I was so deep in concentrating on your videos that I didn't notice you ACTUALLY didn't put a single ad through your entire videos, I just noticed that I wasn't interrupted by any ads that I suspected I'm using ad blocker without knowing. You are a Champ Man, Thank you! I just hope that doesn't affect your RUclips journey because the revenue is probably very small, your tutorials are SO cool and I would love to see grow even bigger. Big Good Luck for you Man, hope you a Nice Day every day 😁.
I live and dream for that day. Being able to do this full time without worry about a day job would open up the channel to so many ideas including 1-2-1 teaching and virtual workshops both free and paid for
@@MangoJellySolutions I just signed up for patreon just to support you. There are many creators I semi-regularly watch, but your channel is the only one where I feel the value I get from your videos is so immense that it seems wrong not to give something back. I would not be able to use FreeCAD if I hadn't come across you. Unfortunately I can't give much at the moment, but I'm looking forward to upgrading my membership as soon as my situation improves financially. I can't thank you enough for what you do.
@@MangoJellySolutions Did ya ever manage to make this happen? I have just started with 3d printing for the last few months and so have been learning CAD along with that and have found your videos on the subject to be greatly helpful! I am a bit curious while watching all these videos though, why the touchpad? I couldn't imagine using a touchpad as my main source of cursor usage I will only ever use it if I am laying it bed watching tv on my laptop and can't be bothered to go grab my mouse and even then I do really think about whether getting out of bed and walking the 5 feet it is to get my mouse or using the touchpad is going to be more work.
@@xxfloppypillowxx Unfortunately no but I never give up. RUclips ad revenue is very very small, one of the reasons why you see so many abandoned channels at 1k subs. At the end of the month you be lucky to have enough for a coffee. I did think about selling 3D models but I just enjoy helping and teaching. It has helped with mental health and my work life balance has changed. I make sure that I allocate time to my channel as a commitment so there is no more staying late at work and I have learnt to say no. It forces me to leave as I got other things to get done. It made me enforce that boundary which has been a god send. Great to see you are progressing with the videos and they are helping. Ah yes the touch pad. I use the touch pad configuration for mouse as well but I have always used a laptop. Everywhere I work have supplied a laptop so it's what I am used to. BUT, lately I have moved to a mouse as I have my own dedicated studio after moving house and yes, so much better
@@MangoJellySolutions Lol you're an absolute mad man, even when I use my laptop I will still take the time to plug in a mouse if I have to, though these days I use a Logitech MX Master 3S because it allows me to keep it programmed to connect to multiple different computers (up to 3) so I can keep it connected to my desktop and then when I am on my laptop I just hit a button to switch it to control the laptop. I'm glad to hear you have since gotten an actual mouse though xD
This video has open my eye to so much more I can do with FreeCad, and it is scarry I am learning something. I even in my sleep thinking what I can now do. Thank you!
@@MangoJellySolutions I'm hoping that this is for demonstration purposes as. For an exercise, it definitely moved way too fast for me. I would definitely like some more bite size. Exercises featuring these tools. in free cad. Maybe break them down into two or three different videos would be great.
@@nothingelsetolose7661 Hi, yes it was more of a demonstration. Appreciate the feedback, I am looking to remake all these for version 1 and I will be more mindful of that next time. The videos have slowed somewhat since but feedback is very much welcome. It's the only way I have of improving the quality.
At 11:40 when going back to the original revolve. Stated to press "No" at the pop up, but you actually want to hit "Yes" and remove the content. That will restore the revolve.
The work you do for the community is astounding. Equaly amazing is how much I know nothing really about FreeCAD. What I hate most about FreeCAD is its UI. It sucks really bad. Sometimes I get errors, I can't tell if it's a bug or because I am indeed doing something wrong (most likely the latter). So I go to see the documentation but they seem to assume you know the software already, so the explanations are not very useful... All this to say : I'm really glad you are doing these videos. It really helps. Quick question, will you be covering the Arch workbench at some point ?
Thank you for the kind comments, what you are detailing is one of the reasons why I started the channel. I came from a 3d background and got pretty frustrated with Freecad until I learnt to not try to force it down the routes I have learnt in the past with other software and this was something different. It was only when I returned to freecad when I made my CNC machine and seeing all the comments about peoples struggles that I remembered that's how I felt and decided I should really share the knowledge I had. I also was off work long term because of covid lockdown and it gave me something to concentrate on without going mad lol. The arch workbench is on the list 😁 Thanks for sharing your thoughts, you are not alone, but please give yourself time to learn freecad as you will end up loving it.
