It seems like it's never too late to learn new things. Personally, I have made it a hobby, which greatly stimulates my need to constantly discover new things. Just like me, you are certainly in the best place to learn how to use FreeCAD, with the best teacher available on RUclips.
I'm coming up on 73 and also am new to FreeCAD. I started with Fusion360 a while back, and while I really like it, I'm using the hobby (free) license which precludes any type of analysis. Since I'm designing for 3D printing, I wanted to be able to run finite element analysis on my models to optimize for strength, which is available in at least two forms for FreeCAD. Since I'm just getting underway with FreeCAD, I've got lots of learning to do before I jump into any of the addons!
Im right behind you!! The most pedagogical tutorial iv ever seen.. totally focused on the pupils and total lack of "showoff" Very good! Thank you @MangoJellySolutions
Just like Elon Musk Tweeted "You can basically learn anything on RUclips/Reddit" this educational series has more value then a college course. Thank you Mango.
How much have you learned since making this comment? How is your progress going? This is day one for me and I have not been this interested in learning something since becoming an autobody technician.
65 year old ex-mechanical engineer here who's used a few CAD systems in his time ... Pro-E, Catia, Creo, Solidworks, SDRC I-DEAS, etc and have been on many many CAD training courses and can honestly say your tutorials are the best I've experienced. Many thanks and keep up the good work!
Thank you so so much :) It's great to hear feeback as I have no idea except from the comments if I am going down the right tracks. I really appreciate that, and thank you for such kind words.
Thank you so much for this series. Back in the early 2000s I studied drafting at a Vo-Tech high school, so for two years I worked with AutoCAD three hours a day, five days per week (not to mention old-fashioned drafting-table style drafting). However, after I graduated I was unable to find a job in the field and the knowledge slowly became inert, burying itself deeply in my subconscious over the last two decades. These videos are helping to bring that part of me back to life, and it’s been wonderful. This is truly a public service and I hope that you’re being well compensated. I will donate when I’m able.
Thank you so much for your kind words and some background of where you came from. Like you I didn't venture into the job that I studied for (3D design) and ended up taking a different path but in the background I still kept that fire ticking over. I decided that one day I would go all out and get back into 3D and ended up in the realms of CAD. After a while learning and using freeCAD I decided to share my knowledge with everyone as there wasn't much in the terms of documentation. And this is where I am now :) Unfortunately there is not much compensation money wise. This is more for love than money, I don't get much out of it just the donations and the joy that I am helping people achieve their goals and helping them move forward with their hobbies / projects.
Played around with FreeCAD off and on for years and always struggled to make it work. 3 videos in and you've covered 90% of the issues I had trying to learning it on my own.
LIKED | SUBSCRIBED | NOTIFICATION BELL Have watched several FreeCAD tutorials and this series is by far the most intuitive to follow and understand. The 'building-block' (modular) approach breaks complex concepts into manageable-sized pieces. The information is presented at an easy-to-follow pace. Thank you for creating such excellent content. I now feel confident investing in 3D-printing and laser cutting machinery.
Thank you so much. Its great to hear that what I am doing is helping others so much. It does take a lot of time making the videos but comments like yours show its well worth it.
I was going to school to earn an AAS for CAD. I only had 2 more classes to go but ran out of money to finish. I had learned using Inventor. I'm so glad I found these tutorials, the others one I have found in the past was..... not so good. You're doing a great job. It'd all coming back to me now. Thanks you.
Know that feeling regarding problems with finishing courses due to circumstances especially when you have just a few lessons to go can be a real heart breaker. I had a similar experience when I was training to be a teacher. Just had a few more exams to sit and then I was fully qualified only to have my training provider go bust. Glad your enjoying all the tutorials, it's great to hear they are helping people like yourself. Thank you for the kind comments 😊
As usual another excellent video. I've been using freecad for several years now, mostly for preparing 3d print parts. Even though this series is geared for beginners I still learned a number of things from watching it.
Thank you for the kind comments and support through this channels lifetime. Its great that even with tutorials that are geared towards the beginner that people like yourself with experience still can benefit. I'm trying to strike a balance with new comers to freecad and the more experienced, releasing videos for both along with my findings with experiments and research in the area of 3D. So I always greatful for feedback, thank you.
Thank you very much for this series of videos. Your timing in the video is spot on, even though I have to pause/rewind at times. This is not you, but usually when I have made a mistake lol. I may be following step by step, but I still feel a sense of accomplishment when I complete a part. This tells me that your approach to teaching is first rate. Thanks again :)
I have spent years using Fusion 360 but had a computer crash a few months ago so had to get a new computer, it would not let me sign in to fusion even after about a month try with their support, probably because i was a hobby user, so I looked at Freecad and it went well over my head even watching other UT video's wo did not appear to have the ability to expand the tool bars so you could see what they were doing or talking at 500 words a minute. Found your video's and you make it so simple thank you well done, another 77 year old you seem to be keeping OAP's very happy and I am sure also the younger generation
Great to hear that and thank you so much for taking the time to feedback. I do have a numbers on my youtube stats towards the mature age generations and also I have heard from comments that people who have ADHD like the learning experience. I have been frustrated with a lot of learning paths and really thought about what I found frustrating and are mindful of that in my teaching (later I found I had ADHD and Dyslexia which probably shows the reasons why I had trouble at school). I am always evolving from feedback as I want to strike a balance. Is only from feedback like yours that I know I am on the right track. I can't seem to crack the under 20 range though. That's a bit of a mystery to me. I really appreciate the kind words, thank you :)
Thank you for posting this, you are the second person today that has mentioned this. I have just update Patreon and added a £1 teer as times are tough but people are still wanting to donate which is so kind. Thank you.
