This is the first tutorial I have seen that actual explains the difference between a body and a part. I have done both but up until now I had no idea why. Some things may be obvious but to a beginner this is an important piece of information.
Have just subscribed, really enjoying your style and pace of teaching, I recently treated mysellf to a 3d printer felt Freecad suited my requirements but needed some help in its use. Looked at a few lessons but either they rushed through the basics or they were using an older version, your lessons are a perfect pace for me. Up to lesson 4 and so far I have managed to keep up, Thanks.
The Adventurer 5m. Very pleased with it but so far only printed a few thingiverse items but want to produce a replacement catch for a pelican case, which is where freecad should help.
I appreciate that you are starting from 0. I am just begging my CAD journey and you are correct that other start with the assumption of certain knowledge. Knowledge that I don't have. I have some basic drafting skills but 0 CAD experience. Thank you.
Clear and concise. I have been using FreeCad but already picked up a few tips watching this. The pace you are going is good so I can follow along. I have the video on one monitor and FreeCad up on another. Most other videos people talk so fast it is a constant pause, start, pause. Keep up the good work. I subscribed.
Thank you for starting a series of tutorials for beginners using Freecad 1.0 RC2! I look forward to working through these tutorials and learning in the process. Its also nice to see that the bugs are getting fixed and the software is becoming more polished.
I want to learn Freecad. All other tutorials are old and the interface is not the same. I don't want to learn with the old version and then learn new interfaces again. This tutorial was just what I needed. Thank you so much! I don't usually write comments. I just wrote this for support the channel! If you want to support, plese write any comment!
Good to see a new series on the latest version I will follow along and look forward to learning a lot as your other videos show you are a good teacher. Thanks for your efforts!
I was looking for an introduction into FreeCAD, seems like I'm in the right place at the right time. I may add that you sound like a proper adventurer.
Perfect introduction to 1.0. I've been following you for around 6 months now, flitting from video to video, but now you've started this new series from scratch it's SO much easier to follow. Just FYI, I've tried several other teachers of FreeCAD over the months prior to finding your channel, and you make everything A LOT clearer than most. Also, the pace you go at is ideal. Thanks so much!
First of all, thank you SO MUCH for taking the time for starting these tutorial series for all of us using the latest version of FreeCad ! and more important; *from the very beginning* This is a very important issue that is almost forgotten nowadays. Everyone takes for granted what in reality not all of us know !. I have been following your channel since a long time ago, so I know your knowledgment on freecad is profound and your way to teach is also very good and clear. I am already subscribed !. I will be one of your most faithful followers. Thank you very much again and big greetings for you from Santiago de Chile, South America. This is John. Cheers !.
BTW, please try to rise a bit more the sound volume when recording your vids. It´s too low and I have to use head phones in order to hear you clear an loud. Thanks. John.
I have just started using FreeCAD 1.0 RC2 to 3D print objects for camera and other electronic projects. Thanks so much for providing this valuable information, would love to see more.
thats exactly where I am , I have been busy at work and have forgotten so much , so I started again ,,, except I now get Freecad 2.12 as the version thats latest and stable , do I need to get that or an earlier version , ??
@@tomthompson7400 get the version 1.0 RC2 you can download it from www.freecad.org. The version you are referring to is 0.21.2 that's the current release the the release candidate is very stable.
Just upgraded from 0.21 (just tinkering !!) but now I want to follow along to improve the very little I know !! Cool video hopping to part 2 now keep them coming please !!
I have followed you for some time and always enjoy your videos, I will follow your progress through the latest and greatest version. I always get something new from each of your videos.
Nice basic intro to FreeCad. I'm a Mech Eng and use Solidworks at work. Want to move to Opensource for home projects and similar to SW. With V 1.0 dropping this seems like the time. Interesting that FC makes you explicitly use Bodies while SW just kind of makes Bodies automatically in Parts. Keep up the good work, learning these little differences is going to be a big help for me.
Thank you for the video. You are absolutely correct that most videos assume some basic experience in using this style of software. The terminology was different to what i thought it would be. Part in free cad to me is an assembly, and body i would have thought to be called part. No wonder its difficult to start learning this stuff. Maybe i am jumping the gun a bit, but i down loaded the software and then tried following and copying what you had done. it took me a while to move the task window over to the right of the screen. And i was not able to rotate my model with the mouse (scratch pad and button), or scale the drawing up and down. i did however create the drawing (Body). Looking forward to your next video.
