Got a bit lost in the beginning as it seems Image bench was depreciated after version 0.20. In version .21.1+ you now need to go File -> Import, to select your image file and add it to the 3d workspace. Double Click on the imported image in the left bar to access the Image Plane settings, this is where you can choose your plane. To scale the image, use Calibrate to get the selector for the red line, as in the video.

The only downside to watching these videos is I'm now starting to question my design choices on previous parts I have modeled up on FreeCAD. Thanks for great pacing, no loud music and videos that actually implement the methods you talk about!

Without doubt, the best Freecad videos to be seen. This guy is an absolute Freecad NINJA 10/10

If anyone also had a problem with setting up symmetry constraints to arcs - I have found another solution, which for me worked fine. Draw a line between both ends of an arc. Select this new line and the respective construction geometry line (like with symmetry constraint) and add perpendicular constraint. Repeat for all three arcs. Select these three lines and add equal constraint. After that convert them to construction geometry.

The perfect tutorial on freecad ever❤

This is easily the best FreeCad series out there. So clear and helpful. I've been using this for years and done some seriously big/expensive commercial projects using FreeCad. Now going back to basics, I learn that there are loads of little things I never knew or was using wrong

Very nice, now I know how to make a gasket to be able to export to make my part. Looking forward to the next lesson. Thank you!

Brilliant presentation and bravo for the pedagogy!

One of the most useful Freecad videos that I have seen. Thank you very much.

Great tutorial. Thanks for your efforts. I´m hooked on this series.

Excellent tutorial!!! I've been going through your tutorials and am glued to my laptop. For CAD beginners such as me, this playlist is The Holy Grail. Work and learn surely helps in quicker grasping of important concepts. Can't thank you enough.

Doing this right now for a turbo downpipe, thanks for taking the time to do this!

i must say that I'm picking up on this very fast, thanks to your simple explanations and breaking things down. i can't wait to move to the next video.

Just discovered this excellent series, have previously tried FreeCad trying to follow others but gave up ! Wish I have discovered this channel a couple of years ago. Well done and keep adding to the channel.

Great fun to rebuild. Thank you :)

All the nuances of the design are explained very well. Thanks!

CAD instruction for beginners showing how it SHOULD be done. Solid gold tutorial.

This channel has to got to be one of the best ones I've found for learning freecad. I appreciate you! Thank you

Just want to thank you for this vid. Referenced it a few times now. I dont work with images often, so I have sometimes forgotten how to do it, so youve been a great help! Tyvm

Grazie, sei bravissimo, complimenti.

Love your style. You take your time, and don't go wizzing around pressing buttons without explaining things. Gr8 stuff

really great videos that actually teach you things in a way that you can use them in your own projects! I love it.

Your explanation and detail is perfect! Love this series

I did it! It took me several minutes after your video to get this thing constrained and figure out why freecad wasn't closing the wire, but I finally got it!

I absolutely like and enjoy your videos.. you take the time to explain the basics before moving on...Thanks so much. (I am a beginner but not for long as I follow your vids...)

Thanks. This was good and clear tutorial.

Awesome, really explained in detail, thanks.

Thank you, Darren. That was a really thorough lesson. Please do the same lesson for a new dev version of FreeCAD.

thank you sir...easy step by step tutorial..👍

Thank you so much for such an amazing tutorial.

If you want to reduce the perspective distortion, then take the photo from the farthest distance you can with the maximum zoom.

These are super helpful mate, thanks for the time and effort

Great Work!

I’ve recently starting learning free cad. I already knew how to do 2d drafting from working on cnc machines so, it’s come to me easier than I thought but I am enjoying going through your videos, even the simple ones because I’ve noticed you have lots of different little tricks I would never have even thought of. Like the geometry construction, that’s going to come to some use for me. Thank you for taking the time to make these videos, they are a massive help for me and easy to follow.

Really great tutorials. Thank you 👌

Great tutorial! Thank you!

I've been watching several videos in English ( because in Spanish they're empty and they're made for experts that already work speed fast) and ...... since the workflow and detailed instructions with patience? your channel is my preferred . Also have to congratulate you for being the most viewed tutorial on the web, and......there's a great reason for that. also I'm also subscribed already.

This was fun, easy and super cool. I actually did it. I feel like an engineer.

Thanks! Your series made me appreciate how much better the UX of FreeCAD is compared to Fusion which i have been trying to learn

Great tutorial style. Thank you for your efforts. I am excited about your next video.

I was curious to see how you would go about reproducing the uniformity of these curves (the outline). So I'm not surprised to find that with you as a teacher, everything that may seem difficult, suddenly becomes easy to accomplish. Thanks again.

