Quicker Better Fillets in FreeCAD With This Simple Tip A must for Beginners 

Forget the fillets. The 2:35 Sub-Object Shape Binder was the most interesting! 👍

Fillets are the most finicky things to use in freecad, they kind of lead a life of their own... If it doesn't work in one way you need to redo it in a completely other way to get what you want. I love your videos because of that, they show other ways of doing things. Very educational.

That sub-shape binder offset is brilliant

Amazing. I am fairly new to the world of CAD. With FreeCAD, the possibilities just keep expanding. I now have a library of various filament types and colours to feed to my Dremel 3D45. Videos like this just pull me ever further into an absolutely fascinating hobby... and allows me to file my patent for a device that I have high-hopes for.

That Sub Shape Binder is a very quick way to make a pocket with consistent width rather than doing a sketch on a face then use that to create a pocket!

You should mention to add filets and champers after the model is done to keep the noobs from running into the reordering bug and make them aware of it. This bug is so frustrating that it will drive somone away from the software faster than anything else.

Really good tut, a 2 in one the sub shape binder had me sitting up going ..... HUH?!

Great. Thank you 🙂

Super!

You are the best!

Thanks!

Beatifull lesson thank you.

Me here was thinking that FreeCAD doesn't have offset feature like other proprietary CAD tools. But here you show in a few seconds that this is indeed easy! It is not even the topic of the video. Such an overlooked feature.

Having that pointed out, it's obvious in hindsight. Simple and handy tip.

Very nice.

I couldn't get this to work at first & found that if you create a Part / Body / Sketch & do it that way it complains about a cyclic reference to unnamed part. Do it via create Body / Sketch & it works. Thanks for the video

8:53 thanks for making this one

Thanks for this! You really cleared up an area I've been frustrated by on several models.

brill !

Great Tip!! Both the sub shape binder and the fillet

The offset tip with the shape binder was awesome! Donated!

Soooo how long have you bugged my office? Last night I was struggling with fillets. Your video really helps me think about how to apply fillets.

Hello! You are awesome, a big Bravo!!! I have watched almost all your videos! I would like if you could show us a video on how to make an lure bait for fishing Thanks.

Super helpful! As I followed along, on my own, all my fillets on the inside of the pocket were fine, but on the outside rim I kept getting everyone's favorite "Recompute failed!", even though the sketch looked fine and again fillets worked fine for the pocket created via the offset binder from the same sketch! The hint about tangency was the key, as I had one sketched fillet that wasn't tangent, despite looking fine visually (and passing sketch verification, as usual). Failed fillets are one of the biggest issues I run into on my models, so this was very helpful - and now I need to go watch your other video on fillet failures. :-) As always, another great and helpful video, thank you!

your last few videos have really helped me find solutions to my designs, I've sent you a drink, but remember it is "dry Jan" :) and love the Shape Binder again, makes drawing so interesting and quicker

I've done a lot of experimenting to try to determine what rhyme or reason there may be with fillets and chamfers. For simple objects I get the basic geometry correct and then chamfer and fillet at the end. Sometimes, a fillet or chamfer is part of the geometry that I want because I'm too lazy to sketch the angle or rounded surface, so I cheat and use the chamfer or fillet tool on a 3D primitive. Then I use binary operators such as fusion, cut and intersection, and when I want to use chamfer or fillet on the resulting object to soften sharp edges, FreeCAD can throw up all over that and Part Go Bye Bye. Fortunately a uniform radius fillet to finish a part looks best so in most cases I can finish the basic simple geometry, select the resulting part, select fillet, then select all edges rather than the fussy and time consuming job of selecting edges manually one at a time. Fillets can be as large as I like, up to the point where one fillet overlaps with another. If the smallest space between two edges is 5 mm, a 2.499 fillet creates the most rounded part.

Very informative into transitioning of corners, but you've never done a video where you design a pocket with a logo inside that pocket at twenty millimeters deep and the model is inside the stock at the end

@MangoJellySolutions You are an excellent teacher my friend and your knowledge of freecad seems to be at a very high level. I'm wondering if you have written any instruction books or if you have any books to recommend to help learn more about free cad?

Would you use fillets to round box edges or corner radius on the sketch for padding?

why not press m to create the tangent arc from multi polygon tool without going for other tools ? anyway this is a great toutorial for begginers because many of people make things manually and it sneakly include some tools from the set not many of peoplr know how to use, like shape binder but even after 2 years i think of using this program i still struggle with fillets sometimes or rather i make them break the part when i do them out of order one thing to note freecad can get very confused with picking segments of fillet or champhers when you use 2 dimensions, sometimes aplying depth and width interchangably to hilarious monster effects and tangent edges are sometimes the only wy to fix it

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Is there a way to keep the sharp corner and have the fillet in the bottom round off nicely instead of two fillets meeting in it? Modifying the part isn't always an option but adding fillets often is beneficial to the strength if 3D-printed parts.

3:36 Why pocket and not "extrude" (pad) and cut the shape ???? Just get rid of pocket button and use extrude for both processes. It is just one of many confusing things in FreeCad. Also why is binder instead of offset in sketch ???

Tangency tangency tangency. Thankyou.

You seem to know allot about this program. Who teaches you? I get the basics. Its not that difficult. But every now and again you pull a rabbit out of that hat of tricks of yours. And there seem to be no end to the ammount of rabbits you are hiding. I sometimes struggle to make an exact copy of a part with allot of curvature incorporated in it. I tend to take 2d siluette images of the part, use the curves workbench and make the part, like your tutorial about the sportscar, but the part never comes out the way i need it to be. It gets hard sometimes.