In blender you can actually use a setting to see edge length and face angles, and in preferences you can use 3d print tools and cad tools, I'd also recommend adding loop tools in the preferences

Niceee! Please continue making videos! I want to hear exactly that, how an experienced engineer does stuff in the real world and how uses the tools at its disposal

Your tutorials are excellent and easy to follow!

Amazing using the contrained model from cad software to make blender precise, other people are complaining about this model constraint, but you just showed how to use it to our advantage! Nice tip!!!

Excellent - thank you for sharing the that workflow.

Thanks a lot! There's a couple of really useful tips I've picked up from this tutorial.

This is the Channel I've been waiting for

HI, thanks for the video. You answered a few questions I had about using freecad and blender together.

Amazing creation!

First thought when finding that video "sounds interesting, lets have a look" and than my jaw just dropped :-). Apart from the great info about FreeCad your 3d printer build is very impressive!

you explain it so well! thanks for the video! seems like invaluable tips learnt from years of experience.

That is a great video for beginners to the 2D and 3D world.

Thanks for the info, will help with my next projects!

Really nice large 3D printer. I haven't seen many like it at all.

Great explanation! Thanks for sharing.

Great and informative video on opensource CAD. Thanks.

Oh please do more of these that was great! Thanks

Very good insights. I will try adding a Blender to my workload. I normally use a spreadsheet in Freecad to imput externally driven measurements, like the a person's height. That way, I can make my change in one place, and the information will propergate to all sketches in all bodies in all parts of my project. Good show, thanks.

You make it understandable even for a surgeon. I'll start using FreeCad instead of Thinkercad to design my stuff for 3D printing... Thanks man!

Nice tips. Thanks!

FreeCAD-Blender-STL-3DP-Workflow ! Exactly what I was looking for ! ... and remember Thingiverse as a quick source for base STL's to modify !!! LIKED, SUBd ! Thank you, Thank you ~ Daniel

Beautiful! Stick it to the man

Thank you so much, there’s still hope for internet

Pretty cool man

Thanks excellent video

Nice. Thank you. Running Debian 11, FreeCAD and Blender are core applications.

Thanks for the tips.. i am currently started to learn FreeCAD and want to combine the workflow with Blender due to open source. I still have very long way to go. My education background is not mechanical but electrical. But still I love mechanical. Really hope you will share more on your tip in mechanical design using FreeCAD and Blender together. Really appreciate your tips.

Big yellow tractors are amazing:)

What a fantastic tutorial, thank you so much! You'd probably love the CAD transform addon for Blender if you haven't discovered it already.. I've found it incredibly helpful in performing more CAD-like operations in Blender.

NICE!!!!

Wow, this was an amazing look at those 2 tools. Funny, I have been looking at free solutions because I am worried about limitations that might be imposed by these other companies like SolidWorks, and AutoDesk. I knew that eventually those cad systems would become practically innaccessable. I was looking at a single solution for everything. Looking at Blender, it seemed to me to be a kind of free-form design tool, and I was disappointed that it could not be used as a precision solution. Anyhow, this really got me seriously looking at these 2 tools and I think I can commit. Thank you so much for this demonstration. I am a little perplexed about one thing, however. I assume that since FreeCad is able to output an .stl file, it should be directly transferable to a 3d slicer. The real reason for using Blender was for its ability to make changes in more of a "free form" fashion without altering critical dimensions? So, I guess I do not understand how the slicer determines the dimensions of an stl file output by Blender if you cannot set those parameters within Blender?

interesting to impressive in a matter of mere minutes.

Actually I have designed and 3D printed a lot of mechanical parts all in blender with complete dimensional accuracy, so it is certainly possible and not really that difficult. Also you can parametrically model to some extent using non-destructive methods using "modifiers" in blender, and there are a number of great tutorials on KZfaq describing that. On the other hand FreeCAD is designed from the ground up to be parametric so watching that kind of workflow is fascinating and there are some real advantages to it. Making nice mechanical dimension drawings in blender is barely even possible without some pretty bizarre workarounds. Otoh if you've designed a part parametrically in FreeCAD then making a beautiful formal drawing is almost automatic - so cool. Also it seems they are making strides with doing assemblies in FreeCAD and getting closer to something like Fusion 360. Both of these open source projects are absolutely fan freaking tastic and advancing year by year, with the developers seeing the abilities of other programs and trying to fill in the weaknesses. A great time to FLOSS.

