I've just got into FreeCAD as I bought a 3D printer from my brother and want to design some cool parts. Just started watching your videos and I'm seeing how incredibly comprehensive CAD is! It kind of makes me think how people view me when using software to make music. It's also quite comprehensive - but I'd say 3D CAD is so much more involved than music creation! The objective nature and precision required to make usable parts is so much more demanding than making music, as a tiny slip-up in music doesn't necessarily spoil the end product as it's a subjective medium. Thanks so much for your videos. Really enjoying learning from them. Really appreciate your time.
That's cool I don't think I get too many music content creators here. I'll tell you something funny I tried my hand at music making- during some of the fast forward portions I didn't want to get a copyright strike for using someone else's Jeopardy! recording so I ended up using watching tutorials on how to play jeopardy on the piano, then went to an online piano where you click on the keys or use your keyboard, I recorded every individual note from watching which keys they pressed on the youtube videos and put them all in audacity. I think I did pretty good for someone with no musical training! Long story short mad respect for talented music people. If you see any value in doing a collaboration or anything to get some eyes on your channel let me know.
@@JokoEngineeringhelp Yeah, that's how I started with music - an audio editor and wave files, splicing them together. Now it's all non-linear editing with tonnes of tracks, tonnes of CPU usage, and a LOT of wait time for whole albums to export... Until the band want a tiny tweak and you have to wait another couple of hours for everything to export! It's quite challenging at times. And thanks for the offer of a collab! I haven't done anything with my channel for a long time, to be honest. I'll definitely keep it in mind, though, if I get back into it! Much respect. 👊
The amount of work that went into this is amazing. Im just starting freecad, this has shown me that anything im working on should be more than well supported. Thank you for this
Fantastic demo of the capabilities of FREECAD. I have used it for several projects, some of which were impossible using several other cad systems I have access to. Most likely also easy in Solid works, which I do not have. Clearly Freecad is as good in almost every way. I really must thank you as over several videos I have learned to use EQUALITY and several other features like mirror and array options far more, in place of drawing each detail and dimensioning these details. Of course a major gain is that one dimension can adjust many details when adjusted rather than need to update so many separate dimensions that should be the same. Watching your videos has been invaluable. My main experience in CAD dates back to mid 1980s where the CAD system, that my workplace used, was more an electronic drawing board, still drawing most three views and sections manually, placing dimensions and comments on screen rather than pencil and pen on vellum. Those $100K workstations aslo used overnight t compute a 3D view of for example an alternator housing, ith all its vent slots and other detas. As well I had some use of the then popular AUTOCAD. Yuk, am I glad that these CAD and computer systems now do so much more.
That is definitelly insane! I was afraid that designing an aluminum case for my product is a bit too mych for FreeCAD taking into account various courved shapes but now - after seeing a bit of this long work of yours - I'm more than confident that I'll be Okay! Thank you very much for all your effort in making this video!!!!
That was epic! Did an all nighter interspersed with CSGO and just managed to complete next night. I've learned more about using the CAD features in this one tutorial than others combined. Great work thanks for showing us mere mortals how to use FreeCAD. Now to make an F18 in your new series, but must sleep first!
I'm just starting out with Freecad and still getting frustrated with the simplest of things. You make it look so easy !! But it is inspiring to watch you work and see what can be achieved with Freecad if you put the time in. Thanks your videos are amazing !!
Thank you very much for this. I really appreciate all your work and the clear explanations. I am modelling something completely different but will put it on hold until I can copy this and understand it.
Just finished watching this. I had to break it up over several evenings. I've just started using FreeCad so it helps me see what it will do. I don't see myself doing anything this complex, but wow! Thanks for doing this.
I’ve learnt so much from this great video, especially how to tame this program regarding recomputes etc. By the way for fillets and chamfers, I find it easier to ctrl click all the edges first.
This is an amazing video! Maybe worth revisiting with version 0.19. Now that multitransform supports adding features. Should make this go a lot faster. I know this is an old video but I keep coming back to it for some of its tips and tricks.