This series is great. I've been trying to fast track learning freecad, based on my experience with other modelling and drawing software, but it's different to anything I've used and I kept getting frustrated. I finally have the patience to approach this as a proper beginner and your level of detail and your explanations are really useful. Thanks.
Thank you very much for your comment and kind words. It's great to see how these tutorials are performing. And it's important for me to see knowledge wise where other viewers are coming from. I feed that back into preparing new learning content. Thank you and glad to see you are enjoying the content.
I previously wrestled with Blender to produce STL files of objects for manufacture. This is what I SHOULD have been doing, and the power the software exhibits is inspirational. Thanks to a great teacher.
When I started this tutorial I didn´t think I was going to enjoy this one as much, but I was wrong. I was a grreat workflow and it was super fun and easy. Now I know something I didn´t even know I wanted to know. Great job on this tutorial. Thanks so much.
Great to hear that you enjoyed, the thumbnail doesn't have the most appealing end result but it's a good workflow to learn. Thank you for the kind comment.
You have done an excellent job with all of your videos. understanding the work-flow has been really appreciated. I wish I had seen these when I started learning FreeCAD!
Thank you for your fantastic videos I appreciate it so much, I'm only just beginning as I have a 3d printer and need to learn cad, I'm up to tutorial 3 and enjoyed them very much, tutorial 4 tomorrow night 👍🤗
I actually stopped practicing on the other screen and just watched the video as I was so engrossed in what was being described, and I've only just realised it was 46mins... By far the best tutorial for FreeCAD v0.20 I've watched...
I thought I had "mastered" the basics of FreeCAD, but I realize that I was multiplying sketches and constraints unnecessarily. According to the comments I read (below), I can see that I'm not the only one who appreciates going back to the basics of FreeCAD. Thank you again for sharing your expertise and mastery of FreeCAD.
At the end of the day what you and others have done isn't wrong, as long as you make the desired geometry the end outcome will be the same. But learning how to constrain in multiple ways allows you to become a better designer by understanding the software in more depth. And these are transferable skills to other CAD packages. It's been great running these tutorials, there is a lot more to come and thank you for your supportive comments.
Thank you I had tried other freecad video tutorials and couldn't wrap my head around it but starting with you videos everything seemed to click and I was able to start moving forward on my projects
Thank you for explaining every step as you do it. There are times where you could assume that the viewer shouldn't need a particular step explained because it was covered in detail in a previous video. But of course to someone just learning, it's impossible to remember everything you've previously demonstrated. So even though many of your explanations are redundant, they're useful. Cheers.
just getting into using this to make 3D printer projects plus have to say the way you explain everything and the options you describe is really a great way to show people how to use and why very clear and knowledgeable.
I got into cad to design my own hardwares for bags. And this tutorials have been amazing. It unlocked my potential to create my own hardwares instead of using common hardwares that every other people use. Thank you for the series.
As I slowly work my way thro this excellent series, I have to remind myself that it took years for me to become proficient at Solidworks 😳. And this is a free package 👍. So I just have to pinch myself now and then, and say slow down Scots 😅
Highly appreciated for the video 3. Again, your very clear and step-by-step illustration also inspired me to think about there is not only one way to create the object body. We need think about how to make it simpliar and easy which means that is effiecient and quality of the drawing.
Thanks for the comments glad your finding these videos useful. Yes there are so many ways to create the same model. I was going to go into lofting the same one but I am going to put that in another video with a different object to keep things interesting as you wouldn't really want to go down a loft route with this object, it will be over kill. Simplicity is the key :)
It's been about 20 years since I lived in the UK. This series is quite good. Really good. I must admit I had to recalibrate my ears to hearing and understanding some of speaking when the "f" sound was pronounced rather than the "th" when at the end of words, or the "v" sound when the "th" were internal. "Wiff", instead of with and "uvvuh" instead of other. I forget the precise mapping of all the various UK dialects, but I'm guessing the narrator grew up somewhere in the Midlands. Kind of fun, really, to try to remember all the various dialects. I used to have many of them sorted out when I lived and worked there.
Yes the accents differ widely in UK. Also if you travel around a lot you end up with a combination which is interesting. I know exactly what you mean, where I cone from the words 'free' and 'three' sound almost identical. Also some 'h' s are often dropped Chatham becomes Chatam. So your guess is a bit far from where I grew up, I grew up in the South East in Kent but have a version called a 'Estuary' accent and we often get mistaken for being Australian. Glad you like the videos.
Very excellent series so far. I'm just starting my FreeCAD journey, first to draw some upgrade parts for one of my CNC routers. I have a lot of learning to do yet to get to the point of machining actual parts on my CNC mill. I didn't notice you mentioning how to show the center measurements of the through holes in TechDraw, but I eventually figured it out; also had to edit my preferences to show the hole centers, something you maybe touched on in video 1 which I mostly skipped but need to go back and watch. I think I need to work through this video a few times and then take what I learned to create some new shape.
Great to see your starting on your journey, freecad is vast it can do so many things and it does have a learning curve but once you get some basic understanding then you can progress quite quickly. There are so many workbenches and you will probably also notice a path workbench for CNC and converting models to gcode (CNC was originally the reasons why I stated this channel but it seemed to evolve down a different route ). Great to hear you ventured deeper and added the additional measurements. I only scratched the surface but I would like to do a more in depth techdraw in the future with cross section, surface marks etc. Thank you for the kind comments.
These are great videos and thank you. I was swimming around in FreeCAD and ready to abandon it. 2nd tutorial and getting the hang of object orient model development and it is really powerful. Keep going !!
Great to hear! Glad it's been of help. Freecad has a steep learning curve. I know what it feels like as when I started I had virtually nothing to guide me and took me months to do the simplest of things.
Thanks very much for these tutorials!!! I worked with CAD and CAM for printed circuit boards but I'm totally new to 3D CAD. Like your presentation style!
