I wish I started these earlier as there were so many models I helped out with. Great your finding these useful. Thank you for all your support and kind comments over the lifetime of this channel Bruce 👍
Hi , Deron . I watched this video . Great instruction , as usual . By watching you break this down and using the inner and outer geometry. You could very easily make a core box and a pattern . For a Foundry mold , using the path work bench .
Thank you Terry, hope you are doing well. That's is a very good application, thanks for adding. Always interested to see people's projects or ideas related to the videos.
I love your teaching style , and your videos . I recommended your channel to a group of commenters on another channel . Have an awesome day , hope you and family are fine stay safe my friend . Terry
You can but the only thing is you will loose the ability to see what the result will look like whilst your adding the profiles. If there are any errors you would have to delete the subtractive loft after rather than abandoning the attempt the minute you see a problem with one of the profiles, say, coming through the addative loft.
@@christopherkecun8349 yes...but also through a vertical section. Basically if one can intersect, cut, the curve of the loft, the curvature can be printed without the help of any support....or using a minor support.
03:40 It's annoying that when duplicating multiple objects (sketches) FreeCAD puts in the copies in random order. I do duplicate one by one, so I can then select all at once in treeview and create a loft. That "Add Section" only adds one section at a time is also annoying… the "add" button of fillets and chamfers is smarter. Is it possible to create a subtractive loft from the 2 subshape binders?
Thanks for highlighting that I have never noticed about the random order. I don't know if you can change the order in the treeview, its not something I have ever tried. Something to look into. Regarding your question about the subshape binders. Yes lofts can be created with them but be careful as changing the geometry underneath can cause the sub shape binder to bind to a different face than the one you selected before. This would be easily solved if the support in the property tab was not read only. Other objects you can edit the support so you just select the faces/edges again. It's a shame lofts are not like the multi loft in the curves workbench as you ctrl select the objects then select the button and done.
@@MangoJellySolutions Thanks, I didn't think of TNP for a moment. I like using parameters in spreadsheets which change during the process fromk idea to print so lofting binders would be one of those traps...I really do lilke FreeeCAD, but it still has a long way to go… Happy holidays!
@@NUeB_net if your changing the profile but not removing or adding new geometry that adds edges or faces to it then you should be OK such as placement, width, height, stretching individual parts of the geometry (increasing the length of a constraint) etc. If your lofting the sketches directly then you also shouldn't have any problems. Hope that helps
@@MangoJellySolutions The most common problem I run into is that after changing dimensions that seem not to alter the geometry, edges still get new names and esp. chamfers and fillets need zo be re-done. That's weird, because after all the model looks absolutely the same (except for that slightly changed one dimension) but the edges' names seem to the shuffled… Since not every fillet or chamfer can be done within a sketch, this is quite annoying.
I really like these Peer Reviews! I learn a lot from them. Thank you for all your support of the community!
I wish I started these earlier as there were so many models I helped out with. Great your finding these useful. Thank you for all your support and kind comments over the lifetime of this channel Bruce 👍
It is so simple when you see it but when you have a problem at least I have difficult to see what to do. This was really great info. Thanks.
You make a complex geometry seems simple to be implemented in FC. Thank you.
MJS is a truly FC master at work.
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Can also use defeaturing in the part workbench to delete the part you don't want.
Another fantastic design, Mango!
Thank you 😁👍
Hi , Deron . I watched this video . Great instruction , as usual . By watching you break this down and using the inner and outer geometry. You could very easily make a core box and a pattern . For a Foundry mold , using the path work bench .
Thank you Terry, hope you are doing well. That's is a very good application, thanks for adding. Always interested to see people's projects or ideas related to the videos.
Peer reviews….super concept. Thank you.
Damn dudeson, thats some fancy cad work ya got there
I love your teaching style , and your videos . I recommended your channel to a group of commenters on another channel . Have an awesome day , hope you and family are fine stay safe my friend .
Terry
Thank you so much for sharing my videos. Thank you so much, I really appreciate that. Take it easy Terry. Always good to hear from you
Thanks Jelly
Wow, this is amazing!
When specifying the subtractive loft, why not hide the additive loft to make the section sketches visible?
You can but the only thing is you will loose the ability to see what the result will look like whilst your adding the profiles. If there are any errors you would have to delete the subtractive loft after rather than abandoning the attempt the minute you see a problem with one of the profiles, say, coming through the addative loft.
That was awesome. Thank you!
Could Thickness have been used instead of the Subtractive Loft?
Just tried. Unfortunately not as it ttried to remove a void in the circular section.
Nice.
Now I'd like to know if the user is going to print this part, and if so, how.
Yepp...a tonne of support
....on second thought...it could be limited through splitting the .stl in two and place it on the split surface on the working area.
@@robgoodsight6216 Split through the circular pad?
@@christopherkecun8349 yes...but also through a vertical section. Basically if one can intersect, cut, the curve of the loft, the curvature can be printed without the help of any support....or using a minor support.
Really interesting comments thanks for contributing everyone.
03:40 It's annoying that when duplicating multiple objects (sketches) FreeCAD puts in the copies in random order. I do duplicate one by one, so I can then select all at once in treeview and create a loft. That "Add Section" only adds one section at a time is also annoying… the "add" button of fillets and chamfers is smarter.
Is it possible to create a subtractive loft from the 2 subshape binders?
Thanks for highlighting that I have never noticed about the random order. I don't know if you can change the order in the treeview, its not something I have ever tried. Something to look into. Regarding your question about the subshape binders. Yes lofts can be created with them but be careful as changing the geometry underneath can cause the sub shape binder to bind to a different face than the one you selected before. This would be easily solved if the support in the property tab was not read only. Other objects you can edit the support so you just select the faces/edges again. It's a shame lofts are not like the multi loft in the curves workbench as you ctrl select the objects then select the button and done.
@@MangoJellySolutions Thanks, I didn't think of TNP for a moment. I like using parameters in spreadsheets which change during the process fromk idea to print so lofting binders would be one of those traps...I really do lilke FreeeCAD, but it still has a long way to go…
Happy holidays!
@@NUeB_net if your changing the profile but not removing or adding new geometry that adds edges or faces to it then you should be OK such as placement, width, height, stretching individual parts of the geometry (increasing the length of a constraint) etc. If your lofting the sketches directly then you also shouldn't have any problems. Hope that helps
@@MangoJellySolutions The most common problem I run into is that after changing dimensions that seem not to alter the geometry, edges still get new names and esp. chamfers and fillets need zo be re-done. That's weird, because after all the model looks absolutely the same (except for that slightly changed one dimension) but the edges' names seem to the shuffled… Since not every fillet or chamfer can be done within a sketch, this is quite annoying.