If your wondering why this video has appeared on the front page of my channel when we are quite a way through the series it's because I couldn't get the video out of unlisted mode and it was only accessible via the playlist / direct link. I have finally managed to so it can be picked up by youtube. Sorry for the confusion :) And thank you to all for your kind comments and support.
I've been using desktop CAD programs for 37 years and have read all sorts of "how to" books, watched a staggering number of instructional tutorials, and just muddled through all sorts of instructional classes for various programs. None of them came close to giving me a basic idea of how to begin as did this video. The best aspect of all was the sense that "I can see how this works." As an architect, my two primary programs were DataCAD and SketchUp. As a budding 3D printer novice, you've made me certain that FreeCAD will be my primary modeling software. Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you for taking the time to produce these training videos. Your mastery of Freecad allows you to get straight to the point in a concise and precise way. In addition, your vocabulary and your pronunciation eliminate any possible ambiguity. Very good teacher. In addition, your British accent is very pleasant to listen to.
Thank you so much for the feedback and kind words, great to hear that your enjoying these videos. The community has been so kind and it's a pleasure to share this knowledge with such grateful watchers. Thank you once again. Every time I read a comment like this it puts a smile on my face.
Thanks, Mango. It is really a superb idea beguin "again" with a freeCad beguinners guide (v 0.20), because the web is full of thousands of videos without schedule/planning. Great idea and great job. Thanks a lot
Thanks for that, I was trying to figure out a way to bring together some of the concepts that I have touched on before in a structured way. It's been great to do these tutorials. I find you always need a real world example to really get the concepts across and that is one of the hardest things to come up with or find. The community have been great with the feedback, and I thank you all 😁😁
1. I read the reviews bellow and agree with all of them. in two words Really GREAT. 2. I am a System engineer in the high tech and made (as hobby) some designs using SweetHome 3D, a friend told me about the FreeCAD and I read the onlines manuals, I have never been so confused as if it a rocket science. I surrender to watch video ( i watched one (not yours it was OK). 3. After I saw your first Video I understood, that the best and shortest way to get started with this is by watching your great (explanatory, simple, with examples etc..) videos. And never going back to the 'Documentation'. 4. About documentation- Developers engineers have a problem to understand what is the audience and their needs. It could be very useful to have a text file (PDF) that lists all you actions happening on the video: Like a table with two columns activity target: Method to achieve Setting Display preferred icon size Main Toollbar.Edit.Preference Left-Click General[Application].Size of toolbar Icon. Drop Down.Select Medium (24px)
Very glad I found your channel ! Just divorced from Windows to embrace Linux, needed a program to draw the plans of my Tiny House and for some fun 3D printing modeling later on. Love your style : calm, concise and very British, as a longtime anglophile this couldn't have turned out better lol. ThanX
Thank you for the feedback and kind words so happy this series has helped people like yourself. And thank you for commenting on the teaching style, it's exactly what I have been trying to achieve.
So long I haven't been using FreeCAD and been poluted by other evil CAD/CAM packages that I thought I'd better restart fresh with your series... After watching this first one, looks like I finally had a good idea ! ;-) Thanks a ton for the will, time and effort put into this 🙏 Please keep it on
Just started using FreeCAD and so happy to have found a channel with such concise and easy to follow instructions. Looking forward to going through this series.
Really appreciate that, I am a bit late in responding to comments as a few things have come up. Great to see you are enjoying and welcome to the journey.
Thank you for your kind comments. I have a lot of plans to add more videos including some additional mini series regarding certain subject areas as they don't really fit with this series. These will be such things as projects, how to builds, certain design areas i.e 2D drafting and technical drawing so there is a lot to come and I have more and more ideas and requests every day 😁
WOW! I am impressed. Thank you SO much for this! I saw some other FreeCAD tutorials and was very frustrated. You have in just the first segment answered a lot of my questions.
Thank you so much for this course, I'm starting on 3D printing, and chosen FreeCAD as a part building platform. This course helped me a lot, I'm cuming from CGI (Caligari and Sculpt 4D Commodore Amiga, TrueSpace PC and finally Cinema 4D PC) so it's not like starting new. Cheers
Great to hear your enjoying the series. What did you use on the old Amiga (1200 or 4000?) I came from imagine3D then Lightwave on that platform, I loved that machine! Truespace finally made me change from Amiga to PC and then I want off to 3DSMax then Rhino. The Amiga was the most creative platform for it's day, I miss that machine (even have some emulation tutorials on my channel as that was what I originally made this channel for lol) The Amiga still has a huge following.
@@MangoJellySolutionsYes I'm 51 and my first computer was a Timex Sinclair 1000 (1982), than moved to ZX Spectrum 48K, back then I was already programing in Basic and did some graphical material on the ZX. When the Amiga computer was launched, it was a BIG leap in computer graphics, first I bought the Amiga 500 (still have it), and then the Amiga 3000 (sold it), it was a very expensive machine, but amazing too, used Caligari and Sculp 4D. My last Commodore machine was the Amiga 1200. Moved then to PC and used TrueSpace 4 and 7 for a long time, used 3DSMax for a while, but since Cinema 4D came out, never looked to another software. Now I just want to turn my ideas a reality thru 3D printing. Thank you for your answer. Merry Christmas.