@@MangoJellySolutions I used to work with the Allegro, Calma, Tango, Pentalogix, P-Cad, Scicards and Mentor programs for PCB CAD & CAM (as a reference, some of these programs are at the Solid Works & ProEng level of complexity) . Did a lot of mechanical design on a drafting board (I just dated myself eh?). Retired now, recently purchased a LongMill CNC router for the workshop and I'm looking at 3D printers so 3D capable software is needed. After some research I thought that FreeCAD would be OK - turns out that is WAY more capable that I expected. Enjoying your videos! Have to admit that I cheated when following along with the exercise - I turned on a 5mm snap grid to make positioning features easier 😀 Cheers from Ontario, Canada!
Update: last night I printed the model from section 2, printed fine, looked fantastic, started section 3, NOW its making sense, love the '=' tool, that saves a lot of time...
I am grateful you are revamping some of your videos, so I am working through from the beginning again. I don't profess to be a quick learner and your re-iteration of different approaches allowed by Freecad make my journey less daunting.
Thank you for the feedback and it's great that you are finding the pace to your liking. I've been tempted to add more pauses in the video to allow for people to catch up but it's a balancing act as the video may end up being too long. Thank you for the kind comment.
Great freeCAD, video tutorial, but most draftsman/engineers would not rotate the left view so that the points no longer lineup horizontally with the points of the front view.
Amazing series and much needed for freecad. Thank you _so much_ for putting this together for us 👍 Gladly subbed to your patreon - please keep them coming - you're awesome
Thank you very much for your serie, very well layed out ! In my version (which is very recent), it has no issue anymore with the "multiple solids" in Part Design.
I ran into a problem at 24:28. On my computer, after you click "Create external geometry", the red dot *does not* apppear on the base, although that side of it does turn yellow when you hover over it. Your video suggests that the red dot on the base is crucial for the Constrain coincident function. On closer inspection, I see "Linking this will cause circular dependency" in the lower left (not in the Report View). I am unclear what triggered that, as I have tried to follow your tutorial exactly, and I am new to FreeCAD. I tried this on version 0.21.2 and 1.0, with the same result.. ...and yes, this series has been *extremely* helpful in learning FreeCAD (at least up to this point). In my opinion, it's just as good as Blender Guru.
Hi, thank you for this tutorials. I am new to freecad and still trying to understand the work around freecad and these are extremely helpful. I hope you will appreciate my perspective too. I feel that there are two problems with your tutorial. 1. you are trying to do too much in a single go which creates too many breaks in the flow of tutorial. We have to make and then delete things a lot more no. of times. You can use a flow chart to track down all the tools to streamline your presentation. 2. You do not emphasize on the key point. Some of the key points get missed in just few seconds. You can slow down on these key points. or even repeat them. Still, These tutorials are full of knowledge and like a lifeline for beginners and hobbyists.
no luck with those inside fillets, lol doesn't seem to matter how many ways I try. One last try, I'll go and install freecad 2.0 and see if that works. Well it looks like version 2.01 has solved the fillet problem Yeah, but for some reason all my font sizes were tiny, so I had to program it in the python editor(2 hrs later). Not the text in the 3d view port but all the rest which is turned up in my setting in linux, but for some reason the new version in not excepting the parameters from my computer, but yet version 1.9 was. either way I am much happier now. If any one is listening. Thanks for your videos Mr Mango or is that Mr Jelly
Sorry I have only just seen this comment, sorry to hear you are having problems but have managed to get at least some of them solved. I recently been looking into changing text sizes for larger screens and have thrown a few questions out to see if there is some kind of script that can be run.
@@MangoJellySolutions Thanks for responding, I'm just finishing up lesson 5.1 - polar patterns now. I did find a script that worked, the only thing I don't know at this moment is when I shut off my pc and restart free cad if I will have to enter it again. I entered it into the python console and it worked. Here it is. >>> from PySide import QtGui >>> f=QtGui.QApplication.font() >>> print ("default:", f.pointSize()) >>> f.setPointSize( 20 ) # 20 is what I finally settled on but that's the number you will want to play with >>> f=QtGui.QApplication.setFont(f)
Great tutorial (series), really enjoy your way of explaining things. I have however stumbled across one issue while following this particular video: at around 35:00 when adding the projection group to the drawing my top and right view are lacking some lines. In the right view it's the top and bottom lines between the two most outward vertices of the base-plate. In the top view it's the four line segments that connect the central protrusion to the rest of the base-plate. Writing this right now I am becoming aware of the fact that the lines that are invisible to me are the ones that result when viewing a fillet from an angle that flattens the fillet's plane to a line. I am using version .21 and after some online digging and experimenting I was able to find a workaround where I 1: select the affected view 2: set all "direction" properties with value = 0,00 to 0,01 3: refresh drawing 4: reset values from 0,01 to 0,00 5: refresh again 6: profit The issue seems to be related to numerical errors when it is is crucial if something is 0 or nearly 0. Anyone else have this issue / know more about this?
Thank you for adding this detailed response and work around it really helps others who encounter the error. I haven't seen this myself and hopefully someone viewing this can help. It might be worth trying the freecad forum.
thanks for the tutorials. Just a heads up: I wasnt able to create the final fillet neither this time or in the previous one. So ill open a topic at the freecad forums and see whats going on before I continue. kind of unique issue so it seems. cant wait to continue on with the series!
Your video tutorial are very clear and precise. I am using FC 0.20.2 on Ubuntu 23.04 and I don't see the vertex black points on the TechDraw page. I tried to modify the vertex scale in the preference (as you show in your video) but the situation remain the same
I was searching for tutorials to learn this, but i was being disappointed for the spanish tutorials, those are so mediocre. But this playlist is so so good, thanks.
