FreeCAD Beginner Tutorial Part Design 

I've just completed your first 2 tutorials for FreeCAD. This makes so much sense. I'm going to try a few simple parts I will use for my R/C airplanes. I'm hopping to be able to print them out today. They will be very simple. I will check to see if you have a tutorial for a slicer. There seems to be many settings for that. Thank you and please stay safe. Have a good day.

I always thought cad was so complicated, but your videos make it so simple. I've just finished my first model, and I'm quite proud of how it turned out. Thanks a bunch for inspiring me!

Thank you for these videos! I am printing my first part thanks to you! It's for my new storage shed that was missing a door guide, but hopefully not for long! 😃

Wow! I didn't expect to see this kind of an complex object being created so easily and explained so well. Amazing content! Thank you!

Well done! Easily understandable and the right (short) length! Bite size lessons are great. They can be squeezed in and don't take forever.

Thanks for making these tutorials! FreeCAD has an incredibly frustrating interface and viewport. This really helps. Keep up the great work!

This is so clear and helpful! At 5:33 when closing my datum plane rectangle slice sketch it closed my entire program several times! I had to re do it 3 times but, yay practice! It worked. You're a wonderful teacher.

So simple and elegantly explained. Thank you for making Freecad seem so easy.

Yesterday I was mad because it took me so long just to get into the part design. Then I was having issues trying to make pockets. I like your approach, I can't wait to get home and try it, thanks for the video!

Nice! I'm 10 minutes into freecad and am following along well! Thank you!

First thing is I subbed. Thank you so much for a very well executed tutorial. I love the fact that you are so familiar with this program, that you don't have to keep searching for what you want to do. It gets so annoying having to watch the person scroll and click, then scroll and click, then scroll and click. Until they find what they need to continue the tutorial. You, on the other hand, just seamlessly go through the paces and show everything needed to accomplish the task at hand. I thank you for that. I am looking forward to more of your tutorials. You will help me become an expert in no time. I have purchased my first 3D printer, the Anycubic Mega Zero. It is just so awesome. It didn't take me no time to learn how to use it. It was perfect right out of the box. I use other peoples .stl files to make things and I have had no trouble except for the dialing in of the filament. Hopefully with your help, I will be capable of creating and printing my own designs. I am just sooo looking forward to more of your tutorials. Once again, thank you so much.

FreeCAD is amazing too. Thanks.

Thank you! Been watching your tutorials and I'v learned a LOT. Good pace, clear instructions and overall good tutorials!

Another _superb_ FreeCAD Tutorial Jayanam! Keep up the great work. Thanks! 🚀

Holy crap I forgot you did another video on this! More please!! I've been wanting to learn this tool and have absolutely no idea what I'm doing with it!

This is the first part Ive created ,, now ill do it again without following step by step to see if I have it , but a huge thank you for the tutorials.

Great tutorial. I've been struggling to keep all of my sketches locked onto my body, I didn't know about that plane tool, you're a lifesaver man.

I just watched through your first two FreeCAD tutorials. Before starting, I couldn't even get a line on the screen. I spent about two hours drawing a part while I watched (sometimes watching a short segment over and over, since I'm on Linux and despite the same version, my menus and yours aren't identical), and at the end, I have a complete base for a film slitter (to convert 120 into either 127 and 16mm, or three strips of 16mm) ready to print -- including slots for the blades to seat in, fillets and chamfers, and pockets for the magnets that will hold the cover on. The cover (which holds the blades) is next. Even better, I have the *knowledge* now to sketch the cover. One Saturday morning well spent. Of course, I still have to find space to set up a 3D printer before I can print the parts, since the nearest library that has a printer is in a different county so I can't get a card. One thing at a time...

just starting to learn freecad for small part design. Great video and clear instructions. Thanks very much for sharing your knowledge on this.

Thank you this was a wonderful and intuitive explanation and crash course for freeCAD. Thank you immensely!

