecad tutorials!!! The more exposure that this hidden gem of a program can get the better! Looking forward to more
Thx, next one will come soon, it is in the making:-)
This is the best 5 min crash course to get started with using freecad. Thanks for this.
Great tutorial! It's short, easy to understand, and explains the basics of FreeCAD very well!
Great tutorial. this is the 3rd I'm watching and it's the best. explains what, why and where, simple and without talking around other non related.
Thank you!
I am really a beginner in CAD so I love to have more demos like this one!
Please make it simple!
Thx, will do!
I didn't know about the symmetry constraint. Lifesaver 😀
I have been watching another FreeCAD Tutorial and it did not explain why only a very choppy how. Thank you so much for a very nice intro to the basics. I look forward to more videos from you covering more complex/compound shapes and transitions them to a slicer. Again thank you for this tutorial.
Yes! More Freecad.. The real “non-destructive” modeling 😸
The Egg-ViatoR ever geheard von Houdini ?
CAD software always scared me and looked pretty complex but this small tutorial was enough to give me the confidence to start dinking around with it. The least I could do is leave a comment saying thanks
Thank you. I was coming from Autodesk and didn't know where to begin. This got me started.
Thank you, nicely explained, more please!
Very simple and leisurely. Clear and uncomplicated.thank you. I 'm waiting to ! keep going!
Gold standard for instructional videos. Great boot strap for free cad.
Thank you for making the video which helps a lot. As a diehard AutoCad user, I must say FreeCAD is quite user unfriendly. Many operations left me scratching my head why it happened or how to correct errors. Even following exactly what the video had shown may not produce the same results. Many were done only by accident or trial and error.
Started out with CAD in general and FreeCAD specifically; the tutorial is nice to follow and I created the object as described. The only thing missing was 'making the body active' in order to add the bevel/chamfer to a face. (Go to model and right-click the body and "toggle active body".
Thx for the comment and the info
I didn't know about this software! Thank you for sharing, would love to watch more!
Next one will come this week, just stay tuned or hit that notification bell.
I am beginning to learn FreeCAD to create my own models. I love this video; I stumbled upon it. I am looking to seeing more of your videos.
FreeCAD is an amazing free software. Thanks for the video.
Thank you Jayanam! Very good, concise and well structured tutorial!!
This is the fastest I ever followed any tutorial and that too successfully.
Thanks !
I could just about understand this, the previous "beginner" tutorial was incomprehensible. All _I_ want is to be able to plan how to cut up bits of wood and join them together.
Excellent tutorial! Very simple and to the point to give you something to play with. Very nicely done!
Thank you so much, your teaching method is easy to follow, looking forward for more tutorials!
A very simple introduction tutorial, thank you for making it easy to follow.
Clear explanation, thanks!
This isn't the first FreeCAD tutorial I have watched, but I wish it had been! I learned more here in 6 minutes than I thought possible. THANK YOU !!!
If you have one on creating solids of revolution from a 2D sketch, I'm IN....
Thank you for the tutorial. I am thinking of using Freecad and your demonstration was an excellent introduction.
Second viewing for me. Followed through your tutorial, drew the same object, and with a new mouse it works so nicely. Thank you for a great lesson!
Thanks, that was properly fast and straightforward!
Love this video. Great introduction showing that is doesn't have to be that hard to learn this tool. Thanks!
Great video mate, cant wait for the next one.
Finally someone that knows how to teach to NEW people. Subbed and liked, great video.
very helpful and very concise, being able to show how to make things in 5 minutes
like seriously such good job so many tutorials are like half an hour and boring, this was quick simple and to the point very well done sir
Thx, glad you like it
Thank you, I have been using AutoCad since 1989 and own a few copies of it however Their subscription service far exceeds what I want to do for hobby use now that I'm no longer in the industry. I figured most of what I know will transfer over however jumping into a new interface can sometimes be overwhelming. Got a feeling your videos will hold my hand for a while while I navigate through these commands. Appreciate your videos.
This is an amazing tutorial, thank you very much!
Very clear, helpful instructions mate, cheers. Subscribed.
Yes, more FreeCAD tutorials please. Much needed. Subscribing.
Thx it's in the making and will come after the hard surface sculpting series.
Thank you, your tutorial is a good start for beginners, please continue.
Will do, next one comes this week.
Would definitely like to see more on this and how it could be used in conjunction with Blender.