Coming from VFX Background, having the maya gesture is godsent, I adapted to the viewport almost instantly. Edit: Tip for People who are used to maya: Under the navigation style menu, go to settings> orbit style > change it to Free TurnTable
TOP video, congratulations! I'm following the channel and really enjoying it. I'm from Brazil and I work with 3D modeling using the CREO software, I'm liking FreeCad more and I'm adapting to it. Thank you for taking the time to teach how to use this fantastic software.
thanks for providing the course of study. If I succeed, in cad, it'll be a milestone. So far, cad programming has not been functional for me, requiring real study, but now I have more time, more Sitzfleisch.
CAD has a steep learning curve and it takes time to get the most out of it. But with practice you will soon be making your own models. It's one of the reasons I put this together and glad it's helping so many people.
Hello, Please am new to 3D printing. But i believe this is the best ever tutorials anywhere in the world. This tutorials is so clear for me to understand that l mostly have no questions to ask. I have only these question to ask for now, which are; 1. How can l save my work to G code file? And the other question is; 2. What is the difference between G code and Stl files. Thank you
gcode is produced by the slicer, and details to the printer what movements it needs to make in order to create the object. an stl file is the model file, containing the 3d geometry of the object. You need to take the stl file, and convert it to a gcode file tailored to your printer using a slicing program like Cura or Prusaslicer.
thank you so much for this tutorial! I honestly thought it was going to be an absolute pain to use, but the UI is misleading! I thought this was the same software my dad used to design roads in the early 2000s, but it turns out that it is a lot better than that! I use freecad for 3d printing since fusion360 wasn't available for Linux and I thought 'it's open source, will be better anyway'
Just bought my first 3d printer, and installed FreeCad. Gonna try to do one or two videos per day for the next month or so (ADHD brain deluxe, we'll see if I can keep at it). I'll check back when I'm done or hurl insults when I'm fed up. We'll see!
Great to hear 😊 yes, I am the same re: ADHD brain 😁 that reminds me, I was doing something before I opened up my phone to answer comments and I can't remember what it was.
Just getting started with this. Freecad is on version .21, so I hope that will not be too different to follow along with this series. Seems almost about the same. Some stuff in preferences was a little different though. I bought a 3d printer a few months back and looking forward to learning this. I took a cad course back in college using autodesk inventor... that was over 20 years ago lol.
There are a few differences but nothing to bad. The auto constraint option can be found from the sketcher constraints section from a small drop down. And the image workbench no longer exists but I have created a video telling you where the option to import and scale a image is now located. How you enjoy the series. Half way through I do change from 0.20 to 0.21
@@MangoJellySolutionsI've only done the first video so far. I figure I'll do a couple per week until I get my wings so to speak. This one was quite good. I got the software installed and just kinda got familiar with it. Next one should be more interesting.
This is the thing with softwares. 7 minutes into the one year old tutorial someone decided to remove the units tab so that the tutorial cannot be followed. (Yes, I did find it, but anyway- why changing around all the time)?
Thanks so much for the work you put in to making this excellent series. Just an observation. On the mouse settings on windows 10 version not all the features are shown on the template popup when in CAD mode which is the default. In addition it seems impossible to do some of things like rotating the object. However if you set it to touchpad, then everything works as you describe with the mouse.
So glad your finding the tutorials usefully and your enjoying them. Yes it takes alot of work creating these tutorials, editing takes at least 3 times the amount of video running time and also making the written documents before which I release to patreon. So alot of work but it's well worth it to share h the knowledge. Thank you for highlighting the navigation issues, always greatful for comments as it enriches the channel. Hope you enjoy the rest of the videos. Many thanks.
Just wanted to point out that, in most Linux distributions, there should be a way to install software directly from repositories without downloading with a browser. I believe you're using Ubuntu, or something with the Cinnamon Desktop. There used to be PPA repositories. You can read in the Freecad Wiki about it. The advantage of using PPA instead of the depicted method in the video is that the OS would search for newer version in the repository, and keep your FreeCAD up-to-date. The problem is that PPA are development versions, prone to instabilities. The fact that yu downloaded a locked development version before a release helps with stability. But I'd do official version from a Repo, and get the most recent stable version, updated automatically by the OS
Just a note for future viewers of this video. As of today (2022-06-22) the download page shows 0.20 as the current stable version. I think it was updated a couple days ago. This should take away any potential anxiety about downloading a development version versus the publicly released "Current stable version".
WOW, that is a nice playlist, just downloaded the software. It will take me a while but I will later give you my feed back. I am an AP, Apppointed Person, I do liftplans for lorry mounted cranes and I need a new look on my presentation documents for better illustration, and I think you could help with your tutorials.
I love seeing what people are using these videos for, amazes me each time. This one has to be one of the unique ones. Thanks for sharing and hope they help you with your work.
20:19 In version 0.21.1 I don't have an option to create a new sketch. In fact, I had to create a separate toolbar to even see the button. When I left the Sketcher workbench and went to Path and back, I got the regular toolbar that has the "Create sketch" option, but it was still greyed out. Hitting escape a few times to exit the editing mode of the sketch allowed me to create a new one next to the old one.
there's so many different things on mine(0.21.2) than this one. they've changed a lot like the part at 20:46 where you deleted the 3rd circle. this version doesn't do that. and I have sketch sketch001 sketch002 and sketch 003 in my model tab in combo view. so they've change a lot how this works.
