Very informative.😎 Hint 1: @ 2:25 you can add an arc to your polyline by pressing M on the keyboard three times. Hint 2 : If you extend an arc by a polyline, you will automatically have a tangency constraint. Just press M twice on the keyboard to avoid this constraint.
Hot tip: When you're using the polyline tool, you can press the "M" key to circle through behaviors! One of them is arc, so there's no need to switch to the dedicated arc tool and then back to polyline.
Great video, thanks for sharing. One thing I did on initial sketch was start with a construction line bounding box as a reference, seemed to speed up the sketch.
It looks interesting. Currently planning on learning about FreeCAD myself. Learning about CAD design but it's open source and free, compared to AutoCAD.
At 27:00, the 24 mm cut is symmetric about your "CutStop" datum plane... At 42:20, can you not just pocket from the original datum plane to the stop plane? Alternately, if the sketch were attached to "CutStop," you could pocket symmetrically.
Yes you're right, the exam drawing does dimension from the other reference though so as a personal preference I try not to add symmetry if the model doesn't show a specific intent of symmetry (it has bitten me in the past...). But yes in this case the operation as you described it would definitely work!
Thank you thank you thank you for this amazing tutorial video. Super informative and easy to follow. Really appreciate your effort to make the video and share your knowledge with us.
The Macro "CenterOfMass" lets you enter basic materials to get mass output. Works great and allow to have many bodies with different properties. It is very interesting.
just hitting m again will change the polyline type while the tools is still active. That whole perimeter of the first sketch can be done with one polyline.
Thank you for showing your workflow. It helps me as a beginner in FreeCAD to see how it could be done.
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I like your freeCAD contents. Keep making freeCAD contents bro!
Very informative.😎
Hint 1: @ 2:25 you can add an arc to your polyline by pressing M on the keyboard three times.
Hint 2 : If you extend an arc by a polyline, you will automatically have a tangency constraint.
Just press M twice on the keyboard to avoid this constraint.
Thanks for the tips! Will definitely try to use these from now on
Hot tip: When you're using the polyline tool, you can press the "M" key to circle through behaviors! One of them is arc, so there's no need to switch to the dedicated arc tool and then back to polyline.
This has to be one of the most helpful single freecad videos I've watched! Especially calling out the shortcuts as you're using them
Thank you :)
Great video, thanks for sharing. One thing I did on initial sketch was start with a construction line bounding box as a reference, seemed to speed up the sketch.
Hello, you can type on M while you are in polyline to toggle the type of line you want to draw
Oh amazing! Will definitely force myself to use it
It looks interesting. Currently planning on learning about FreeCAD myself. Learning about CAD design but it's open source and free, compared to AutoCAD.
At 27:00, the 24 mm cut is symmetric about your "CutStop" datum plane... At 42:20, can you not just pocket from the original datum plane to the stop plane? Alternately, if the sketch were attached to "CutStop," you could pocket symmetrically.
Yes you're right, the exam drawing does dimension from the other reference though so as a personal preference I try not to add symmetry if the model doesn't show a specific intent of symmetry (it has bitten me in the past...).
But yes in this case the operation as you described it would definitely work!
Nice run .. Thank You for sharing .. Cheers :)
Thank you thank you thank you for this amazing tutorial video. Super informative and easy to follow. Really appreciate your effort to make the video and share your knowledge with us.
Glad it was helpful!
Great video idea, thank's
The Macro "CenterOfMass" lets you enter basic materials to get mass output. Works great and allow to have many bodies with different properties. It is very interesting.
Oh awesome, will definitely check it out!
Macro "fcinfo" also does mass calculations. Workbench "quick measure" is useful for volume, distances, etc.
just hitting m again will change the polyline type while the tools is still active. That whole perimeter of the first sketch can be done with one polyline.
Cool, thanks!