This series is absolutely amazing. I’ve learned so much and I’m only on three do you have a paid class? There are some questions that I would like to ask.
Great to hear you have been enjoying the series. Unfortunately I don't do a paid class. I get numerous requests for classes but due to work commitments I can't commit to do them. I am trying to fund myself through patreon and donations to go full time in this venture but the closest I can get at this time is taking unpaid holiday every now and then from the proceeds of donations to work on more videos. But if you throw over some questions I see what I can do.
first create rounded edges, then constrain all 4 diameters, then constrain the centre of the circle on the centre of the arch, and even less constrains had to be used. JMHO. But it's overall nice to follow along these classes.
I have the latest version, minor differences from yours on here and not sure if my struggle today from 23.00 (involving rectangle). When you got to the part showing over constraint 23.34 and when you deleted the constraint, mine did not give the same results. I started a few times but no luck. Not sure what I'm missing? Eventually got it fully constrained but once I got to my tech drawing, this vertical lines were missing only on the right view. Strange 😅 I gotta try this lesson over again. Thank you again for sharing your knowledge, I've gleaned a lot this far. From South Africa 🌍 S
In the final model on the left and right sides where the upright meets the base (between the fillets), I would not expect to see a line since those two pieces make a flat surface. Is there a method to have FreeCAD render this correctly, because as is it looks like there is an edge at that location.
Thank you glad you enjoyed. So in 0.21 of freecad there are surface finishing symbols included in techdraw. I am currently creating a video regarding these features which I hope to release this week.
Im a beginner on CAD software. For some reasons I can't make a hole or if I'm able to make one on XY I can't make another one on XZ. I search and FreeCAD said I'm adding a multiple bodies or it's outside the body... I'm just getting frustrade. Ill keep watching your tutorials. Please make a body with different indents, holes in different sections XY,XZ,YZ
Thank you so much for these great tutorials! Really got me started with CAD. I have a question about this part. Why would we prefer to add the fillets in the sketch? I read that most people agree, that adding the fillets is best to be done as a last step on the body and keep the sketch as simple as possible. Why does this not apply here?
Glad your enjoying these videos. It's really down to preference at the end of the day. With this object it is very simplistic. Not much is going to change. If you have a more complex model then it's worth adding them as a separate operation. Those kind of decisions you will find out from personal experience, scenario and time as you progress with your learning of CAD.
There is a icon by the side of pocket which allows a hole. From here you have some options for threads. It's one of the videos that I'm also working on 😁😁😁
So far, its not so diffrent from SolidWorks. I dont see why all the hate about FreeCAD, its seems awesome free ware and less fluff that clog all the other 3d CADs. I had a lot of doubts about it up till now, and i think im gonna swich now)))
I am almost 77 years old and new to FreeCad and using CAD software, and you make it easy to follow along.
Thank you!
That is great to hear, thank you for the feedback and welcome to the journey.
It seems like it's never too late to learn new things.
Personally, I have made it a hobby, which greatly stimulates my need to constantly discover new things.
Just like me, you are certainly in the best place to learn how to use FreeCAD, with the best teacher available on RUclips.
I'm coming up on 73 and also am new to FreeCAD. I started with Fusion360 a while back, and while I really like it, I'm using the hobby (free) license which precludes any type of analysis. Since I'm designing for 3D printing, I wanted to be able to run finite element analysis on my models to optimize for strength, which is available in at least two forms for FreeCAD.
Since I'm just getting underway with FreeCAD, I've got lots of learning to do before I jump into any of the addons!
Never stop learning !
72 here. Starting on my FreeCAD journey. Thank you for this.
This series wins my “shortest time between watching it and becoming a patreon member” award.
Thank you so much :) :) :) Really appreciate that.
Im right behind you!! The most pedagogical tutorial iv ever seen.. totally focused on the pupils and total lack of "showoff" Very good! Thank you @MangoJellySolutions
Just like Elon Musk Tweeted "You can basically learn anything on RUclips/Reddit" this educational series has more value then a college course. Thank you Mango.
Thank you so so much :)
I've never fully understood any CAD program until now ...this series is a game changer
Great to hear, glad your finding them useful.
How much have you learned since making this comment? How is your progress going? This is day one for me and I have not been this interested in learning something since becoming an autobody technician.
65 year old ex-mechanical engineer here who's used a few CAD systems in his time ... Pro-E, Catia, Creo, Solidworks, SDRC I-DEAS, etc and have been on many many CAD training courses and can honestly say your tutorials are the best I've experienced. Many thanks and keep up the good work!
Thank you so so much :) It's great to hear feeback as I have no idea except from the comments if I am going down the right tracks. I really appreciate that, and thank you for such kind words.
Thank you so much for this series. Back in the early 2000s I studied drafting at a Vo-Tech high school, so for two years I worked with AutoCAD three hours a day, five days per week (not to mention old-fashioned drafting-table style drafting). However, after I graduated I was unable to find a job in the field and the knowledge slowly became inert, burying itself deeply in my subconscious over the last two decades. These videos are helping to bring that part of me back to life, and it’s been wonderful. This is truly a public service and I hope that you’re being well compensated. I will donate when I’m able.
Thank you so much for your kind words and some background of where you came from. Like you I didn't venture into the job that I studied for (3D design) and ended up taking a different path but in the background I still kept that fire ticking over. I decided that one day I would go all out and get back into 3D and ended up in the realms of CAD. After a while learning and using freeCAD I decided to share my knowledge with everyone as there wasn't much in the terms of documentation. And this is where I am now :) Unfortunately there is not much compensation money wise. This is more for love than money, I don't get much out of it just the donations and the joy that I am helping people achieve their goals and helping them move forward with their hobbies / projects.
