FreeCAD 0.20 For Beginners | 3 | Refining Part Design Model and Output To Technical Drawing 

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Thank you so much for this series. Back in the early 2000s I studied drafting at a Vo-Tech high school, so for two years I worked with AutoCAD three hours a day, five days per week (not to mention old-fashioned drafting-table style drafting). However, after I graduated I was unable to find a job in the field and the knowledge slowly became inert, burying itself deeply in my subconscious over the last two decades. These videos are helping to bring that part of me back to life, and it’s been wonderful. This is truly a public service and I hope that you’re being well compensated. I will donate when I’m able.

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LIKED | SUBSCRIBED | NOTIFICATION BELL Have watched several FreeCAD tutorials and this series is by far the most intuitive to follow and understand. The 'building-block' (modular) approach breaks complex concepts into manageable-sized pieces. The information is presented at an easy-to-follow pace. Thank you for creating such excellent content. I now feel confident investing in 3D-printing and laser cutting machinery.

I was going to school to earn an AAS for CAD. I only had 2 more classes to go but ran out of money to finish. I had learned using Inventor. I'm so glad I found these tutorials, the others one I have found in the past was..... not so good. You're doing a great job. It'd all coming back to me now. Thanks you.

Thank you very much for this series of videos. Your timing in the video is spot on, even though I have to pause/rewind at times. This is not you, but usually when I have made a mistake lol. I may be following step by step, but I still feel a sense of accomplishment when I complete a part. This tells me that your approach to teaching is first rate. Thanks again :)

As usual another excellent video. I've been using freecad for several years now, mostly for preparing 3d print parts. Even though this series is geared for beginners I still learned a number of things from watching it.

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You have done an excellent job with all of your videos. understanding the work-flow has been really appreciated. I wish I had seen these when I started learning FreeCAD!

This series is great. I've been trying to fast track learning freecad, based on my experience with other modelling and drawing software, but it's different to anything I've used and I kept getting frustrated. I finally have the patience to approach this as a proper beginner and your level of detail and your explanations are really useful. Thanks.

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Well made video and very well explained techniques. Thank you from an ex-pat Cornishman.

Great series.. Thank you.

My only regret about this video is that I can only give one like. Phenominally done!

I finally fished part -3-, I have learned to go really slow, can't tell you how many times I started over, Thanks, on to part 4.

Thank you for your fantastic videos I appreciate it so much, I'm only just beginning as I have a 3d printer and need to learn cad, I'm up to tutorial 3 and enjoyed them very much, tutorial 4 tomorrow night 👍🤗

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Another great video. Thanks!

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I actually stopped practicing on the other screen and just watched the video as I was so engrossed in what was being described, and I've only just realised it was 46mins... By far the best tutorial for FreeCAD v0.20 I've watched...

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really great tutorial, thank you!

As I slowly work my way thro this excellent series, I have to remind myself that it took years for me to become proficient at Solidworks 😳. And this is a free package 👍. So I just have to pinch myself now and then, and say slow down Scots 😅

When I started this tutorial I didn´t think I was going to enjoy this one as much, but I was wrong. I was a grreat workflow and it was super fun and easy. Now I know something I didn´t even know I wanted to know. Great job on this tutorial. Thanks so much.

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I thought I had "mastered" the basics of FreeCAD, but I realize that I was multiplying sketches and constraints unnecessarily. According to the comments I read (below), I can see that I'm not the only one who appreciates going back to the basics of FreeCAD. Thank you again for sharing your expertise and mastery of FreeCAD.

Fantastic. Thank you

Perfect pace of instruction and enough details on the basics to get beginners familiarized with the tool. Your video is very valuable.

Excellent tutorial !

This is by far the overall the best informative video that covers so much good basic info. Thanks for the video.

Highly appreciated for the video 3. Again, your very clear and step-by-step illustration also inspired me to think about there is not only one way to create the object body. We need think about how to make it simpliar and easy which means that is effiecient and quality of the drawing.

This series is fantastic. Thank you.

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Thank you I had tried other freecad video tutorials and couldn't wrap my head around it but starting with you videos everything seemed to click and I was able to start moving forward on my projects

Just did my first cad ever by following these tutorial 😅, usually i do manual drawing for my DIY project, thanks for making it easier! 🙏

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Thank you for explaining every step as you do it. There are times where you could assume that the viewer shouldn't need a particular step explained because it was covered in detail in a previous video. But of course to someone just learning, it's impossible to remember everything you've previously demonstrated. So even though many of your explanations are redundant, they're useful. Cheers.

Very well taught, thank you

just getting into using this to make 3D printer projects plus have to say the way you explain everything and the options you describe is really a great way to show people how to use and why very clear and knowledgeable.