I had the same confusion on the UI. I did resolve how to rotate model in 3d, middle hold mouse button then press left. My mouse has a roller middle button that zooms the image. Also took a bit to find that space bar is used to toggle visibility with origin highlighted. Each of these was not obvious/visible in video and took some time to find. I know this was a quick intro but would still be good to mention the exact method each time a new feature is used. Good introduction and I was able to follow along and create a matching part. Thanks.
I'm a total new guy to CAD. When I do little wood projects, I always have to draw them out to understand what I need to do. I thought doing that with CAD would be an improvement over my pencil sketches. As they say in the online hub, though, it can be a steep learning curve for newbies. But I watched your video on constraints and your clarity is extremely helpful, as is this first in the new series. Looking forward to future releases. Thanks!!
Thanks for this new series. I watched a lot of the previous series, and am still finding parts of FreeCAD confusing, so it's worth starting from the beginning again! I don't think you mentioned making sure you're in the Part Design workbench, as the variety of different options, and different names for similar features in different workbenches, would totally confuse a beginner who ended up in the wrong place!
Tone, pitch, and volume were perfect. How do you catch everything? At 110:07 you used a view button, this was new to me. An explanation about what and why this button will be useful. Workflow is a difficult thing. You explained your workflow and why, perfect. I will use this now. My sketches become complicated. Thank you. I am already subscribed, but will follow along. We don't know what we don't know
I'm following along at 10:48 ("Create Sketch") but I get no response when I click on that icon using FreeCAD release 1.0.0 for Windows. There must be some prerequisite but I have no idea what that might be.
What happens when you click the create sketch button? If you preselected the plane it should start a sketch on that plane, if you did not preselect the plane it should ask you which plane you want to create the sketch on. Remember you are creating 2D planar sketches.
A couple of small notes (I'm a virgin user for context). If you start from scratch, you don't get the blue color gradient background (this is no longer default). It can be enabled by doing Preferences -> Display -> Colors -> Linear gradient. Also my buttons looks slightly different from yours. This is prob due to screen real estate but is kind of confusing to find things. Usually you can find the missing buttons hidden under >>. Finally, might be helpful to go over the different mouse control modes (I'm on a laptop and so I'm using touchpad mode). Finally, it might be helpful to have the feature enabled where we can see what buttons you're hitting (e.g. I had to figure out what you hit to make the planes visible). Overall though, great intro and I'll be following along. I think the best piece of advice was moving the tasks tab out. A lot of times I would get stuck because I didn't realize there were open tasks blocking me from continuing. Thank you!! Edit: just started video 2 and it looks like you've addressed several of these issues!
Thank you for this. This is a program I'm not familiar with. I started using AutoCAD in the early 2000's. Dabbled in ArchiCAD, Tekla, 3DS MAX, Sketch Up, etc,etc, ( all depending on what I could get my hands on from my employer at the time. I ended up deep in Revit. Now my position is with a firm that uses Revit, but I'm far enough from production work that I don't feel comfortable asking for a license. But, a designer's gonna design, a modeler's gonna model. You may have saved me from Fusion and Sketch up.😬
First try took me too long to figure out how to create a sketch... Thanks for showing the basics. FreeCAD should include some sort of onboarding tho...
Thanks for an excellent intro to the new version. I’d class myself as an intermediate user having successfully designed 3D print models for radio projects thanks to your lessons. One question- how do you get that circle around your pointer? I struggle at times to accurately position the mouse pointer over a point on a sketch. Kind regards from Budapest
I’ve started to watch this new series. I’ve watched all your old videos. I like FreeCAD but I’ve just got in to CNC wood working and decided to purchase VCarve. I wasn’t clear if FreeCAD could produce G Code for what I needed, mostly moulding tool paths ?
@ yes I agree. Hence the considerable investment (£650) I made in to VCarve after extensive trialling. It seems to be the consensus that if you’re doing woodworking, VCarve is the path of least resistance. So far I’ve not been disappointed. But I have a soft spot for FreeCAD still. In particular I like the constraints and parameter approach.
@ Update: I’m actually using FreeCad to produce the parametric vectors and then exporting to vcarve to add all the clever tool paths. If it works, it works 🤷♂️
I had a project I started in the normal release, nothing too complex, as I am a beginner. I tried it in RC2 and it takes several minutes to import and freezes all the time when navigating. Is there something I missed that I could do to fix/optimize my project without remaking it from the start? Assuming this will be improved in 1.0 final release.