Something that you didn't cover (granted it is probably slightly more advanced) that I'd like seen in the tutorial with the lidded boxes that is coming is how to add fit tolerances to a model. For example, you can't design a hole to fit a 2mm cylinder by specifying the hole at 2mm, unless you really want a tight interference fit. The hole should be slightly oversized not only for fit, but also to account for fabrication tolerances. Maybe I'm not looking for the right tool, but I have yet to find an offset tool that I can use to apply a parametric offset value to.
I like to keep my lesson projects for future reference, including the bits we delete as we follow along. I found that I can group the objects we were supposed to delete, then use the spacebar to hide them. You can group objects via the context (right click) menu. For example, if you right-click on 'Exploded Revolve', then select 'Create group...', the items are within are added to the group. You can then drag 'Loft' into the group. I'm NOT sure this won't cause problems, but I'm giving it a try.
@@MangoJellySolutions Thanks for the hint. I've run into issues since I did this - when I tried to add the image, I didn't get a prompt to select a plane, and no image plane was created. The image isn't part of the project, and I can't see my sketch and the image at the same time. Deleting everything as you instructed then adding the image didn't help. In fact, creating a new project doesn't help - no image plane and the image is just a separate entity, unavailable in m project! I've tried this in 0.21 and 0.20.1. I'm beginning to suspect that my problems may be a result of my being in the Win11 Insiders Beta Channel, which I joined back in May due to severe taskbar issues. The last two Beta releases have caused other issues such as my system switching focus to God-knows-where while I'm working, Explorer locking up, and the last Edge update has resulted in RUclips's start page not displaying properly until I resize the window. Opting out of the Beta channel immediately requires a clean reinstall of Windows and all my software, which will take several days, or waiting for the next 'major' release of Windows retail, whatever that means. I'm investigating my options...
Just to complete the story, I did a clean install of Windows 11. I still can't get FreeCAD to work with images as it should! This is doubly strange because I was able to complete Lesson 4 without problems, and when I open Lesson 4 the image is as it should be. Haunted computer? Bad Karma? Who knows! As a work-around, I found a program called PureRef that allows me to display an image transparently with click-through. It has far more features than I need, but it works (once I changed the default shortcuts for opacity as they didn't work).
Part seems like such a powerful workbench definitely going to be spending a lot of time in it. One question that I have which idk if it it's maybe touched on later and I just haven't gotten there yet (it's probably mentioned in the next video given the subject matter) is that if I am making models for 3d printing and I want 2 things to fit inside of each other or connect together is there a way to make it have a tolerance built in? Like obviously if I make a block that has a 20mm cube cut out of it I can't then print out a 20mm cube that will go in there because it's impossible to get that accurate so you need to be able to compensate for it and it's been a real sticking point for me trying to figure out how to make anything that connects together because I have to model one side of a connection and the model the negative into the other piece which is super time consuming xD
Yes so I do have a video in the series where a box is made with a fitted lid which has tollerances (if I remember rightly, it's been a while and quite a few videos since!). In it I use part design where there is a tool called the sub object shape binder where you can take the face of your first part, creates a copy and then you can set a offset (which would be your tollerance) on the properties and this will give you the shape for your second part. This can also be done for edges. If your box changes, so does your lid whilst maintaining tollerances.
Your geometry is not closed, there is a gap in one of the slot geometry you added. If you look down to the properties tab and look at the solid property, set this to true and see if you get an error. If it says wire not closed then you got a gap
I am following everything to the T but at 11:25 i get a "recompute fail" or i restart the entire drawing and it gives me "wrong usage of punctual sections. One out of three times it worked fine until you make the edit to add the pointed top and that also gives me "recompute fail" warnings fml. lol
Is there a simple way to make a 'shell' into a solid part? For example, if you'd made your bowling pin a hollow shell could we then define a thickness for that shell (say 2mm) and make it a part for 3D printing?
