Thanks for this tutorial! After 3 years it still is so relevant and useful! Thank you very much!

You have no idea how many hours and articles I have gone through to try to get a wall built; and all I needed was the thickness icon. I just started learning freeCAD and thought I was an idiot for not knowing how to make a simple box. LOL. Thanks OP.

After going through half a dozen of these Freecad tutorial videos, fortunately I found yours. I am grateful you took the time to make this, thank you. I learned exactly what I needed to and I enjoy your style of presentation and explanation. I agree with you as someone who made a start with F360, for my needs Freecad is perfect. Thank you Autodesk, but I am now a Freecad fan. So much simpler and clearer. It was always a little unsettling that they pushed the 'benefits' of a cloud workflow. If it's so great, let me choose! The nail in the coffin was when they re-wrote the rules about what features the hobbyist user could access. I was initially sold on the notion that they supported amateurs learning, so that maybe if we become pros we could stump for the licence. F360 is phenomenal software, and I respect the needs of a business to do what they do, but peace out from me. The evolution of open source is always destined to marginalise commercial offering in time, and for me as a hobby maker, Freecad meets all my needs so I don't have to be at the mercy of corporate decision making

Excellent tutorial. Coming from an Autodesk background, I've found your intro to be the best I've seen. Thanks for taking the time to make this.

This is awesome - I like the practicality of the tutorial and the ease of making a box. Thanks that was time well spent.

So nice that you show this at a moderate speed.

Apparently there have been some changes to the hole parameters since this was filmed. At least on the version I have, the options for Profile are ISO metric standard and ISO metric fine (as well as some UTS profiles), there is no "ISO Metric coarse" profile. I chose "standard". Also, with "threaded" checked, there is an additional option for "Model Thread". Without this checked, the holes did not work for the specified screw size (we'll see if checking that fixes the issue once my second print is complete). Finally, my research seems to indicate that you want a 6H class, not a 4G for "normal" usage - 4G would be tighter tolerance (which MIGHT be good). I'm not clear on the G vs H difference though. Perhaps my research is lacking? That said, this video was still EXTREMELY helpful, and I am quite glad that it was made and that I found it.

Very good video on showing basics of Freecad to the hobbyist/maker. Also appreciate you talking through your moves as you made them.

Great video. Learnt more in the one video than I did in a week elsewhere. Thank you

A natural teacher. Thanks so much.

Great job. Well-spoken and presented.

Had some mild frustration with this. 1) in Edit --> Preferences, you must check "substitute decimal separator"; 2) AS SOON as you "Add PlaneCoincendent constraint" it lines them up and no further action is required (i.e. you can close the popup window). With these two problems, I was failing to see why I couldn't proceed. It wasn't until I started the project over from scratch that I got that clarity. This is nuance that OP probably couldn't account for, so no shade.

I follow your intructions step by step。I finally finished it.Thank you very much.

So helpful for a complete newbie.

Truly great, super simple video. Very clear and easy to understand

This is the best one I've seen so far why are there so little likes

Nice job Tim! I learned something Thanks

Thanks for this helpful video. Learned new functions. Greetings from Germany

Hi Tim ... came across your 2nd video showing how to output this box to STL mesh for printing with Cura ... had to look this one up. Thank you for taking the time to create these two videos ... they are perfectly paced ... your presentation style is excellent.

Tim, thank you very much. Simple, very clear and so easy to follow. I have made quite a few in various sizes. Is there a chance you could make a video for a circular enclosure with the same type of lid arrangement with 2 screw posts? Again. Thank you for the video.

Awesome. This is exactly what I was looking for.

Thanks from Poland great video !

I'm new to FreeCAD and 3D CAD in general so every tutorial teaches me something. I skipped this at first as I needed more of the basics. With basics better understood I could follow this video better and understand. I didn't know about these features and want to be able to make boxes. My approach was more complicated and wasn't working very well.

Excellent, Thank you very much. Very informative.

Thanks a lot for this video! It's simply amazing!

The video I needed! Thank you, Tim!

Nice clear instruction. Great Tutorial for a newbee!

so helpful, thank you soo much for making this

Tim, great video. After looking up the "Explode" tool I realized you meant the "create an edge linked to an external geometry" tool. I just bought the latest book that cover v0.19 and it was printed on January 25th, 2022 so it is fresh. Could you make a video on tubes and pipes as I always run into issues with those although I figured them out with DesignSpark Mechanical. Like making a tube that has a few angles and it connects into a box like a tank or a manifold. I always get tripped up at hollowing them out if the have and angle as opposed to a straight pipe. Thanks.

Very good tutorial. Thank you for providing

very good toturial i learned a lot from u thanks

loved the video!

Nice nerration. very usefull

Tim you video is brilliant first enclosure I am design for a Nextion display. Also the other video I could not get to work as it was using a spread sheet and the explanation was not great thank you.

Hi Tim, just had a look on this vidéo that was very useful for me. i was wondering if you had a try to shape a box to protect your astro gears ? i'm looking for a box to hold my FRA 400 + EAF. looking forward to read you

This was a cool video Heath

I am not getting that "ISO METRIC COARSE PROFILE" option. What should i do.

Hi, I have 0.18 version and doesn't have the assembly mode, what should I do? Please help.

Thank You. Well explained video

I'm trying to put switch holes in the bottom. whats better to use copy or clone. And If I use copy I cant do multiple pastes.

Great video! Helped me with my first 3d project. Question though. At 8:22, why do you have to click on 'Create Sketch'? Why can't you just continue with the sketch you are currently using?

TapioS Tim, brilliant work, could you continue to the details how to make the g.-code to be used in my 3-axis CNC

Hello. This design isn't universal tho. It misses how to make it bottomless, because cases today open from both sides. Do you have advice?

thankyou very much

Great video!

In ver. 0.20 it wants me to have added an "active Body project" before I can Pad. What and how do I do this?

Tim please make this great lessen over, using ver. 20. Pad does not work and I cant get any further.

I was trying to load my Freecad project into Cura an your video made it possible . I have one problem with making sure that I am entering the FC file. Is there a final step after I have completed the FC model that allows me to send that project to Cura ?

Can someone tell me if you can save a 2D dxf file with this software. Last I checked Design Spark could not. I use Draftsight and would like to switch software but still open my dxf files made in Draftsight.

Shouldn't the space allowance on tghe lid in the assembly be 0.1mm instead of 0.15mm?

So when you select a face and set the thickness, it will delete that face automatically?

Spent 2 hours doing a sketch of my walls, kept failing because of intersections and what not... solution use rec with thickness ehehe TY

real shame your all the same never see the actual part from design to print I mean can this program do this along with slicing .I very much doubt it this probably why its free

By heath

Well, its been an hour and I still can't build a simple box with unequal walls. Going back to fusion 360 because this is a 10 minute task at most. Sorry free cad, you suck.