I loved my dark LinkStage theme for the contrast that offered, perhaps one day I will invent the time to port it to FreeCAD main. You can see it in my older LinkStage3 videos. Although the light theme is elegant I find the dark one easier on the eyes for long modeling sessions.
I agree with @Paulklampeeps that realthunder's version is a lot better. It's so much nicer to work with. Some features in mainline aren't present in rt, but a lot of really, really handy features in rt aren't available in mainline.
@@marcus3d FWIW it's the same for me. In addition it's a lot more stable, too. Even for my relative simple assemblies, my trials with Ondsel made it crash several times. Too bad that linkstage and assembly3 are a dead-end - but until main/ondsel have caught up in regards to features and stability I guess us, who use FreeCAD for actual, productive work will have to wait a bit longer... but at least the future looks bright, eh? :)
The 2 are diverging quite a lot lately. I prefer the sketcher and assembly workbench in FreeCAD.rc but I miss a huge list of features from LinkStage. There is a list of features to be ported on the Ondsel team radar but no certainty that everything will come in. I'm begging the developers though knowing that they have a huge amount of work ahead. By the way Thanks devs :) , you are my heroes
Thank you so much for your kind words, I'm using FreeCAD on Linux Kde's Plasma 6 desktop on a laptop. What you see is the system top bar with global menu. For me it free's a lot of space.
I'll just copy and past a previous response because it is long lol ... please bear with me You are perfectly right in saying that. I have the habit of creating datum planes because they are reusable in the context of more complex models. Set them once with all the offsets necessary then reuse them for whatever you want. For iterative design is faster. Some considerations: -in PartDesign selecting a edge and clicking CreateSketch won't allow you to set the attachment other than the base planes of the body. Just tested now with the weekly build. A solution would be to map to a base plane then use the remap function. I find that cumbersome. - creating a sketch using the Sketcher workbench is giving a dialog to directly map to a geometry feature but the sketch will be created outside of the active body. Again cumbersome and just tested with the latest weekly. -LinkStage3 will open the sketch creation dialog in PartDesign with the complete attachment panel and will permit to easily map a sketch to whatever feature directly just by selecting first said feature. I think that is one highly desired feature in FreeCAD main. If I'm missing something obvious please let me know, FreeCAD is such a vast program and there are so many changes lately that there is always something new to learn.
@@OficineRobotica Ah, yes, I didn't realize that mainline FreeCAD is missing even basic features like that. (I'm almost always using realthunder's "LinkStage3" instead of mainline.)
You are perfectly right in saying that. I have the habit of creating datum planes because they are reusable in the context of more complex models. Set them once with all the offsets necessary then reuse them for whatever you want. For iterative design is faster. Some considerations: -in PartDesign selecting a edge and clicking CreateSketch won't allow you to set the attachment other than the base planes of the body. Just tested now with the weekly build. A solution would be to map to a base plane then use the remap function. I find that cumbersome. - creating a sketch using the Sketcher workbench is giving a dialog to directly map to a geometry feature but the sketch will be created outside of the active body. Again cumbersome and just tested with the latest weekly. -LinkStage3 will open the sketch creation dialog in PartDesign with the complete attachment panel and will permit to easily map a sketch to whatever feature directly just by selecting first said feature. I think that is one highly desired feature in FreeCAD main. If I'm missing something obvious please let me know, FreeCAD is such a vast program and there are so many changes lately that there is always something new to learn.
Sorry, I was asking for a theme tutorial because I thought you were working with the new FreeCAD version. This is ondsel version 😅, i didnt see that in title @@OficineRobotica
@@Bill3D The theme and arrangeement of the interface is available in FC main also. In the addon manager search for OpenTheme . After install there is a light and a dark version. P.S. In this particular video I use FC main ;)
A similar UI arrangement is available from OpenTheme now, you can apply the "OpenPreferences" preference pack and it should automagically apply most of the settings/arrangement. Be warned, it will probably replace any custom settings you've applied. I created the themes/pack.
![[Freecad Ondsel] Gridfinity, assembly workbench and TNP](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/tuHAhKb8qz8/mqdefault.jpg)
![[Freecad Ondsel] Gridfinity, assembly workbench and TNP](/img/tr.png)
![[LinkStage3] FreeCAD in context modelling. Simplified version.](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/JZUsNR2ys1I/mqdefault.jpg)
Cool tutorial,
Comming from basics usage in Part Desing/ Part/ Sketcher, everything you showed here is new for me.
The light colored theme looks really good too, I use the dark theme myself
I loved my dark LinkStage theme for the contrast that offered, perhaps one day I will invent the time to port it to FreeCAD main. You can see it in my older LinkStage3 videos. Although the light theme is elegant I find the dark one easier on the eyes for long modeling sessions.
@@OficineRobotica I customized LinkBranch from your video :)))
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Nice video !
