Thanks for the video. Well done and I am really loving what FreeCAD has become, being a SolidWorks expert. I do have one critique with how the parts were mated and I've seen this in too many videos. Parts should be mated as if they were real world parts. You don't align/mate edges of real world parts, you align and mate surfaces. For example the pin in your video or the hole it goes into to could have, by accident or on purpose, an angle other than perpendicular, say 0.5 degrees. Align the edge and you will never see an error in the design with that small angle on one of the two features, but if you use surfaces you'll coincident the flat faces and when you try to use coaxial constraint on the pin and hole you'll discover the design flaw because the mate won't work. Plus, when measuring for quality in the real world you rarely if ever measure edges, you measure deviation along surfaces like run-out, concentricity, flatness, straightness, etc. In GD&T you'll use max and minimum material condition, which are dependent on surface deviations, not edges. One other minor thing, I suggest adding the ModernUI workbench, which turns FreeCAD into a far more friendly piece of software. You can even have it display text alongside the icons. Invaluable for beginners, the default UI is so 1990s and unapproachable, as well as painful to watch in videos the constant switching between workbenches via a pull down menu when ModernUI put them as tabs just like all our familiar apps these days. Cudos to the ModernUI workbench creators.
Thank you for the video. A2+ works with a very few parts. If I have >4 parts to assemble, then I get strange error messages and the assembly breaks. I did the same thing with the workbench Assembly-4 and it worked without any problems, even simulation of many parts works excellent. Additionally the Coordinate Systems of Assembly-4 is easier to use compared with the clicking of surfaces in A2+. Do you plan a video about Assembly-4 ?
Thanks for your comment. I have a video on Assmebly-4. If you subscribe to my channel you could have access to all my videos. Otherwise use the link below. I agree A2PLUS is not that robust some instances (it depends on what you are gong to do with it). ruclips.net/video/jJsRwgKWNa4/видео.html
You maybe able to do that... but , keep in mind that features with assembly constraints should not change. Assembly , it typically done after finishing up set of parts.
True - I am trying to see if I can work around some limits in freecad. For example projection in sketcher is limited and actually in fusion you can use align command to position objects on objects Very useful
Thanks for the video. Well done and I am really loving what FreeCAD has become, being a SolidWorks expert. I do have one critique with how the parts were mated and I've seen this in too many videos. Parts should be mated as if they were real world parts. You don't align/mate edges of real world parts, you align and mate surfaces. For example the pin in your video or the hole it goes into to could have, by accident or on purpose, an angle other than perpendicular, say 0.5 degrees. Align the edge and you will never see an error in the design with that small angle on one of the two features, but if you use surfaces you'll coincident the flat faces and when you try to use coaxial constraint on the pin and hole you'll discover the design flaw because the mate won't work.
Plus, when measuring for quality in the real world you rarely if ever measure edges, you measure deviation along surfaces like run-out, concentricity, flatness, straightness, etc. In GD&T you'll use max and minimum material condition, which are dependent on surface deviations, not edges.
One other minor thing, I suggest adding the ModernUI workbench, which turns FreeCAD into a far more friendly piece of software. You can even have it display text alongside the icons. Invaluable for beginners, the default UI is so 1990s and unapproachable, as well as painful to watch in videos the constant switching between workbenches via a pull down menu when ModernUI put them as tabs just like all our familiar apps these days. Cudos to the ModernUI workbench creators.
I like you suggestion on Modern UI. I will give it try. Thanks...
Really like the Modern UI
Thank you very much, this was helpfull!
Glad this helped.... I will be putting more videos.
Please add a link to the creation of the files for the parts used in this assembly. Letting us down load them would be even better.
Thanks!
Thank you for the video. A2+ works with a very few parts. If I have >4 parts to assemble, then I get strange error messages and the assembly breaks.
I did the same thing with the workbench Assembly-4 and it worked without any problems, even simulation of many parts works excellent. Additionally the Coordinate Systems of Assembly-4 is easier to use compared with the clicking of surfaces in A2+. Do you plan a video about Assembly-4 ?
Thanks for your comment. I have a video on Assmebly-4. If you subscribe to my channel you could have access to all my videos. Otherwise use the link below.
I agree A2PLUS is not that robust some instances (it depends on what you are gong to do with it).
ruclips.net/video/jJsRwgKWNa4/видео.html
Is there a way to work with existing in document parts and do a live assembly while modeling more?
You maybe able to do that... but , keep in mind that features with assembly constraints should not change.
Assembly , it typically done after finishing up set of parts.
True - I am trying to see if I can work around some limits in freecad. For example projection in sketcher is limited and actually in fusion you can use align command to position objects on objects
Very useful