Great to hear and great that your going to give it a go and apply it to the part design. Glad you enjoying these :)

Thank you for such a kind comment. And thanks for sharing what you have used the video to model. I am always interested in that.

Thank you glad your enjoying the videos. I was torn between doing this in lattice 2 or standard workbenches. I decided to not do it in lattice2 as the workbench can be a bit scary to new users as the arrange of tools is pretty over powering. So I would take the choice of either. Maybe I should of done a lattice2 video version as well.

Lol, looks like the algorithm is working in my favor. I have to say I haven't done any videos on sheet metal and have yet to try rolling sheets. I am now thinking if this model will unwrap. Yes agreed it would of been done as flat in production. For a 3D print then go this way :)

@@MangoJellySolutions Thanks. Obviously, I really must try this for myself, but in that example of the 'Hexagon Mesh Wrapped Round A Tube' video, what would result from then proceeding to derive a 2D drawing of that part? Would it allow you to use that 'unwrapped' surface (that was used to create the mesh on the 3D object in the first place), in order to be able to create a dimensioned flat part (so, for sheet material manufacturing), or to only be able to dimension the 3D object? ...Or both?

Glad to see you picked up some tips :) :). So part has attachment as long as you select a face, edge or vertex first before creating a sketch in the sketcher. If you select something first you wont get asked for the planes (XY XZ etc) but you will be presented with a drop down (flat face, normal to edge, translate etc). You can also do this from the details tab. I have a video on attachment here that may help: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oMyYmsZ1yKelnJ8.html

I look forward to watching it. Possibly again. lol So much to remember.

I have never measured how fast. I normally use a compound over a union if the objects are separated or they are touching but not intersecting each other.

@@MangoJellySolutions I'll try it in the future. Personally I've always used boolean unions because it just seemed more intuitive.

Sometimes Boolean won't work for me and Compound does for reasons unbeknown to me.

I've been using FreeCad for years now. You described the thing about the parts and the bodies exactly correctly. Which and how many bodies you make up a project is entirely up to you. Maybe everyone will do this a little differently. I've seen a lot of tutorials and some of them I would have solved differently for myself. But that doesn't matter at all. In the end, the project is the goal. And tutorials provide lots of ideas for your own work. That's the beauty of it.

There are many ways to do something wrong, but luckily there are also many ways to do it right. A lot depends on your preference (something that comes with time). I for example almost never use the "Part Design" workbench, because I find it too limiting and use the "Part" workbench most of the time (which also works nicer together with most of the other workbenches). Sketches can stand perfectly on their own, btw. They don't have to belong to a body. For example they can mark hole patterns (containing ONLY the positions to then be used with a "Draft -> Point Link Array" for example). They can be a "root" template that other sketches reference and many more things. An example for the same result achieved in different ways (a cuboid with rounded vertical edges): Draw a square in a sketch -> "Part -> extrude" -> "Part -> fillet" on vertical edges Draw a rounded square in a sketch -> "Part -> extrude" Create a "Part -> Cube" solid -> "Part -> fillet" on vertical edges The same can be done in "Part Design", just that the "extrude" is called "pad" and the "Cube" solid is called "additive box". From experience I would not use the "sketch-> extrude/pad -> fillet" flow, because the fillet is prone to being applied to the wrong edges, if the sketch is changed. The "cube/box -> fillet" is safe, but obviously limited to square shapes. The "rounded sketch -> extrude/pad" is also safe, but the most time consuming. On the other hand it is also the most versatile. What really doesn't help a beginner is FreeCAD's naming of things. The yellow "Part" object (not used in this video, but its shortcut is visible in the top toolbar all the time), has got nothing to do with the "Part" workbench, and neither of those has anything to do with the "Part Design" workbench.

Lots of value in this post and great explanations :) Thank you so much for taking the time to add such detail to help others. And total agree, the naming is somewhat confusing.