At 9:14, the author uses his mouse to rotate the part (sketch? body? ) but does not explain how to set up and use the mouse to work like that. I have a pretty standard Logitech 3 button mouse and it behaves differently.
TY. Just watched 1&2. I've tried FC and found the UX frustrating. As in hard to even figure out how to draw a line/box... and I have used AutoCAD extensively and F360 a little. So I like that you are going slow on explaining the basics of the FC UI in part 2. Worry less about customizing the UI though and more just explaining the logic of the defaults and how to use it. Personally 'll customize it only after I've figured out how to use it. Please do also explain keyboard shortcuts, I can never figure that out in FC. Finally at the end hope you get to exporting to 3d pritners (easy) and CNC (seems hard). Finally, hope you can put out more videos faster and longer. I'll look a the older videos in the meantime, but eager for more baced on v1.0rc.
Thanks for the feedback. I agree with the customization but wanted to explain why my interface may be different from what the viewer sees. I will use your feedback for part 3
I need help with design philosophy. For example, do you start with a large object and pocket out what you don't need, or do you keep adding and joining smaller objects?
It would be good if you let us know of any bugs you have encountered while using 1.0 RC2. I have installed it , too. I have always used the development version of FreeCAD and have never encountered bugs that affected the work I was using it for.
It would be great if there were instructions to get back to the as installed. I messed up the windows and had the model and task all over the screen. Never did get back trying a reinstal.
So they Finally released version 1 ??? I'm afraid to go check as I bet they are making it windows 10 only just like the developer candidate builds were.
@@Adventuresincreation Dnloaded and got a few errors on launch so looking into that before digging any further but nice to see them do win7 builds, after not supplying previous ones in the dev builds i was getting concerned they would force win10 dependencies.
Right away (4:54) the author uses CAD terms like "part topo shape" and "part primitives" as if we all already understand what that means. If I did, I wouldn't be here.
So... You sound like you're trying not to wake someone up. I would politely suggest that maybe a bit louder into the mic and also maybe boost the level in your edit? Its kind of distracting. Ive watched other videos of yours where its not the case and definitely easier to listen to.
No freecad 1.0 is terrible, they took out machine cutter compensation, it was in .20 and worked but they took it away so any machinist that needs to compensate for the real world tool diameter difference from the number the tool controller in the cam package thought was right, no flex, no sharpening, no compensation at machine means no precision control at the machine to maintain tollerance. So it is only usable for people that dont need precision fits.
@@Adventuresincreation they don't know why a machinist would need to compensate separate from in cam software, which means every time your cutter wears by one tenthousandths, you have to regenerate your entire code to compensate for real world variables, it's why machine controllers have the feature, cutting it off in the cam software is a guarantee that real job shops and engineering branches will not be able to use it for their cam work. Only good for engraving too much emphasis on carving and not nearly enough on real machining features that allow precision work.
GR8 tutorial... So far so G( .)( .)D My 1st dilemma is my tool bar L(. )(. )KS nothing like your & they keep changing... When I pause the video 2 C which 1 U have picked or about 2 click;... Only I spend ages searching & don't seem 2 find the right 1... ? How do we get our tool bars 2 B like yours... As it stands I feel I'm going 2 B the Dumbest (I.D.10.T.) 1 that U R teaching ROFL... I've already watch it 6x's;... & was just to get FreeCad v1 2 open up from my Download Folder
@@Adventuresincreation ... U R a * Teacher... I apologise 4 expecting 2 much in the 1st video... Bite size R way better... Um... I'm using Ubuntu 22.04
Thanks for watching the first in this new series.
This is the first tutorial I have seen that actual explains the difference between a body and a part. I have done both but up until now I had no idea why.
Some things may be obvious but to a beginner this is an important piece of information.
I am glad it helped!
Have just subscribed, really enjoying your style and pace of teaching, I recently treated mysellf to a 3d printer felt Freecad suited my requirements but needed some help in its use. Looked at a few lessons but either they rushed through the basics or they were using an older version, your lessons are a perfect pace for me. Up to lesson 4 and so far I have managed to keep up, Thanks.
