Fusion360 to FreeCAD - Part 2
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- Опубликовано: 22 авг 2024
- Looking to move from Fusion360 to FreeCAD?
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Omg, thanks! This is the first YT tutorial I found (in 3 months learning FreeCAD) showcasing the Image workbench.
FreeCAD poisoned my dog btw.
The more I watch these, the more amazed and please I am on the breadth and depth of freecad. If ppl think its crap, good luck with continuing to pay ever growing amounts of $s.
Please keep it coming. Right now I'm using both. Mostly due to me being lazy to edit my projects in freecad while they are for 3dprinting anyway.
Ohnestly I think I'm starting to like Freecad more than fusion, there are maybe some features that this cad doesnt like, but I dont bump into same soft lock I had in fusion while using freecad.
It may be harder at first but oh boy it's powerhouse. If you cant do something out of the box you bet your ass that addons will make it.
Also I'm not pro in any means. I have only around something more than a year expirience in using any CAD software at all.
This is a good series I am a long-time Fusion user and am considered well above average in ability on that software but I refuse to be made to pay for it when I am only slightly more than a hobby user now. Some things in FreeCAD are driving me mad right now but with your help I hope to get there. Thanks again.....
same situation here! thx brodie for help!
By far this the best explanation I've seen in English others including Fusion360 leave mo reason to listen or watch, only two people can equal this content creator but in my native language,, I have nothing against other 3D parametric software solutions but can't afford them or not advisable since I am just starting.
Por acaso sua língua nativa é o português? Diga aê quem são as boas almas que ensinam tão bem quanto o Brodie! Conheço o 'Engenheiro de Plantão' e o 'Aravechia 3D'. Duas feras!
I just started freecad and so far i like version 0.21. it reminds me of solid works 2020.
However, the newest dev version of freecad is amazing with the new sketch tools and the ability to type dimensions in as you draw the sketch. Plus realthinder, one of the devs has made some great fixes to the naming topology.
Please keep going with the series! Don't worry about negative comments. I agree that freecad has problems, but as it is open source, we can fix many of the hiccups, even if it will take next year or two.
I'm a new subscriber after finding your channel when looking for FreeCAD videos, but I also really enjoyed your video on electroplating. Thanks for the great content!
"Especially the comments that told me that FreeCAD is garbage"
*reads every one of them*
Damn! Why haven't I been included! It's unfair!
For real tho', I hope this software can progress just like Blender did.
I am not a CAD user (I am recently learning little by little) but I have used Linux and open source for some time. AFAIK, people got pissed over Autodesk, so it will be a good opportunity to get more support to FreeCAD. Remember that there are other tools like OpenSCAD and Solvespace that could (or not) be useful for you.
Support Open Source by using it and recommend it to other people.
"FreeCAD" should change the name. When Talking to people about FreeCAD, they always roll eyes, because they think it is shitty software. I think this is the biggest problem about the software, XD
I'm sorry you got some bad comments. I tried FreeCAD over a year ago, and I didn't like it, but I decided to give it another try this week, I went through your tutorials, and I must say I discovered how powerful and great FreeCAD is. Please, keep up the good work, and I hope to see more of your quality tutorials in the future, for now, I decided to use FreeCAD as my main CAD solution for 3D printing, and I have you to thank for that.
Excellent video demonstrating how to use FreeCAD. Just what is needed, thank you for posting.
As a returning FreeCAD user I'm really frustrated that I didn't continue with FreeCAD when I got suckered into the Fusion360 great con trick resulting me being held to ransom when Autodesk hijacked my files with barely any notice.
Keep doing these videos please Brodie they are very much appreciated and helpful to the many many people who are turning their backs on Audtodesk now including me. It's so good to be back in the world of Open Source.
These videos are great! They quickly show how to get things done in FreeCAD. No it's not yet perfect but if you know the quirks it's actually really good software, considering the price.
Once again great video packed with informations. Starring the one and only Companion Cube :)
Amazing series! Thank you for showing different options and what their advantages+disadvantages are!
Constable Hartley here - glad you fully constrained the sketch😉 Great tutorial👍
FreeCAD is not garbage, I migrated from garbage F360 to free cad. I honestly regret not getting earlier and instead messing with F360 before, since the last garbage update from F360 I'm done with it and it setts me back for a couple of months to recover. Your channel is the best so far, bringing me up and running again. I heavily used Parametric modeling in F360. I was constraint by the useable features that were free on the previous version of F360 which aren't free anymore, so I ditched that garbage software once and for all. Keep it up the good work !!! 👍 Don't let yourself down by the haters.
Nicely done
Holy heck, thank you so much for these videos, I got a great looking cube, and hopefully I can design my stuff now, I came from fusion too, moved to linux, plus the cloud thing bugs me, thank you!, my cube looks great.
FreeCAD is an amazing piece of software, I do not understand anybody who says it isn't, excelente tutorials man thanks! If you can show how to set up the UI yours looks gorgeous!