Thank you for this first video in the series. I was able to get through it though had interruptions along the way. One thing I noticed that when I double click on the sketch model for some reason a new inner screen pops up that shows the recent files and examples. Which is a bit different from what you showed. I'm on a mac using freecad version 0.20.2-29603.
Some guidance here would really be appreciated. I initially struggled with conflicts between the tutorial and the application and then realized that these TUTS were for Ver 0.18 /19, whereas my downloaded FreeCAD was ver 0.21.1. Very happy to find your TUT for 0.20 /0.21, but conflicts from the get-go, for e.g. on your TUT (FreeCAD 0.20 For Beginners | 1 | Setup, preferences and navigation), the Edit /Preference / has tabs all the way across the top - you actually scroll to the right to get to "units". I don't have that., I have General /Document/Selection/Cache/Notifications/Area/Report View. The rest of the general page bears little resemblance. Where am I going wrong. I am delighted with your TUTS and can't wait to get moving. Take care - Steve, South Africa.
I noticed from this first video, thaere are a lot of difference between the video and the new version 0.21.2 within the preferences. Do I need the older version, or will the newest version be able to follow along with your videos, thanks
Hi. I am looking to overhaul this series but for v1 as you don't really need the older version as 0.20 and 0.21 are very similar. Main gotchas are the auto constraint options in the sketcher are in a drop down in the same section of the panel, the image workbench doesn't existing anymore for importing images as reference, scaling to the correct size etc and are now achieve by file > import and then double clicking the image in the treeview. I decided to create the video to cover that change as it was quite different. That will help guide you over that hurdle. Further into the course the versions change and uses 0.21 so all will look more familiar. You should be OK. Your not the first one to ask this by the way and totally understand your concerns. :)
Please bear with me if you have this in one of the latter videos, im just beginning to watch, in freecad is there a way to use a model as the base for your sketch? As in "grabbing" the geometries from the model into the new sketch? Or do i have to draw it as needed? Much appreciated for your time to make these!
Ah yes, I have covered it but with STL, STEP is a lot easier as the edges are defined and you can reference them in a sketch using the external geometry tool and shape binders. STL are more tricky as they have no edges that can be picked unless they are converted then you get a mass of eyes and faces . In my collection for the series I have the reverse engineering a impeller, you should be able to find it in the play list.
I got really lost, workbench's were all messed up, I did not know what to do,,, so, I uninstalled everything, re d/l it again, started at the beginning, NOW it is starting to make sense, . If I have to go over the particular lesson, ok by me, I'll keep repeating it till I understand... thanks again for this and other great vids(tuts)
Sorry to hear everything went chaotic when you started but sounds like your winning now. I know the feeling. I just had to reinstall blender 3d for the exact same reason. Slow and steady is the way to master any program. No need to rush 😊
@@MangoJellySolutions sure do agree with you on the slow and steady part, I have tried to learn blender, was very tough for me, would you mind sharing with me the way you are learning blender? thanks
@@Henry-n7n8 I have been using blender for a while but I found that it's best to seek out the menu items rather than use short cut keys. It means that tutorials take 10 times as long to complete but things begin to stick. I hate watching the videos that are a barrage of short cut keys, they end up teaching you way too much in to short time and you miss so much. Going through the menus you find out what's also there and get an idea of how the program hangs together.
@@MangoJellySolutions thanks MangoJelly, do you mean the tutorials on Blender itself, there are many.. no shortage to learning new stuff, right now, I want to stick with Free cad, THEN start back on Blender, thanks again for helping me
Do you have a tutorial on ;inside outside gears? its to step down a medical drill that rotates at RPM 180. Needs to rotate at 60. Thinking a small gear driving a bigger gear would do it. ie small gear inside a bigger gear with inward teeth?
@MangoJellySolutions Very instructive videos you put out. I'm trying to add a frosted pattern to a clear Acrylic FreeCad model and I'm wondering if you would point me to a tutorial that would show this. Thank you.
Im trying to draft blueprints for a house, All I really need is an offset and the line tool , but if draw a box I then wont to offset 6" to create the interiors walls but it deletes the first lines.
My Combo View box keeps expanding into a full horizontal screen on top of Sketch Screen, after I shrink it. Does it require some sort of locking dock ?
Your turorila is really good, My big problem with FreeCad are the drop down box dialogue are so small I can not read them. I use a 27" monitor and the text in my laptop in your tutorials is 5x large and easy to read. HOW do you get the text in FreeCad larger.
Hey [Name], I'm learning HTML and CSS on RUclips and thought it might be more enjoyable and productive to have a learning partner. Interested in joining me?
Just used fullscreen mode on windows 11. not a good idea as down menus stop working, so i couldn’t even exit it the same way i entered it. Alt+F11 worked. Some newer or laptop keyboards may require the „fn“ key for „f11“ to even work.
Thank you. And thank you for the heads up. The link should of been to an older video on my channel but the process is the same. I have updated the notes with the following link ruclips.net/video/RrPtLOVVKYA/видео.html
Thank you for putting on the information. At 14.56 / 24.03 the means to turn around the subject is seen - two rounded arrows - like the pisces sign. I have not found this on my version which is Freecad 0 20 2. Can you tell me how to find the two arrows please?