Thnks this work well

Great video, never considered this combination of software and uses. I've always loved Blender but the lack of dimensional accuracy makes it unusable for many of my projects. Can't wait to give this a try

Hi there! Really love your videos. I am trying to make a body in PartDesign and I would need to measure an arc. How in the world are arcs measured in FreeCAD? I can't seem to find that option anywhere. Can you help?

An interesting aspect to use blender for assembly, but I think if you are not familiar with rigging you can not simulate a movement of the assembly setup. That's why I rather would learn it in freeCad. Anyway blender is on top for the organic modeling of parts. There is also a workflow to import stl back from blender and integrate them as a part of parametric modeling.

Check out the Linkstage3 version of FreeCAD its orders of magnitude better than 0.18; it got configuration tables for your parts so that you can make one part with many configurations. Also, try Assembly 4. It's quite good.

Wow!!!

Can you create a simulation/animation of how the part/assembly is intended to function ? Awesome video!

You have no idea how suppressed an inventor I am!!! Aka POOOOOORRRRRR

I only model in a blender. And it can be customized to exact dimensions. And you can also simulate models so that they can then be easily modified as needed by googling a non-destructive blender. P.S. Finally I saw that at least someone made a beam on the short side with a rectangular table.

It is preferable to use plans as a support for making sketches

Your cube is actually a rhomboid prism, methinks... else what was that stairstepping about in the plane view?

more power to opensource!

Nice. I'm looking into making CNC patterns to send to mill to cut boat parts. I've been looking at FreeCAD, LibreCAD, and Blender. Any of these three have steep (at least for me) learning curve with no idea if the time spent will be wasted. In addition to patterns, I wanted to be able to take the pieces and fit them together to "assembly" the boat on screen and look for problems. Sound like Blender will do that for me. Have you tried out any of the newer Blender precision modeling tools? Is it ready to replace the CAD tools?

The most important dimensions are those of the door to your workshop.

Good video ! I have tried FreeCAD in the past and I have to agree it's a pretty decent piece of software (being free and all that) but about a year ago I started designing in Designspark Mechanical, which is also freeware. Maybe it is a matter of personal taste, I'm just doing this as a hobby, but I have to say I find DSM somewhat less clunky and just more intuitive to work with than FreeCAD. What are your thoughts on DSM ? At any rate, keep up the good work.

Very useful, thanks. One question though. If FreeCad supports 3d modelling and can export STL which it obviously does, why not just use that? The large printer is very impressive!

Video is great Please create more Feedback on production your sound level is clipping this usually means you have too much gain on your microphone input

Any more info on your big 3d printer

How much in parts did it cost to build?

What magic allowed for that helmet to print without support there ?!?!?

15:41 Your comments (drawbacks) on Blender are COMPLETELY WRONG. 1. Use the "Solidify Modifier" to add the thickness to the model; 2. You can Scale with precision: Click 'S' and write the value on your keyboard that you wish to increase the model to. * This technique is valid for Scale, Rotate and Move; * Search for Precision Modeling with Blender;

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I liked your video but about Blender, you're wrong. Blender can offer so much more than FreeCad. For someone like me, who uses Blender for many years, it does not make sense to learn FreeCad and than import into Blender - you can do ALL the job inside it cause it has many tools for measuring and accurate modelling. The first explanation you do about it and watching the moments where you do some modelling, it's clear that you're not that familiar with the tool.

haaaaaaa! BS. freeCAD is the only free CAD software that is not a criminal thieving cloud version. ...but it has a horrendous interface and work flow is ridiculous due to that. I gave freeCAD too many trials and chances burning hours and hours out of my life over the years, hoping they improved, and each time I gave up... too clunky... to painful. After all these years they are progressing at snail pace to beef it up, and they continue to stick to a model that is crap.