I got into cad to design my own hardwares for bags. And this tutorials have been amazing. It unlocked my potential to create my own hardwares instead of using common hardwares that every other people use. Thank you for the series.

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Great freeCAD, video tutorial, but most draftsman/engineers would not rotate the left view so that the points no longer lineup horizontally with the points of the front view.

Dear Sir, thanks a lot for your great lesson! That's the best tutorial I've ever seen.

Learned a lot again! I really like the Tech View feature. You explain things very well.

Great tutorial, clear instructions.. Thank You

Coming from Fusion 360, this is super helpful. Also made me realise that I've done many many things wrong along the way ( : Thank you so much.

Really enjoying this series I’m learning a lot 😀

Excellent presentation. I like the pace because, for the most part, I can keep up in my drawing as the video plays, only pausing occasionally.

Update: last night I printed the model from section 2, printed fine, looked fantastic, started section 3, NOW its making sense, love the '=' tool, that saves a lot of time...

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Thank you so much, I'll give you a "Super Thanks", you explain so well and save us a lot of time.

Very excellent series so far. I'm just starting my FreeCAD journey, first to draw some upgrade parts for one of my CNC routers. I have a lot of learning to do yet to get to the point of machining actual parts on my CNC mill. I didn't notice you mentioning how to show the center measurements of the through holes in TechDraw, but I eventually figured it out; also had to edit my preferences to show the hole centers, something you maybe touched on in video 1 which I mostly skipped but need to go back and watch. I think I need to work through this video a few times and then take what I learned to create some new shape.

Thank you very much for your serie, very well layed out ! In my version (which is very recent), it has no issue anymore with the "multiple solids" in Part Design.

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Huge fan of your teaching style, Shifu!

These are great videos and thank you. I was swimming around in FreeCAD and ready to abandon it. 2nd tutorial and getting the hang of object orient model development and it is really powerful. Keep going !!

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Hi, thank you for this tutorials. I am new to freecad and still trying to understand the work around freecad and these are extremely helpful. I hope you will appreciate my perspective too. I feel that there are two problems with your tutorial. 1. you are trying to do too much in a single go which creates too many breaks in the flow of tutorial. We have to make and then delete things a lot more no. of times. You can use a flow chart to track down all the tools to streamline your presentation. 2. You do not emphasize on the key point. Some of the key points get missed in just few seconds. You can slow down on these key points. or even repeat them. Still, These tutorials are full of knowledge and like a lifeline for beginners and hobbyists.

I am grateful you are revamping some of your videos, so I am working through from the beginning again. I don't profess to be a quick learner and your re-iteration of different approaches allowed by Freecad make my journey less daunting.

Great tutorial (series), really enjoy your way of explaining things. I have however stumbled across one issue while following this particular video: at around 35:00 when adding the projection group to the drawing my top and right view are lacking some lines. In the right view it's the top and bottom lines between the two most outward vertices of the base-plate. In the top view it's the four line segments that connect the central protrusion to the rest of the base-plate. Writing this right now I am becoming aware of the fact that the lines that are invisible to me are the ones that result when viewing a fillet from an angle that flattens the fillet's plane to a line. I am using version .21 and after some online digging and experimenting I was able to find a workaround where I 1: select the affected view 2: set all "direction" properties with value = 0,00 to 0,01 3: refresh drawing 4: reset values from 0,01 to 0,00 5: refresh again 6: profit The issue seems to be related to numerical errors when it is is crucial if something is 0 or nearly 0. Anyone else have this issue / know more about this?

thanks for the tutorials. Just a heads up: I wasnt able to create the final fillet neither this time or in the previous one. So ill open a topic at the freecad forums and see whats going on before I continue. kind of unique issue so it seems. cant wait to continue on with the series!

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Im a beginner on CAD software. For some reasons I can't make a hole or if I'm able to make one on XY I can't make another one on XZ. I search and FreeCAD said I'm adding a multiple bodies or it's outside the body... I'm just getting frustrade. Ill keep watching your tutorials. Please make a body with different indents, holes in different sections XY,XZ,YZ

Thanks for this great video is topological naming issue is resolved in this version.

I have the latest version, minor differences from yours on here and not sure if my struggle today from 23.00 (involving rectangle). When you got to the part showing over constraint 23.34 and when you deleted the constraint, mine did not give the same results. I started a few times but no luck. Not sure what I'm missing? Eventually got it fully constrained but once I got to my tech drawing, this vertical lines were missing only on the right view. Strange 😅 I gotta try this lesson over again. Thank you again for sharing your knowledge, I've gleaned a lot this far. From South Africa 🌍 S

This series is absolutely amazing. I’ve learned so much and I’m only on three do you have a paid class? There are some questions that I would like to ask.

