REGARDING PRONUNCIATION ERRORS; yes, I am indeed aware of my mispronunciation of ‘FreeCAD’, ‘fillet’, and ‘Euler’. I made this video before I was aware of these errors. If anyone happens to dislike the video, can you please leave a comment describing which aspects of the tutorial you found to be lacking so that I can improve future videos. Thanks to everyone who has watched/liked the video thus far; I'm glad that the tutorial appears to be useful. Check out part 2 for Part Design and Sketching and Part 3 for Importing and Sketching Images.
Rick - I'll be 70 this year. I'm retired from so many professions, I wouldn't know where to start. Suffice it to say I introduced 3D Acad to M&M Mars, Elizabethtown Plant too many years ago. They were at that time using an early competitor - "Cadvance". Part of my duties were to create conversion software that would import Cadvance and Export "correct" Acad DXF. After I laid-out the entire electrical distribution system "Display-Case Funsize Wrapper conversion" to their product-line in 3D, it immediately convinced the Engineering Dept it was high-time they finally considered taking a giant leap up from the old "Cadvance" of their past. I actually had one of the subcontractors come to my workstation to "shake my hand" because it was the first time they ever fabricated sub-assemblies in their plant and "everything went together perfectly on-site"! No hand-fits or re-welds required and the job went off ahead of schedule for an all-time first. Back then, both hardware and software were "light-years" behind what we have available today on our smartphones! The idea of it becoming available "FREE" was absurd at best! Today, I can't imagine anyone building something as simple as a "chicken-coop" without first building it for FREE on their laptop! The ONLY thing in the way is LEARNING how to use it and I think you're doing a pretty good job. Examples of simple applications are the fastest way to assimilate every aspect of this tech.. KUDOS!
Great job! Sincerely appreciated. As a 76 year old nubie you present your tutorials in a manner easy to follow with both visual and explanatory clarity.
Finally some clarity to get started! The FreeCAD manual leaves you stranded with none matching screens and nothing accomplished. This however gets you on your way to being productive in short order! Thanks so very much!!
Jeff Robertson thank you very much, I’m happy that you enjoyed the video. When I made it I tried to make it as straightforward as possible. I made two more tutorial videos for FreeCAD, so check them out if your interested. Part 2 is about the part design workbench and part 3 is about importing images. Thanks again!
I have watched almost all the FreeCAD tutorials and your video is the best....hands down! Thanks so much as your simple explanations are what I needed to get hold of this program instead of pulling out my hair...which not too much is left. Thanks again for the wonderful Video.
Thank you very much for your kind compliments! I’m glad that you found the video to be helpful, plus it’s nice to know how my videos fare compared to other FreeCAD tutorials. If you have not watched them already, then I think you will find Parts 2 and 3 of this series to be helpful in learning about some of FreeCADs more advanced features. Thanks again for your kind words!
Just getting into this stuff and I'm happy your videos are some of the first I came across. You are very informative and your voice is not annoying or boring so I don't have an issues paying attention to what you are saying. Fantastic job and thank you.
Hi, I am just starting out on this stuff. Looked at a number of beginner vids but this one is by far the best in clarity and explanation of functions. Many thanks. I will be checking out your other videos.
dude i just started trying to design my own prints and found your video so so helpful. i tried to learn the program on my own beforehand and it was a big struggle. this video is awesome.
You are a great instructor. Thank you soooooo much!!!!!!!!! Very clear, to the point but not bogged down in details that aren't important for just learning how to fly thing thing. Thank you thank you.
Thank you very much for your kind compliments Ron Jones; receiving positive comments about the tutorial has been the best aspect of making the videos. This video was my first ever instructional video and I find that I tended to mumble and ramble more often compared to my later videos, which you can find by my checking out my RUclips channel. The second tutorial video is about the Part Design workbench, while the third video is about the Image workbench and creating objects from diagrams or schematics. Thanks again, Cheers!