Wow. That is a fantastic effort. I learned quite a bit from this video especially in relation to productivity improvements using techniques such as the multitransform and associated tools. Thanks for taking the time to create and share this video
What a fantastic walk-through. I am working my way through it and hit a snag at about the 19 minute make. No matter what I do when I try to insert the Cylinder centre ref plane and sketch on it I can only see the lines if I view it from the rear. I have tried these steps several times and it always draws on the rear. If I use wire frame I can sketch on the front face.
The oil lines at 1:45:00 are cool and all, but completely unmanufacturable without 3D metal printing. Drill bits don't drill curves XD. I'm really enjoying this and have learned more about Freecad than all the other tutorials I've watched combined.
Amazing video! I am picking CAD back up and I have chosen Freecad. Your videos are just wonderful. I watch them while I'm working from home. I am working on building a airliner wing and I am working on the internal ribs. I've made surfaces and used a loft to slice the parts. Afterwards, I'm left with all of these exploded parts. Is there a better way of slicing surfaces that leaves the part whole or is that the only way in Freecad? Thanks
Hello. This was an extremely informative tutorial. I was curious if a complete car designing can be done in FreeCAD or not using actual blueprints of any given car? If possible, could you please make a tutorial on it? Please?
Just watched this. An absolute fantastic video. I learned so much. But as a machinist, I cringe at the curves oil flows. It would be impossible to drill that; so the only way to get those is to make cavities via your casting, which would drive up the cost of manufacturing. You are best off having straight oil lines that can be machine into the cavity. Cheers!
Thanks! I learned a lot during this video. I was wondering; you seem to have experience with a lot of cad software. What is your reason for using freecad?
Hi first of all, amazing work. second- on minute 53 when you are doing the mirroring of the pad001, it gives me an error that the mirrored transformation does not touch the face. I checked that everything is symmetrical in the pocket sketch as you did but it still shows the error. any ideas? thanks
Hello! You have done an amazing thing with this free powerfull tools. I like this tools very much. I'm planning to do some customize tool development of this Free CAD system for use in production drawing and modeling purpose. But due to lack of programming I can not procced quickly. I've very interest on Engineering CAD system's internal working priciple. If you could help or suggest, please give a feedback. Thanks
You can, but in my experience the offset has made a sketch without constraints. I prefer a fully constrained sketch and find adding every constraint all over again and keeping track of them in a way that I can predict future updates to be more challenging than adding it in myself if that makes sense. Like a lot of things, it probably comes down to taste.
Thanks so much, It was my first experience with freecad and surely not the last! will you make a tuto on doing the piston moving sketch (seen in your outro)?
Some of the people who watch my channel use it commercially. It's an excellent modeler and if the end product is a model, like a mesh for 3d printing I think so. If drawings are needed, I think some development would be necessary to conform to ISO or ASME drafting standards, especially for putting geometric dimensions and tolerances on drawings. There are freelance job postings on the FreeCAD forum for commercial use. I would be pretty excited if an open source software like FreeCAD could start taking some real estate in the commercial space.
Good question. The rebuild time is correlated with processor and I'm not sure if it's a single or multi-thread process. If you're having rebuild time issues when editing the part, I recommend going to the top level tree item, right clicking, and selecting skip recomputes. That will affect some non-critical sketch components from updating, but allow you to rebuild whenever you want instead of it automatically doing it all the time.
I watched the video attentively. I'm learning from your basic videos but am still a newb with FreeCAD. Do you offer services? I have a heavily modified vintage cylinder head and need to get it designed into FreeCAD. It is a V-6 with single overhead cams and 4 valves/cyl. If you're interested reply and I'll give you my email. Thank you!
How do you maintain good freecad performance with such large models? If i make a part that is so much as 2 or 3 pads with fillets, my freecad becomes unusable because every line i draw or rotation in the viewer takes 30+ seconds. My computer is near top of the line at the moment, so its not a pc problem i think. Can you(or anyone) point me to a resource where i can learn about this?