Your video tutorial are very clear and precise. I am using FC 0.20.2 on Ubuntu 23.04 and I don't see the vertex black points on the TechDraw page. I tried to modify the vertex scale in the preference (as you show in your video) but the situation remain the same

Sir you make this intuitive. Thank you. How do you include things like surface finish, and other manufecturing instructions?

Thank you very much. Your tutorial is fully easy to understand. But I have a question, Is there front view of technical drawing miss the dash line for indicate the holes?

first create rounded edges, then constrain all 4 diameters, then constrain the centre of the circle on the centre of the arch, and even less constrains had to be used. JMHO. But it's overall nice to follow along these classes.

well this is interesting. I made it to the fillets on the vertical piece. now when I try to back into sketch it says sketch is invalid.

Great video but I feel like it was to jam packed. My reason being is the technical drawing portion in the video was a bit to fast for me honestly it felt a bit rushed but in the end I was able to learn what you were demonstrating. I just needed to pause every 2-5 seconds instead of every 10 seconds. Perhaps this video could have been split up into two parts, first being the workflow simplification and second was the technical drawing. Either way great work once again!

Where did you capture the chamfer of the holes in the technical drawing ?

no luck with those inside fillets, lol doesn't seem to matter how many ways I try. One last try, I'll go and install freecad 2.0 and see if that works. Well it looks like version 2.01 has solved the fillet problem Yeah, but for some reason all my font sizes were tiny, so I had to program it in the python editor(2 hrs later). Not the text in the 3d view port but all the rest which is turned up in my setting in linux, but for some reason the new version in not excepting the parameters from my computer, but yet version 1.9 was. either way I am much happier now. If any one is listening. Thanks for your videos Mr Mango or is that Mr Jelly

In the final model on the left and right sides where the upright meets the base (between the fillets), I would not expect to see a line since those two pieces make a flat surface. Is there a method to have FreeCAD render this correctly, because as is it looks like there is an edge at that location.

Hey, awesome video! I was hoping you could answer a question but couldn't find it in other comments. I love that you can create a tech drawing from a model and add dimensions. Is there a way to add the units to the drawing? Rather than just saying 50 or 5, is there a way to make it say 50mm and 5mm?

do you have the plans/blueprints for each project available for us to download?

Thank you so much for these great tutorials! Really got me started with CAD. I have a question about this part. Why would we prefer to add the fillets in the sketch? I read that most people agree, that adding the fillets is best to be done as a last step on the body and keep the sketch as simple as possible. Why does this not apply here?

I know this is a late comment but great video! I did have one question that I didn't catch in the video I'd anyone could answer. How would I print the technical drawing to true scale on a sheet of paper?

Thanks for this! Follow up question; How can I make those pockets into screw pockets?

Perfect! I asked this question in another video but now I see it. The fact that you can lay down a quick rough draft of your base design and then come back and dial the correct dimensions with a simple click. Can we do the same exact thing by importing a 2D image that I have drawn, just to get the “shape” of the object into the work bench and then be able to click all the corners like connect the dots and dial in the “real dimensions” and avoid too much manual labor🤔?? If so please tell me how🙏🙏🙏

Love the videos, they are very helpful but I am running into an issue. every time I try to constrain multiple things as you demonstrated such as the fillets or the holes, the program freezes up and shows up as not responding. I even uninstalled, then re-installed freecad just to make sure all user preferences were completely cleared as I realized as soon as I turned the the pro-dark feature on, or changed any other settings it would freeze. Going back to factory configuration, it worked better for a while, but now is freezing again when trying to constrain multiple things. I don't know what the issue would be. I have everything back to factory settings, I am following along so I am not doing anything crazy I don't think, and I even built this computer with CAD software in mind. I have 32gb of G. Skill Ripjaws ram (4 sticks of 8gb), an AMD 5600G CPU, a Radeon RX5500XT GPU, an EVGA 550 80 plus gold PSUP, MSI B550M MOBO, Cooler Master AIO, Windows 10 64 bit OS, and it is kept in area up off the ground with plenty of ventilation. All drivers and BIOS are current and up to date. This thing runs fantastic and has no problems running anything I have thrown at it, except FreeCAD, which runs great and is plenty fast at keeping up, until I try to constrain then it freezes and I get the not responding error. I pull up task manager and it shows freecad as not responding. I have even tried switching the priority level to high and nothing. Unless I am missing something, I really don't think it's the computer itself. Would you by any chance have any idea what is causing the issue? I would love to continue following along in the series, but it's hard when the program keeps freezing and not letting me do anything. Thanks in advance.