FreeCAD 0.21 is looking Awesome !! What's new.

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I go through some of my favourite changes that are being included in 0.21 of FreeCAD. We look at the early May developer release version and show some of the new FreeCAD features that have and are being worked on. The builds can be found at github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD-Bu...
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@fcviewer_original 11 ай бұрын

With every release FreeCAD is becoming more and more mature. Lets keep pushing and make FreeCAD a no brainer for all the manufacturers out there. Respect for providing all those video instructions on KZfaq.

@MangoJellySolutions 11 ай бұрын

Thank you so much, it's been a honour to do these tutorials. Freecad is such an amazing program and has helped me restart my joy of 3d design again. BTW are you the creator of FCViewer? One thing I must explore.

@Liberty4Ever 11 ай бұрын

I love the way FreeCAD continues to improve. I only use a fraction of its capabilities and find it to be instrumental in my small engineering business. Kudos and huge thanks to the FreeCAD developers that make this such awesome software.

@OxTorch Жыл бұрын

It's improving fast! I'm glad I decided to spend the time to learn FreeCAD.

@Bob-el3iw Жыл бұрын

Couldn't do any of this without you Mango, don't stop👋👋👋

@MangoJellySolutions Жыл бұрын

Thank you 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

@marcocostantini1111 Жыл бұрын

I just want to say "thank you" for your videos. I have learned so much of the basics thanks to you. Thank you. Looking forward to 0.2.1

@MangoJellySolutions Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the kind words, it's great to see that these videos are helping people progress with Freecad and start to tame the beast.

@julias-shed Жыл бұрын

Thanks for keeping us up to date 😀

@95_Nepentheses Жыл бұрын

This looks incredible! Thanks for the overview

@marshr32 Жыл бұрын

I'm so happy about the new notification system, that window popping up at the bottom and taking up screen real-estate was one of my biggest pet peeves. Now I'm just hoping they can do tangent constraints for B-splines and my life will be complete! Thanks for the video.

@lukasmatejka Жыл бұрын

you can still use the blue auxiliary line to connect end point and control point and have effectively tangent b-splines

@l-vaeronautics2734 Жыл бұрын

Great brief. Cannot wait for 0.21; keep up the great work!

@martincronje5242 Жыл бұрын

Should it not be 0.21 as opposed to 0.2.1? These are amazing upgrades. Well done to the community to pull this together.

@Gumball_W Жыл бұрын

Yes, it should be 0.21.

@andys3705 Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much! Your videos are great!

@Gumball_W Жыл бұрын

The 0.21 release brings lots of improvements for the Sketcher, Techdraw and FEM workbenches. Too bad there aren't many changes for Part and Part Design.

@exist7309 Жыл бұрын

@Mango Jelly, thanks very much for the update. FreeCad is great and getting better.

@peilinstephen3117 Жыл бұрын

Nice work Darren

@billstoner5559 Жыл бұрын

Nice. Really like the improvements to the sketcher workbench. Thanks for the peek.

@MangoJellySolutions Жыл бұрын

No problems, I thought its more fun watching a video than sifting through a textual list of changes.

@SomeGuyInSandy Жыл бұрын

Sweet! Thanks!

@iwbnwif Жыл бұрын

Mango Jelly is awesome!!! Thank you

@MangoJellySolutions Жыл бұрын

Thank you 😊

@qbitsday3438 Жыл бұрын

excellent !

@tdtrecordsmusic Жыл бұрын

cool stuff. every inch is eventually a foot in the right direction

@blah_z Жыл бұрын

Nice!

@davidtaylor6870 Жыл бұрын

Thank you

@yash1152 Жыл бұрын

i was looking exactly for this topic "what's new in freecad" which is also a suggestion to include these terms somewhere in ur description to be easily searchable pan videos :)

@MangoJellySolutions Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the recommendation for the search words. I have added to the title. Glad you enjoyed.