Excellent, what 3D printer did you get? I have an Ender 3 V2 and an Entina Tina2 plus.
The Adventurer 5m. Very pleased with it but so far only printed a few thingiverse items but want to produce a replacement catch for a pelican case, which is where freecad should help.
@@grahamjones5181 Would love to see it when you get it done.
I appreciate that you are starting from 0. I am just begging my CAD journey and you are correct that other start with the assumption of certain knowledge. Knowledge that I don't have. I have some basic drafting skills but 0 CAD experience. Thank you.
That's great, hopefully you'll be creating models quickly.
Clear and concise. I have been using FreeCad but already picked up a few tips watching this. The pace you are going is good so I can follow along. I have the video on one monitor and FreeCad up on another. Most other videos people talk so fast it is a constant pause, start, pause.
Keep up the good work. I subscribed.
Excellent, thank you!
Thank you for starting a series of tutorials for beginners using Freecad 1.0 RC2! I look forward to working through these tutorials and learning in the process. Its also nice to see that the bugs are getting fixed and the software is becoming more polished.
It's really becoming a great tool. I am going to cover as much as I can to help you with the learning curve.
I want to learn Freecad. All other tutorials are old and the interface is not the same.
I don't want to learn with the old version and then learn new interfaces again. This tutorial was just what I needed.
Thank you so much!
I don't usually write comments. I just wrote this for support the channel!
If you want to support, plese write any comment!
Thank you. I will definitely be using just the latest versions.
@@Adventuresincreation Good !.
Nice Video, I really like how you speak Slow and clear So I can follow along with you on my FreeCad. You are an excellent Teacher. Thank you.
Thanks, glad you found it helpful.
Very clear explanation compared to some of my other tutorials where I have to keep back tracking to figure out what they did. Good intro...Thanks
Glad you enjoyed it
Good to see a new series on the latest version I will follow along and look forward to learning a lot as your other videos show you are a good teacher. Thanks for your efforts!
Thabk you
I was looking for an introduction into FreeCAD, seems like I'm in the right place at the right time. I may add that you sound like a proper adventurer.
Thanks, I am hoping to making it easy to get on board with this software.
I hope you keep this up. None of the tutorials actually follow how FreeCad works.
I intend to
Perfect introduction to 1.0. I've been following you for around 6 months now, flitting from video to video, but now you've started this new series from scratch it's SO much easier to follow. Just FYI, I've tried several other teachers of FreeCAD over the months prior to finding your channel, and you make everything A LOT clearer than most. Also, the pace you go at is ideal. Thanks so much!
Thanks, I appreciate the feedback.
Thanks for the intro! I tried the earlier version but gave up in frustration. Your teaching style works well, very detailed and explained.
Glad you enjoyed it
First of all, thank you SO MUCH for taking the time for starting these tutorial series for all of us using the latest version of FreeCad ! and more important; *from the very beginning*
This is a very important issue that is almost forgotten nowadays. Everyone takes for granted what in reality not all of us know !.
I have been following your channel since a long time ago, so I know your knowledgment on freecad is profound and your way to teach is also very good and clear. I am already subscribed !.
I will be one of your most faithful followers.
Thank you very much again and big greetings for you from Santiago de Chile, South America.
This is John.
Cheers !.
BTW, please try to rise a bit more the sound volume when recording your vids. It´s too low and I have to use head phones in order to hear you clear an loud. Thanks. John.
Thank you
Will do, not sure what happened on that video. My usb microphone normally does a good job.
I have just started using FreeCAD 1.0 RC2 to 3D print objects for camera and other electronic projects. Thanks so much for providing this valuable information, would love to see more.
Excellent, in part 3 we'll go over the Sketcher
i watched the first series, and I'm actually due for a refresh, and your timing is perfect.
Excellent!
thats exactly where I am , I have been busy at work and have forgotten so much , so I started again ,,, except I now get Freecad 2.12 as the version thats latest and stable , do I need to get that or an earlier version , ??
@@tomthompson7400 get the version 1.0 RC2 you can download it from www.freecad.org. The version you are referring to is 0.21.2 that's the current release the the release candidate is very stable.
Thanks for producing these videos.....Very Well Done !!!
Thanks
Thank you for starting the tutorial on the new version - waiting for more / full tutorial -
It's coming, I will try to go at a good pace.
Just upgraded from 0.21 (just tinkering !!) but now I want to follow along to improve the very little I know !! Cool video hopping to part 2 now keep them coming please !!
