it was very sad news to know that this channel owner who provide those great freecad tutorial has passed away, I would tell you did a very great work for the rest of us. Thank you Roland. 1970-2017
It is very sad to say that there is no one to thank for this great video series. We missed you Roland. Thank you so much for the work you have done for this world.
Just stumbled on this video, and channel, and really enjoying learning FreeCAD. So sad to hear that Roland passed away. But you leave a legacy man! People like you are real heroes... people that make the world a better place. Thank you so much for teaching me, and thousands of others, empowering us with knowledge and skill...Rest in peace......
Thanks for the slow and clear audio - this is what beginners need. We all have vocal accents when perceived by another part of the world or country and many utube video speakers talk too fast for an unfamiliar accent. You voice is text book precise and clear :) Speaking faster is appropriate if the content is targeted for someone already familiar with the vocabulary and subject, but not for beginner tutorials. Good job!
I will absolutely agree with the slow and clear presentation is absolutely key to beginners. While I have had a bit of "fun" with differences in versions, I do believe that Roland's measured cadence and easy hand with mouse movements make this series far easier to follow that some later you tube presentations.
I'm sad, too. He was a great teacher, such a patient voice, such a friendly, considered approach. These videos are a great memorial to the calibre of the man. Thanks for leaving them up for all to benefit from his knowledge.
This is the best FreeCAD tutorials that I have seen to date. I learned more here than any other FreeCAD video. The author has a pace which fits a beginner perfectly and his voice is clear and pleasing. I hope he has more FreeCAD tutorials..
I’ve never used any CAD program ever and just download FreeCAD based on a recommendation. I was able to quite easily follow along the video to produce an exact duplicate of the example - I’ll certainly be watching and doing the next ones and after reading through the comments, found out the gentleman has passed away 🙁 Still very appreciative of the work he chose to leave behind to help many others to come after him - may we all pass along our learned skills in a way that helps the next generation be more than what we’ve been been able to accomplish.
It's been years since I have done any CAD modeling. When I learned CAD it was all command line and no GUI. Very glad I found this tutorial, I'll be working my way through the rest in my spare time. Clear, concise and well paced. Thank you.
Just stumbled across this channel. This man has permanently changed my life by taking time out of his day to provide teachings for random strangers. His legacy lives on.
Finally completed step lesson one. It took me a while and it would be nice if they have some array functions in the future versions. I am used to old versions of Solidworks which made 3D cad so easy with powerful parametric modeling. Many sketch concepts are the same here and hopefully development of FreeCAD will turn this into an awesome program for the masses. Hard to be free or really compare it against very expensive commercial software. Thanks to Roland (RIP) for making these lessons to get us started.
This is a superb tutorial. You speak clearly and precisely. The turner's cube is a perfect 1st video. Few commands and repetition. Your style is unhurried and paced as a natural teacher. I will continue with you to the next tutorial with great enthusiasm. I am a retired architectural designer proficient with Chief Architect X8 ( currently in Beta). FreeCad stopped me dead. My Chief Architect knowledge worked against me and left me quite frustrated. This tutorial and your patient way has thrown light into the dark corners.... Thankyou.
Very helpful tutorial indeed. Your work is helping so many... I will be remembering you countless times while machining the turners cube you're teaching me to design right now. Rest in peace Roland!
Yesterday installed FreeCAD v0.17, this is for v0.14 and are still all relative to the current version. I viewed all of them in a row, and consider it a must-see for all who start with FreeCAD. The author did know how to get the message to you not once but repetitively showing what he was doing. It is sad to realise that no other lessons will become abailable (see message by Kmal Nasef). I can only say `Thank you for the lessons given'.
Just found this channel today in 2020, so sorry to hear about the owner of this channel passing. Very good video, very precise and easy to follow, thank you! I actually learned how to do something today. I'll make sure to complete the series. Truly a loss to the world.
Many thanks for making these tutorials. They are extremely clear and complete and presented at a perfect pace for me to follow. I find I can watch the videos and then re-play them while doing the operations in FreeCAD only rarely having to pause the video to catch up. Despite being well past my sell-by date I have managed to become reasonably proficient in FreeCAD in about a week - something that would not have been possible without your excellent videos.
Hello Normand, I am so very sad to hear that. My sympathies to Roland's family. I, like many others I'm sure, will remember him whenever I sit down to draw something on FreeCAD
Fantastic tutorial! I used Pro/ENGINEER 20 years ago as an engineering student and had forgotten the concepts over the years. This brought it all right back. I like the slow pace too and agree with others that there has got to be a copy/past of features. This lesson is old so perhaps those are available in the latest version. I'm sure Google will have the answer to that.