I'm trying to basically make a bunch of parts to put together a large robotics project. I'm starting with just a part of it, which is basically just an arm of the robot (it will have multiple arms for multiple tasks so just starting with one arm) and since med/large servos are super expensive I found a way to make my own cheap, so each servo I use will also be broken down into parts. I already designed 1 servo in freecad, but it was a year ago and I have been using fusion 360 so I'm super rusty now. Also I want to be able to move this arm within freecad to show my friend how it's going to move after I construct the whole thing for real. I never learned that part before. So my question is, would this be a good tutorial series for brushing up on things and also being able to put all the parts together to make an assembly or animation or w/e they call it in freecad, and if not can anyone point me to one? I don' t want to commit a bunch of time to the wrong tutorial for the task at hand, and I don't know a lot of the terminology for what I'm trying to do so it's difficult to just look at the titles and know if it's a good fit, TIA!
I did not realize FreeCAD would run on lynux ! Would it run on Rasberrian OS then ? I'm thinking a Raspberry Pi 4 might run it ? Or maybe not ? What would be the oldest pi that could run FreeCAD ?
I have heard of people running it on raspberry pi but I don't know how successful. But, I run it on a very old laptop before the first raspberry pi came out. So a raspberry pi 4 is more powerful than what I am using lol
@@MangoJellySolutionsOnly one way to find out a i suppose :) Thanks for the help learning FreeCAD. Still just a newb to freecad and the channel. Subbed and thumbs !
On your screen, when adding the circle, your machine displays the X,Y coordinates in blue color. I think I have my FreeCAD setup exactly per your instruction, but the circles do not display the blue coordinates like you do. Which setting do I need to change/adjust?
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If your wondering why this video has appeared on the front page of my channel when we are quite a way through the series it's because I couldn't get the video out of unlisted mode and it was only accessible via the playlist / direct link. I have finally managed to so it can be picked up by youtube. Sorry for the confusion :) And thank you to all for your kind comments and support.
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How do you update frecad without reinstalling the program? Is that possible? Also, how do i import a ui from someone else?
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The absolute best FreeCAD tutorial on RUclips. Thank you very much for this.
Thank you 😊😊👍👍👍👍👍
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I agree!!! Thank you as well to MangoJelly.
So true! I couldn’t grasp it until these videos!
This tutorial is gold.
Im a 16 year old working on a project and that good man will give me a nice start.
Fantastic! Best of luck and so glad it's helped you.
I've been using desktop CAD programs for 37 years and have read all sorts of "how to" books, watched a staggering number of instructional tutorials, and just muddled through all sorts of instructional classes for various programs. None of them came close to giving me a basic idea of how to begin as did this video. The best aspect of all was the sense that "I can see how this works." As an architect, my two primary programs were DataCAD and SketchUp. As a budding 3D printer novice, you've made me certain that FreeCAD will be my primary modeling software. Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you for taking the time to produce these training videos.
Your mastery of Freecad allows you to get straight to the point in a concise and precise way.
In addition, your vocabulary and your pronunciation eliminate any possible ambiguity. Very good teacher.
In addition, your British accent is very pleasant to listen to.
Thank you so much for the feedback and kind words, great to hear that your enjoying these videos. The community has been so kind and it's a pleasure to share this knowledge with such grateful watchers. Thank you once again. Every time I read a comment like this it puts a smile on my face.
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You really deserve the smile and every thing which smiles bring!!
Thanks, Mango. It is really a superb idea beguin "again" with a freeCad beguinners guide (v 0.20), because the web is full of thousands of videos without schedule/planning.
Great idea and great job. Thanks a lot
Thanks for that, I was trying to figure out a way to bring together some of the concepts that I have touched on before in a structured way. It's been great to do these tutorials. I find you always need a real world example to really get the concepts across and that is one of the hardest things to come up with or find. The community have been great with the feedback, and I thank you all 😁😁
Just got a 3D printer and this tutorial is a life saver. 10/10
Great to hear 😊😊👍👍
1. I read the reviews bellow and agree with all of them. in two words Really GREAT.
2. I am a System engineer in the high tech and made (as hobby) some designs using SweetHome 3D, a friend told me about the FreeCAD and I read the onlines manuals, I have never been so confused as if it a rocket science. I surrender to watch video ( i watched one (not yours it was OK).
3. After I saw your first Video I understood, that the best and shortest way to get started with this is by watching your great (explanatory, simple, with examples etc..) videos. And never going back to the 'Documentation'.
4. About documentation- Developers engineers have a problem to understand what is the audience and their needs.
It could be very useful to have a text file (PDF) that lists all you actions happening on the video:
Like a table with two columns
activity target: Method to achieve
Setting Display preferred icon size Main Toollbar.Edit.Preference Left-Click
General[Application].Size of toolbar Icon.
Drop Down.Select Medium (24px)
Very glad I found your channel ! Just divorced from Windows to embrace Linux, needed a program to draw the plans of my Tiny House and for some fun 3D printing modeling later on. Love your style : calm, concise and very British, as a longtime anglophile this couldn't have turned out better lol. ThanX
Thank you for the feedback and kind words so happy this series has helped people like yourself. And thank you for commenting on the teaching style, it's exactly what I have been trying to achieve.