Thanks for sharing ! 🙏👍
1.0.0RC2 requires selecting the sketch and first edge for a spine before clicking additive pipe.
Very good video
In your openion is freecad 1.0rc1 better that the current link version?
In my opinion the freecad link branch is better than the rc1, but the link branch is based on freecad .19 imo it doesn't have the offset tool, etc.
I agree with @Paulklampeeps that realthunder's version is a lot better. It's so much nicer to work with. Some features in mainline aren't present in rt, but a lot of really, really handy features in rt aren't available in mainline.
@@marcus3d FWIW it's the same for me. In addition it's a lot more stable, too. Even for my relative simple assemblies, my trials with Ondsel made it crash several times. Too bad that linkstage and assembly3 are a dead-end - but until main/ondsel have caught up in regards to features and stability I guess us, who use FreeCAD for actual, productive work will have to wait a bit longer... but at least the future looks bright, eh? :)
The 2 are diverging quite a lot lately. I prefer the sketcher and assembly workbench in FreeCAD.rc but I miss a huge list of features from LinkStage. There is a list of features to be ported on the Ondsel team radar but no certainty that everything will come in. I'm begging the developers though knowing that they have a huge amount of work ahead. By the way Thanks devs :) , you are my heroes
Thanks for yet another useful video, and may I ask whether you are using Freecad in a tablet? The top right status bar kinda resembles a tablet's
Thank you so much for your kind words, I'm using FreeCAD on Linux Kde's Plasma 6 desktop on a laptop. What you see is the system top bar with global menu. For me it free's a lot of space.
This was very helpful. Thank you!
Why do you make a separate datum plane for the circle, instead of just selecting the edge and adding a new sketch there?
I'll just copy and past a previous response because it is long lol ... please bear with me
You are perfectly right in saying that. I have the habit of creating datum planes because they are reusable in the context of more complex models. Set them once with all the offsets necessary then reuse them for whatever you want. For iterative design is faster.
Some considerations:
-in PartDesign selecting a edge and clicking CreateSketch won't allow you to set the attachment other than the base planes of the body. Just tested now with the weekly build. A solution would be to map to a base plane then use the remap function. I find that cumbersome.
- creating a sketch using the Sketcher workbench is giving a dialog to directly map to a geometry feature but the sketch will be created outside of the active body. Again cumbersome and just tested with the latest weekly.
-LinkStage3 will open the sketch creation dialog in PartDesign with the complete attachment panel and will permit to easily map a sketch to whatever feature directly just by selecting first said feature. I think that is one highly desired feature in FreeCAD main.
If I'm missing something obvious please let me know, FreeCAD is such a vast program and there are so many changes lately that there is always something new to learn.
@@OficineRobotica Ah, yes, I didn't realize that mainline FreeCAD is missing even basic features like that. (I'm almost always using realthunder's "LinkStage3" instead of mainline.)
How do you live with vanilla freecad without linkbranch features like tolerance (pad, cut, etc)?
It's not a easy life lol .... but my promotional work is now concentrated on FC main in order to bring in the greatness that LinkStage has
The sketch for the pipe shape could be attached to the path with the same normal to edge. Why add extraneous objects to the tree?
You are perfectly right in saying that. I have the habit of creating datum planes because they are reusable in the context of more complex models. Set them once with all the offsets necessary then reuse them for whatever you want. For iterative design is faster.
Some considerations:
-in PartDesign selecting a edge and clicking CreateSketch won't allow you to set the attachment other than the base planes of the body. Just tested now with the weekly build. A solution would be to map to a base plane then use the remap function. I find that cumbersome.
- creating a sketch using the Sketcher workbench is giving a dialog to directly map to a geometry feature but the sketch will be created outside of the active body. Again cumbersome and just tested with the latest weekly.
-LinkStage3 will open the sketch creation dialog in PartDesign with the complete attachment panel and will permit to easily map a sketch to whatever feature directly just by selecting first said feature. I think that is one highly desired feature in FreeCAD main.
If I'm missing something obvious please let me know, FreeCAD is such a vast program and there are so many changes lately that there is always something new to learn.
Hi, I need your UI theme Please, is there dark theme too ?
It's the OpenTheme , you can find it in the addon manager and yes there is a dark mode
please make video about them you use, thanks
Please elaborate what you are interested in.
Sorry, I was asking for a theme tutorial because I thought you were working with the new FreeCAD version. This is ondsel version 😅, i didnt see that in title @@OficineRobotica
@@Bill3D The theme and arrangeement of the interface is available in FC main also. In the addon manager search for OpenTheme . After install there is a light and a dark version. P.S. In this particular video I use FC main ;)
@@OficineRobotica thanks
A similar UI arrangement is available from OpenTheme now, you can apply the "OpenPreferences" preference pack and it should automagically apply most of the settings/arrangement. Be warned, it will probably replace any custom settings you've applied. I created the themes/pack.