This is only an introductory tutorial for people new to cad to get a first idea of the gui and the workflow. At the end of lesson 12 i am presenting a more efficient way to model the turners cube. Copy and past is possible, but then, if you change the radius of one of the pockets the other "identical" pockets won't change accordingly. BTW: Here i am showing more tricks for parametric modelling: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6Nu8y0C0nvg.html
Very clear vocals, instructions, and video. You can't get much clearer than that. :). Very good manners. Repeatability is a key to learning. I am looking forward to the rest of your programs. Also very precise, I can't thank you enough for taking the time to do this.
Just wanted to say I'm glad I discovered your FreeCad course. Your explanation of the tools and steps is very clear and doesn't feel rushed as with other tutorials. Subscribed!
Just Beginning to learn this program with novice-beginner experience. I will let you know my progression and if I'm having significant trouble learning how to utilize FressCAD for my purposes. Thanks again for taking the time to post tutorials for your Free Program.
OK....I'm done! Literally, it was amazing! The tutorial was a GREAT tool to follow, and once I figured out the mathematics, in relation to changing from Meters to Inches, everything went smoothly and I was able to complete the initial project quite easily. I don't see how there are any complaints as to how the tutorial was set up.
Rest in peace, brother. I am inspired by your life and how many people you helped educate, all for no personal gain to yourself. I'm positive your impact goes far outside of this software you helped develop. Thank you!
I'm a 20 year user of SolidWorks along with being proficient in several others others. I'm currently looking to get some non engineering, no previous CAD drawing experience persons going on creating some simple 2D profiles. I'm liking FreeCAD due to the sketch constraints that are very similar to SW. Soon I will download, install and get to running this program. Seems simple enough. So far I've watched a few vids to see the general workflow of some people use, and have browsed through the user manual on the FreeCAD site to get a quick look at its available tools. Having done the latter I couldn't help but notice through this video as you went to create the pockets on the remaining faces that at the end of the Part Design Workbench toolbar are the icons for Mirrored Feature, Polar Feature Pattern, and Multitransform. All you needed to do was create the pocket features on the first face and then create the rest quickly with these tools, and then they would all be dimension controlled by the first face sketches. Of course if your design intent was to be able to later modify each of the faces separately then you wouldn't want to do as I suggest here. This may help others though.
This is only an introductory lesson. People new to 3D CAD should get used to basic workflow and tools. You may have a look at the end of lesson twelve where i show a much more efficient wayto model a turners cube.
Thank you for this first lesson! I appreciated Bill Blakes question about "copying sketches from face to face" as I thought about the same. But I am very grateful you went side by side for Lesson 1 as by the third side I was sailing along ahead of you (while making a couple of mistakes finding the right buttons and with my 3D navigation). You definitely made this a great Lesson 1!!
Fantastic lessons! I had no problem following these. I like that you can explain concepts clear and have me build a somewhat complex shape at the same time.
Great tutorial. I have attempted to learn CAD before. But training videos that I tried in the past were way to fast and concepts were not clearly explained. Usually the presenter in the tutorial was clicking buttons too quickly or using keyboard commands so I could never clearly understand how things were being done. But this video is very well paced, concepts clearly explained and the steps involved very clear. A really fantastic job! And the German accent, just makes me feel smarter listening to it :-) I look forward to viewing the other videos and I now feel confident that I can do some home machining of parts I design myself. Thank you!!!
Great tutorial. I appreciate your teaching method. Even if there are faster ways to do the operations, you still proceed step-wise and leave just enough time to follow along. eXcellenT!
Fantastic little guide, just finished this but ended up going on to add two further 15.625mm radius pockets going straight through the very centre cube along each axis. It was bugging me that there was a solid cube in the centre haha. Thanks for taking the time and effort to do this guide, I'll be following along with all of them I think.
I just want to say thank you very much for the video on Freecad. i have 0 understanding of the program but I found you very easy to follow and understand.
Thanks for all the work all of you put into the software and videos. I've used rhino3d before and am getting back into 3d cad for art design. So far I like the workflow and ease of use.
Thank you very much. I have been looking for a good 3d design program. At first look FreeCAD interface was very confusing. A couple of videos I saw did not help...until I found yours! I think I have got the basic concepts now. I will work through your others videos over the next couple of weeks. Good work.
Excellent tutorial for beginners. I followed it from beginning to end making some notes. The examples and expanations you gave for every operation were very intuative. Thank you very much. Now moving onto lesson 2 :-)
Thanks. For 100 x 100 x 100 (mm) cube for a 3D Printing model, I used the following dimensions: 1st circle: radius 15.62, Pocket length 37.50 2nd circle: radius 31.25, Pocket length 25.00 3rd circle: radius 46.87, Pocket length 12.50
In December 2016 i finally found some time to do a variant model of the Turners Cube and order an online 3D-Printed version: forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=19185
very, very well done and your english is great... much better than some back-ground music when a person is trying to learn something new.. thanks a lot...:)
Eventually I managed to do a block with two pockets in it after watching this (2h and could never get a third pocket on the 6th side :). So it helped but I think a real 101 for dummies would be a great video. Or maybe there aren't many of us that jump straight into the deep water with only 3d-printing learned from before.