Thanks! I was struggling a bit but you helped me to get going. Please keep making these awesome video's.
Thank you so much, really glad I could help 😊😊👍👍
You are a god-send with these videos, I almost threw in the towel due to the quality of the other youtubers video I have found, thanks again
Glad your enjoying the videos. It's been my aim to make freecad more accessible for the masses. Glad yourself and others have given it another chance.
That was one of the clearest easy to follow tutorials ever. THANK YOU!!!
Great to hear, and thank you for feeding back
So long I haven't been using FreeCAD and been poluted by other evil CAD/CAM packages that I thought I'd better restart fresh with your series... After watching this first one, looks like I finally had a good idea ! ;-)
Thanks a ton for the will, time and effort put into this 🙏
Please keep it on
Thank you, its great that so many people are finding these tutorials useful and it's a great way to return to my roots in working in the 3D world 😁
Just started using FreeCAD and so happy to have found a channel with such concise and easy to follow instructions. Looking forward to going through this series.
Really appreciate that, I am a bit late in responding to comments as a few things have come up. Great to see you are enjoying and welcome to the journey.
I am starting new with freeCAD. Your videos answer lots of my queries and i hope to keep on learning something new from your videos.
Great to hear, and welcome to the journey. Thank you for the kind comments. Many visits to come.
thank you for these tutorials!
Thank you so much 😀 very kind.
SO very pleased to see this. Thank you!
Very nice set of videos! I hope you keep adding more. Your teaching style is fantastic.
Thank you for your kind comments. I have a lot of plans to add more videos including some additional mini series regarding certain subject areas as they don't really fit with this series. These will be such things as projects, how to builds, certain design areas i.e 2D drafting and technical drawing so there is a lot to come and I have more and more ideas and requests every day 😁
Excellent tutorial, thank you for making these. Restarting FreeCAD after several prior attempts. Looking forward to completing your new series!
Great to hear.. 👍
WOW! I am impressed. Thank you SO much for this! I saw some other FreeCAD tutorials and was very frustrated. You have in just the first segment answered a lot of my questions.
You're very welcome! I try to make all my videos that way. Concentrated but detailed. Glad it's helping and thank you 😊
This has got to be the best tutorial composition out there. Thanks so much
Thankyou very much for this tutorials. I'm a new user of this program. Without your tutorials I'm lost.
Glad you enjoying them and finding them useful in your journey into learning freecad. 😊👍
Happy Chappy. I'm using Version .20 and I went 90% of the way of part 1. Already watched pt2 so I'm looking forward to push that boat out.❤
Great to hear and welcome aboard, hope you enjoy the rest of the videos.
Thank you for taking the time to produce these training videos.
Thank you. Glad your enjoying
So far the best the tutorial ive found! I cant wait to watch the series.
Glad to hear it! Thank you so much 😊😊😊
Thank you for teaching the rest of us lads!
the best FreeCad tutorial on youtube. Thank you very much.
Glad your enjoying 😊, thank you
Thank you so much for this course, I'm starting on 3D printing, and chosen FreeCAD as a part building platform. This course helped me a lot, I'm cuming from CGI (Caligari and Sculpt 4D Commodore Amiga, TrueSpace PC and finally Cinema 4D PC) so it's not like starting new. Cheers
Great to hear your enjoying the series. What did you use on the old Amiga (1200 or 4000?) I came from imagine3D then Lightwave on that platform, I loved that machine! Truespace finally made me change from Amiga to PC and then I want off to 3DSMax then Rhino. The Amiga was the most creative platform for it's day, I miss that machine (even have some emulation tutorials on my channel as that was what I originally made this channel for lol) The Amiga still has a huge following.
@@MangoJellySolutionsYes I'm 51 and my first computer was a Timex Sinclair 1000 (1982), than moved to ZX Spectrum 48K, back then I was already programing in Basic and did some graphical material on the ZX. When the Amiga computer was launched, it was a BIG leap in computer graphics, first I bought the Amiga 500 (still have it), and then the Amiga 3000 (sold it), it was a very expensive machine, but amazing too, used Caligari and Sculp 4D. My last Commodore machine was the Amiga 1200. Moved then to PC and used TrueSpace 4 and 7 for a long time, used 3DSMax for a while, but since Cinema 4D came out, never looked to another software. Now I just want to turn my ideas a reality thru 3D printing. Thank you for your answer. Merry Christmas.
Just watched for revision. Finally got rid of those annoying error messages that pop up and learned some other bits too !
Great to hear, yep those messages are a right pain if you don't know how to get rid of them. Glad you found it useful.
Fantastic! Thank you very much for making it comprehensible EVEN to ME. Your work is incredibly helpful.
Great to hear its easy to follow, thank you for following along and enjoying the videos
this is amazing! I come from blender and am going into an engineering degree so I need to get familiar with proper software. this is a huge help
Coming from VFX Background, having the maya gesture is godsent,
I adapted to the viewport almost instantly.
Edit:
Tip for People who are used to maya:
Under the navigation style menu, go to settings> orbit style > change it to Free TurnTable
very helpful introduction to freecad cheers
TOP video, congratulations! I'm following the channel and really enjoying it. I'm from Brazil and I work with 3D modeling using the CREO software, I'm liking FreeCad more and I'm adapting to it. Thank you for taking the time to teach how to use this fantastic software.