It's 2020 and I've just bought myself a 3D printer. This is an incredibly useful video explaining the basics of FreeCAD. Thankyou. There's some slight variation in the interface between the Mac & Ubuntu versions but you were using the 2017 version. I'm using 0.18.4 so no doubt that's the main difference. I'm actually trying to create a better enclosure for the battery I've created for my ebike. :ThumbsUP:
I just wanna give you a huge thanks for you cause tNice tutorials is the most helpful video I've had in a wNice tutorialle and it really helped so keep up the
Thanks man. That was basic but fairly understandable. With that in mind one can make lot's of different things. Highly appreciated. Thanks for your time.
Thanks for posting. I found this while trying to figure out why I can't rotate or move a part around. As stated in video - press shift key. You also have to hold the right click key down. I'm on Windows 10 FreeCAD version 0.16. Cheers!
Hello Peter, sorry about my old reply to your comment, I got you mixed up with another Peter that had commented on my video asking for assistance. I’m glad you find the video to be helpful, if there’s anything I can help you with, let me know and I’ll be happy to help. Thanks for watching !
Hi Rick, I do have an unrelated question. Playing with the Arch workbench I put windows in some walls. I tried to delete one then changed my mind . It returned with opaque glass so I changed the transparency to 80. The whole frame and glass turned transparent. Then all the windows turned transparent How did I do this, and how can I correct this. Thanks for any ideas!
Hello Peter, sorry for the belated response, to be completely honest with you, I have never used the Arch module before; I have always used the Part Design workbench and sketching for any architectural or structural projects. However, I know that whenever you delete an object in FreeCAD and then undo the deletion that the object will return with its default appearance, so for example if the object you deleted was red with dashed lines at 50 percent transparency, after you undid the deletion the object would return with its default grey coloring with solid lines and 0% transparency. My initial thought is that the window that you cut and then uncut was somehow connected to the other objects which also changed appearance; are the objects that changed without your input somehow connected to the deleted window, like how two objects are connected via Boolean operations? Have you tried to select the objects individually and change their appearance back to how you want? My next thought is that somehow the view mode of the Windows was changed from “Flat Lines” to “Wireframe”; this would cause the Windows which used to be shaded with lines to wire frames with lines only. Another option you could try is to select all of the objects that changed without your input using the CTRL or CMD button to select them independently; then hit CTRL and D or CMD and D to bring up the appearance menu. From there, you can change the appearance of all the objects you selected at once, so hopefully that will help. Let me know how it turns out, good luck!
Hi Rick, Thanks for your reply and advice. I didn't know I could draw arch stuff in Part Design WB. I just discovered the FreeCAD forum, found a related thread, downloaded V.17 opened up the drawing, problem solved! Looking forward to more of your videos! Thanks again.
There is a tool called Array in draft toolbox, that allows multiple objects to be arrayed in X-Y or radially. Easier than the duplication you mention here.
Great work! this is just what I needed to get over the first hurdle...I hope you cover some importing of shapes and measurements in 2d, I'm just starting out and I want to measure 3d parts in order to make footprints for Kicad with a view to creating 3d parts for Kicad in the future....I believe with your tutorials I could achieve this....thanks!
Hello andymouse123, I’m glad you enjoyed the video! I made two additions videos which cover some of the topics you mentioned. Part 2 is about sketching and importing mesh files, while Part 3 is about importing images and diagrams and measuring them so you can accurately create 3D images from 2D schematics. It also explains how to use a scanner or a micro lens to get an accurate image of flat objects to make models from them. If you click my name under the video, you’ll be taken to my channel and you can find the other tutorials under my uploaded videos. Thanks again!
That cylinder came out of nowhere. Then the box was I guess transparent because you could see the cylinder inside of it. I can understand having done this so much its easy to not realize that you should explain some step. But overall one of the better tutorials with details.
I've watched a few so far and yours are the easiest to understand. Very well explained, at the right pace. In a few minutes made good progress. Cheers. Sub'd. Will be watching all your videos to learn freecad.
with it in a few weeks or months if I pour enough ti and effort into it. I'll be watcNice tutorialng many more of your videos for tips and inspiration.