I tried to use FreeCAD for a couple hours and my experience was nothing but frustration, whereas Fusion was a breeze to pick up and start being productive in. It also doesn't help that the user interface looks like shit and it lacks a lot of the polish that one would expect from a production piece of user software (I do software dev for a living btw). Hope that helps you understand why some people say it is not an amazing piece of software.
Thanks. This is very helpful.
13:49 thought my brand new speakers were already fried.
Just checked and the crackling isn't in the video I uploaded, I guess I've gotta work out what the issue is so it doesn't happen in other videos.
@@BrodieFairhall very strange. Maybe clipping? Not sure what video editor you use but you might try putting a limiter effect on your audio track.
Excelente! I love this course! congratulations!
Thank you so MUCH for making this video! I'm very glad you're making content around this platform, where I can learn a modeling platform which won't be taken away from me by AutoDesk.
thank you so much for your work, time, effort and detail!
I doubt there is something like a Freecad police 😀. Great tutorial, please keep them coming.
I mean... admin on the forum absolutely tried to destroy me for quoting members... despite them doing the exact same, ssooo.....
@@umbratherios5614 Sad to hear. A lot of people are not good at being an admin and can not find the line between maintaining a good standard for their forum and just being a dick. I only use the wiki so I don't have any experience with the fora. Some people forget that having a good and 'open' community is a must for an open source project to succeed. One of the worst I know are the arduino fora. Hope the freecad ones are not that bad.
By the way i love seeing Freecad being used for some good things ;o)
No afennce ;o)
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!!!!!!!!
And i like your walk trough's
Yeah the fillet tool is quite limited with only being G1
nice
Still a great video. Your mouse is a bit hard to spot when you move (can you make it bigger and a more contrasting colour). And if you could slow down these movements a bit, it would be easy to follow, thanks again, David
like it,look forward for the next video ,thanks
Awsome overview Master, thanks for sharing
I think my biggest pet peeve over FreeCAD is the ridiculous defaults that make it very unintuitive out of the box. That and being able to display the names of the tools in the toolbar, rather than having only the icon, would allow folks to identify what tool is what- especially if they're coming straight from Fusion. Sure the wording might be different, but it's gotta be better than a very obscure icon.
There is a lot of talk of the UI being completely redesigned, which will be fantastic. Fusion's large icons with text, is fantastic for beginners, but having to open a dropdown to get to a lot of tools, paired with the lack of context based shortcut keys can become very frustrating when you've been working with it for a while. Something in-between would be fantastic.
Something you might like is the Modern UI Add-on, it adds a ribbon style toolbar, all icons are accompanied with text and you can customise almost every aspect of it.
Another awesome tutorial mate 👏👌
Awesome tutorial. Just a small feedback. I could not send both features, pocket and pocket 001 to the multitransform tool. It made me pick one. I am using 0.19 FreeCad
I thought the crackling noises at 13:48 was from my headphones, but it was from your mic instead. What were you doing? Microwaving your mic ? XD
A shame there is not a way to increase quality of mesh as part of exporting to stl or other slicer compatible file format in the export dialog or freecad settings. I love freecad but it's sometimes so convoluted which makes it hard to get things done ☹️
It would be really great to have that, even if it was just a pop-up dialog like the step export one if it can't be included in the save file dialog. Or at the very least, extend the import/export preferences for collada files to work for all mesh exports.
Thank you. Great tutorial
This was amazing! Is there any way to do fusions Projection feature in the sketcher workbench?
There definitely is, I'll put that in the next video :)
@@BrodieFairhall That would be awesome
Can you please do a video on how you do the edge bumpers as I can't for the life of me do them. I am having trouble figuring out where to put the chamfer and how much, also I'm having trouble with making an array out of them as they need to be put on the side as well
Thank you for your help & video. at 2:52 what ever number I put into the x, y (also z to check out) the ImagePlane no longer show. It just goes away. If I put them all at zero then it comes back. [code]
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Again thank you for your help!
Yep another great video. I had to google what a companion cube was , am I the only one?
Possibly, but this also means you get to discover the joy that is portal & portal 2!
3:42 The moment I realize I can use a lot less contruction line in FreeCAD
15:30 This is a bit of a disappointment, when I use the mirror tool it is what I actually need, I don't want to recreate that sketch again. The "all powerful" symmetry tool doesn't help with it either since the mirrored sketch doesn't have the control points selectable, even if I can it would be tedious work.
FreeCAD 0.20 has a Centre Rectangle tool now, which basically does exactly what I did with the symmetry tool to centre the square.
As for sketch mirroring, I basically never use this tool at all. Really I'd sketch half of the heart, make the pocket then mirror the pocket instead.
@@BrodieFairhall It is probably because I like having my sketch match exactly with my solid model like a cross-section instead of spending more time in manipulating the solids. However since it cannot extrude into multiple bodes either, it might actually be moot.
I still think it is a deficiency that it does not constrain it, but I can't ask for more if I can't code it in.
Could you attach the picture you've used as a reference in the description, please? It would help a lot.
I'll do that soon, great idea.
Hi, great vids!