@quentincampbell5865 10 ай бұрын

FreeCAD 0.21 is now a full release as from 2 August 2023.

@_droid Жыл бұрын

Nice, thanks for the quick overview! I wish they would fix the cancerous naming problem.

@fylip22b Жыл бұрын

Thanks for these tips. Bye. Philippe P

@Mtaalas 7 ай бұрын

The fact that image work bench was removed and the functionality integrated to the import is just what FreeCad needs to become better. Fewer separate workbenches it has, the better, they often have overlapping or very narrow scopes and work differently and that's counter intuitive and increases the complexity of the software without good reason. When ever you see some functionality overlapping, they should be merged with existing workflows such that there's no real threshold between operations, you're just modelling and using tools and they're all in the same one environment and integrated into one cohesive whole. That's what all the big software are doing, and that's a good thing. It's a tool to get work done, not an arcane magic only chosen ones can understand :)

@MangoJellySolutions 7 ай бұрын

I totally agree, I run some custom toolbars with everything I need so I don't have to keep flipping backwards and forwards when I do non tutorial work. There is a huge potential to combine certain tools such as, in my view, the shape binder and the sub shape binder or even have some kind of intelligent system where you still have the workbenches but toolbars are share across then all such as draft move, rotate etc. Rhino has a interest additional solution where you can type into a commend box to select a tool to make it more easier to find what you want. I also see some amazing tools in such workbench as the curves and curve surfaces workbench that I hope to see incoperated and can be split across draft and surface. I think that the use of freecad has picked up over the last few years. With the whole vendor lock in and subscription model killing people's wallets and now the availability of more supportive information so I would not be surprised that this subject will be overviewed in the future (fingers crossed)

@fredflintstone1 Жыл бұрын

Hmm a useful update🙂

@chendii 9 ай бұрын

Everybody please setup regular donations to FreeCAD contributors if you can! If everybody paid a tiny amount per month there would be a war chest like Blender has : )

@TheScotsalan Жыл бұрын

As a freecad beginner, I had a “wire not closed” error yesterday, in part design. No matter what I done, I could not get the sketch to work. Then, I deleted the previous pocket, and the pocket I was trying to do worked. Same version as in this vid. Same as any software I reckon, keep practicing to know its quirks. 👍.

@CTod Жыл бұрын

Try increasing the default number of decimals. I think sometimes it’s a behind the scenes rounding issue.

@TheScotsalan Жыл бұрын

@@CTod I will keep in mind thanks 👍. My post was not a complaint of course, more a comment on keep practising to get to know the software.

@CTod Жыл бұрын

@@TheScotsalan for sure, just a weird quirk in some CAD programs (may not even be the answer here but it’s another trick to keep in your pocket).

@SoundOfYourDestiny Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the rundown. Let's start with this pop-up notifications enhancement: That's fine, I guess, but the core defect you see here is a much bigger problem: It says "check report view," which shows NOTHING ABOUT THE PROBLEM. The report view still idiotically says "check the report view." Why doesn't the report view show the critical information: "Wire is not closed?" Also, you got lucky on this one, because usually you don't even get that extra pop-up with a real explanation. All you get is "check the report view," which contains nothing, and that's it. You're screwed until you find what obscure problem is buried in the model somewhere. I'm psyched about FreeCAD and really appreciate it (and have donated to it), but this is dumb. In fact, the pop-up notification is almost worse, because you have to dismiss it and then decide if you want to manually pull up the report view on the off chance that there IS useful information in it. The rest of the stuff shown here includes some very useful enhancements. The new constraints, for sure.

@Gumball_W Жыл бұрын

Those non-intrusive notifications were introduced recently and can be disabled. If you have some ideas for improvements, it’s best to discuss them on the forum.

@SoundOfYourDestiny Жыл бұрын

@@Gumball_W I like the non-intrusive idea. But it's way more important to fix the report view saying "check the report view," and showing nothing further. And yes, I will take it up in the forum as well.