Hello Gabriel Pizarro, thank you for your comment. I’m not sure if you are referring to something specific from my recent videos, or if you are referencing the ‘Arakawa Under the Bridge’ meme. Thanks for watching, I hope you enjoyed the videos 😊
Ooh yes I see what you mean, haha my mistake. Yes I used the Picitinny Rails for my example of importing images from the internet and creating 3D objects from them for my FreeCAD Tutorial Part 3 video, if you are interested you can find it under my list of videos. Thanks again, I’m glad you liked the video
the interface is similar in v 0.17, but more simplistic. Thanks for this tutorial! I can still follow along and I'm getting the hang of the different functions. It was daunting at first but you make it seem easy :-)
Excellent tutorial. I am finding some discrepancies in the latest version which I just downloaded ....for instance the fillet and chamfer are not available in the Part tool ....but are in Part Design. But when you create a cube in Part and move over to Part design it will not allow you to use those functions on that part.
Do tutorial itself is pretty good. My recommendation in future tutorial videos if you’re going to say this button right here replace that with what button that button’s name is so per se you are going to track button make sure you say subtract this button right here.
Thank you very much for your teachings I am learning to use FreeCAD for making electronics components such as Switches, ICs, potentiometers, Vacuum tubes etc. Would you create a video showing how to edit an imported STEP file for an electronic component which shows up plain with no colors.I would like to be able to color the pins as gold or copper and color the body as well with different metals or platics colors and then save them as an STL file that could be imported into Autotrax Dex. Your help would be greatly appreciated
*Thank you so much!* I tried the FC tuts, but got bogged down. Partly because the FC tut text does not match the tut vid! Not only does your tut make sense, but you are hitting the _exact skills_ I need to get started. As soon as I'm done w/ your tut 1, I'll be going to 2 & 3. Thanks again!
Very helpful! Once thing that i have not figured out was how was it that you had the basic objects such as cube, cylinder, cone, etc on your toolbar They are not there by default on my installation and I did not see anywhere where they could be added. Edited: I found out why I did not see the part objects! I was in the "Part Design" workbench and not the "Part" workbench!
I wish you could explain the boolean operation form the point that you created the cylinder and the aded it to the cube. I tried to add a colder to a 12 sided die but when I make the cylinder it attaches the die to he end of the cylinder instead of creating a separate object
I am having trouble with the cylinder. When I create it, it is fused to the cube, and I can't figure out how to get it separated like the tutorial (due to the frame cut where its just there). Is there any way to make both components "free" to where you can move them relative to each other?
Hi, maybe you already figured it out, but just in case, I got it... select the cylinder, "placement" and move (arrow up) the "x" coordinate, then change the view if the cube (i.e. top) and change the "y" coordinate...the axis might be different depending on your settings, but the idea is the same...
Hi Rick I really appreciate your approach to teaching and your knowledge of FreeCAD. I have one issue though. I cannot seem to move a part of a sketch. When i click on it, it changes colour but when I move it the whole grid moves and the sketch with it. Is there a particular reason for this that you know of?
Just so you know there is a difference between FILET as in Filet-O-Fish pronounced like fill & lay, and FILLET as in a rounded edge, pronounced as one word sounding like, fill & it, FILLET. In the video it sounds like you want to debone the box like it were a fish.
Hello archangel20031, my apologies for the pronunciation errors; a few other viewers have also alerted me to this specific mistake as well as some other linguistic faults throughout the series. Thank you for brining it to my attention, and if you happen to notice any other issues please let me know, thanks for watching.