I needed a custom part for my car. I wish I had the funds to have someone custom make it for me, instead I am here! Best how-to series I have watched
Glad they are helping, thank you so much 😊😊
Played around with FreeCAD off and on for years and always struggled to make it work.
3 videos in and you've covered 90% of the issues I had trying to learning it on my own.
Thank you so much for feeding back, great to see that these videos are helping. I hope to update all of these to the newest version of FreeCAD
This is an excellent series. I have already recommended it to two friends. Thanks!
Glad you enjoy it!, and thank you for passing along to others.
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Have watched several FreeCAD tutorials and this series is by far the most intuitive to follow and understand. The 'building-block' (modular) approach breaks complex concepts into manageable-sized pieces. The information is presented at an easy-to-follow pace. Thank you for creating such excellent content. I now feel confident investing in 3D-printing and laser cutting machinery.
Thank you so much. Its great to hear that what I am doing is helping others so much. It does take a lot of time making the videos but comments like yours show its well worth it.
I forced 25 friends of mine to watch the whole series, this is that good....wow what a effort....
Thank you, and thanks for recommending my videos to them.
I had almost given up on trying to learn CAD for myself. Your videos made everything easy.
Thank you!
Glad I could help make your journey a bit easier.
I was going to school to earn an AAS for CAD. I only had 2 more classes to go but ran out of money to finish. I had learned using Inventor. I'm so glad I found these tutorials, the others one I have found in the past was..... not so good. You're doing a great job. It'd all coming back to me now. Thanks you.
Know that feeling regarding problems with finishing courses due to circumstances especially when you have just a few lessons to go can be a real heart breaker. I had a similar experience when I was training to be a teacher. Just had a few more exams to sit and then I was fully qualified only to have my training provider go bust. Glad your enjoying all the tutorials, it's great to hear they are helping people like yourself. Thank you for the kind comments 😊
These are the best FreeCAD tutorials I have found!
As usual another excellent video. I've been using freecad for several years now, mostly for preparing 3d print parts. Even though this series is geared for beginners I still learned a number of things from watching it.
Thank you for the kind comments and support through this channels lifetime. Its great that even with tutorials that are geared towards the beginner that people like yourself with experience still can benefit. I'm trying to strike a balance with new comers to freecad and the more experienced, releasing videos for both along with my findings with experiments and research in the area of 3D. So I always greatful for feedback, thank you.
Thank you very much for this series of videos. Your timing in the video is spot on, even though I have to pause/rewind at times. This is not you, but usually when I have made a mistake lol. I may be following step by step, but I still feel a sense of accomplishment when I complete a part. This tells me that your approach to teaching is first rate. Thanks again :)
Glad it was helpful! And thank you so much for the feedback and kind words :)
Well made video and very well explained techniques. Thank you from an ex-pat Cornishman.
I am almost 27 years old and new to FreeCad and using CAD software, and you make it easy to follow along.
Thank you!
Thank you, great to hear that these videos are helping
I have spent years using Fusion 360 but had a computer crash a few months ago so had to get a new computer, it would not let me sign in to fusion even after about a month try with their support, probably because i was a hobby user, so I looked at Freecad and it went well over my head even watching other UT video's wo did not appear to have the ability to expand the tool bars so you could see what they were doing or talking at 500 words a minute. Found your video's and you make it so simple thank you well done, another 77 year old you seem to be keeping OAP's very happy and I am sure also the younger generation
Great to hear that and thank you so much for taking the time to feedback. I do have a numbers on my youtube stats towards the mature age generations and also I have heard from comments that people who have ADHD like the learning experience. I have been frustrated with a lot of learning paths and really thought about what I found frustrating and are mindful of that in my teaching (later I found I had ADHD and Dyslexia which probably shows the reasons why I had trouble at school). I am always evolving from feedback as I want to strike a balance. Is only from feedback like yours that I know I am on the right track. I can't seem to crack the under 20 range though. That's a bit of a mystery to me. I really appreciate the kind words, thank you :)
Thanks! being 76yrs old on a fixed income, I wish you had a one or two dollar Patreon membership for us old guys.
Thank you for posting this, you are the second person today that has mentioned this. I have just update Patreon and added a £1 teer as times are tough but people are still wanting to donate which is so kind. Thank you.
This series is great. I've been trying to fast track learning freecad, based on my experience with other modelling and drawing software, but it's different to anything I've used and I kept getting frustrated. I finally have the patience to approach this as a proper beginner and your level of detail and your explanations are really useful. Thanks.
Thank you very much for your comment and kind words. It's great to see how these tutorials are performing. And it's important for me to see knowledge wise where other viewers are coming from. I feed that back into preparing new learning content. Thank you and glad to see you are enjoying the content.
I previously wrestled with Blender to produce STL files of objects for manufacture. This is what I SHOULD have been doing, and the power the software exhibits is inspirational. Thanks to a great teacher.
Glad to be of help. FreeCAD is only going to get better going forward.
Excellent explanations, detail and resources of FreeCAD. Thanks I'll see you in the next
Thank you, great to hear you like 😁👍
When I started this tutorial I didn´t think I was going to enjoy this one as much, but I was wrong. I was a grreat workflow and it was super fun and easy. Now I know something I didn´t even know I wanted to know. Great job on this tutorial. Thanks so much.
Great to hear that you enjoyed, the thumbnail doesn't have the most appealing end result but it's a good workflow to learn. Thank you for the kind comment.
You have done an excellent job with all of your videos. understanding the work-flow has been really appreciated. I wish I had seen these when I started learning FreeCAD!
Thanks for all your support over these years and really glad your still enjoying the videos. Thank you so much.