I like the dark themes myself. Edit>Preferences>General> and under preference packs, click manage and Open Addon Manager. Download what you like! I like ProDark quite a lot.
Thank you for show us the potential of FreeCAD. This is the best promotion.
Many thanks, the pleasure is mine.
I’ve watched this for 51 minutes so far, very interesting & well explained. A commercial every 6 minutes makes it worse than watching cable.
I've just got into FreeCAD as I bought a 3D printer from my brother and want to design some cool parts. Just started watching your videos and I'm seeing how incredibly comprehensive CAD is! It kind of makes me think how people view me when using software to make music. It's also quite comprehensive - but I'd say 3D CAD is so much more involved than music creation! The objective nature and precision required to make usable parts is so much more demanding than making music, as a tiny slip-up in music doesn't necessarily spoil the end product as it's a subjective medium.
Thanks so much for your videos. Really enjoying learning from them. Really appreciate your time.
That's cool I don't think I get too many music content creators here. I'll tell you something funny I tried my hand at music making- during some of the fast forward portions I didn't want to get a copyright strike for using someone else's Jeopardy! recording so I ended up using watching tutorials on how to play jeopardy on the piano, then went to an online piano where you click on the keys or use your keyboard, I recorded every individual note from watching which keys they pressed on the youtube videos and put them all in audacity. I think I did pretty good for someone with no musical training! Long story short mad respect for talented music people.
If you see any value in doing a collaboration or anything to get some eyes on your channel let me know.
@@JokoEngineeringhelp
Yeah, that's how I started with music - an audio editor and wave files, splicing them together. Now it's all non-linear editing with tonnes of tracks, tonnes of CPU usage, and a LOT of wait time for whole albums to export... Until the band want a tiny tweak and you have to wait another couple of hours for everything to export! It's quite challenging at times.
And thanks for the offer of a collab! I haven't done anything with my channel for a long time, to be honest. I'll definitely keep it in mind, though, if I get back into it! Much respect. 👊
The amount of work that went into this is amazing. Im just starting freecad, this has shown me that anything im working on should be more than well supported. Thank you for this
You're very welcome. Thanks for the comment
Fantastic demo of the capabilities of FREECAD. I have used it for several projects, some of which were impossible using several other cad systems I have access to. Most likely also easy in Solid works, which I do not have. Clearly Freecad is as good in almost every way.
I really must thank you as over several videos I have learned to use EQUALITY and several other features like mirror and array options far more, in place of drawing each detail and dimensioning these details. Of course a major gain is that one dimension can adjust many details when adjusted rather than need to update so many separate dimensions that should be the same.
Watching your videos has been invaluable. My main experience in CAD dates back to mid 1980s where the CAD system, that my workplace used, was more an electronic drawing board, still drawing most three views and sections manually, placing dimensions and comments on screen rather than pencil and pen on vellum. Those $100K workstations aslo used overnight t compute a 3D view of for example an alternator housing, ith all its vent slots and other detas. As well I had some use of the then popular AUTOCAD.
Yuk, am I glad that these CAD and computer systems now do so much more.
That is definitelly insane! I was afraid that designing an aluminum case for my product is a bit too mych for FreeCAD taking into account various courved shapes but now - after seeing a bit of this long work of yours - I'm more than confident that I'll be Okay! Thank you very much for all your effort in making this video!!!!
Thanks very much I appreciate it!
@@JokoEngineeringhelp We appreciate you!
That was epic! Did an all nighter interspersed with CSGO and just managed to complete next night. I've learned more about using the CAD features in this one tutorial than others combined. Great work thanks for showing us mere mortals how to use FreeCAD. Now to make an F18 in your new series, but must sleep first!
I'm just starting out with Freecad and still getting frustrated with the simplest of things. You make it look so easy !! But it is inspiring to watch you work and see what can be achieved with Freecad if you put the time in. Thanks your videos are amazing !!