45:05 "Don't forget to save your file. [To] cite the videogame Commander Keen, an old game from DOS-8, the manual said: 'Save your game often. You'll be glad you did.'" Because the UNDO BUTTON is broken in FreeCAD, I _recommend_ going to: [EDIT] -- [Preferences] -- [General] -- [Document Tab] and under ["Create up to backup files when resaving document"] increase the number. This creates previous save states as .FCStd [+ number] so that if the working-file gets corrupted after you reflexively pressed [Ctrl + Z] then you have the option of renaming one of the .DCStd[n] files back to .FCStd and reopening in FreeCAD.
Just a heads up for people starting off.. there doesn't seem to be any ability to export the graphics to Adobe or other graphics platforms. ☹️ If you're interested in 3D graphics as _well_ as CAD.. Blender is very powerful 3D authoring tool and can be installed simply by extracting its zip-container to any folder.
FreeCAD is a solid modeller aimed at doing 3D models for 3D printing, and mechanical and archtectural models as well as 2D drawings. You can export your 3D model in various formats, you can save your image in various formats and you can export your drawing as svg or dxf. Blender is a mesh modeller aimed at doing more organic looking shape. Everbody can decide on his/her own according to his/her needs ...
Thank you very much for these excellent videos. They are really clear and direct to the point. I'm enjoying the series and I'm pretty sure I'll learn a lot from them.
Just starting out with FreeCad (although quite familiar with some high end commercial animation software like e.g. Cinema4D, Maya, 3dMax...), I enjoyed this tutorial very much because, like the presenter, I have German (alas the Swiss version) as my native tongue and I can really visualize what's going on in multiple language dimensions. Très cool. Going to work myself through the entire playlist...
+Bruno Cantieni At the moment, my Playlist with german videos is longer ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-m49z0weonog.html With luck i will in the upcoming weeks some spare time left to continue making english voiced lessons ...
In the FreeCad I have ( Fedora, stable from repos ), the scroll wheel click pans the object around and Shift + right click rotates it about its axis... Just wanted to let people know, maybe it is unique to the Fedora repo version...
Daemon S I noticed several user interface differences between version 0.14 in the video and 0.16 which I'm using. It made it very difficult to follow this video when icons were in different places, look different, remained grayed out, error messages appeared because I was unable to tell FreeCAD to do what was being done in the tutorial, etc. after a couple of hours I decided I could probably figure out the current version myself better than trying to compare it to a different version. it's probably worth watching these videos just to get a general feel for the program but not for specific program features and how they work because that seems to vary considerably from version to version.
Great appreciation to you for the patience and time it took to produce this video. The repetitive action was helpful. When using my FreeCAD step by step from following you, I had to use coincident constraint for EVERY circle as it would always be off center if I didn't... even though the algorithm would show that I was on point. Is there a way to make sure that this repetitive action can be done with out the extra step? Thanks again.
+Chris Beard Make sure auto constraining is turned on. Choose Edit > Preferences from the top menu. A new menu pops up. Click on the "Display Icon" in the left column and choose the "Sketcher" tab on the right side. There should be a box labeled "auto constraints" nearly at the bootom of the menu. Make sure the box is ticked (marked). Try a different navigation style (right click in the 3D-View). I made best experiences with blender mode and it's automatic selection when hovering with the mouse over an element. Make sure you use your latest graphics driver and a quite recent version of freecad. If the problem persists it would be better reprting it to the forum at www. freecadweb.org. Please give Info about Hardware, Graphics driver, FreeCAD version (Help-About) and OS used.
+Learn FreeCAD It may have been a glitch on work sheet? Box was ticked and I was already in blender mode. I'll pay attention as I create during your 'Lesson 04 - Bearing Bracket' - and see if it persists. I found that a quick check to see how many degrees of freedom I had would indicate if I was on my mark or not. Thanks for the info and I'll create a thread on the web site if my issue continues. Cheers.
WHO ARE YOU :) I really would like your name if you don't mind, because I really appreciate you. This is so awesome and you are doing a great job. My sincerest Thanks to you.
Hey, danke für das verständliche Tut, ich werde sicher die anderen Lessons auch noch machen und jeweils ein Like hinterlassen...BTW, du könntest mmn ruhig ein oder zwei Werbungen schalten, du musst ja auch von was leben denk ich mir...;) LG
Thank you for trying to make a tutorial for this program. I'm trying to use version 16 and there are substantial differences between it and version 14 which you are using. My screens don't look like yours. Icons don't appear or are greyed out when they shouldn't be etc. I went through this video several times from scratch trying different things and it was just too frustrating to continue. I guess I'll just keep playing with the program and trying to figure out what version 16 is like and then when they come out with version 17 it will probably be completely different again. I realize that , is what I should expect from a program that has not yet reached version 1.0.