Thank you for your fantastic videos I appreciate it so much, I'm only just beginning as I have a 3d printer and need to learn cad, I'm up to tutorial 3 and enjoyed them very much, tutorial 4 tomorrow night 👍🤗
Nice to see your enjoying and learning 😊 Thank you for the kind comments and I got this becomes as long and interesting hobby for you.
I actually stopped practicing on the other screen and just watched the video as I was so engrossed in what was being described, and I've only just realised it was 46mins...
By far the best tutorial for FreeCAD v0.20 I've watched...
Thank you so much, glad you enjoyed.
I thought I had "mastered" the basics of FreeCAD, but I realize that I was multiplying sketches and constraints unnecessarily.
According to the comments I read (below), I can see that I'm not the only one who appreciates going back to the basics of FreeCAD.
Thank you again for sharing your expertise and mastery of FreeCAD.
At the end of the day what you and others have done isn't wrong, as long as you make the desired geometry the end outcome will be the same. But learning how to constrain in multiple ways allows you to become a better designer by understanding the software in more depth. And these are transferable skills to other CAD packages. It's been great running these tutorials, there is a lot more to come and thank you for your supportive comments.
I finally fished part -3-, I have learned to go really slow, can't tell you how many times I started over, Thanks, on to part 4.
This might be the best tutorial i've ever come across.
Than you 😁😁👍👍😊
Perfect pace of instruction and enough details on the basics to get beginners familiarized with the tool. Your video is very valuable.
Thank you very much!
My only regret about this video is that I can only give one like. Phenominally done!
Thank you so much 😊
Thank you I had tried other freecad video tutorials and couldn't wrap my head around it but starting with you videos everything seemed to click and I was able to start moving forward on my projects
Glad I could help! So glad these videos are helping out. I teach in a very different way to others and it looks like it's working :) Thank you
Thank you for explaining every step as you do it. There are times where you could assume that the viewer shouldn't need a particular step explained because it was covered in detail in a previous video. But of course to someone just learning, it's impossible to remember everything you've previously demonstrated. So even though many of your explanations are redundant, they're useful. Cheers.
Just did my first cad ever by following these tutorial 😅, usually i do manual drawing for my DIY project, thanks for making it easier! 🙏
Great to hear!! Glad the videos were of help 😊😊😊😊
This is by far the overall the best informative video that covers so much good basic info. Thanks for the video.
Glad you enjoyed it, and thanks for the comment :)
just getting into using this to make 3D printer projects plus have to say the way you explain everything and the options you describe is really a great way to show people how to use and why very clear and knowledgeable.
Thank you so much for the kind feedback. Great to see the videos are helping and your enjoying. Good luck with your new hobby 😊😊
On of the best tutorial series ever , thank you very much.
Thank you so much for the kind comment, glad your enjoying the series.
I got into cad to design my own hardwares for bags. And this tutorials have been amazing. It unlocked my potential to create my own hardwares instead of using common hardwares that every other people use. Thank you for the series.
Great to hear your finding these tutorials useful and it's helping to opening up more projects
As I slowly work my way thro this excellent series, I have to remind myself that it took years for me to become proficient at Solidworks 😳. And this is a free package 👍. So I just have to pinch myself now and then, and say slow down Scots 😅
Highly appreciated for the video 3. Again, your very clear and step-by-step illustration also inspired me to think about there is not only one way to create the object body. We need think about how to make it simpliar and easy which means that is effiecient and quality of the drawing.
Thanks for the comments glad your finding these videos useful. Yes there are so many ways to create the same model. I was going to go into lofting the same one but I am going to put that in another video with a different object to keep things interesting as you wouldn't really want to go down a loft route with this object, it will be over kill. Simplicity is the key :)
It's been about 20 years since I lived in the UK. This series is quite good. Really good. I must admit I had to recalibrate my ears to hearing and understanding some of speaking when the "f" sound was pronounced rather than the "th" when at the end of words, or the "v" sound when the "th" were internal. "Wiff", instead of with and "uvvuh" instead of other. I forget the precise mapping of all the various UK dialects, but I'm guessing the narrator grew up somewhere in the Midlands. Kind of fun, really, to try to remember all the various dialects. I used to have many of them sorted out when I lived and worked there.
Yes the accents differ widely in UK. Also if you travel around a lot you end up with a combination which is interesting. I know exactly what you mean, where I cone from the words 'free' and 'three' sound almost identical. Also some 'h' s are often dropped Chatham becomes Chatam. So your guess is a bit far from where I grew up, I grew up in the South East in Kent but have a version called a 'Estuary' accent and we often get mistaken for being Australian. Glad you like the videos.
@@MangoJellySolutions Ah....we lived up on The Wirral by the River Mersey. I know all about tidal estuaries.
Brilliant. Appreciate the huge effort you made in putting this series together.
Thank you, glad your enjoying the videos
I just started learning CAD and was torn between FreeCAD and a commercial tool - open source versus ease of use. Your tutorial made the choice clear!
This training is absolutely fantistic. Thank you.
Thank you 😊
Very excellent series so far. I'm just starting my FreeCAD journey, first to draw some upgrade parts for one of my CNC routers. I have a lot of learning to do yet to get to the point of machining actual parts on my CNC mill.
I didn't notice you mentioning how to show the center measurements of the through holes in TechDraw, but I eventually figured it out; also had to edit my preferences to show the hole centers, something you maybe touched on in video 1 which I mostly skipped but need to go back and watch. I think I need to work through this video a few times and then take what I learned to create some new shape.
Great to see your starting on your journey, freecad is vast it can do so many things and it does have a learning curve but once you get some basic understanding then you can progress quite quickly. There are so many workbenches and you will probably also notice a path workbench for CNC and converting models to gcode (CNC was originally the reasons why I stated this channel but it seemed to evolve down a different route ). Great to hear you ventured deeper and added the additional measurements. I only scratched the surface but I would like to do a more in depth techdraw in the future with cross section, surface marks etc. Thank you for the kind comments.