Slicer software can make solid parts hollow. Use vase mode and define wall thickness, or normal mode and select 0% infill and add wall thickness to 2mm. No need to make the actual model hollow for that. To make a hollow model (shell) to a solid part would need changing the actual model.
You have changed your rectangle to construction geometry. There is a construction geometry tool, if you click it without selecting any geometry you will see all the tools go blue so anything new laid down will be construction geometry and not normal. I think this may be the reason for the issue your experiencing.
A few minutes ago, I posted a link to a bowling pin image I uploaded to Dropbox. I just received a threatening message from RUclips about posting spam, with no indication of what or even where I'd posted!
That is pretty strange. RUclips does have a number of filters in place that inspect links to protect creators. Oh, you don't think youtube saw the image as something else? Wasn't a bowling pin that was coloured in a skin tone by any chance? !!!!!
Just checked the held for review folder as I often get posts with links in there and found nothing. We had a similar experience at work with a website which got categorised as 'mature eyes only' by Google when it saw the words ridged with a picture of a pink coloured tubular container and it thought it was a picture of 'old blind bob' standing to attention (trying to use wording so youtube doesn't remove my comments lol)
I was so deep in concentrating on your videos that I didn't notice you ACTUALLY didn't put a single ad through your entire videos, I just noticed that I wasn't interrupted by any ads that I suspected I'm using ad blocker without knowing.
You are a Champ Man, Thank you!
I just hope that doesn't affect your RUclips journey because the revenue is probably very small, your tutorials are SO cool and I would love to see grow even bigger.
Big Good Luck for you Man, hope you a Nice Day every day 😁.
this channel could pay your bills as freecad matures.
I live and dream for that day. Being able to do this full time without worry about a day job would open up the channel to so many ideas including 1-2-1 teaching and virtual workshops both free and paid for
@@MangoJellySolutions I just signed up for patreon just to support you. There are many creators I semi-regularly watch, but your channel is the only one where I feel the value I get from your videos is so immense that it seems wrong not to give something back. I would not be able to use FreeCAD if I hadn't come across you.
Unfortunately I can't give much at the moment, but I'm looking forward to upgrading my membership as soon as my situation improves financially. I can't thank you enough for what you do.
@@MangoJellySolutions Did ya ever manage to make this happen? I have just started with 3d printing for the last few months and so have been learning CAD along with that and have found your videos on the subject to be greatly helpful! I am a bit curious while watching all these videos though, why the touchpad? I couldn't imagine using a touchpad as my main source of cursor usage I will only ever use it if I am laying it bed watching tv on my laptop and can't be bothered to go grab my mouse and even then I do really think about whether getting out of bed and walking the 5 feet it is to get my mouse or using the touchpad is going to be more work.
@@xxfloppypillowxx Unfortunately no but I never give up. RUclips ad revenue is very very small, one of the reasons why you see so many abandoned channels at 1k subs. At the end of the month you be lucky to have enough for a coffee.
I did think about selling 3D models but I just enjoy helping and teaching. It has helped with mental health and my work life balance has changed. I make sure that I allocate time to my channel as a commitment so there is no more staying late at work and I have learnt to say no. It forces me to leave as I got other things to get done. It made me enforce that boundary which has been a god send.
Great to see you are progressing with the videos and they are helping.
Ah yes the touch pad. I use the touch pad configuration for mouse as well but I have always used a laptop. Everywhere I work have supplied a laptop so it's what I am used to. BUT, lately I have moved to a mouse as I have my own dedicated studio after moving house and yes, so much better
@@MangoJellySolutions Lol you're an absolute mad man, even when I use my laptop I will still take the time to plug in a mouse if I have to, though these days I use a Logitech MX Master 3S because it allows me to keep it programmed to connect to multiple different computers (up to 3) so I can keep it connected to my desktop and then when I am on my laptop I just hit a button to switch it to control the laptop. I'm glad to hear you have since gotten an actual mouse though xD
Thanks!
Thank you so much 😊👍
From a FreeCad newbie user’s perspective, things are getting serious and very interesting in episode 8 😊👍
This video has open my eye to so much more I can do with FreeCad, and it is scarry I am learning something. I even in my sleep thinking what I can now do. Thank you!