Thank you! Just the control of the rotate tool was a great help.
Great to hear, thanks for feeding back 😊😊👍👍
Coming from a Catia V5 background, I love the default mouse controls. 👍
thank you very much! I will now give Freecad a chance.
Hope you enjoy it!
Thanks!
Thank you so much.
So beautiful inside and out ! Love you !!! ❤️
I do like what I'm seeing so I did subscribe. Nice presentation, nicely done.
Thatch you very much 😊
Thanks for tutorial, very helpful...
Special Thanks from Greece..✌️👋
Best tutorial series out there! thank you for putting in the time and effort in making these videos. Wishing you more success!
Much appreciated! And thank you for the kind words. Glad your enjoying.
Just subscribed. Wow, clear and precise instructions, showing us how to do everything as you are doing it.
THANK YOU SO MUCH for making these Videos I was SO LOST!!!!
thanks for providing the course of study. If I succeed, in cad, it'll be a milestone. So far, cad programming has not been functional for me, requiring real study, but now I have more time, more Sitzfleisch.
CAD has a steep learning curve and it takes time to get the most out of it. But with practice you will soon be making your own models. It's one of the reasons I put this together and glad it's helping so many people.
Thank you for these lovely tutorials, I really needed these♥♥
Glad to help :)
Hello,
Please am new to 3D printing. But i believe this is the best ever tutorials anywhere in the world. This tutorials is so clear for me to understand that l mostly have no questions to ask.
I have only these question to ask for now, which are; 1. How can l save my work to G code file?
And the other question is; 2. What is the difference between G code and Stl files.
Thank you
gcode is produced by the slicer, and details to the printer what movements it needs to make in order to create the object. an stl file is the model file, containing the 3d geometry of the object. You need to take the stl file, and convert it to a gcode file tailored to your printer using a slicing program like Cura or Prusaslicer.
Thank you, this was very informative
Thank heavens for your help. Just wonderful
Sorry for late reply, playing catch up. Great to see they are helping people, and thank you for the nice comment :)
Thanks for an easy tutorial, just starting with freecad........ Any cad actually and subscribed.
Thank you for the feedback :) and welcome to the journey.
thank you so much for this tutorial! I honestly thought it was going to be an absolute pain to use, but the UI is misleading! I thought this was the same software my dad used to design roads in the early 2000s, but it turns out that it is a lot better than that! I use freecad for 3d printing since fusion360 wasn't available for Linux and I thought 'it's open source, will be better anyway'
Thank you! This is an excellent tutorial. I'm looking forward to working through all of the videos.
Thank you for that and welcome to the journey 😁😁
@@MangoJellySolutions Well, I'm back at lesson one! Thank you again.
Just bought my first 3d printer, and installed FreeCad. Gonna try to do one or two videos per day for the next month or so (ADHD brain deluxe, we'll see if I can keep at it).
I'll check back when I'm done or hurl insults when I'm fed up. We'll see!
Great to hear 😊 yes, I am the same re: ADHD brain 😁 that reminds me, I was doing something before I opened up my phone to answer comments and I can't remember what it was.
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For smother lines, go to Edit > Preferences > Display > Anti-aliasing, and select "MSAA 8X".
Never knew that one! Thanks for sharing :)
Excellent video and explanation. Thank you.
Just getting started with this. Freecad is on version .21, so I hope that will not be too different to follow along with this series. Seems almost about the same. Some stuff in preferences was a little different though. I bought a 3d printer a few months back and looking forward to learning this. I took a cad course back in college using autodesk inventor... that was over 20 years ago lol.
There are a few differences but nothing to bad. The auto constraint option can be found from the sketcher constraints section from a small drop down. And the image workbench no longer exists but I have created a video telling you where the option to import and scale a image is now located. How you enjoy the series. Half way through I do change from 0.20 to 0.21
@@MangoJellySolutionsI've only done the first video so far. I figure I'll do a couple per week until I get my wings so to speak. This one was quite good. I got the software installed and just kinda got familiar with it. Next one should be more interesting.
not all hero's wear capes! thank u allot! :D
Lol, thank you
This is the thing with softwares. 7 minutes into the one year old tutorial someone decided to remove the units tab so that the tutorial cannot be followed. (Yes, I did find it, but anyway- why changing around all the time)?
Where is it?
@@kadensurface7429literally on the first page when you go into the options. Bro is complaining about nothing
@@kadensurface7429the general panel in preferences
@@kadensurface7429 The units are now set in the General tab
Thanks so much for the work you put in to making this excellent series. Just an observation. On the mouse settings on windows 10 version not all the features are shown on the template popup when in CAD mode which is the default. In addition it seems impossible to do some of things like rotating the object. However if you set it to touchpad, then everything works as you describe with the mouse.
So glad your finding the tutorials usefully and your enjoying them. Yes it takes alot of work creating these tutorials, editing takes at least 3 times the amount of video running time and also making the written documents before which I release to patreon. So alot of work but it's well worth it to share h the knowledge. Thank you for highlighting the navigation issues, always greatful for comments as it enriches the channel. Hope you enjoy the rest of the videos. Many thanks.
