Understanding FreeCAD Lesson 12 Draft faces and rotate / angle edges | Part Design | Beginners Guide
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- Опубликовано: 20 авг 2024
- Learn part design in FreeCAD to draft and angle faces and change and rotate edges in the part design workbench by using the mouse without trying to work out the angle and axis to enter manually.
Using the part design wb we will create both a simple and a more complex shape and learn how to angle out the faces. This allows you create more complex shapes without using the the likes of the curves workbench or part workbench.,
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Great tutorial. Not sure what I will use it for but that don't mean I won't. And I made something neat.
Thank you, there will be a tutorial to come soon where I use it so it will give you some ideas going forward.
Thanks again! Bit more fiddly than the others but would never have got there on my own! Thank again for a great tutorial
Cool use of draft wb for Part WB sketch plane modifications. 👍😀
Thank you, its going to be used quite a bit of a tutorial that I have coming soon. But thought I would share before I get into something a little more deep.
Well that's handy.
Very good tutorial as always, Thank you!
Glad your enjoying 👍
wow your so smart !the envy !
You're the man when it comes to free cad . Thank you so much for your videos . Do you use this in your work everyday ? The reason I ask is your so fluent in it's language and use . Great video as always , Thank you for sharing your skills and time .
Best Regards
Terry Lembke
Thanks for the kind comments. No I don't actually work in the industry, I work as engineer in the photography production industry. I get to play with images but that's as far as it gets. I used to work as a 3D designer and started to train as a teacher as my first job but the teaching company I was being trained under went bankrupt taking all my course work and exams with them. I then for some reason decided to change industry. 3D and teaching has always been my love and if I could give up work just to do this then I would.
@@MangoJellySolutions Have you considered becoming a tutor on Udemy for the fields you are interested in teaching? I think you should. You are very adept at teaching and are genuinely interested in educating people! Cheers!
@@ShamanthS13 ahh thanks, no I haven't looked into that. Thank you for the heads up. I don't want to let this channel fall behind as want to give the majority of what I do for free so have been concentrating solely on youtube with additional written content on Patreon to bring in a few pennies to keep the lights on as youtube doesn't pay much at all with add revenue . I will look into it as it may be a way to break into this full time as well as keeping the free content going. .
Another excellent tutorial!
I am someone who has actually made good use of the draft function. I have used Freecad a number of times to make models to 3D printed patterns for sand casting. In fact, I made a couple of patterns and cast the parts in aluminum last week ago. I wish your tutorial had been available when I made my first attempts at 3D printed patterns a couple of years ago. At that time I only found one video and it wasn't very clear. I'm going to have to look at your video again to cypher out some of the more advanced techniques that you included.
For the last year I have been using the Link Branch developmental version of Freecad. One feature that I have found useful is that an angle (i.e., pattern draft) can be applied when a sketch is padded. This has been meeting my needs for making patterns for casting without having to add the draft in a separate operation. Hopefully this feature will be incorporated into the stable version of Freecad in the future.
Thank you, glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for sharing your project. It's great to find out what people are using freecad for. I never tried casting, it's something that I have always wanted to try. I never knew about that feature in the link branch. I tend to keep to the regular release branch for my videos only because its the most commonly used but have used the link branch for some projects. I really hope that it is merged with the regular releases.
@@MangoJellySolutions I was reluctant to convert to Link Branch as there is less tutorial information on it and there were lots of warnings that it is developmental. However, I have found that most of the recent tutorials still apply. I am far from an expert, but I made the shift because the topological naming problem was giving me fits and Link Branch generally avoids the problem and it also handles fillets (which I use a lot of) better.
The combination of Freecad, low cost 3D printers, and moderately priced castable resin has caused to shift most of my casting to the investment process. A Google search for "u-joint USATC S-160 Consolidation" will get you into a thread where I've pictured several of the castings I have made using Freecad as well as some earlier work using wooden patterns before I made the leap into 3D cad and printers.
Man im pretty good on design spark mechanical and i have years of design and 3d printing.... free cad .... i cant get it..... but seems you are one of the best on this... thanks
i've never heard of designspark. I'm moving to freecad from traditional CAD software and one thing that has helped me grasp the concepts is to let go of an overall design flow. In traditional CAD packages the tools are all cohesive and meant to work so you can achieve an overall goal of designing your part. How you design your part is often things like topdown&bottomup/master sketch/history based parametric modelling. In FreeCAD, those idea's are just idea's. FreeCAD does not restrict you to think like that. Many tools can be used far beyond their respective workbench. There are no start to finish workflows or strict design philosophies. I've been embracing the mindset of >> just get it done and know the consequences of your choices // Pay attention to the flexibility and try new things caz oftentimes they ARE possible and without hiccup.
Only thing which has been bothering me thusfar is that there is little way to understand what the buttons are doing nor what inputs they require and I have to have the manual open at the same time I'm modeling.
@@tdtrecordsmusic I'll keep in mind.... you should try design spark mechanical is not parametric but i very powerful and... a way diferent... saludos de merida mexico
@@fahb68 ya that def spark'd my interest. Since, we are sharing life improvements > i've got one > there is a YT channel called makertales. The way he has Blender setup is really cool. There are a bunch of CAD tools / 3D printing tools and it damn near changes blender into a different program centered around CAD design.
Thanks, Been working with the program some time, it just needs a bit of time to get used to it. I also have used less traditional cad packages in the past in my quest to find a open source alternative. I have never used design spark
Totally agree, and I think what you have detailed is one of the main reasons why people from commercial cad give up on freecad. That's interesting your saying about the buttons and having the manual open, I am working on a piece of documentation in my mind to try to get around that. It's kind of a cheat sheet but it's some what different. I need to start it a some point and have a number of ideas off how to go about it. Once I get something down on paper would love to get your comments.
Is there a way to control the curvature of a loft?
With lofts you have to physical angle or move the profiles. Have a look at my draft video which I released yesterday, this may help you. I go through controlling the curvature of a loft in the second example. Also it may be worth looking at the sweep instead so you can follow a path with one or more profiles.
@@MangoJellySolutions Thank you for the help. Please continue making your vids