@Adventuresincreation Жыл бұрын

I am going to switch to Version 0.21 for my videos once I can confirm the "feature freeze" has been set. At that point it should just be bug fixes. I am excited that the next development cycle will include the topo naming issue fixes from Real Thunders branch. - Keep up the good work on these videos Darren.👍

@Gumball_W Жыл бұрын

FreeCAD is already in feature freeze. It was announced on the blog.

@Adventuresincreation Жыл бұрын

@@Gumball_W I saw they announced they were going to feature freeze but not that it was actually there yet. The blog post said it was imminent. Maybe there's another post that I didn't see.

@Gumball_W Жыл бұрын

@@Adventuresincreation There is a blog post from may 17th (WIP Wednesday) saying that "FreeCAD is now in a feature freeze".

@Adventuresincreation Жыл бұрын

@@Gumball_W that's cool, I will check it out!

@MangoJellySolutions Жыл бұрын

I had a smile on my face when I saw some of the changes. I'm changing soon as they have announced the feature freeze. And you my friend, loving the back to basics tutorial you are doing by the way. Great work in supporting the community.

@allistergilbert4564 Жыл бұрын

Hi many thanks for your very clear videos. With the up grade can you use a vspline and export the model as a stl? Cheers Allister

@codefupanda Жыл бұрын

The latest version that's available through the Raspberry Pi apt get is 0.19. In order to get 0.20, I compiled it from source. Followed the instructions from the website. When it was compiled and installed, to my surprise, it was 0.21. That was early this year. Then I see this in my subscription feed. Now I'm surprised I've been using pre-release software.

@MangoJellySolutions Жыл бұрын

That is a bit strange may be worth letting the devs know on github

@QEngineering Жыл бұрын

Great video I am really excited about V 0.21. Love the Sketcher changes. Any news on if the topo naming problem is still on the books for this release? 🍻

@Gumball_W Жыл бұрын

Toponaming fix will be included in the next version (1.0). They are releasing 0.21 now because the upcoming third phase of toponaming fix code will cause performance issues.

@QEngineering Жыл бұрын

@@Gumball_W awesome thank you.

@allanparsons9273 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for covering the new update, do you know whether it re-supports the connexion 3D mouse as the last ones lost this support

@MangoJellySolutions Жыл бұрын

Hi, I am not sure, maybe worth asking on the freecad forum.

@otto3d888 11 ай бұрын

Auto Generate Internal geometries. This is the option in Sketcher preferences thats enable the possibility to extrude different pads in the same sketch. Is this function available at 0.21?

@jwatkins672012 11 ай бұрын

Hopefully in some future, yet close release we'll get much better shelling, aka thickness. I have to take my models elsewhere to thicken because that tool, which I understand is not under freecad control, is severely lacking in what it can shell.

@MangoJellySolutions 11 ай бұрын

With you on that one, can be a right pain. I think this is the video that I put together to get around some of that exact issue, hopefully it will help a bit. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Y8uefbVetNixeoE.html

@IGBeTix-Electronique Жыл бұрын

Hi, thanks for all. I hope that the principal problem of FC (topo renaming problem) is resolved or improoved.

@Gumball_W 11 ай бұрын

They are still working on the fix for TNP and it's supposed to be included in the next release (1.0).

@md.shahinurrahman747 Жыл бұрын

How about the Assembly constraint stability during updating any changes of constraint in release. Is there any new features/functionalities are added for assembly workbench? Though I didn't tested about the functionalities yet.Thanks for your viseo publication.

@MangoJellySolutions Жыл бұрын

In A2Plus there is something called 'Use experimental topological naming'. I have yet to experiment with it. Could be interesting

@Gumball_W 11 ай бұрын

FreeCAD 0.21 has just been released as stable :-)

@MangoJellySolutions 11 ай бұрын

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

@Dr_Mauser Жыл бұрын

Regarding that sweep around the helix, I notice that the profile tends to rotate. Is there some way to keep the bottom of the profile horizontal all the way around or otherwise control the sweep? (So if you stacked several of these spirals the ends would line up.)

