FreeCAD: May's 5 Tips To Save Time And Frustration

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Ай бұрын

Mays tips for FreeCAD to help save time and effort aimed at beginners and experts alike in their quest to master freeCAD.
In this video
1 - Save time when apply the same constraints multiple times.
2 - Aligning the 3D view to non-standard view points when sketching. Also the 'home' view.
3 - Keeping an eye on topology to have cleaner models.
4 - Easily keep track of sketches deeply nested in the treeview with groups.
5 - Understanding why order matters when creating walled profiles in lofting.
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@vincentchov5760 Ай бұрын

I'm a simple man. If I see Mango Jelly Solutions videos, I upvote.

@ninetydirectory3798 Ай бұрын

Every time I see his video, I hit sub button.

@takedainf9852 Ай бұрын

I would make a reference plane and place the sketch on it, before creating additing loft.

@pileofstuff Ай бұрын

That final tip is going to save me hours of confusion and frustration at some point in the future.

@matwyder4187 Ай бұрын

To get rid of the sketch reference in the group, there's no need to delete the group, you can drag and drop each item into the document root in the tree view. It works for all "stray" object references that you sometimes end up with after certain operations.

@dr.ichduda5617 Ай бұрын

View sketch: great tip, I looked for a tool like this desperately, not been aware, this is already in FreeCAD.👍

@Rasspor Ай бұрын

Another excellent bit of information for us FreeCAD users. Keep up the videos. Hope your having an excellent day!

@MangoJellySolutions Ай бұрын

Thank you so much, much appreciated. Yes been having a great day, been using freeCAD to help relocate and modify a old 50 year old wooden greenhouse in the garden. Never thought I would use of for that! Hope all's good with you :)

@mattspawn1975 Ай бұрын

There needs to be a way to select the appropriate order at the time of making the loft in that final example. Being forced to delete your sketch and redraw is a terrible conclusion to the loft command. I would consider it an incomplete function at this point. At the very least, base it off of the order selected rather than the order sketched. My 2 cents... I am a month or so into FreeCAD and really appreciate your videos. I've used a lot of CAD packages in my 20 years of being a manufacturing designer, and this is by far the most painful and unintuitive despite being quite powerful. I realize software development is hard and it is free on the backs of the developers, so I really do get it and am grateful. It's just a painfully slow and frustrating road. Thanks again for all the vids you provide to the community as I can already tell that the user base absolutely would not be where it is if it wasn't for your efforts. I've watched a lot of your vids while on lunch break at work. :D Cheers!

@martinsvensson6884 Күн бұрын

There are a lot of stuff still that needs to be fixed for sure. Seems to be a lot of base functions that are not finished 100%. Just like the thread creator.. You can create a thread... but not specify length of it... Its like.. eeh.. what? Why? Of course its still fantastic with all the work put into this and its still free. Hard to complain. But for pure practicality I cant really find a reason to leave the pirate ship with Autodesk Inventor, yet.. :) But I'm following the development of FreeCAD for sure.

@Karaon Ай бұрын

I love your take on freecad

@milojenikolovski7522 Ай бұрын

Regards from Serbia.

@splinetech Ай бұрын

Great, thanks a lot!

@CraigLYoung Ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing 👍

Ай бұрын

Thank you!

@vincentchov5760 Ай бұрын

Can you please add chapters so I can jump between tips and know which tip I'm looking at and what problem they're trying to solve?

@thomasneemann5618 Ай бұрын

thank you

@guillaumevincent716 Ай бұрын

Hi I have a question for you maybe for an upcoming video. I would like to know how would you design a electrical harness in freecad. For exemple, a harness with a simple connector at both end that connect a point a to b by passing to several supports.

@alterratz665 Ай бұрын

Thanks for this informational video. I have one Question: Can the order for lofting be fixed or is the only solution by redrawing the sketch?

@the-mush Ай бұрын

good question, I would also like to know. If not, maybe something like the layer lists on lots of programs, with drag 'n drop functionality, could really help. Or at least some option to show the index of each vertex floating close to them.

@mattspawn1975 Ай бұрын

Agree. I just commented that it should be based off of selection order, not sketch order. Every other CAD package I've used allows you to modify this order at the time of making the loft. Redoing your sketch is absurd.

@hanbanaroda Ай бұрын

Turning off autoconstraints is unpractical but on the other hand it often brakes your sketch by overconstraining something... This would be great for user experience if this got solved.

@chrisBruner Ай бұрын

I've never noticed the unwrap tool. What is the use case of it?

@bluebalute Ай бұрын

As a guess, it would be used if you are making sheet metal parts.

@MangoJellySolutions Ай бұрын

It can be used for sheet metal, paper and card cut and also laser cut if you introduce a kerf pattern to allow it to bend (or the wood is thin enough)

@BrainDeadEngineering Ай бұрын

KINGCAD ! 😜 Should I install Ondsel now mate?

@MangoJellySolutions Ай бұрын

:) It's up to you. Ondsel is just a layer on top of freeCAD. Version 1 is freeCAD is around the corner. If you like the interface flavor that Ondsel is offering along with lens then go for it. You can always switch back.

@billmichaelson2055 Ай бұрын

How might one resequence sketch elements that were created in the "wrong" order? Is it possible without deleting them?

@dougaltolan3017 Ай бұрын

Have you, or would you please show how to reattach a sketch to geometry after it's been broken by editing something created before the sketch.. Or how to avoid such breakages.

@davidbisciotti7424 29 күн бұрын

it appears that your UI resembles the production version and not the new developer version (FreeCAD 0.22.0dev) - What am I missing? (Ex. your constraints tools are much different..??)

@MangoJellySolutions 28 күн бұрын

Yes this is created on the production version.

@RoamingAdhocrat Ай бұрын

Is there a video that will help me learn how to design a bracket? I have a small monitor, I have a shelf, I want to mount the monitor on the shelf edge. I can model the monitor and the shelf. I can model something to fit the VESA mountings on the monitor, and a thing to go over the shelf edge and screw in. I need to position the monitor where I want it relative to the shelf, and then design the part of the bracket that goes between the two, and it's here I get lost!

@cs9260 Ай бұрын

What happened to the February 2024 1.0 release? Any word or news?

@MangoJellySolutions Ай бұрын

I was in the Developers meeting and It's being released mid July. The feature freeze is on the 6th June and it will be testing until then. :)

@cs9260 Ай бұрын

@@MangoJellySolutions Wonderful news! Much appreciated. I understand that good things take time, it's just that everything went quiet..... Can't wait to go all in!