Glad you enjoyed it
I have followed you for some time and always enjoy your videos, I will follow your progress through the latest and greatest version. I always get something new from each of your videos.
Excellent!
Nice basic intro to FreeCad. I'm a Mech Eng and use Solidworks at work. Want to move to Opensource for home projects and similar to SW. With V 1.0 dropping this seems like the time. Interesting that FC makes you explicitly use Bodies while SW just kind of makes Bodies automatically in Parts. Keep up the good work, learning these little differences is going to be a big help for me.
Thanks, I am going to try and cover all those nuances. Let me know if there are things that you want to see.
Thank you for the video. You are absolutely correct that most videos assume some basic experience in using this style of software. The terminology was different to what i thought it would be. Part in free cad to me is an assembly, and body i would have thought to be called part. No wonder its difficult to start learning this stuff. Maybe i am jumping the gun a bit, but i down loaded the software and then tried following and copying what you had done. it took me a while to move the task window over to the right of the screen. And i was not able to rotate my model with the mouse (scratch pad and button), or scale the drawing up and down. i did however create the drawing (Body). Looking forward to your next video.
Excellent, all of that info is in the next video. I will explain how my freecad is set up so you can copy me exactly
I had the same confusion on the UI. I did resolve how to rotate model in 3d, middle hold mouse button then press left. My mouse has a roller middle button that zooms the image. Also took a bit to find that space bar is used to toggle visibility with origin highlighted.
Each of these was not obvious/visible in video and took some time to find. I know this was a quick intro but would still be good to mention the exact method each time a new feature is used.
Good introduction and I was able to follow along and create a matching part. Thanks.
Amazing content, thank you. I appreciate that you don't anticipate prior knowledge !!
Thanks!
Thank you for starting very simple. I've never used CAD and as you said many videos assume a foundational knowledge
I am glad it helps you.
Just started FreeCad 1.0, this was a help (subscribed) .
Excellent!
Well done. A complex program with a steep learning curve. I’d have pointed out that one must be in the part first before any operation can take place.
I will add that to the next video. Thanks!
I'm a total new guy to CAD. When I do little wood projects, I always have to draw them out to understand what I need to do. I thought doing that with CAD would be an improvement over my pencil sketches. As they say in the online hub, though, it can be a steep learning curve for newbies. But I watched your video on constraints and your clarity is extremely helpful, as is this first in the new series. Looking forward to future releases. Thanks!!
You are welcome, I sometimes put my woodworking sketches in freecad other time just a cut list on a pad
Thanks for this new series. I watched a lot of the previous series, and am still finding parts of FreeCAD confusing, so it's worth starting from the beginning again! I don't think you mentioned making sure you're in the Part Design workbench, as the variety of different options, and different names for similar features in different workbenches, would totally confuse a beginner who ended up in the wrong place!
I am glad you said that, the second lesson will cover that in detail and the confusion with the interface.
Thank you, Just in time. I've got a 3d printer last week. hoping to learn a lot from this series.
You are going to have great fun with this and your 3d printer.
great, simple, straight fwd. thx!
Thanks!
Great job
Thanks!
Tone, pitch, and volume were perfect. How do you catch everything? At 110:07 you used a view button, this was new to me. An explanation about what and why this button will be useful. Workflow is a difficult thing. You explained your workflow and why, perfect. I will use this now. My sketches become complicated. Thank you. I am already subscribed, but will follow along. We don't know what we don't know
Excellent, I will highlight the view button next time.
I'm following along at 10:48 ("Create Sketch") but I get no response when I click on that icon using FreeCAD release 1.0.0 for Windows. There must be some prerequisite but I have no idea what that might be.
What happens when you click the create sketch button? If you preselected the plane it should start a sketch on that plane, if you did not preselect the plane it should ask you which plane you want to create the sketch on. Remember you are creating 2D planar sketches.
Thank you. Very Helpful
We'll get into the complete modeling in this series
A couple of small notes (I'm a virgin user for context). If you start from scratch, you don't get the blue color gradient background (this is no longer default). It can be enabled by doing Preferences -> Display -> Colors -> Linear gradient. Also my buttons looks slightly different from yours. This is prob due to screen real estate but is kind of confusing to find things. Usually you can find the missing buttons hidden under >>. Finally, might be helpful to go over the different mouse control modes (I'm on a laptop and so I'm using touchpad mode). Finally, it might be helpful to have the feature enabled where we can see what buttons you're hitting (e.g. I had to figure out what you hit to make the planes visible). Overall though, great intro and I'll be following along. I think the best piece of advice was moving the tasks tab out. A lot of times I would get stuck because I didn't realize there were open tasks blocking me from continuing. Thank you!!