@MangoJellySolutions Жыл бұрын

Try using the frenet properly and setting it to true or false. Frenet will aligns with tangency. This option is in both part and part design, I believe part design it's called profile orientation. Edit: the freecad document for the sweep actual mentions profile creep on helix and how to solve with frenet wiki.freecad.org/Part_Sweep

@Dr_Mauser Жыл бұрын

@@MangoJellySolutions Subtle! And it works differently depending on if the path is a helix or not....

@yash1152 Жыл бұрын

4:39 > _"standalone checkboxes moved to dropdown"_ well, that certainly is bad for both discoverability as well as usability point of view. the auto-constraints checkbox is the one i frequently toggled.

@MangoJellySolutions Жыл бұрын

I feel the same, it's an extract unneeded click. I believe you can set them as default in the settings / freecad remembers the last setting but it's nice to have the ability to turn them off and on without opening a extra drop down

@yash1152 Жыл бұрын

@@MangoJellySolutions well, if they keep their development direction like this, then i will have to give up with my liking for freecad... sure the FC interface requires more streamlining - but this is in totally opposite direction. this is not streamlining, this is just plain hiding stuff out without any thought.

@yash1152 Жыл бұрын

i liked freecad quite a lot... maybe not any more.

@otto3d888 11 ай бұрын

The Realthunder brings the option to extrude in separate in the same sketch. Probably the most important feature in this version. The new 0.21 don't have this option yet. Am I right MangoJelly?

@Gumball_W 11 ай бұрын

For now, only Realthunder's TNP fix is being merged. Hopefully, some of his other improvements will follow after that.

@TechieSewing Жыл бұрын

I was following b spline updates this year and they look really good now. I got excited about snapping to objects but tried it, and it doesn't seem to do anything right now.

@Gumball_W Жыл бұрын

In the sketcher it’s only midpoint snap at the moment. You can see how it works in an animation in the release notes.

@TechieSewing Жыл бұрын

@@Gumball_W Thanks! Hopefully it will only get better. I did notice something about midpoint of lines but it's rather vague still.

@jiritichy6855 10 ай бұрын

Hello there, I am trying to make a library of videos, in case something happens and our videos disappear from you tube, as was seen many time with other videos in the past on YT. But you videos-even though they are free to see - they are not free to download? Or am I doing something wrong, which prevents me?

@MangoJellySolutions 10 ай бұрын

The videos are available for purchase from my kofi site. KZfaq protects the videos and as a creator they protect us from copywritte and are very strict if they see them appear on other yt channels (I had this problem before and youtube removed the offending channel, this is probably what you have seen before as the process is automatic warning me when they find a copied video reposted) . Don't worry they are not going anywhere and I have them all backed up.

@udhayprakash111 10 ай бұрын

Is topological naming issue resolved.

@izack367 9 ай бұрын

bro polar array is not working it shows in FreeCAD but not in Cura when u export it. please help

@inventanew Жыл бұрын

how did you get the red points in sketcher to be larger, preferences?

@MangoJellySolutions Жыл бұрын

Your looking for marker size in preferences. The are a number of setting that will help out with making things easier to see in freecad. I have a visual disability and wrote about the ones I use here and where to find them (including market size) . mangojellysolutions.blogspot.com/2022/12/settings-and-resources-to-help-with.html

@inventanew Жыл бұрын

@@MangoJellySolutions thanks!!

@djsbriscoe 11 ай бұрын

I'm a complete beginner with FreeCad. Are there any beginners tutorials that can be started with version 0.21. Or can your older tutorials be safely used without getting confused with any differences between version 0.21 and older versions? Are you planning on updating any tutorials for version 0.21? Thanks.