Thank you. This is by far best beginners tutorial. You take time to show EACH click not assuming we know.
Glad your enjoying and thank you for the kind comment. Enjoy the journey.
Thank you so much, very useful video
Just wanted to point out that, in most Linux distributions, there should be a way to install software directly from repositories without downloading with a browser. I believe you're using Ubuntu, or something with the Cinnamon Desktop. There used to be PPA repositories. You can read in the Freecad Wiki about it. The advantage of using PPA instead of the depicted method in the video is that the OS would search for newer version in the repository, and keep your FreeCAD up-to-date. The problem is that PPA are development versions, prone to instabilities. The fact that yu downloaded a locked development version before a release helps with stability. But I'd do official version from a Repo, and get the most recent stable version, updated automatically by the OS
Thanks for tutorial , iam interested in engineering so this is a good start
Just a note for future viewers of this video. As of today (2022-06-22) the download page shows 0.20 as the current stable version. I think it was updated a couple days ago. This should take away any potential anxiety about downloading a development version versus the publicly released "Current stable version".
your a life saver. thankyou so much!!!
Your welcome
WOW, that is a nice playlist, just downloaded the software. It will take me a while but I will later give you my feed back. I am an AP, Apppointed Person, I do liftplans for lorry mounted cranes and I need a new look on my presentation documents for better illustration, and I think you could help with your tutorials.
I love seeing what people are using these videos for, amazes me each time. This one has to be one of the unique ones. Thanks for sharing and hope they help you with your work.
Very nice this tutorial sir
20:19 In version 0.21.1 I don't have an option to create a new sketch. In fact, I had to create a separate toolbar to even see the button.
When I left the Sketcher workbench and went to Path and back, I got the regular toolbar that has the "Create sketch" option, but it was still greyed out.
Hitting escape a few times to exit the editing mode of the sketch allowed me to create a new one next to the old one.
Nice tutorial to begin with, thank you :)
Awesome! I have been wondering if there was a way to see the origin point? And there it was. Thanks for the info. 👍
there's so many different things on mine(0.21.2) than this one. they've changed a lot like the part at 20:46 where you deleted the 3rd circle. this version doesn't do that. and I have sketch sketch001 sketch002 and sketch 003 in my model tab in combo view. so they've change a lot how this works.
So nice sir
On Mac I had to click FreeCAD-0.20.2 (to the left of File and Edit) to get to Preferences 5:57/24:03 [At time of writing 05/2023]
Great Tutorial! Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed.
Thank you for this first video in the series. I was able to get through it though had interruptions along the way. One thing I noticed that when I double click on the sketch model for some reason a new inner screen pops up that shows the recent files and examples. Which is a bit different from what you showed. I'm on a mac using freecad version 0.20.2-29603.
Some guidance here would really be appreciated. I initially struggled with conflicts between the tutorial and the application and then realized that these TUTS were for Ver 0.18 /19, whereas my downloaded FreeCAD was ver 0.21.1. Very happy to find your TUT for 0.20 /0.21, but conflicts from the get-go, for e.g. on your TUT (FreeCAD 0.20 For Beginners | 1 | Setup, preferences and navigation), the Edit /Preference / has tabs all the way across the top - you actually scroll to the right to get to "units". I don't have that., I have General /Document/Selection/Cache/Notifications/Area/Report View. The rest of the general page bears little resemblance. Where am I going wrong. I am delighted with your TUTS and can't wait to get moving. Take care - Steve, South Africa.
I noticed from this first video, thaere are a lot of difference between the video and the new version 0.21.2 within the preferences. Do I need the older version, or will the newest version be able to follow along with your videos, thanks
Hi. I am looking to overhaul this series but for v1 as you don't really need the older version as 0.20 and 0.21 are very similar. Main gotchas are the auto constraint options in the sketcher are in a drop down in the same section of the panel, the image workbench doesn't existing anymore for importing images as reference, scaling to the correct size etc and are now achieve by file > import and then double clicking the image in the treeview. I decided to create the video to cover that change as it was quite different. That will help guide you over that hurdle. Further into the course the versions change and uses 0.21 so all will look more familiar. You should be OK. Your not the first one to ask this by the way and totally understand your concerns. :)
Please bear with me if you have this in one of the latter videos, im just beginning to watch, in freecad is there a way to use a model as the base for your sketch? As in "grabbing" the geometries from the model into the new sketch? Or do i have to draw it as needed? Much appreciated for your time to make these!
Ah yes, I have covered it but with STL, STEP is a lot easier as the edges are defined and you can reference them in a sketch using the external geometry tool and shape binders. STL are more tricky as they have no edges that can be picked unless they are converted then you get a mass of eyes and faces . In my collection for the series I have the reverse engineering a impeller, you should be able to find it in the play list.
I got really lost, workbench's were all messed up, I did not know what to do,,, so, I uninstalled everything, re d/l it again, started at the beginning, NOW it is starting to make sense, . If I have to go over the particular lesson, ok by me, I'll keep repeating it till I understand... thanks again for this and other great vids(tuts)
Sorry to hear everything went chaotic when you started but sounds like your winning now. I know the feeling. I just had to reinstall blender 3d for the exact same reason. Slow and steady is the way to master any program. No need to rush 😊
@@MangoJellySolutions sure do agree with you on the slow and steady part, I have tried to learn blender, was very tough for me, would you mind sharing with me the way you are learning blender? thanks
@@Henry-n7n8 I have been using blender for a while but I found that it's best to seek out the menu items rather than use short cut keys. It means that tutorials take 10 times as long to complete but things begin to stick. I hate watching the videos that are a barrage of short cut keys, they end up teaching you way too much in to short time and you miss so much. Going through the menus you find out what's also there and get an idea of how the program hangs together.