Edit: just started video 2 and it looks like you've addressed several of these issues!
Yeah, tried not to overwhelm in the first video but it can be really confusing when the button you want is seemigly missing.
@Adventuresincreation Second vid got me what I needed. Thanks for the content!
@@wadeduvall7026 You are welcome!
Thank you for this.
This is a program I'm not familiar with.
I started using AutoCAD in the early 2000's. Dabbled in ArchiCAD, Tekla, 3DS MAX, Sketch Up, etc,etc, ( all depending on what I could get my hands on from my employer at the time.
I ended up deep in Revit.
Now my position is with a firm that uses Revit, but I'm far enough from production work that I don't feel comfortable asking for a license.
But, a designer's gonna design, a modeler's gonna model.
You may have saved me from Fusion and Sketch up.😬
Excellent, take a look at the BIM workbench, you may find familiar stuff there.
First try took me too long to figure out how to create a sketch... Thanks for showing the basics. FreeCAD should include some sort of onboarding tho...
Glad it was helpful!
Great Thanks !!!.
You are welcome!
Unable to hear. All volumes turned up and difficult to follow.
That's odd, are you having sound problems?
Thank you !
You are welcome
Thanks for an excellent intro to the new version. I’d class myself as an intermediate user having successfully designed 3D print models for radio projects thanks to your lessons. One question- how do you get that circle around your pointer? I struggle at times to accurately position the mouse pointer over a point on a sketch. Kind regards from Budapest
It's a separate piece of software called Key-n-Stroke. You should be able to google it.
I’ve started to watch this new series. I’ve watched all your old videos.
I like FreeCAD but I’ve just got in to CNC wood working and decided to purchase VCarve.
I wasn’t clear if FreeCAD could produce G Code for what I needed, mostly moulding tool paths ?
I think Freecad can but I think vcarve is going to be more straight forward IMHO. Good luck with it. Please let me know how it goes.
@ yes I agree. Hence the considerable investment (£650) I made in to VCarve after extensive trialling.
It seems to be the consensus that if you’re doing woodworking, VCarve is the path of least resistance. So far I’ve not been disappointed.
But I have a soft spot for FreeCAD still. In particular I like the constraints and parameter approach.
@@GeeTheBuilder I hope you make some cool stuff with it!
@ Update:
I’m actually using FreeCad to produce the parametric vectors and then exporting to vcarve to add all the clever tool paths.
If it works, it works 🤷♂️
I had a project I started in the normal release, nothing too complex, as I am a beginner. I tried it in RC2 and it takes several minutes to import and freezes all the time when navigating. Is there something I missed that I could do to fix/optimize my project without remaking it from the start? Assuming this will be improved in 1.0 final release.
I have not seen that issue, was there something complex in the file like an STL or the like.
At 9:14, the author uses his mouse to rotate the part (sketch? body? ) but does not explain how to set up and use the mouse to work like that. I have a pretty standard Logitech 3 button mouse and it behaves differently.
My mouse is in "blender" mode set at bottom right. I have mentioned that several times in the series
Hello, are you using the Arch Texture addon ? If yes, could you make a tutorial on this addon with this new version of FreeCad, thank you 😊
Unfortunately, I haven't used that addon yet. I will take a look at it and see if it's something I can cover in a later video.
@@Adventuresincreation Ok, I'll be happy to look at that, thank you 👍
Where do I find Part 2 and up in this series ?
Subscribe to the channel, part 2 is next. It's a brand new series
TY. Just watched 1&2. I've tried FC and found the UX frustrating. As in hard to even figure out how to draw a line/box... and I have used AutoCAD extensively and F360 a little. So I like that you are going slow on explaining the basics of the FC UI in part 2. Worry less about customizing the UI though and more just explaining the logic of the defaults and how to use it. Personally 'll customize it only after I've figured out how to use it. Please do also explain keyboard shortcuts, I can never figure that out in FC. Finally at the end hope you get to exporting to 3d pritners (easy) and CNC (seems hard). Finally, hope you can put out more videos faster and longer. I'll look a the older videos in the meantime, but eager for more baced on v1.0rc.
