Great video, but one tip: you don't need to bother with using Surface Fill objects and the Parametric Lines to support them if you're closing faces with planar surfaces. Using the Ruled Surface from the Part workbench saves a ton of time and careful clicking, only needs the two parallel edges of your Gordon and Clone, one click on the button.
Great tip. I will give that a try. I didn't know you could do that. I don't use the ruled surface very often and it sounds like there's more to the tool than I first thought.
Nice Tut as usual Darren, Starting to see the flexibility using a variety of Work benches provides. Hardest Part is remembering them all! A s always more than one way to do a Model.
Absolutely, so many workbench for so many things (and ways!) I am going to be working on some content to help narrow down that choice which will help give the old grey matter a bit of a rest. Thanks for the kind comments.
You are great. A much much required video to improve my skills. Before beginning with the video, i was like "finally, let's go for this hour long video", and the next moment, an hour had passed and I had learned almost too many things in that very moment. Love your work. Thank you.
Thank you for your feedback, it's great to hear your improving your skills. Remember that the same techniques can be used in other CAD packaged so they are transferable. I first wrote this tutorial for Rhino 3D many years ago and it's virtually exactly the same process. So if you ever think about a career of some type in CAD what I teach is always transferable. Glad you found the patients to go through the video. I am always a bit worried if viewers find them to long. Your feedback is always appreciated.
Thanks for the comment. Things will always go wrong at some point and I try not to edit them out as I know someone in the end will get stuck at the same stage. Found the same in other CAD / 3D packages. You do something slightly different and you have to go back and fix the issue. I don't believe any build should be perfect first time and if errors occur then showing how I fix or work around those is essential for people to adopt the software and learn. We all learn by our mistakes or things going wrong so why not share them. 😁
@@MangoJellySolutions: That's exactly the added value you're providing by explaining why you do or avoid things 👍 you're making an absolute great job 🎁
For anyone following along, the mouse is a Logitech M185; the images are from the Logitech website. I understand the point of this series is to demonstrate the tools, but wouldn't the more proper workflow be to make the entire thing a Gordon surface, or three Gordon surfaces? My body protrudes through the feature in a couple places, and after 20 minutes playing with the continuity/degree settings of the top I never managed to get a clean shape. I'm tempted to retry an all-Gordon route, but I have no idea how to cut the pieces apart with proper gaps. This is actually rather timely, as I recently had a design idea for an ergonomic, asymmetrical ambidextrous mouse.
Yes you could make the whole thing in a gordon surface and probably the preferred route. As for the cut, you can us the Trim Face tool with the gordon surface and the two mixed curves with a side projection. Gapping can be accounted for with another traced mixed curve for the gap and another trim.
Thank you for your awesome work. At 8:52 you remind us to reverse the direction of the sketch, that was tripping me up. I don't get why the new sketch needs to be reversed when you are looking at the image.
Hi nice video! I kept with a question. How do you can rotate (orbit better saying) your sketch inside the sketcher workbench?! I can only pan and zoom! Thank you
Great to see you found it. Also look to the bottom right, you will see the navigation options which you can change. If you roll over and wit a few seconds it will pop up to show you the key combinations.
First of all Sorry for the late reply I am trying to get to all comments and emails (I get a lot) . Since making the video I have discovered more information regarding the surfacing for the offset. I can now get the offset to work so I am going to do a follow up video. These settings have virtually no documentation so you really have to dig and even look into the source code. The solution is easy (once you know how) but its too so with the Join Curve settings. I have a few more subject areas to including crashing Gordon surfaces that hang freecad and how to fix.
![FreeCAD Curves Workbench [Bonus] Trace a car body from images / photos and create a Nurbs surface](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/SjjMdUsGBsE/mqdefault.jpg)
Great video, but one tip: you don't need to bother with using Surface Fill objects and the Parametric Lines to support them if you're closing faces with planar surfaces. Using the Ruled Surface from the Part workbench saves a ton of time and careful clicking, only needs the two parallel edges of your Gordon and Clone, one click on the button.
Great tip. I will give that a try. I didn't know you could do that. I don't use the ruled surface very often and it sounds like there's more to the tool than I first thought.
A demo of that would be good.