I want to say thank you for your tutorials and how you segment learning the software. I watched another person's tutorial video but it was a long video filled with a bunch of stuff all at once. And the video is good...it's just a bit too fast paced for me it's like non stop action. But your videos. You cover a couple points and a couple relative side notes per video. So there isn't a lot of pausing needed, you are very very clear about what you're doing and you speak in a calm tone at a relaxed pace. Which really helps me to take in the information and apply it better. Your visual content is also happening at a relaxed pace so I'm able to see what you're doing and where to go to do it. I just started watching your tutorials yesterday. And haven't completed them all yet. But I have been able to look at basic designs from thumbnails and photos and make my own general recreation (identical in design but not in specifications). I can't thank you enough, and I will definitely be using your videos as reference material, and recommending it to anyone looking to start in cad, or looking for a return refresher course. Thank you again!

These are the best tutorial videos available for this software! Thanks!

I need to design some 3d printing replacement parts. I have only ever done 3d modelling in Blender and freeCAD is really confusing to me but seeing this short and on point video really helps to unterstand the general workflow and concept. Thanks!

Love the way you say "downwards"! You should be narrating books on tape.

You may have solved a problem I was having with sketching on an existing face...must try this, thanks!

Link to previous tutorial in description always is a good idea, especially if they are released in some "increasing complexity" order , then watchers always can go back and forth instead of searching whole youtube or your channel :)

Thank you so much for making this. Im currently making a gopro mount and this helped out a lot

Thanks for these videos, very helpful!

Excellent. You have a great teaching style.

Thanks Jayanam! I have just completed your first 2 tutorials for FreeCAD. You make this look so easy. It was easy to follow your lead. Please expand upon your FreeCAD tutorials to include other workbenches. Thanks again. Exploration TV

Good FreeCAD tutorial!! Please make more!

Thank you for this, demonstrated all the techniques I needed to model the part I needed...... So helpful :)

Great video's just what us beginners need steady pace, keep them coming please and Stay Safe my friend !!!

Thank you so much for these tutorials, they're gonna help me in school! LOL

This has been so very useful thanks

Amazing tutorial! very detailed but still short so I keep interest. Need more about FreeCad! Thanks

Quick and to the point - Subscribed! :)

Well paced and easy to understand.

brilliant tutorial mate

Thanks, it was very helpful!

Hi jayanam. I really love your tutorials and i wish you the best in your life too. Thanks.

Thanks great tutorial I look forward to the next one!

I think this video along with your original tutorial will help me design a little motorcycle helmet for my wife's baby yoda. Thank you very much.

Thanks for this, I’m new to FreeCad, but have been using Solidworks and AutoCad for 3 years, so it’s been confusing for me to do some simple things like this, mainly because the wording and methods in FreeCad are a bit difference. After extruding my initial body without the circle for the hole, I was going to try to sketch it on the face of my part and try to make a hole from that sketch, but it was telling me I couldn’t do that, but I don’t really understand why. I guess if I ever want to do something to make a cut I’ll have to get into the habit of making a plane like you did for the pocket or just including the shape of the hole into the initial sketch. Either way, both seem easier and more in my ballpark than using the boolean stuff like another video did.

nice, simple and easy guide

Very nice and useful explanation, thanks!

Thank you for these tutorials. They realy help in some things i have wondered how to do in freeCAD :)

well thanks to your video and since i am ignorant on 3D skatching i finally have created the liquid containing part of my box. next is the cover and holes to fix it nicely to the pox.... THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!!

Great tutorial, thanks

Finally got it. Need to pick the polyline

I really need to learn this utility.

Thank you real good teaching

Thanks a bunch! It would be very helpful, if you'd not only say which tool to use but also the keyboard shortcut. Best wishes!

Great vid!

Thank you!

Thanks for making such a good quality tutorial. I hope to move from AutoCAD and Vray to FreeCAD and Blender for Architectural use (for everything from technical drawings, plans, and visualizations). I will need a few more tutorials!

More please. I just found this channel

THANK YOU!!! The auto-constraint bug was fucking up everything and I had no idea why!! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!