Beat me too it! Just what I was going to ask since it'd be awesome to design certain components in a parametric CAD app and then move them into Blender, or Unity/Unreal, once you were finished tweaking it.
@@RojCowles Alright, thx for the input
@@JayAnAm Same here! Thanks for making this.
Yep me too.
Nice video, Thank you. I think it is important to start with simple objects and learn how to change the view as we add features. The easy pace allowed me to stop and get to know the navigation tools and looks.
Thanks for the clear explanation. Would like to learn more about other tools in Free CAD.
This is fantastic, thank you so much. One suggestion to make future tutorials even better: Perhaps you could add some highlighter to your mouse cursor. I often found myself having to go back a few seconds to find out exactly what you clicked on. Having a highlighted cursor and ideally some additional highlight for clicks would make this absolutely perfect.
I had to make it fullscreen. Commentary about what's going to be clicked would help too.
Took me a while to figure out he was double clicking to make the corner rounded, was getting frustrated trying: click, click and drag, adding shift and crtl,,,
Thank you so much for this, you have no idea how much you have helped me. ☺☺
Thank you so much, this was perfect for me being a beginner right now
This tutorial is so compact and concise. By the way, this video is listed as the second one in the FreeCAD playlist. It would be great if it could be reordered to be the first one. And thank you very much for making such great tutorials.
Ok thx will do
Great introduction, thanks
great tut!
I have because you speak clearly explaining step by step. Thank you so much.
This is an excellent tutorial.
Was taught at school how to use inventor, I was considering getting a printer and saw the price of inventor. This looks just as good
Thank you for getting to the point! This was a very efficient use of my time.
Glad it was helpful!
Please, more tutorials on FreeCAD. I really enjoy your method of teaching. Thank you
Thanks, will do!
Thanks for this video, me too I prepared a list of videos on FreeCad, but this soft is completely different about Sketchup or Blender, we can say it's like Autocad
Yes, great tutorial, more please 👍☺️
Alright
After removing conFUSION 360 from all my PCs, I landed here and didn't regret. Nice intro!
Good to hear! Thx a lot
Love it!! Finally got a latest version voice over and precise video
I want to gain more knowledge pleaseeeeeeee
This week comes the next one.
This is exactly what I was looking for, thank you!
Great to hear!
This is fantastic.
The first freecad tutorial i have watched and i have to ask as the others have, can we have some more please. you explained it very well and made it easy to follow.
Great you like it, thx
He didn't explain anything though... It's just "we can do this we can do this we can do this" but never a "why", seldomly a "how", or even a wtf a constraint even is.
OUTSTANDING!!!
Fantastic introduction. Well done!
Thank you!
Absolutely make more definitely need it thanks
An unusually clear tutorial. Thank you.
Haha, glad you think so!
Great stuff. I would really like to see more pleas.
Ooh more would be really great! ^^
Interesting, have you any impressions on fusion 360 and how freecad compares to it on the CAD side?
Very clear features explanation step by step. Thank you.
Thx, glad you like it!
Great intruduction! Thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
Very good explanation Thank you
FreeCad is an awesome piece of Free Software suitable for real world manufacturing small projects.
Keep it up...... Love it
And like this, my journey into the world of CAD begins. :)
I, like other viewers, thx. Well explained. I just dw loaded, and will be coming back to your channel to watch and learn as I get deeper into Free Cad, again thx.
Awesome, thank you!
very nice tutorial, easy to follow. But it did take me a while to figure out how to pan and rotate tho, please make more
:)
Thank you Jay 💪
Yeah, I'd appreciate more FreeCAD videos. 👍 TiA 😃
An excellent first tutorial.
Thx a lot m8
Very helpful. I would have been so lost without your tutorial. I was looking for a replacement for solidworks.
I have more tuts for this on my list
That was great please do more videos like this, not to over powering for the beginner, Stay Safe !!!.
Thank god for this tutorial.
Plz upload more videos on free cad. Your explanation is amazing, easy to understand. Keep going.
Thank you, I will
@@JayAnAm Thx man!
Great tutorial thanks.
You're welcome! Next one for FreeCAD will come in a few days
Very good tutorial ! Thanks a lot
You are welcome!
if you schetch a rectangle, how do you constrain it to an angle between it and a plane (a line of the plane shown). or do you have to make a line, and add an angle constraint between the rectangl and the new line?
Great tutorial thank you!
Thx, you're welcome