Cleared all the issues I was having! thanks!
Great demo of astounding capability!
Thanks... Looks like it is a very important workbench to master
Nice Tut as usual Darren, Starting to see the flexibility using a variety of Work benches provides. Hardest Part is remembering them all! A s always more than one way to do a Model.
Absolutely, so many workbench for so many things (and ways!) I am going to be working on some content to help narrow down that choice which will help give the old grey matter a bit of a rest. Thanks for the kind comments.
Great video, it helped me a lot to understand how to model surfaces and curves in FreeCAD 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Great to hear and glad you liked the video. 👍
You are great. A much much required video to improve my skills. Before beginning with the video, i was like "finally, let's go for this hour long video", and the next moment, an hour had passed and I had learned almost too many things in that very moment.
Love your work. Thank you.
Thank you for your feedback, it's great to hear your improving your skills. Remember that the same techniques can be used in other CAD packaged so they are transferable. I first wrote this tutorial for Rhino 3D many years ago and it's virtually exactly the same process. So if you ever think about a career of some type in CAD what I teach is always transferable. Glad you found the patients to go through the video. I am always a bit worried if viewers find them to long. Your feedback is always appreciated.
@@MangoJellySolutions thank you.
Really great how you make workarounds around some flaws in the programme. Big thumbs up.👍
Thanks for the comment. Things will always go wrong at some point and I try not to edit them out as I know someone in the end will get stuck at the same stage. Found the same in other CAD / 3D packages. You do something slightly different and you have to go back and fix the issue. I don't believe any build should be perfect first time and if errors occur then showing how I fix or work around those is essential for people to adopt the software and learn. We all learn by our mistakes or things going wrong so why not share them. 😁
@@MangoJellySolutions: That's exactly the added value you're providing by explaining why you do or avoid things 👍 you're making an absolute great job 🎁
Thank you for a very good video.
For anyone following along, the mouse is a Logitech M185; the images are from the Logitech website.
I understand the point of this series is to demonstrate the tools, but wouldn't the more proper workflow be to make the entire thing a Gordon surface, or three Gordon surfaces?
My body protrudes through the feature in a couple places, and after 20 minutes playing with the continuity/degree settings of the top I never managed to get a clean shape. I'm tempted to retry an all-Gordon route, but I have no idea how to cut the pieces apart with proper gaps.
This is actually rather timely, as I recently had a design idea for an ergonomic, asymmetrical ambidextrous mouse.
Yes you could make the whole thing in a gordon surface and probably the preferred route. As for the cut, you can us the Trim Face tool with the gordon surface and the two mixed curves with a side projection. Gapping can be accounted for with another traced mixed curve for the gap and another trim.
Very interesting, but way above my capabilities at the moment. I need to walk first before I can run
Hello. Could you tell me why I can't treat a mixed curve as external geometry? I select it but it doesn't accept it. Thanks.
Thank you for your awesome work. At 8:52 you remind us to reverse the direction of the sketch, that was tripping me up. I don't get why the new sketch needs to be reversed when you are looking at the image.
Great
Please, share the images of the mouse you've used for those who is trying to repeat your steps.
Great but I wish you would provide links to the images you use to make it easier to follow the instructions. :)
if you were going to send this mouse into production for injection molding, would you use the same methods?
Hi nice video! I kept with a question. How do you can rotate (orbit better saying) your sketch inside the sketcher workbench?! I can only pan and zoom! Thank you
It seems I found it! I am working on a Mac and the solution is to press option key while dragging! 👍
Great to see you found it. Also look to the bottom right, you will see the navigation options which you can change. If you roll over and wit a few seconds it will pop up to show you the key combinations.
is this the only way to get an offset solid surface? thank you
First of all Sorry for the late reply I am trying to get to all comments and emails (I get a lot) . Since making the video I have discovered more information regarding the surfacing for the offset. I can now get the offset to work so I am going to do a follow up video. These settings have virtually no documentation so you really have to dig and even look into the source code. The solution is easy (once you know how) but its too so with the Join Curve settings. I have a few more subject areas to including crashing Gordon surfaces that hang freecad and how to fix.
Ty I was making helmet in fusion like this but I'm now spending 500 a year for selling rights