Thank you

Excellent. Clear and concise. More please, maybe something on additives.

Thanks!

Please make more freeCAD tutorials :)

Hi Jaynam. I like your tutorials.

Fantastic video.

Very useful . Thank you

amazing! I can finally create something :D

Pretty cool. I haven't touched CAD since using AutoCAD 12 in school during the late 1990s. One thing I really liked was the ability to specify precise measurements right away while drawing via the command line. Is there any feature like that in FreeCAD?

Excellent tutor. Really helpful

Great tutorial 👍 Not sure what went wrong - 1st attempt at pocket cut out did not show up - restarted from the very beginning and all ok. Cheers

Thank you sir.

Very good lesson

Very helpful tutorial. Thanks

Thanks for the great video... Now once I have closed the the sketch to go do the padding and finish off, how can I get back to the sketch to see the sketch with constraints, dimensions, and that so I could perhaps change the sketch as needed? Thanks ;)

Thank you for the video! Do you have any plans to do more of them?

Great tutorial! A question just to try to understand some of the basics, at 3:13, how did it get fully constrained? How did the vertical parts leading up to the arc at the left part of the sketch get defined? Mine never did

Very good tutorials. I am waiting of new...

Does this program have a smart dimension tool?

Man that was excellent, more meat - less bread!

We would like to see more freecad videos comming from your channel atleast two tutorials a week

I recognized your voice (and afterwards your name) from the Blender tutorials! We meet again. lol

At 3:19, how can the sketch be fully constrained? I can't see there's a height for the vertical part containing the hole.

Thank you for videos I learned a lot. If you have time to make video to explain spiral designs like pumps, turbines :)

It won't let me add the reflection symmetry constraint across the axes lines

How can I select points on a mesh when sketching onto its surface via a datum-plane? I know I can go into the function-mode inside constraints to reference other objects and constraints, but is this really the only way of achieving that? Info would be greatly appreciated!

please make more freecad tutorials thanks from India.

This is awesome. I have one very basic question though - why can't I move or rotate the parts in my editor? The only thing I have been able to use are those tiny arrows on the cube on the top-right corner of the editor and zoom in and out. Click and drag on the empty area has no effect whatsoever. Do I need to be in any specific view or something? I am using Freecad 0.19 on Ubuntu. Sorry for the extreme basic question.

love your voice

Thank you very much for this video. A quick question...is the datum plane necessary? I put the sketch on the front face of the body and created the pocket from there. I'm using FreeCAD 0.20. Is the datum plane recommended based on the topological naming issue?

This seems to be a nice video/ A few people will have a problem. Some people have poor eye sight and can not follow the small fast moving pointer. Is it possible to make the pointer bigger. This will help us a lot. Thank You

hi, how to enable the white grid in sketch view? i got the 0.19 version

Great Videos. Here is a suggestion. you should give them better names so watchers can finds the next videos easier. Here is an example: "FreeCad 01 Beginning Tutorial Part design." Anyway, your videos are really great and easy to follow. Thank you.

I'm really would be happy if you make some tutorial series related architecture topic in FreeCAD. For example, I'm interesting on stadium making as i'm stadium maker for game development.

If you were to adjust the surface where the datum plane sits,Will the datum plane then follow the surface? In The same Way a sketch would do If you created it on the surface instead of a datum plane? Or does the datum plane always stay in the same spot?

Broooooo this shit is cool man!

how do you measure something inside a sketch just for reference?

Problems activasting body?

Is a datum plane used just as a reference object to attach the rectangle to?

Why do I get an error "Cannot set the datum because the sketch contains conflicting constraints" when trying to define the 3mm length as you do in the video at 3:12?

how do i freely move my 3d object

I'm just starting out with this program (me following this tutorial is actually my first time using it) and I have a problem when I get to 2:48. The text that labels the constraint is ridiculously large and is in the way. I have tried adjusting it in the Preferences but nothing changed. (I did hit 'Apply') How can I fix it?