FreeCAD 0.20 For Beginners | 24 | Lid & Box / Enclosure | Threaded Holes Cross File Sub Shape Binder 

It's all in the learning process we learn from our mistakes, glad they are helping and thank you for the comments, it's really great to see everyone is enjoying 😊

Thank you glad it was what you wanted. I was trying to find your original comment so I could post a link for you but you saved me a job. You also saved me thinking up a practical example for cross file shape binders for a tutorial 😁👍

@@MangoJellySolutions I am glad i could help i have plenty of ideas. Can't wait to put them to use. After finding your videos it has made using FreeCAD so much easier for me and others i am sure. Thank you again.

Thank you 😁👍

Great to hear, sounds like your progressing and getting the hang of freecad. It has quite a learning curve. Thank you. 😊👍👍

Ah great to hear :)

Great to hear this helps you move forward.

Yup. I am finding that by watching a vid you might not think applies to your projects, you pick up all these functions 👍

PS: I can also see why you left the threaded holes to the end. As I had to go back and add a hole to the box. Now rendering is slower. Good to remember.

This is great to hear, so glad people like yourself are enjoining and learning from these videos. Welcome to the journey. And thank you for the kind comment

Thank you, glad you liked

Glad you enjoyed it. With the links between documents they come in useful if you have a part that you reuse in other projects so it's just something to add to your knowledge. Personally I don't often use them as I don't reuse parts that often. Thanks for the comments :)

Great to hear!

Thank you 😊😊 Glad your enjoying

Glad you enjoyed 😊

Thank you 😊👍

I found the toolbar confusing, too. To help, I moved the bars over to the left vertical side, leaving only the “iso view” tools on the main toolbar. It provides a little more height to the work window and, for me, an easier feature point and click on the left. Of course you could put the toolbars pretty much anywhere in the window to suit your working style.

I agree it's one thing that I don't do as I thought it would be better to keep the video short as possible. But I do think this would help especially with the bigger build and I will start doing this in the future. Thank you for this, really helps make the videos more easier to follow.

​@@MangoJellySolutionsI see the logic of this, but if you are doing a one off part, no point.

Thanks for posting an update in regards to what you used this for. And saying about the challenges you had. Great to hear

Thanks, and thank you for the feedback. The seperate file is there just for choice. The main file might get cluttered with lots of bodies so this is just a way of given the designer more options to work in their preferred way. Shape binders can be used in any workbench not just part design. Which opens up many possibilities (I will be going into that soon)

Thanks for your continued support all these years, you and the community have really helped this channel grow. I just wish I can make more time to share more of the knowledge I have. Maybe sometime in the future I can give up my job and go full time, because the channel has taken me back to my roots and I wish I did this so much earlier. Believe it or not I am working on arch workbench tutorials . The good this with this workbench is that it has structured workflow like the part design and had allows for IFC aling with 2D and 3D plans. Thank you once again for your kind words.

​@@MangoJellySolutions Thanks for your reply. Looking forward for those tutorials of yours. I do prefer machines projects, but recently I put in my mind to represent in a 3D model a kind of warehouse/workshop that was built, with 50x20x20 concrete blocks, by a local bricklayer and where I "stuffed in" my tools and machines to perform some light repairs on my vehicles and agriculture farm equipment touch ups. It's a simple 10 X 6 m rectangle (top viewed) construction with an inner L shaped wall at of the corners for a separated compartment. The roof is made of sandwich type panels with expanded PU in the middle. The 6 roof panels are sitting over a set of 5 Omega shaped galvanized beams 10 meters long, 1.5m apart from each other approx. The 6 roof panels are 6 x 1m each. There is a 12.1º inclination on the roof and of course the same 12.1º cut at the top edges of 2 opposite walls. The other 2 walls (10 m long - rectangular faces) have around 2.4 and 4-meters height. I've done the model in Part design workbench but in Arch workbench I can't figure out the way to get the 12.1º cut on the top edge of the 2 walls (non-rectangular faces) to accommodate the beams and the roof panels. This is a challenge indeed. I would appreciate anyone's solution on this......🙉. Regards

So wall in arc workbench can be made from a base shape. This can be a line or a solid. If you have the right shaped wall in part or part design you can add them into a wall in arc workbench. Does that help at all?

Thank you glad you enjoyed. The motivation is just to show, well just that you can 😁. It's down to your preference at the end of the day. If you have multiple parts and the file starts to get 'busy' then you have this option. Also I wanted to demonstrate the flexibility of the shape binder across multiple files so to expand the designers options.

@@MangoJellySolutions Ah, OK. I'm sticking with the single project method for the time being. :)

Thank you thanks for the kind words. I didn't spot that re the symmetry, I am going to have to check that as I 3d printed it for a friend who's using it at the moment. If it is the case yes you can add it as the last feature. Great spot. Thanks for highlighting that.

@@MangoJellySolutions Ive just recreated what you did and can see that the thread is left handed on the symetry plane copy. It makes full sense as that is what you asked to do with the symmetry operation. Otherwise all epic! By the way are 3D prints such as this expensive in materials if yuo have a printer, or if you use a service to print?

Thanks for the update. In regards to printing I have never used a 3D printing service before. I must give them a go and see how they compare.

Thank you for adding that, I wasn't aware of that setting as I have always seen them showing up. Thank you for adding that as it will help others. Much appreciated.

Yes new mic along with some sound editing. 😁😁

Thank you 😊, so I rotate the view using a key on the keyboard and moving the mouse. If you look down to the bottom right of freecad you will see a button with a mouse on it, this changes the navigation method you are using. If you click on that you can choose the different types such as CAD, Blender etc. If you roll the mouse over the icon a pop up will appear. That will show what keys and mouse combinations to use to control the movement. The pop up will look similar to the diagrams in the freecad wiki wiki.freecad.org/Mouse_navigation#:~:text=CAD%20navigation,-This%20is%20the&text=Alternate%20method-,Press%20the%20left%20mouse%20button%20over%20an%20object%20you%20want,to%20zoom%20in%20and%20out.

Sorry for the late reply. Are you describing the file being moved to another location on the pc? And thank you for the kind comments.

When you build parts on PartDesign they are automatically fused. So the next feature is built upon the previous. When you change something further up the tree everything after will reconfigure and recompute. When this havens sometimes a edge will be named different than it was before. Anything referencing that edge will move to the new edge. This will be better managed in the future release of freecad.

@@MangoJellySolutions Thanks for clarifying - I think I've run into this before and didn't understand what I did wrong. I do hope they fix this.

@@leroycasterline1122use the Realthunder link branch, it’s fixed in that version

@@roofoofighter Thank you.