@MangoJellySolutions 11 ай бұрын

All the 0.20 series can be safely used and you will see that as you go through the series I move onto 0.21 I am thinking of creating another series to refresh and include in the problems that people have had in the comments. I am currently planning it's structure but fir the mean time the learning freecad series is fine to use. The one major difference is there is not an image workbench anymore and you use the file import.

@marshr32 Жыл бұрын

Just had a look through the releases and am slightly confused. I'm presuming you are meaning V 0.21.0 not 0.20.1 which is now quite old?

@MangoJellySolutions Жыл бұрын

Yep typo sorry about that

@andre-7423 Жыл бұрын

please fix video title , it's 0.21 - not 0.2.1 :) - and thanks for the video!

@philb2334 Жыл бұрын

I've only been using CAD software for about a year & I like FreeCAD, but what really grates me is if I want to change a dimension somewhere up the tree & the model has fillets or chamfers, it breaks sketches pads pockets etc one after the other. I end up deleting until the problem goes away.

@996stoky Жыл бұрын

yeah that does annoy me to but instead if i changed the pad height sometimes it would do that as well or when i changed a length on section and then referenced said length (imported it into sketcher) i find it annoying that i need to then re import said line or vertex and re constrain it should i change something before it maybe there is a hidden option for it or i am doing something wrong but would be a nice fix as well as polar arrays in sketcher would also be very nice i know someone working on a macro for that in sketcher.

@Gumball_W Жыл бұрын

This can be caused by the infamous topological naming problem. It’s being worked on and should be fixed in the next release (1.0).

@philb2334 Жыл бұрын

@@Gumball_W I hope so & in the meantime I'm trying the Real Thunder fork

@mariusvasileingeaua9692 Жыл бұрын

I tried it but... It has some stability problems. For example I could delete a sketch of a body. Then I couldn't edit the sketch... I would like to use it professionally but it's impossible at this stage. Regarding the assembly 3 module I tried to add an origin (with planes) to the main assembly so I can center everything... I failed successfully. If Realthunder needs help I will more than happy to test stuff.

@Gumball_W Жыл бұрын

Well, deleting the sketch used in some operations is not a good idea and will always break the model. Maybe it just should display some error message or delete the operation as well. If you encounter any other bugs, it’s best to disucss them on the forum.

@RoamingAdhocrat Жыл бұрын

Is there a typo in the title - 0.2.1 vs 0.21?

@Gumball_W Жыл бұрын

Yeah, it should be 0.21.

@MangoJellySolutions Жыл бұрын

Yep. Apologies

@redheadsg1 Жыл бұрын

5:51 Sweep should be done automaticly solid from the start without clicking on Create solid because most of people are doing solid objects anyway. Less clicks you need to make, more approachable software will be to newcomers like myself. There is a lot of UI stuff that needs to be change like we do not need 3 different dimensions buttons, we need only one. We also need a offset in sketcher to offset a line or circle or other shape.

@Gumball_W Жыл бұрын

You are right about that solid option enabled by default, I will bring it up on the forum. Regarding dimensioning tools, a versatile one would definitely be useful but it won't be implemented any time soon. Offset is more likely to be added in the near future. Currently, there are a few workarounds for it (including a macro).

@georgemichelakis1202 5 ай бұрын

How do I update FreeCad on Mac?

@GeezerGramps Жыл бұрын

Is v0.21 weekly stable enough for production use?

@Gumball_W Жыл бұрын

Yes, it should be pretty much as stable as 0.20.2 in most cases.

@rok1475 Жыл бұрын

Any news on topology naming fix?

@JustinDeane1979 Жыл бұрын

need to wait for 1.0!

@Gumball_W Жыл бұрын

They are working on it. Phase 3 of the toponaming fix code will bring performance decrease so they decided to release 0.21 first.

@MrSivkar 11 ай бұрын

Does it stil crash when you calibrate the image ?

@MangoJellySolutions 11 ай бұрын

Nope all send good 😊👍

@Z-add Жыл бұрын

The only app that has ok, close and cancel buttons on top.

