FreeCAD - Arch Workbench - Getting a Result, Simple House 

I've never seen a CAD program in my life, it is three and a half minutes into my first tutorial, and I have the outline to my house. This is exactly what I was looking for and I can't thank you enough.

Thanks for the help. There's a lot of little things you just have to learn from someone else before you can really understand how the program works. And I appreciate you being the person that helped.

great explanation, also great you mention the keys specifically and repeat,very useful! thank you !

Great to have someone explaining it who is not an architectural drafts person

Very explanatory! Thank you.

It suerly does help, thanks :) Now i can show this to an architect.

I really appreciate this video. I still have a long way to go but you got me going in the right direction. Merry Christmas.

I'm just starting out on a similar venture so I really appreciate this info share! I love the x/y locking, that's a really handy feature. To throw a tip back your way, if you use the Extension (···) or Perpendicular (⟂) snapping modes you can draw lines like that interior wall easily. Cheers!

Bella spiegazione, complimenti

Thanks for tutorial! On 7:10 there was an extra foot sign when you entered the dimensions, so the door size got funny.

Good to know about X Y keys to lock draft move direction. Regarding copying Windows. I am able to do a draft move > copy and make additional windows.

I get the model of your house thing. I actually plan to build my own house, I lost almost all my money actually so I'm trying to find work so I can get back to that goal. But anyways I like trying to model out my house in these programs also. Mostly so I know how much material and how the plumbing would work out and everything, but also just because I enjoy doing it.

There is no odd reason , it is a valid reason. I am venturing to do the same but go the next step and introduce the finished work in Blender and add to it to make it photorealistic. It is not odd , it is a great idea.

Thanks for the taking the time to put the video together. To put your mind at rest over the 1st door height, if you review the steps closely, you left in the "feet" part of the initial measurement, so your input was essentially saying "six-feet-8-inches-feet" which is pretty confusing. Hard to spot since "' looks very like ". Would probably be nicer if the interface told you it didn't understand the measurement you entered, but instead the program accepts it as "6 feet plus 8 feet" and so gave you a fourteen foot door.

Thanks this has given me a good start with arch. I have been using part design and sketcher with good result for a while. But what i cant understand with arch is just where is the window that i placed. I can see it but cant see any measurements describing location in the tree. If i move the window then the tree object describes how it moved but not its actual location. What am i missing. Thanks still working through your vids.

thanks for video.

Before you select the Polyline, how did you get an orthogonal grid to put the line on? Sorry, I am just starting to use this, and you missed out that first step. Or maybe something is different as I am using 0.21.2?

i think my grid is too small when i draw on it the wall goes to the orbit, how do i fix that

7:11 That is likely happening because you actually typed 6' 8"' , so it probably adds 6' and 8' and ignores the ", hence why you got 14' in the end.

OK - Great video, dumb question. How do you get a grid like that? Im stuck wtih a 10mm x 10mm grid.

Thanks for video. I have to use Line or Rectangle for wall base, because I cannot modify (if I need) the vertexes of Wire. When I make double click on wire, vertexes become white, but when I try to select one of them to move it, nothing happens. I mean, I cannot change the length of single lines of wire, so I cannot change the length of a single wall. Instead, I can change the length of line or rectangle, and so the length of wall changes. Dou you know why I cannot move the vertexes of wire? I'm using FreeCAD 0.18 on Linux Mint.

For some reason whenever I try to build the wall, I'm getting an error saying : Line constructor accepts: -- empty parameter list -- LineSegment -- LineSegment,double,double -- Line,double,double -- Point, Point Any solution to that?

How do you increase the grid size and make the lines snap to the grid. My grid is 3/8ft long

i wish to model my house because i want to see what it will look like with renovations of wall and kitchen placement.

Stinks that you can't set the defaults for 3-1/2" walk to 3-1/2". You have to convert it to mm first.

I cannot get the walls to show. I select the wire, then select the wall and it disappear. What am I doing wrong! This should be simple :(

Very nice video, and another demostration that the inches and feet stuff is nonsensical when we have Indu-Arabic numbers and it's the only think all humans agree with: they are far better.

Following you exactly AND IT IS NOT WORKING

I want to animate building a structure step by step, maybe with the click of a button. Can someone help me on how to go about?

Actual tutorial starts at 1:45

Why do when I select WALL my poly lines disappear?

So around 1:23, where he's telling us to go to Patreon instead of telling us what he's actually _doing_, it's like this: Click New (top left icon) to get a blank document. Then click the white 2x2 grid icon, which is Toggle Grid (toggle Draft grid). Now you get some axes, no grid. Then (and this is the missing info -- RU-vid says this section is "most replayed", go figure) he's scrolling his mouse wheel like crazy and zooming out, from paperclip scale to house scale. If you look at the bottom right corner of the window, there are dimensions. The grid lines are 12 in apart (because you set them by following the "settings used" link... right?) so if you're zoomed in to 3/8 in you'll never see those lines. You need it to show _feet_, and really _tens of feet_, before you'll get a nice grid to look at. (Instead of the mouse wheel you can also do Ctrl-minus and plus to zoom. Macs use Cmd.)

note to self: never let programmers do UIs

why you using imperial in 21st century

what

Really too fast for newbies

Not detailed enough

I get where you are coming from but the talking and not describing what you are doing the how and the why makes this really unhelpful. Start with the basics, like why you clicked the hash to switch on a grid, how you orientated it, the entering of the lines you're drawing whilst talking random nonsense rather than describing what you are actually doing doesn't describe the content of your tutorial. Re hash this with why, and how it will be a great tutorial.

It would be great if you actually explained what you were clicking and doing rather than just rambling.

Lol, the blind leading the blind here... You didn't explain what you were doing half the time so I could not duplicate your work. It should not matter what direction you draw your wire to create a roof that you desire. What happens when you copy the floor line and move it up to make the roof line? The right roof? The wrong roof? I do not think you are ready to teach this subject until you learn how things work. Thanks for trying.