Thank you very much was exactly the info i needed Thumbs up

outstanding work !

Great, Fun, Educational - You could also teach other teachers about learning flow, getting the point across, making the student understand.

very good video, very good techniqs

Thank you for these excellent tutorials. At the end I got the impression that the last constraints missing were the tangents between the bottom right arc and its adjacent lines. Maybe if you had those, the length of the lines would be consequence of all the rest being constrained.

Once again thank you so much for your hard work. I'm beginning to understand the underlying logic of the software. This is a far more accurate way of designing. I was watching a youtuber doing almost exactly the same as this tutorial. He was replicating a broken plate for a laser engraver in Fusion360 and while his process was quicker it was obvious that he wasn't as accurate as this lesson. He had to iterate a number of times because of hole placement. It seems that Freecad forces you to think cleanly. As a treat to myself I printed out this gasket in TPU. I can state unequivocally your channel is the best there is for training Freecad. I am both terrified and looking forward to Episode 4. BTW just a tiny thing, maybe because the update to 0.20.2 but right at the end when I created a body in Part Design the sketch jumped into the correct place automatically. No dragging needed.

thank you!!!

Pretty slick

Thank you for these tutorials. I have about 600 hours experience using OnShape and I am moving to FreeCad. These videos have been extremely helpful. Thank you. I respect the pace you are presenting the tools and techniques as well. You give them something new then let them repeat it a few times to help it sink in. I would like to see a follow up video that shows how to accomplish the same sketch but using Mirrors and Symmetry instead of repeating the same tasks to create the rest of the sketch. Just an idea but once I learned that in OnShape my design time was cut by about a third. Since the FreeCad "Symmetry" tool doesn't automatically add the Symmetric Constraint to the Points it takes a bit longer but it is still a faster approach that requires less brain power. EDIT: I see the next video is using polar pattern. I like that. However, I still think that using Symmetric tools in the Sketch is also worth knowing. (My opinion.) Great job. Love your work.

Thank you for this nice tutorial. Although I don't want to trace a photo right now, it made me understand some things about the constraints. By the way, nice trick to add a real measurement as a scale, which is actually what those measurement tools for the SmartPhones do.

FYI for anyone who has an issue with your outer lines appearing a different color (light blue in my case) and not showing up in the 3D view (almost like they are invisible). I realized later on that the newly created lines were set to "Geometry Construction Mode" (as mentioned @ 17:16). This button is a global toggle instead of a one-time action (which MangoJelly mentioned to at 18:00, but I didn't realize I necessarily had to untoggle it in the moment). Just select all your outer lines and toggle the "Geometry Construction Mode", and your lines should come back to life! Using version 0.21.2.

Helpful Timestamps: 0:18 Workflow: IMAGE WORKBENCH - SKETCHER - PART DESIGN 2:53 Image to be sketched should be clear with preferably with a 90° topdown view and without shadows 3:19 New Document - START - IMAGE - CREATE IMAGE PLANE (creates a planar image in 3D space) - CHOOSE AN IMAGE FILE TO OPEN (image file preferably '.png' as it preserves transparency) - CHOOSE ORIENTATION (XY Plane) 4:18 For accurate dimensions, the image needs a scale reference from IRL, SCALE IMAGE PLANE - DISTANCE (mm) (Set the reference measurement which allows for the rest of model to be as per scale) - SELECT FIRST POINT (choose between two points that represent the actual measurement of the original model 6:04 Verify the image scale by, MEASURE DISTANCE 6:44 COMBO VIEW - MODEL - UNNAMED - IMAGEPLANE (selected) - CREATE A SKETCH - (pop-up) SKETCH ATTACHMENT - select the method to attach this sketch to selected object - DON'T ATTACH - CHOOSE ORIENTATION (XY Plane 7:14 The image should be centrally aligned with the model canvas, COMBO VIEW - MODEL - IMAGE PLANE (selected) - DATA (Tab) - PLACEMENT (nudge around with the axis until the image is relatively central) 8:27 For better visibility between the image plane and the canvas IMAGE PLANE (selected) - VIEW - TRANSPARENCY (as needed) 9:41 CREATE A CIRCLE (Auto constraints activated, so as to centrally align it with the 00,00 coordinates) - drag out from the center point to the diameter required 13:15 For PCD of the flange holes, sketch straight lines from the 00,00 coordinate to the flange circles center, angle the two flange holes by selecting both the lines, bonding them with the CONSTRAIN ANGLE (fix the angle of a line or the angle between two lines) and set the degree of angle require 13:15 Make both the lines of equal length by selecting the. and clicking CONSTRAIN EQUAL 16:15 Add a length to the line between the centre point and the flange hole's center by selecting the line and clicking CONSTRAIN VERTICAL DISTANCE (Fix the vertical distance between two points or line ends) - INSERT VERTICAL LENGTHS 17:35 To only represent the sketch of the model, click SKETCH - SKETCH GEOMETRIES - TOGGLE CONSTRUCTION GEOMETRY, after selecting the lines that should not appear on the model 18:40 To create the rounded vertices of the flange click, ARC - CENTER AND END POINT (center point of flange hole as reference, drag out the arc-circle to match the image boundary, click on the where the ARC should begin and end as two points that match the image 19:24 Make the ARC points symmetrical by selecting both then selecting the reference point to which they should align and click '>