What setting did you find to add the center measurement?
Another fantastic video on FreeCAD, thank you.
Great to hear, thank you for your comment 👍
These are great videos and thank you. I was swimming around in FreeCAD and ready to abandon it. 2nd tutorial and getting the hang of object orient model development and it is really powerful. Keep going !!
Great to hear! Glad it's been of help. Freecad has a steep learning curve. I know what it feels like as when I started I had virtually nothing to guide me and took me months to do the simplest of things.
I have made my first two widgets. Thank you for these videos.
Thanks very much for these tutorials!!! I worked with CAD and CAM for printed circuit boards but I'm totally new to 3D CAD. Like your presentation style!
Thank you, glad you like the videos. Do you work with KiCAD for your circuit boards?
@@MangoJellySolutions I used to work with the Allegro, Calma, Tango, Pentalogix, P-Cad, Scicards and Mentor programs for PCB CAD & CAM (as a reference, some of these programs are at the Solid Works & ProEng level of complexity) . Did a lot of mechanical design on a drafting board (I just dated myself eh?). Retired now, recently purchased a LongMill CNC router for the workshop and I'm looking at 3D printers so 3D capable software is needed. After some research I thought that FreeCAD would be OK - turns out that is WAY more capable that I expected. Enjoying your videos! Have to admit that I cheated when following along with the exercise - I turned on a 5mm snap grid to make positioning features easier 😀 Cheers from Ontario, Canada!
Update: last night I printed the model from section 2, printed fine, looked fantastic, started section 3, NOW its making sense, love the '=' tool, that saves a lot of time...
I am grateful you are revamping some of your videos, so I am working through from the beginning again. I don't profess to be a quick learner and your re-iteration of different approaches allowed by Freecad make my journey less daunting.
So glad it's helping, it's great to hear people are finding it useful. Thank you for your support 👍👍👍
This series is fantastic. Thank you.
Great to hear 😁
Best FreeCad tutorials!
Great tutorial, clear instructions.. Thank You
Glad you like, thank you 😁👍
Excellent presentation. I like the pace because, for the most part, I can keep up in my drawing as the video plays, only pausing occasionally.
Thank you for the feedback and it's great that you are finding the pace to your liking. I've been tempted to add more pauses in the video to allow for people to catch up but it's a balancing act as the video may end up being too long. Thank you for the kind comment.
Another great video. Thanks!
Thanku so much sir,this going to be much help in future for me as a mechanical engineering student
Learned a lot again! I really like the Tech View feature. You explain things very well.
Thank you, great that your enjoying
Thank you so much, I'll give you a "Super Thanks", you explain so well and save us a lot of time.
Thank you so much, glad you enjoyed. And Thanks for your kind comments 👍👍😁
Coming from Fusion 360, this is super helpful. Also made me realise that I've done many many things wrong along the way ( : Thank you so much.
Great freeCAD, video tutorial, but most draftsman/engineers would not rotate the left view so that the points no longer lineup horizontally with the points of the front view.
Really enjoying this series I’m learning a lot 😀
Glad to hear it :)
really great tutorial, thank you!
You're welcome 😊
I have no idea how I found this course but it’s great! Thank you!
Great to hear, thank you so much for the kind comment.
Amazing series and much needed for freecad. Thank you _so much_ for putting this together for us 👍 Gladly subbed to your patreon - please keep them coming - you're awesome
Hi Jody, thanks for the comments and becoming a patreon. Glad your enjoying these videos. There's so much more to come 😁
Genial, gran curso. Muchas gracias!
Thank you very much for your serie, very well layed out ! In my version (which is very recent), it has no issue anymore with the "multiple solids" in Part Design.
Great to hear! So glad toy are finding the series useful.
Thanks very much for this series of videos
No problems, glad your enjoying them as much as am making them.
Great series.. Thank you.
Great video you are the best on RUclips
Thank you
Excellent tutorial !
Huge fan of your teaching style, Shifu!
Legendry comment! PMSL ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
outstanding work
I ran into a problem at 24:28. On my computer, after you click "Create external geometry", the red dot *does not* apppear on the base, although that side of it does turn yellow when you hover over it. Your video suggests that the red dot on the base is crucial for the Constrain coincident function. On closer inspection, I see "Linking this will cause circular dependency" in the lower left (not in the Report View). I am unclear what triggered that, as I have tried to follow your tutorial exactly, and I am new to FreeCAD. I tried this on version 0.21.2 and 1.0, with the same result..
...and yes, this series has been *extremely* helpful in learning FreeCAD (at least up to this point). In my opinion, it's just as good as Blender Guru.
Hi, thank you for this tutorials. I am new to freecad and still trying to understand the work around freecad and these are extremely helpful. I hope you will appreciate my perspective too. I feel that there are two problems with your tutorial.
1. you are trying to do too much in a single go which creates too many breaks in the flow of tutorial. We have to make and then delete things a lot more no. of times. You can use a flow chart to track down all the tools to streamline your presentation.
2. You do not emphasize on the key point. Some of the key points get missed in just few seconds. You can slow down on these key points. or even repeat them.
Still, These tutorials are full of knowledge and like a lifeline for beginners and hobbyists.
Thank you for the feedback always appreciated.
no luck with those inside fillets, lol doesn't seem to matter how many ways I try. One last try, I'll go and install freecad 2.0 and see if that works.
Well it looks like version 2.01 has solved the fillet problem Yeah, but for some reason all my font sizes were tiny, so I had to program it in the python editor(2 hrs later). Not the text in the 3d view port but all the rest which is turned up in my setting in linux, but for some reason the new version in not excepting the parameters from my computer, but yet version 1.9 was.
either way I am much happier now. If any one is listening. Thanks for your videos Mr Mango or is that Mr Jelly
Sorry I have only just seen this comment, sorry to hear you are having problems but have managed to get at least some of them solved. I recently been looking into changing text sizes for larger screens and have thrown a few questions out to see if there is some kind of script that can be run.