@@MangoJellySolutions thanks MangoJelly, do you mean the tutorials on Blender itself, there are many.. no shortage to learning new stuff, right now, I want to stick with Free cad, THEN start back on Blender, thanks again for helping me
Awesome, Thank you
Do you have a tutorial on ;inside outside gears? its to step down a medical drill that rotates at RPM 180. Needs to rotate at 60. Thinking a small gear driving a bigger gear would do it. ie small gear inside a bigger gear with inward teeth?
I personally like the Tinker Cad movement. It's the closest to resembling Super Slicer software.
hey, i am also learning freeCAD.. and thought it might be more enjoyable and productive to have a learning partner. Interested in joining me?"
I am learning with the intention of using it to created achitectural drawings. (This is not PS or CorelDraw so tja).
@MangoJellySolutions Very instructive videos you put out. I'm trying to add a frosted pattern to a clear Acrylic FreeCad model and I'm wondering if you would point me to a tutorial that would show this. Thank you.
Can be downloaded and installed through Linux Package manager. Too easy.
Im trying to draft blueprints for a house, All I really need is an offset and the line tool , but if draw a box I then wont to offset 6" to create the interiors walls but it deletes the first lines.
My Combo View box keeps expanding into a full horizontal screen on top of Sketch Screen, after I shrink it. Does it require some sort of locking dock ?
Your turorila is really good, My big problem with FreeCad are the drop down box dialogue are so small I can not read them. I use a 27" monitor and the text in my laptop in your tutorials is 5x large and easy to read. HOW do you get the text in FreeCad larger.
Which video shows me how to go back in the parametric higherarchy and make a change that wont give an error message?
Nice 👌
Hey [Name], I'm learning HTML and CSS on RUclips and thought it might be more enjoyable and productive to have a learning partner. Interested in joining me?
Just used fullscreen mode on windows 11. not a good idea as down menus stop working, so i couldn’t even exit it the same way i entered it. Alt+F11 worked.
Some newer or laptop keyboards may require the „fn“ key for „f11“ to even work.
Thanks for adding this as it will help others who have the same problems. Always welcomed.
Great video!
Excellent tutorial ! But you mentioned putting in the notes regarding installing on a Mac. ??
Thank you. And thank you for the heads up. The link should of been to an older video on my channel but the process is the same. I have updated the notes with the following link ruclips.net/video/RrPtLOVVKYA/видео.html
Thank you for putting on the information. At 14.56 / 24.03 the means to turn around the subject is seen - two rounded arrows - like the pisces sign. I have not found this on my version which is Freecad 0 20 2. Can you tell me how to find the two arrows please?
Is there any "User Guide" to learn how to Use this interesting tool?
Great job
Thank you
I'm trying to basically make a bunch of parts to put together a large robotics project. I'm starting with just a part of it, which is basically just an arm of the robot (it will have multiple arms for multiple tasks so just starting with one arm) and since med/large servos are super expensive I found a way to make my own cheap, so each servo I use will also be broken down into parts. I already designed 1 servo in freecad, but it was a year ago and I have been using fusion 360 so I'm super rusty now. Also I want to be able to move this arm within freecad to show my friend how it's going to move after I construct the whole thing for real. I never learned that part before. So my question is, would this be a good tutorial series for brushing up on things and also being able to put all the parts together to make an assembly or animation or w/e they call it in freecad, and if not can anyone point me to one? I don' t want to commit a bunch of time to the wrong tutorial for the task at hand, and I don't know a lot of the terminology for what I'm trying to do so it's difficult to just look at the titles and know if it's a good fit, TIA!
I do see one called "assembly with fasteners" which kind of sounds maybe like what I'm trying to do
Hello..great starter video..just wondering if the 3dconnection space pilot mouse can be used with freecad..thanks
Thank you. In regards to your question I have no idea, I haven't even heard of that mouse. Now I am interested to know what it is.
Here's a link to a video..tks.ruclips.net/video/dwks3XHfFsU/видео.html
I did not realize FreeCAD would run on lynux ! Would it run on Rasberrian OS then ? I'm thinking a Raspberry Pi 4 might run it ? Or maybe not ? What would be the oldest pi that could run FreeCAD ?
I have heard of people running it on raspberry pi but I don't know how successful. But, I run it on a very old laptop before the first raspberry pi came out. So a raspberry pi 4 is more powerful than what I am using lol
@@MangoJellySolutionsOnly one way to find out a i suppose :) Thanks for the help learning FreeCAD. Still just a newb to freecad and the channel. Subbed and thumbs !
On your screen, when adding the circle, your machine displays the X,Y coordinates in blue color. I think I have my FreeCAD setup exactly per your instruction, but the circles do not display the blue coordinates like you do. Which setting do I need to change/adjust?
What tools do you suggest to download for designing a truss bridge?