I have a question, how do you enable the tree view at the left side of 3d view?
Is there a way to make mirrored spline actually mirror edits? Seems like a pretty big oversight if not.
You can constrain the control points using symmetry constraints. This way you have full control over whether you want it to stay mirrored or not
As for exporting, I'm trying to use CAD for game art, yea I know its wierd but the parametric thing, and infinite resolution makes me feel like sculpting hard-surface, anways. I exported the model as is as glTF, thats an open source standard and it works great for blender, the mesh as always is abismal, but it looks identical to freecad, I'll have to retopo anyways, so depending on what you're usnig the model, just to render it out, maybe thats a better export method for complex meshes.
You could try using the other mesh conversion algorithms / tweak the settings when you convert the solid to a mesh. (The Mephisto algorithm, which is used for prepping models for FEA might work better for you here if your model has lots of curves etc.)
Unfortunately though, humans are way better at this than the algorithm, which is why most complex game assets get retopologised by hand anyway.
It's been a while since I've done any of that in blender and I know the built in tools are much better, but you could also look at the "retopo flow" blender plugin as it might work well for you too.
@@BrodieFairhall Yea!, I will try to model something for my portifolio, and use the mesh options to extract both high and low poly mesh.
@@BrodieFairhall Worth noting that, depending on what the model will be used for in a game, the topology being horrible does not matter, if its just a static mesh, as long as the shadding isn't bugged, it usually works, not pretty, not ideal, but it works
@@kendarr yeah, definitely more for character models, things that need rigging and weight mapping
Great video!
Would you be able to make an in-depth video about what you mean by proper sketching techniques? I’m so use to sketching on the faces of objects like in Solidworks or Fusion. In my mind, the way you made this cube, it wouldn’t be easily scaled because you would have to go through and re-offset everything to the new size. Looking for some more help in this area. Thanks!
Thanks!
If you check out the video I made on parametric modelling in FreeCAD and I show ways to cover some of these parts.
ruclips.net/video/fXoRAYv1wHQ/видео.html
@@BrodieFairhall I think you are referring to the topography naming issue? The parametric modelling video is great! I guess I'm still having a hard time thinking in terms of dataum planes and drawing on the origin and offsetting them to various faces. It all seems so cludgy. It doesn't seem too bad for a simple box, but for more complicated geometry, it seems like it could be a real issue. It sounded like you are going to do a more in-depth look at the topography naming issue. I look forward to it, and look forward to more complicated models, modeled the "correct" way, because most on RUclips seem to be going about it all in the wrong sense by referencing off of body features.
@@dsnyder05You can just select a face and create a new sketch on it, but yes, you may end up with a topographical naming issue if you make any changes that could cause the creation of an extra or loss of a face on the body before a sketch.
RealThunder's Linkstage 3 build has the "new robust topology model" that deals with this problem and has a bunch of other new features like being able to split objects/have multiple objects in a body etc. Depending on stability (users finding and reporting bugs) all of this will likely end up in the next version of FreeCAD. I'd definitely check it out to see all the cool changes!
I do intend on making a video about the topological naming problem, how to model correctly to avoid it right and also how to cheat/quickly fix issues when you can't be bothered doing it right.
@@BrodieFairhall Thanks Brodie! I'll take a look! Really appreciate your help and your videos! I really like Fusion 360, but these latest updates have me looking elsewhere. I've been struggling with Fusion for a long time because all my files are in the cloud. It's not easy leaving something so familiar though. Your videos and insight help a lot though. Thank you!
How can I resize the hearts to make a Dice out of it?
You can change the heart size by moving the control points for the spline around in the sketch the heart was drawn in. Or delete the lines in the sketch and draw something different to a heart
@@BrodieFairhall Thank you for the helpful and quick response. Btw. I'm missing the ribs function to strengthen parts in FreeCAD is there such feature in FreeCAD?
That’s way too fast for me. And what’s making it harder to follow your explanations is, that your mouse cursor is hard to see. You don’t zoom in or highlight it. But there were some things I learned, so I want to thank you 🙏 for the tutorials.
My apologies regarding the mouse cursor, I was struggling to find functional apps for mouse highlighting on Linux. The hardware I was recording these videos on isn't very good, so that doesn't help with the video clarity either.
RUclips has a really good feature for video speed, which you can find by clicking the gear/cog in the bottom right corner of the video player. You can speed up or slow down videos if needed, it's very handy.
Thank you for the kind words, I really want to update these tutorials since they're now 2 years old, so I will take what you and many others have said and try to improve them.
On a MAC the program probably works fine ...on my windows lenovo it doesent..I stay with Fusion360 so far
I'm interested to hear what isn't working for you in Windows?
I unfortunately have to use windows at work about 50% of the time. I do find some minor behavioral differences from FreeCAD in Linux and because of the high DPI screen I have at work, but it still works.
Freecad may be garbage now (and the bit of the community I experienced so far makes it no better... at ALL) I really hope it gets WAY better.
I'm interested to hear why you think FreeCAD is currently garbage?