Thankyou dear teacher i must try to make drawing as you teach us.

Thank you for these tutorials, These are very clear and definitly helpful. The image transparency did not work for me in version .20, I tried in version .19 and it works.

this guy deserves more credit

Thanks!

Thank you

i love how you intentionally got wrong so you could show how to correct it!. you're a great teacher, have a nice day!

👍Great job so far. I'll have to do some binge-watching though.😂

I found the best way to draw the outline was to add circles and then lines with tangent constraints and then trim away the unwanted parts of the circle

Finding you videos much easier to follow than others I tried. I did have trouble towards the end setting symmetrical constraint on the corner arcs. It would mark them as 2 over-constraints. Rotating the sketch slightly would remove one over-constraint and rotating it back would put it back again. It would then break the sketch with some points no longer coincident. I was about to give up but saw @moonlyr's comment about putting a chord across the arcs, constraining it as perpendicular, then marking the chords as construction geometry. That worked a treat. Not sure what caused this. I also can't find how to get circle centre marks, crosshairs. like you have. To be honest I am struggling to get all the dimensions to format consistently, number of decimal places, units etc. Thanks for efforts I will continue to watch and learn.

Mr. Jelly, It would be a real shame for folks to miss this lesson because they are using the newer version and did not see your answers below in the comments to your update video on Image import. When I look at the comments section it is default sorted on Top Comments not newest, once I resorted and got clued to the update video, I was able to complete the lesson. Perhaps you can add a note and reference in the show notes, as folks need to go there to get the link to the images anyway. Just saying. PS, I have joined your Patreon group.

Great series! I had quite a bit of trouble with the final set of constraints (took me a few tries). I am running version 0.21 and a few things seemed a little different as far as constraints go - maybe that threw me. Otherwise I did make it through and actually printed the flange. good stuff!

Center point for the side archs should be coincident with the center of the pipe.

Bom programa de desenho

These are some fantastic tutorial videos, very precise, step by step instructions, clearly explained, and demonstrated. My only issue is, occasionally, I can't seem to find certain options to select. Not sure if this is because I am currently running Ver. 0.21.2 and most of these tutorials are Ver. 0.20, or because I am on an iMac (M3, Sonoma 14.4.1 OS), or perhaps it's because I am a blind newbie. (Most likely a combination of the three) Anyway, great videos, I really am learning a lot. ✌🏻from🇦🇺

These videos have proven to be a game changer for me. Great narrative and a pace that even I can follow. I can't access the shape on the patreon page to enable me to work through this one. Am I missing something obvious?

For those who wondering where the avoid redundant and autoconstraints option is in FreeCAD 0.21.2 they moved it in to Combo view (Sketch chosen) under property -> view.

In version 0.21 and up the option "Avoid redundant auto constraints" is hidden in the constraints box on the right top in the settings dropdown.

Great tutorial, thanks!!!! I got a bit stuck on the arc on the lower right corner. It was over constraint after adding the symmetry constraint to the arc. Probably my FreeCad is a newer version and more strict (I followed every click). I just did not add symmetry constraints on the left and right arcs. Instead I added a coincidence constraint to the center of the bottom arc (coincidence to the vertical axis). Then it was fully contrained

Thank you for your very informative tutorials. I am a novice with FreeCAD and they help me a lot to get to know how to use it. I just wonder if a polyline for the outside edge wouldn't have been faster? Having said that I haven't tried to do that yet.

Amazing tutorial. I am so glad I found it. But I am experiencing some glitches with Freecad 0.20.2. Whenever I try to use the measuring tool it, it would crush the app. Tried it in different workbenches with simple object. It's all the same. Any thoughts?

@21:52 when I tried this for the vertical line, I used the vertical axis (not the vertical construction line) as the reference and the symmetrical constraint was redundant , after deleting a constraint it worked, but for the other two arcs when I try to use the symmetric constraint with the other two construction lines as reference it pulls out the same redundant constrain error and asks me to delete the symmetric constraint....