Thanks a lot! Good luck, it does get easier. I was clenching the vowels off my keyboard when I learned SolidWorks years ago.
Thank you very much for this. I really appreciate all your work and the clear explanations. I am modelling something completely different but will put it on hold until I can copy this and understand it.
Just finished watching this. I had to break it up over several evenings. I've just started using FreeCad so it helps me see what it will do. I don't see myself doing anything this complex, but wow! Thanks for doing this.
after 4 years still no one could compete with this!!
Thanks!
Thank you for this video. I have learned a lot about engine head construction and about working in FreeCad.
I’ve learnt so much from this great video, especially how to tame this program regarding recomputes etc.
By the way for fillets and chamfers, I find it easier to ctrl click all the edges first.
This is an amazing video! Maybe worth revisiting with version 0.19. Now that multitransform supports adding features. Should make this go a lot faster. I know this is an old video but I keep coming back to it for some of its tips and tricks.
That edit around 3:42:00 took by far the longest I've ever seen using FreeCAD. Great video, though!
Wow. That is a fantastic effort. I learned quite a bit from this video especially in relation to productivity improvements using techniques such as the multitransform and associated tools. Thanks for taking the time to create and share this video
Thanks, this was great. Learned a lot from seeing how all the things from the other videos fit together to make something.
Absolute epic vid. I'm going to be watching this for weeks. Thanks.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us. I have learned a lot just from this video.
I am so grateful for this video, thanks
I am learning a lot thanks to your videos. Very grateful for your efforts and for sharing your work with the world!
Thank you very happy to help
Amazing work!!
You really deserve much more likes!!!
What a fantastic walk-through. I am working my way through it and hit a snag at about the 19 minute make. No matter what I do when I try to insert the Cylinder centre ref plane and sketch on it I can only see the lines if I view it from the rear. I have tried these steps several times and it always draws on the rear. If I use wire frame I can sketch on the front face.
Try using map reverse like at 9:55 here:
ruclips.net/video/hbO2VZdJSUA/видео.html
The oil lines at 1:45:00 are cool and all, but completely unmanufacturable without 3D metal printing. Drill bits don't drill curves XD. I'm really enjoying this and have learned more about Freecad than all the other tutorials I've watched combined.
This is why all automotive manufacturers cast cylinder heads. They don’t drill oil valleys.
Amazing video! I am picking CAD back up and I have chosen Freecad. Your videos are just wonderful. I watch them while I'm working from home.
I am working on building a airliner wing and I am working on the internal ribs. I've made surfaces and used a loft to slice the parts. Afterwards, I'm left with all of these exploded parts. Is there a better way of slicing surfaces that leaves the part whole or is that the only way in Freecad? Thanks
Hello. This was an extremely informative tutorial. I was curious if a complete car designing can be done in FreeCAD or not using actual blueprints of any given car? If possible, could you please make a tutorial on it? Please?
Just watched this. An absolute fantastic video. I learned so much. But as a machinist, I cringe at the curves oil flows. It would be impossible to drill that; so the only way to get those is to make cavities via your casting, which would drive up the cost of manufacturing. You are best off having straight oil lines that can be machine into the cavity. Cheers!
thanks for your time to make all of this tutorial i new in this major u teach me a lot,youre so awesome thank u
You're very welcome!
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Thanks! I learned a lot during this video. I was wondering; you seem to have experience with a lot of cad software. What is your reason for using freecad?
Great question I have always loved open source and I think FreeCAD is underutilized, so I try to bring attention to how great it is.
Because SolidWorks is expensive?
Hi first of all, amazing work.
second- on minute 53 when you are doing the mirroring of the pad001, it gives me an error that the mirrored transformation does not touch the face. I checked that everything is symmetrical in the pocket sketch as you did but it still shows the error.
any ideas?
thanks
What a pity, Educational stuff like this with less than 1k likes where unnecessary content thats non-beneficial as well gets likes AF
Hello! You have done an amazing thing with this free powerfull tools. I like this tools very much. I'm planning to do some customize tool development of this Free CAD system for use in production drawing and modeling purpose. But due to lack of programming I can not procced quickly. I've very interest on Engineering CAD system's internal working priciple. If you could help or suggest, please give a feedback.