Great to see your progressing and thinking about how to use the techniques in your projects. It sounds like your progressing pretty fast. Great stuff
@@MangoJellySolutions I'm hoping that this is for demonstration purposes as. For an exercise, it definitely moved way too fast for me. I would definitely like some more bite size. Exercises featuring these tools. in free cad. Maybe break them down into two or three different videos would be great.
@@nothingelsetolose7661 Hi, yes it was more of a demonstration. Appreciate the feedback, I am looking to remake all these for version 1 and I will be more mindful of that next time. The videos have slowed somewhat since but feedback is very much welcome. It's the only way I have of improving the quality.
FreeCAD is like VIM, if you get used to it - You can do amazing things so easy. Thank you for explaining in detail about revolve stuff!
Lol very true, except you can exit freecad without becoming stuck forever if you don't know the short cut key 😂. Glad you enjoyed
At 11:40 when going back to the original revolve. Stated to press "No" at the pop up, but you actually want to hit "Yes" and remove the content. That will restore the revolve.
This was probably the best episode yet.
Thank you for the feedback, it's always interesting to see what videos people prefer
I like the quality of the video. Nice work. A lot of examples.
Awesome, thank you! 😊👍
The work you do for the community is astounding. Equaly amazing is how much I know nothing really about FreeCAD.
What I hate most about FreeCAD is its UI. It sucks really bad. Sometimes I get errors, I can't tell if it's a bug or because I am indeed doing something wrong (most likely the latter). So I go to see the documentation but they seem to assume you know the software already, so the explanations are not very useful... All this to say : I'm really glad you are doing these videos. It really helps.
Quick question, will you be covering the Arch workbench at some point ?
Thank you for the kind comments, what you are detailing is one of the reasons why I started the channel. I came from a 3d background and got pretty frustrated with Freecad until I learnt to not try to force it down the routes I have learnt in the past with other software and this was something different. It was only when I returned to freecad when I made my CNC machine and seeing all the comments about peoples struggles that I remembered that's how I felt and decided I should really share the knowledge I had. I also was off work long term because of covid lockdown and it gave me something to concentrate on without going mad lol.
The arch workbench is on the list 😁
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, you are not alone, but please give yourself time to learn freecad as you will end up loving it.
Now things are beginning to get tough!
But we keep pushing forward. Thank you,.
i realy enjoy your videos. more excellent content. Thank you for the videos.
That's great to hear, nice to see people appreciate them
Something that you didn't cover (granted it is probably slightly more advanced) that I'd like seen in the tutorial with the lidded boxes that is coming is how to add fit tolerances to a model. For example, you can't design a hole to fit a 2mm cylinder by specifying the hole at 2mm, unless you really want a tight interference fit. The hole should be slightly oversized not only for fit, but also to account for fabrication tolerances. Maybe I'm not looking for the right tool, but I have yet to find an offset tool that I can use to apply a parametric offset value to.
This guy is a freaking genius!
Thank you :)
Nice tips. Thank you.
THX Sir!😎
Great video thanks!
I like to keep my lesson projects for future reference, including the bits we delete as we follow along. I found that I can group the objects we were supposed to delete, then use the spacebar to hide them. You can group objects via the context (right click) menu. For example, if you right-click on 'Exploded Revolve', then select 'Create group...', the items are within are added to the group. You can then drag 'Loft' into the group.
I'm NOT sure this won't cause problems, but I'm giving it a try.
This should be fine just watch out that the same object can be added to two groups and changing an object in one group will affect the other.
@@MangoJellySolutions Thanks for the hint. I've run into issues since I did this - when I tried to add the image, I didn't get a prompt to select a plane, and no image plane was created. The image isn't part of the project, and I can't see my sketch and the image at the same time.
Deleting everything as you instructed then adding the image didn't help. In fact, creating a new project doesn't help - no image plane and the image is just a separate entity, unavailable in m project! I've tried this in 0.21 and 0.20.1.
I'm beginning to suspect that my problems may be a result of my being in the Win11 Insiders Beta
Channel, which I joined back in May due to severe taskbar issues. The last two Beta releases have caused other issues such as my system switching focus to God-knows-where while I'm working, Explorer locking up, and the last Edge update has resulted in RUclips's start page not displaying properly until I resize the window.
Opting out of the Beta channel immediately requires a clean reinstall of Windows and all my software, which will take several days, or waiting for the next 'major' release of Windows retail, whatever that means. I'm investigating my options...