@@RickHoefer89 I thought this video was great and thanks for taking the time to make it but yeah, I pulled out most of my hair with the rapidity and repetitiousness of the filet-o-fish fallacy. I'm sure by now you've rectified any such errant elocution, but I have a suggestion that might prevent many of your viewers from crass impalement of effigial dolls in your likeness by some sadistic ritualized enactment of pseudo-metaphysical psychopathy. Honestly, nobody needs that, right? Of course not. So I think it would help a lot if you were to speak in a proper Brittish accent. To the best of your ability, anyhow. Really, anything will be an improvement over what we've got now, so... Oh - I just thought of something even better - yay! If you could narrate your videos in your best Arnold Schwarzenegger that would be fantastic. Yes, so much more awesomer than any stuffy old snobbish snoot from those dreary isles would ever be 😄 Come on, do it. What the hell are you waiting for? DO IT! COME ON I'M HERE - DO IIIT COME OOON DO IT NOOOOOWWW!!! 💥 😝
Thanks for this. I've tried to follow but hit a pretty basic problem... I create the cube OK, then when I create the default Cylinder shape, this gets placed at one of the corners of the cube, not dead centre of the cube as I'd expect... In your video the cylinder is already in the right central place but 'hidden' so I don't know whether you moved it into the correct position or it was created there by default somehow... But OK, I move my Cylinder into the central position of the cube. Now when I try the CUT boolean, the operation takes a corner chunk out of the cube in the position my cylinder was first in, not the position I've now moved it to... confused !
OK, when translating objects in the 'Placement' window even if it looks like the object is being moved into a new position, I have to click OK below the Palcement window (in the dark blue area below the Placement window) before the change is really 'fixed'. Despite what appears on the screen, The Boolean operation will ignore the translation if it has not been OK'ed.
Also, for me , clicking ENTER over the name 'Cube' in the Model window for renaming it doesn't work either... I'm using FreeCAD v0.18 a couple of years after this tutorial was made, so maybe things have changed a bit?
Hi. Nice video. I am new to using Freecad. I am trying to create a pipe filled with marbles with certain distance from each other. I used spheres to create the marbles and used cylinder to create my pipe. I used ARRAY option to spread the marbles through the pipe. I had to create 2 arrays to align the marbles at certain spaces. I cut the extra marbles with the pipe put another cylinder as a pipe to cover them. When I use the Fusion Option, all the marbles from inside the pipe disappear. I there anyway, I can keep the marbles inside the pipe? thanks
Hello Jalil Ahmad Jamily, I’m glad you enjoyed the video, sorry for the delayed response. Let me see if I understand you correctly; so the marbles exist as one solid object and the pipe exists as a solid cylinder, and you are trying to fuse them into one object, so that the marbles inside the hollow pipe exist as a single object, is that correct? I think the issue is that the cylinder you are fusing with the marbles is a solid cylinder, instead of a hollow cylinder; if the pipe is solid, it will end up covering up the marbles when they are fused. Try this; copy and paste the cylinder which acts as the pipe and change its radius to slightly larger than the radius of the marbles but less than the outer radius of the pipe. Then cut the pipe cylinder with the new cylinder; this will create a hollow pipe. Then fuse the marbles with the hollow pipe. Hopefully this makes sense, here’s another way to visualize it using some arbitrary numbers: marble radius=5, pipe inner radius (smaller cylinder) radius=5.1, pipe outer radius (larger cylinder)=6. In this example you would cut the larger cylinder with the smaller cylinder, which would give you a hollow cylinder with an edge thickness of 0.9. Then you would fuse the marbles with the hollow pipe so that the spacing between the marbles and the inner pipe would be equal to 0.1. Having a spacing of 0 between the marbles and the inner pipe can cause the program to create an odd looking fusion, so I usually use a spacing value of 0.1 for objects I intend to be moveable. Hopefully this will help, if I misunderstood you or if you need further assistance I’m happy to help. Good luck!
Excellent info - excellent presentation! I have one suggestion for making it even better and that is make more and SHORTER videos. A video 6 or 7 minutes long for me is a lot easier to absorb and easier to find the time to watch. Keep up the good work
REGARDING PRONUNCIATION ERRORS; yes, I am indeed aware of my mispronunciation of ‘FreeCAD’, ‘fillet’, and ‘Euler’. I made this video before I was aware of these errors.
If anyone happens to dislike the video, can you please leave a comment describing which aspects of the tutorial you found to be lacking so that I can improve future videos. Thanks to everyone who has watched/liked the video thus far; I'm glad that the tutorial appears to be useful. Check out part 2 for Part Design and Sketching and Part 3 for Importing and Sketching Images.
