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Thank you happy to help

@@JokoEngineeringhelp Yes, thank you very much, as yet an other F360 switcher, I can say you're a very good and qualified resource ! BTW could you tell us what is your software to show mouse clicks and keyboard keys on screen while you make your video ?

@@Alomphega Sure the keyboard monitor is called keymon available for linux

@@JokoEngineeringhelp Thank you very much (again !)

Sorry to be off topic but does someone know a way to log back into an instagram account?? I stupidly forgot my account password. I appreciate any assistance you can give me

Ha! Thank you

My guess is that it is disgruntled F360 Sales engineers!😉

Many thanks

@@JokoEngineeringhelp In the meanwhile... Just fixed fillet issues on my model. Thanks again.

It gets much easier over time. Good on you for sticking with it!

Nice work!

Probably some guy from Autodesk....lol.

@@Vindix007 LOL

You have an epic username. I love it.

Welcome to the open source side! There are many add-ins that do things unique to the platform too. Curved shapes is a really fun one.

@@JokoEngineeringhelp Thank you very much! Do you know if there's a plugin or feature where I can add an Image and past it into FreeCAD and scale it accordingly to its real size like some kind of datum plane? I used this feature a lot in fusion (scan in a complex shape like eye glasses which are hard to measure with a ruler for scale) to model complex forms I'm to dumb to measure :) I haven't found it by googleing but maybe my naming of it was just off!

@@exactpause9218 Sure, see here. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-v48Z5L-MyGw.html

Hi SoloSailor; There is nothing wrong with trimming or splines or anything of that nature. I draw both sides because mirroring doesn't fully constrain the sketch after the mirror so I like to capture my own 'design intent'.

@@JokoEngineeringhelp Thanks for the Reply. another JokoVid details specifically constraining to Design Intent (i'm binging) Fusion360 allows a less professional approach, so I have some bad habits to "professionalize".

I have content on functions but this video is meant for those of lesser experience and the function assignment would be out of scope for the intended audience. I also have content on the M key, but in videos like this hotkeys will be a lose no matter what. People tell me to use more hotkeys and other people say I don't do them enough. I try to make hotkeys as clear as possible but not overdo it. It's too bad in the latest FreeCAD they changed the hotkeys, the previous ones were one of the parts that set FreeCAD apart in my opinion.

He explains why to make it longer when he talks about "zero thickness" at the end, and why it's needed to combine the extrudes.

That's a great suggestion, unfortunately my keyboard monitor isn't capable of delays. I think I'll work on a cheat sheet.

While watching the video, I was thinking that it would be handy to have a mirror feature from start with the sketch, in this video, mirroring above the X axis in real time all operations done below the X axis. Maybe it's too complicated or confusing.

@@releasethekraken5299 I had a look at the python api, and that idea sounds difficult. However a smart mirror command that adds some equality constraints should be doable. It is non-trivial to add symmetry constraints, as it is very easy to overconstrain the sketch by mistake. And it is not clear which subset of symmetry constraints should be skipped, so it is a question of design intent at that point. I might take a crack at implementing a smart mirror as a macro at some point, if I get time. It will not be perfect, as that is not possible. But it should at least be able to do some of the work.

@VorpalGun I'm grateful for people such as yourself that have a good programming ability and are willing to improve this wonderful software. Thanks for looking at that!

@@JokoEngineeringhelp I have started my investigation into this. Unfortunately the current implementation is messy and hard to use from a macro from what I can tell. See forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=53346 if you are interested.

This usually solves the problem: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-suFp5-SWSA4.html

The program is FreeCAD, available at freecadweb.org. It's open source, so you don't have to pay anything.

It is! I recreated the part and tried it.

Arcs are typically sized using a radius. Are you saying you have a defined arc and you need to find out the radius? In that case there is a button that turns the dimension buttons blue, use the radius tool when it is blue to report a non-driving dimension

I would probably go with Blender for something like that - where it's more about cosmetics and organic shapes than exact measurements.

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Speed is a factor

I cannot; the material from SolidWorks is proprietary. I do have videos where I make the same part with FreeCAD and SolidWorks so you can see the differences.