Just to complete the story, I did a clean install of Windows 11. I still can't get FreeCAD to work with images as it should! This is doubly strange because I was able to complete Lesson 4 without problems, and when I open Lesson 4 the image is as it should be. Haunted computer? Bad Karma? Who knows!
As a work-around, I found a program called PureRef that allows me to display an image transparently with click-through. It has far more features than I need, but it works (once I changed the default shortcuts for opacity as they didn't work).
Part seems like such a powerful workbench definitely going to be spending a lot of time in it. One question that I have which idk if it it's maybe touched on later and I just haven't gotten there yet (it's probably mentioned in the next video given the subject matter) is that if I am making models for 3d printing and I want 2 things to fit inside of each other or connect together is there a way to make it have a tolerance built in? Like obviously if I make a block that has a 20mm cube cut out of it I can't then print out a 20mm cube that will go in there because it's impossible to get that accurate so you need to be able to compensate for it and it's been a real sticking point for me trying to figure out how to make anything that connects together because I have to model one side of a connection and the model the negative into the other piece which is super time consuming xD
Yes so I do have a video in the series where a box is made with a fitted lid which has tollerances (if I remember rightly, it's been a while and quite a few videos since!). In it I use part design where there is a tool called the sub object shape binder where you can take the face of your first part, creates a copy and then you can set a offset (which would be your tollerance) on the properties and this will give you the shape for your second part. This can also be done for edges. If your box changes, so does your lid whilst maintaining tollerances.
Thank you for the tutorial!
😍
You're welcome 😊
Excellent content!
I'm following along and just would like let you know that this video is not on the playlist
Thank you glad your ebbing, I have now updated the playlist, thank you for letting me know.
At 30:03 normal sub-face binder doesn't work, it creates a yellow transparent revolve
At 27:10 i am extruding single sketch but getting two extrudes.? Any idea what i am doing wrong.
Your geometry is not closed, there is a gap in one of the slot geometry you added. If you look down to the properties tab and look at the solid property, set this to true and see if you get an error. If it says wire not closed then you got a gap
I am following everything to the T but at 11:25 i get a "recompute fail" or i restart the entire drawing and it gives me "wrong usage of punctual sections. One out of three times it worked fine until you make the edit to add the pointed top and that also gives me "recompute fail" warnings fml. lol
To avoid "wrong usage of punctual sections", make sure "Revolve" (and not "Sketch") is selected in the Combo View when you hit "Explode compund".
@@geronimo1007 Thank you! I was stuck on this also.
This video is not added to the playlist!
Thanks for the heads up, I will sort that now
Is there a simple way to make a 'shell' into a solid part? For example, if you'd made your bowling pin a hollow shell could we then define a thickness for that shell (say 2mm) and make it a part for 3D printing?
Slicer software can make solid parts hollow. Use vase mode and define wall thickness, or normal mode and select 0% infill and add wall thickness to 2mm. No need to make the actual model hollow for that. To make a hollow model (shell) to a solid part would need changing the actual model.
Where can I download the bowling ball image?
Never mind, you can just screenshot the bowling ball image in the video and use it LOL.
my rectangle has blue lines and I don't see it in the model view
You have changed your rectangle to construction geometry. There is a construction geometry tool, if you click it without selecting any geometry you will see all the tools go blue so anything new laid down will be construction geometry and not normal. I think this may be the reason for the issue your experiencing.
Wow this escalated in complexity fast, but I like it.
A few minutes ago, I posted a link to a bowling pin image I uploaded to Dropbox. I just received a threatening message from RUclips about posting spam, with no indication of what or even where I'd posted!
That is pretty strange. RUclips does have a number of filters in place that inspect links to protect creators. Oh, you don't think youtube saw the image as something else? Wasn't a bowling pin that was coloured in a skin tone by any chance? !!!!!
Just checked the held for review folder as I often get posts with links in there and found nothing. We had a similar experience at work with a website which got categorised as 'mature eyes only' by Google when it saw the words ridged with a picture of a pink coloured tubular container and it thought it was a picture of 'old blind bob' standing to attention (trying to use wording so youtube doesn't remove my comments lol)
@@MangoJellySolutions Interesting thought, but it wasn't anything that could be interpreted as a skin color!
Thanks!
Thank you 😊😊😊