Thanks
Beautifull! What a Nice long video. Thx!
What hardware do you recommend for working with complex parts like this ? What are you running and how long are your rebuild times ?
Thank you... great tutorial. A question: at 2:37:43 +/-... why don't use the offset?
You can, but in my experience the offset has made a sketch without constraints. I prefer a fully constrained sketch and find adding every constraint all over again and keeping track of them in a way that I can predict future updates to be more challenging than adding it in myself if that makes sense. Like a lot of things, it probably comes down to taste.
@@JokoEngineeringhelp thank you for the answer, and your point of view!!
Great job ))))
Thanks so much, It was my first experience with freecad and surely not the last! will you make a tuto on doing the piston moving sketch (seen in your outro)?
Hi Shmouel; you're looking for a tutorial on making an assembly, as in putting a bunch of parts together?
@@JokoEngineeringhelp Hi, that and animation. I'm currently trying to model a 2-stroke engine cycle. Thanks for your reply
@@shmouel4747 OK I'll start working on something for you. It will take me several weeks as I have some other user questions and projects in the works.
Very Impressive! So, you think Freecad is ready for Commercial use?
Some of the people who watch my channel use it commercially. It's an excellent modeler and if the end product is a model, like a mesh for 3d printing I think so. If drawings are needed, I think some development would be necessary to conform to ISO or ASME drafting standards, especially for putting geometric dimensions and tolerances on drawings. There are freelance job postings on the FreeCAD forum for commercial use. I would be pretty excited if an open source software like FreeCAD could start taking some real estate in the commercial space.
@@JokoEngineeringhelp Are you at the Freecad Forum? Where do you come from?
@@svesom I'm occassionally on the freecadweb.org forum. Mostly in the tutorials section. My username is Celica_Supra
Thank you for sharing this knowledge
The pleasure is mine. Thanks
made me realize how I barely scratched the surface of freecad lol
I'm using like 5% of the tools you use here 💀
I feel that way too sometimes! FreeCAD is wonderful.
Can you shorten the "Rebuild" time with more RAM? Or Faster Harddrive? CPU?
Good question. The rebuild time is correlated with processor and I'm not sure if it's a single or multi-thread process. If you're having rebuild time issues when editing the part, I recommend going to the top level tree item, right clicking, and selecting skip recomputes. That will affect some non-critical sketch components from updating, but allow you to rebuild whenever you want instead of it automatically doing it all the time.
Awsomeeeee
Thank you!
I watched the video attentively. I'm learning from your basic videos but am still a newb with FreeCAD. Do you offer services? I have a heavily modified vintage cylinder head and need to get it designed into FreeCAD. It is a V-6 with single overhead cams and 4 valves/cyl. If you're interested reply and I'll give you my email. Thank you!
How do you maintain good freecad performance with such large models? If i make a part that is so much as 2 or 3 pads with fillets, my freecad becomes unusable because every line i draw or rotation in the viewer takes 30+ seconds. My computer is near top of the line at the moment, so its not a pc problem i think.
Can you(or anyone) point me to a resource where i can learn about this?
What is your version and OS? The documentation section on freecadweb.org is usually helpful
@@JokoEngineeringhelp im running the latest stable build on win 10. ill check the site out. thanks
a long patience for it
Why Is ur use interface diff then my???...🙂my One is white
I like the dark themes myself. Edit>Preferences>General> and under preference packs, click manage and Open Addon Manager. Download what you like! I like ProDark quite a lot.
Hopefully you won't be breaking out the spreadsheets on this one!
I'd be lying if I said I didn't think about it!
2 days later and I am 30 minutes in, lol!
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Thank you!