One tip that I can share about the use of reference images. if you use a scanner and scan it in at 72 DPI. then it should have the right scale when you import it in freecad. but it can't hurt to check this is still true in later versions

22:30 - I have followed the instructions at least 8 times and every time i apply the Tangent constraint I get "Over-Constrained: (6,21,22)", 6 and 21 both are regarding the constraints applied to the bottom right circle, i have tried redoing this 8 times and even tried deleting those constraints which then everything goes out of whack, I'm not sure if its just something I'm missing or something which is different in version 0.21.1, any guidance would be helpful TIA

At the 22:35 mark when I add the tangent constraint it gets overconstraint with 7,21,22 around the symmetrical constraint. Why does it do that after following everything step by step ?

This file is incompletable freecad 021.2. I spent 2 days trying to, I get about 3/4 the way through then things won't constrain. I even have a near perfect flange picture. this needs to be redone in 0.21.2. I love the series. I wonder how many others videos don't work right in 0.21+

Great tutorial’s but I think that is an exhaust flange gasket.

Do you have any idea why my screen goes completely black after trying to drop the sketch into the body? I've never had that happen before on any other program. The process itself works but it's like I have to navigate while blind, but in this case it's a black screen.

newbie here! was wondering what the workflow should be for creating a cylinder construction consisting of two different sized cylinders connected with one having an extrusion with a square end to it. Its for a drill bit at one end and a connection to a drill at the other end, Its a specialised tool hence the requirement for an adapter. Not sure if im using part design or sketcher and the workflow.?

not sure what i am doing wrong, but when i adjust the image to match the circle using the y axis for placement , when i click out of it, the image reverts back to where it was, and i then re-adjust the image to match the circle, i click out of it and it moves back to the orginal position again

I didnt understand the part with orange highlight and constrains and my options at Part Design work bench are not active, I can embody my outline of curves and lines though it is all green. Also, when I press Sketch the lines do not become yellow though the Option Sketch itself is highlighted yellow. Then I found this orange - after clicking on those restrains and now I have "Error build geometry(10): Both points are equal" everywhere.

Did you use tangent constraints on the bottom right arc?? I didn't see it.

At about 30:40 where you are looking for what isn't constrained, could you expand upon that please? You mention that these two have an equality but these don't but I was having trouble follwing

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This was great lesson. Can you help me find image workbench? I have ver 0.21.0 I looked in ad on manger and don't see it

I have a newer version. I watched the video that showed how to import image. I cant figure out how to center the object on the x-y intercept. The way it is done in the video does not seem to exist in my newer version. Any tips? version 0.21.2

I keep having 1DoF remaining and it won't show all green for the final sketch. I can't seem to figure out where my missing constraint is... It seems to show the straight lines that make up the triangle, but I've already set them equal and constrained the distance to 36mm.

The Image workbench is removed from 0.21. I used Import to import the image, unfortunately the Image Scaling tool is gone as well. I just copied your dimensions from the video, but how does one do this procedure in 0.21? Thank you in advance and also thank you for these videos!

Awesome tutorial !! I recently downaloaded the newest version of freecad(version 0.21.0), the Image option is removed and I couldn't find the option to scale image and had to scale it manually, is there still an option to scale image as shown in the video?

Thank you so much! I have tried twice but somewhere It lost constrains? All the lines did not become green but it still allowed me to add pad and export to stl file! More practice needed I think. Also as someone mentioned. I am using 0.21 and did not have image feature. But You have explained in other video. It looks so simple to make but difficult to create 3D file! Thanks you .

THX for your videos. I have a trouble to open picture on FreeCad 021.1 . I try to add a tool but I can not find this "Image" tools.

Well, i have the latest version on my windows and i can not find the Image plane !! what's going on ? Tryed Lord-Nytmare suggestion and that did'nt work either !! Help please .

a suggestion for your consideration, for the next instruction vids, is to have a circle for your cursor, why? when you click on a function, the circle would direct my attention to the item your describing.

I am trying to learn this software, but it appears this is an older version, the Image Toolbox is no longer available. Can you point me to a more updated training video to import a photo to build from it?

Great video! Just curious, how would I define a constraint of a "rounded square" if I only know the max width between two sides?

The Image workbench has been taken off freecad version 0.21.1😮. It has been integrates into other workbenches... I cant figure out how to do this now 😢

Hi! I’m loving your tutorials but I’m using V21 now and they’ve removed the Image Tools. I’ve figured out how to import the image but I’m stuck on how to Scale Image Plane in this newer version. Any advice would be appreciated! Thank you!

Hello, your video is great. I have a small problem; the image workshop is not in my list. How can I add it to this list? I'm running Windows 10. I'm new to FREECAD and I'm a novice. I am french. Thank you