@@JokoEngineeringhelp thanks for your reply..i will have a look at your videos

Hi Stephen, it means that two lines or a line and an arc are not connected, or there is an extra line or arc that shouldn't be there.

My guess is a douchebag move from whoever did the original drawing.

@@funkysod Right you are Funkysod

I think he may be using an app to keep it there. While it is not something usually done there seem to be ways to do it in all major operating systems. Try searching "window always on top" and explore the results for your operating system.

In most linux desktop environment you can choose to keep a window above the active window.

@@paulreader1777 ..thanks.

@@dieterdodel1974 Thank you for asking the question - I benefited from researching the answer.

Along with the other excellent replies, in Linux 18.04 with the gnome interface I right click on the window and select 'always on top'. In Windows, there is a program called deskpins that adds the functionality.

Linux has a feature to right click on a window and select always stay on top

I'm not sure exactly what the problem is, you should be able to download the part from the link in the description to compare

Which version of FreeCAD are you using? Try this ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-suFp5-SWSA4.html

@@JokoEngineeringhelp V.018 I'll try to update it and see that works

See the techdraw workbench. you can add/create views.

Bakkerman73 is correct, that's what I used. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SbKWf7MalAk.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cggBR1Ghq7k.html

Exactly

@@JokoEngineeringhelp THANKS for re-making it, your tutorials are pretty much the best available and you are doing a great job to promote FreeCAD :)

@@JeremieFrancois Thank you. Sometimes I worry I can't do this great software the justice it deserves

I'm not sure I completely follow, which time are you referring?

because when I copied your proceedure, and I click on "1 degree", it shows the construction line as the 1 degree left. If I fix point on the vertical line, then I get "fully constrained". Just wondering if there is a method to choosing one over the other? Great tutorial!

@@TheRainHarvester Great question. When thinking about sketching, truly there are many ways to do the same thing and nothing is right or wrong as much as some things are better or worse for design intent. Usually in a design process you'll go back and update parts of a sketch, so a good sketch usually accommodates updating changes with as little effort as possible with as few sketch elements as possible. That's usually what I have on my mind when I think of different ways of doing a sketch, and on video I'm thinking about a lot more than just the sketch so sometimes I miss things that could have been done bettter! Hope that helps

Try books too.. I have hard time learning from videos... sitting with books.. alone really makes my brain work.

Don't move! The secret police are coming to erase this intel! But seriously that's a good insight

Make sure you have "Auto Remove Redundants" on, and you're running the latest version

AZ, USA How about you?

I don't recall making an edit there at all. You can download the part to check for differences as well

@@JokoEngineeringhelp Odd. There is quite a long silent pause just a you say "A for angle" but the video doesn't show you typing any value for the angle. Sadly I am using 0.19 and that seems to have a lot of bugs or perhaps I am just good at finding them. Anyway, shortly after I posted that Freecad refused to draw arcs anymore. In fact it also refused to draw lines, squares or circles although strangely it would draw hexagons. Actually it didn't refuse to draw arcs: It was more that it drew them all over the screen in random places and with random sizes flashing here and there when I moved the mouse. It also reported lots of errors which look very like coding errors. I can't remember the text exactly now but, it included "nan is not defined' which I suspect is "Not a Number" perhaps. I'm going to have a look an OpenSCAD as an alternative as I find FreeCAD difficult to use and buggy. Anyway, thanks for your reply and also for your videos. They are certainly better than many of the others.

@@colcol758 Consider an alternate install if you're running linux and solvespace is a fun parametric modeler too, early in development though and not as powerful as freecad yet.

@@JokoEngineeringhelp Thanks for that. Sadly I'm not running Linux. I would like to know what the shortcut key"A" does. You say "A" for angle but no dialog box appears in the video so how did you enter the angle? I wonder what angle the other people making comments saying how they got this working used. I just don't understand this. Anyway, I've given up on FreeCAD as it is too buggy and unintuitive for any real use. You can't design a complex part with a tool that can crash at any moment and corrupt your design so that you have to start again.

@@colcol758 Pressing the A key and then two lines sets a dimensional angle between the lines. It's too bad you're seeing bugs, a lot of people make complex things without any problems. Good luck