@@MangoJellySolutions Thanks for responding, I'm just finishing up lesson 5.1 - polar patterns now.
I did find a script that worked, the only thing I don't know at this moment is when I shut off my pc and restart free cad if I will have to enter it again. I entered it into the python console and it worked. Here it is.
>>> from PySide import QtGui
>>> f=QtGui.QApplication.font()
>>> print ("default:", f.pointSize())
>>> f.setPointSize( 20 ) # 20 is what I finally settled on but that's the number you will want to play with
>>> f=QtGui.QApplication.setFont(f)
I'm finding this course very useful
Cool, Glad to hear that :)
Very well taught, thank you
Thank you 😊
Great tutorial (series), really enjoy your way of explaining things. I have however stumbled across one issue while following this particular video: at around 35:00 when adding the projection group to the drawing my top and right view are lacking some lines. In the right view it's the top and bottom lines between the two most outward vertices of the base-plate. In the top view it's the four line segments that connect the central protrusion to the rest of the base-plate. Writing this right now I am becoming aware of the fact that the lines that are invisible to me are the ones that result when viewing a fillet from an angle that flattens the fillet's plane to a line. I am using version .21 and after some online digging and experimenting I was able to find a workaround where I
1: select the affected view
2: set all "direction" properties with value = 0,00 to 0,01
3: refresh drawing
4: reset values from 0,01 to 0,00
5: refresh again
6: profit
The issue seems to be related to numerical errors when it is is crucial if something is 0 or nearly 0.
Anyone else have this issue / know more about this?
Thank you for adding this detailed response and work around it really helps others who encounter the error. I haven't seen this myself and hopefully someone viewing this can help. It might be worth trying the freecad forum.
Excellent!
thanks for the tutorials. Just a heads up: I wasnt able to create the final fillet neither this time or in the previous one. So ill open a topic at the freecad forums and see whats going on before I continue. kind of unique issue so it seems. cant wait to continue on with the series!
Your video tutorial are very clear and precise. I am using FC 0.20.2 on Ubuntu 23.04 and I don't see the vertex black points on the TechDraw page. I tried to modify the vertex scale in the preference (as you show in your video) but the situation remain the same
Same here, let's wait for an answer...
Fantastic. Thank you
I was searching for tutorials to learn this, but i was being disappointed for the spanish tutorials, those are so mediocre. But this playlist is so so good, thanks.
Great to hear that you found this course and enjoying it. Thank you :)
Fine work.
Thanks!
This series is absolutely amazing. I’ve learned so much and I’m only on three do you have a paid class? There are some questions that I would like to ask.
Great to hear you have been enjoying the series. Unfortunately I don't do a paid class. I get numerous requests for classes but due to work commitments I can't commit to do them. I am trying to fund myself through patreon and donations to go full time in this venture but the closest I can get at this time is taking unpaid holiday every now and then from the proceeds of donations to work on more videos. But if you throw over some questions I see what I can do.
great video, thanks 👍
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first create rounded edges, then constrain all 4 diameters, then constrain the centre of the circle on the centre of the arch, and even less constrains had to be used. JMHO. But it's overall nice to follow along these classes.
I have the latest version, minor differences from yours on here and not sure if my struggle today from 23.00 (involving rectangle).
When you got to the part showing over constraint 23.34 and when you deleted the constraint, mine did not give the same results. I started a few times but no luck. Not sure what I'm missing?
Eventually got it fully constrained but once I got to my tech drawing, this vertical lines were missing only on the right view. Strange 😅
I gotta try this lesson over again.
Thank you again for sharing your knowledge, I've gleaned a lot this far.
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In the final model on the left and right sides where the upright meets the base (between the fillets), I would not expect to see a line since those two pieces make a flat surface. Is there a method to have FreeCAD render this correctly, because as is it looks like there is an edge at that location.
Sir you make this intuitive. Thank you. How do you include things like surface finish, and other manufecturing instructions?
Thank you glad you enjoyed. So in 0.21 of freecad there are surface finishing symbols included in techdraw. I am currently creating a video regarding these features which I hope to release this week.
Thanks
Im a beginner on CAD software. For some reasons I can't make a hole or if I'm able to make one on XY I can't make another one on XZ. I search and FreeCAD said I'm adding a multiple bodies or it's outside the body... I'm just getting frustrade. Ill keep watching your tutorials. Please make a body with different indents, holes in different sections XY,XZ,YZ
Thank you so much for these great tutorials! Really got me started with CAD.
I have a question about this part. Why would we prefer to add the fillets in the sketch? I read that most people agree, that adding the fillets is best to be done as a last step on the body and keep the sketch as simple as possible. Why does this not apply here?
Glad your enjoying these videos. It's really down to preference at the end of the day. With this object it is very simplistic. Not much is going to change. If you have a more complex model then it's worth adding them as a separate operation. Those kind of decisions you will find out from personal experience, scenario and time as you progress with your learning of CAD.
@@MangoJellySolutionsOkay, I understand. Thank you for your quick answer!
Thanks for this! Follow up question; How can I make those pockets into screw pockets?
There is a icon by the side of pocket which allows a hole. From here you have some options for threads. It's one of the videos that I'm also working on 😁😁😁
thank you
So far, its not so diffrent from SolidWorks. I dont see why all the hate about FreeCAD, its seems awesome free ware and less fluff that clog all the other 3d CADs.
I had a lot of doubts about it up till now, and i think im gonna swich now)))
Great to hear. Thank you for adding that comment. So good to get honest opinions.