@stokestack Жыл бұрын

The Tasks tab is pretty bad UI. Large portions of the application's UI and menus are often disabled or do nothing, simply because there's something waiting to be dismissed on the Tasks tab... which may be hidden. So you have no idea what the problem is. This is a de facto modal UI; therefore it should be visible until it is satisfied and dismissed.

@Gumball_W Жыл бұрын

In the case of long dialog windows for some operations, it’s better than scrolling down to accept the settings.

@Z-add Жыл бұрын

@@Gumball_W the of close buttons in all applications are fixed at the bottom and the dialogue box is scrollable. Every cad app has long scrolling dialogues and all of them managed to get it right. Except freecad.

@SoundOfYourDestiny Жыл бұрын

@@Gumball_W It's not about scrolling. It's about most of the app being disabled by a "dialog" that's not even visible. That's shitty UI.

@henrymach Жыл бұрын

Is FreeCAD ever gonna get to version 1.0?

@Andergrin Жыл бұрын

Yes. Developers says it will be when they resolved topological naming problem

@Gumball_W Жыл бұрын

I hope that after 1.0 they will just switch to years because FreeCAD 2.0, 3.0 and so on won't really fit. FreeCAD 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3 would be even worse.

@MangoJellySolutions Жыл бұрын

Yes when the topological naming issue is resolved then this will be the version 1. And probably a massive party!

@user-wf1wd6oy3n 8 ай бұрын

Still can't use freecad, why must be many workbench? Many different with Autocad and sketch up

@felderup Жыл бұрын

any hope of getting the shortcut keys fixed?

@Gumball_W Жыл бұрын

What’s wrong with them ?

@felderup Жыл бұрын

@@Gumball_W h means horizontal, wasn't shift-h changed to l? l means length, sensible, old length is shift-d, not sensible.

@Gumball_W Жыл бұрын

@@felderup Default shortcuts can be changed using the Tools --> Customize menu.

@felderup Жыл бұрын

@@Gumball_W bugging everywhere about this finally pays off, it's not in the settings dialogue, it's in one of the many other 'it's not a bug' places. be nice if these changes, and the way to undo them, could be included in the update notes (that don't exist) displayed in app after an update.

@dantheman1998 Жыл бұрын

Hay sorry to be "THAT GUY" but can you also release videos in 1440P? This is like the only time ive ever complained about this but 1080p tends to be a little bit fuzzy on 1440p. No problem if its not possible its just a small thing

@MangoJellySolutions Жыл бұрын

Thank you, no not a problem I think it's time the videos need an upgrade.

@FelinoAnticomunista Жыл бұрын

PLZ !!! solid clipping view T_T

@Gumball_W 11 ай бұрын

It's already available as a "persistent section cut", improved in this release to work also for intersecting parts.

@Not-Only-Reaper-Tutorials Жыл бұрын

is it 0.21.0 or is it 0.2.1?

@Gumball_W Жыл бұрын

It's 0.21.

@MaGuyComments Жыл бұрын

?????? I have 0.20.2, am I missing something???

@Gumball_W Жыл бұрын

FreeCAD 0.21 was not released as a stable version yet but it should happen quite soon.

@imoldovan Жыл бұрын

Is topo naming fixed???

@Gumball_W Жыл бұрын

It will be fixed in the next version - 1.0.

@user-gl4ev8bv2u Жыл бұрын

Great downgrade to 0.2.1.

@MangoJellySolutions Жыл бұрын

Lol! Yep rouge dot there.

@DanielSMatthews Жыл бұрын

On Linux with a 4K screen I found that I needed to make a little startup script to get the font size in the GUI correct. ``` exec=/usr/bin/env QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR=0 QT_SCALE_FACTOR=1.25 ./LATEST\ -\ \ FreeCAD_weekly-builds-33345-2023-06-08-conda-Linux-x86_64-py310.AppImage ```

@MangoJellySolutions Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for adding this, this is really useful. It's something that I have been looking for a long time.