Thanks for the feedback. I agree with the customization but wanted to explain why my interface may be different from what the viewer sees. I will use your feedback for part 3
I need help with design philosophy. For example, do you start with a large object and pocket out what you don't need, or do you keep adding and joining smaller objects?
Excellent feedback, I will cover that
It would be good if you let us know of any bugs you have encountered while using 1.0 RC2.
I have installed it , too. I have always used the development version of FreeCAD and have never encountered bugs that affected the work I was using it for.
I will definitely do that.
the biggest problem I have is undoing mistakes. getting back to the beginning.
Great, I will cover that
I like the program. I am still learning it. One thing is, it occasionally crashes on me.
It is not perfect. There are still times when it crashes but it can usually recover the file if that happens.
For Linux , FreeCAD 1.0 RC2 is also available as a Snap and a Flatpak
Yes, that's true
It would be great if there were instructions to get back to the as installed. I messed up the windows and had the model and task all over the screen. Never did get back trying a reinstal.
I will take a look at it and see if I can do that
Great thanks looking for some software more accommodating than fusion
Excellent, this is pretty accommodating.
Who cames up with the nomenclature for the buttons?
Developers I guess.
Nope. Other YT vids are fine. I have to set vol to Max and still difficult to understand. Sorry
Very strange. Not sure what's going on there.
So they Finally released version 1 ???
I'm afraid to go check as I bet they are making it windows 10 only just like the developer candidate builds were.
It's v1 release candidate 2 available in all flavors
@@Adventuresincreation Dnloaded and got a few errors on launch so looking into that before digging any further but nice to see them do win7 builds, after not supplying previous ones in the dev builds i was getting concerned they would force win10 dependencies.
@@noanyobiseniss7462 Force you to use Linux, instead.
Cannot understand the audio. Poor quality. :(
Do other videos work for you?
Right away (4:54) the author uses CAD terms like "part topo shape" and "part primitives" as if we all already understand what that means. If I did, I wouldn't be here.
Use Google, it's your friend. Some things are going to require a little effort on your part. I feel you may need to take a look at the freecad wiki.
Perhaps tone up a little, I find when you speak too low, some words sounds like bubble or sth, nevertheless I appreciate the video!
Thanks for the feedback
So... You sound like you're trying not to wake someone up. I would politely suggest that maybe a bit louder into the mic and also maybe boost the level in your edit? Its kind of distracting. Ive watched other videos of yours where its not the case and definitely easier to listen to.
Thanks for the feedback
corrupts all my old files, will stick to older release
That's odd. I have opened my older files with no problems.
no older 3d mouse support. ill stay with older versions
I haven't tried my space mouse
No freecad 1.0 is terrible, they took out machine cutter compensation, it was in .20 and worked but they took it away so any machinist that needs to compensate for the real world tool diameter difference from the number the tool controller in the cam package thought was right, no flex, no sharpening, no compensation at machine means no precision control at the machine to maintain tollerance. So it is only usable for people that dont need precision fits.
I haven't used cam much in 1.0 not sure why they would remove things
@@Adventuresincreation they don't know why a machinist would need to compensate separate from in cam software, which means every time your cutter wears by one tenthousandths, you have to regenerate your entire code to compensate for real world variables, it's why machine controllers have the feature, cutting it off in the cam software is a guarantee that real job shops and engineering branches will not be able to use it for their cam work. Only good for engraving too much emphasis on carving and not nearly enough on real machining features that allow precision work.
GR8 tutorial... So far so G( .)( .)D
My 1st dilemma is my tool bar L(. )(. )KS nothing like your & they keep changing...
When I pause the video 2 C which 1 U have picked or about 2 click;... Only I spend ages searching & don't seem 2 find the right 1...
? How do we get our tool bars 2 B like yours...
As it stands I feel I'm going 2 B the Dumbest (I.D.10.T.) 1 that U R teaching ROFL...
I've already watch it 6x's;... & was just to get FreeCad v1 2 open up from my Download Folder
I will go into a setup overview.
@@Adventuresincreation ...
U R a * Teacher...
I apologise 4 expecting 2 much in the 1st video...
Bite size R way better...
Um... I'm using Ubuntu 22.04