They’re tearing you apart out here lol, but thank you for the vid
something fishy at 14:07 ;)
It's a great vid, don't buy into the haters.
@@whugheswhughes98144 Thank you my friend, I’m glad you enjoyed it.
Rick - I'll be 70 this year. I'm retired from so many professions, I wouldn't know where to start. Suffice it to say I introduced 3D Acad to M&M Mars, Elizabethtown Plant too many years ago. They were at that time using an early competitor - "Cadvance". Part of my duties were to create conversion software that would import Cadvance and Export "correct" Acad DXF. After I laid-out the entire electrical distribution system "Display-Case Funsize Wrapper conversion" to their product-line in 3D, it immediately convinced the Engineering Dept it was high-time they finally considered taking a giant leap up from the old "Cadvance" of their past. I actually had one of the subcontractors come to my workstation to "shake my hand" because it was the first time they ever fabricated sub-assemblies in their plant and "everything went together perfectly on-site"! No hand-fits or re-welds required and the job went off ahead of schedule for an all-time first. Back then, both hardware and software were "light-years" behind what we have available today on our smartphones! The idea of it becoming available "FREE" was absurd at best! Today, I can't imagine anyone building something as simple as a "chicken-coop" without first building it for FREE on their laptop! The ONLY thing in the way is LEARNING how to use it and I think you're doing a pretty good job. Examples of simple applications are the fastest way to assimilate every aspect of this tech.. KUDOS!
Great job! Sincerely appreciated.
As a 76 year old nubie you present your tutorials in a manner easy to follow with both visual and explanatory clarity.
Thank you very much Mr. Andrews, I am glad to hear that you have enjoyed the tutorial!
Finally some clarity to get started! The FreeCAD manual leaves you stranded with none matching screens and nothing accomplished. This however gets you on your way to being productive in short order! Thanks so very much!!
Jeff Robertson thank you very much, I’m happy that you enjoyed the video. When I made it I tried to make it as straightforward as possible. I made two more tutorial videos for FreeCAD, so check them out if your interested. Part 2 is about the part design workbench and part 3 is about importing images. Thanks again!
Great Video !!! Simple, descriptive, valuable you saved me a lot of time by showing great tools. 20 minutes of pure gold!!!
The balls on this guy! Recording a video on 9% battery!
your tutorials are exactly the thing i was looking for, a real no nonsense straight forward guidance, top content, thank you!
I have watched almost all the FreeCAD tutorials and your video is the best....hands down! Thanks so much as your simple explanations are what I needed to get hold of this program instead of pulling out my hair...which not too much is left. Thanks again for the wonderful Video.
Thank you very much for your kind compliments! I’m glad that you found the video to be helpful, plus it’s nice to know how my videos fare compared to other FreeCAD tutorials. If you have not watched them already, then I think you will find Parts 2 and 3 of this series to be helpful in learning about some of FreeCADs more advanced features. Thanks again for your kind words!
Just getting into this stuff and I'm happy your videos are some of the first I came across. You are very informative and your voice is not annoying or boring so I don't have an issues paying attention to what you are saying. Fantastic job and thank you.
Thank you for making these videos. This was the 1st video that actually made sense of how to use cad
Probably the best tutorial by far, nice pace and clear instructions. Thank you
after browsing through so many channels. Yours is by far the best. The explaining thod is so great and detailed even complex stuff is
Finally an understandable tutorial! Thank you for posting this. Good job on the video.
Hi, I am just starting out on this stuff. Looked at a number of beginner vids but this one is by far the best in clarity and explanation of functions. Many thanks. I will be checking out your other videos.
dude i just started trying to design my own prints and found your video so so helpful. i tried to learn the program on my own beforehand and it was a big struggle. this video is awesome.
👍 I am viewing and re-viewing each tutorial. Enjoying a new found activity. Thank you!
You are a great instructor. Thank you soooooo much!!!!!!!!! Very clear, to the point but not bogged down in details that aren't important for just learning how to fly thing thing. Thank you thank you.
Thank you very much for your kind compliments Ron Jones; receiving positive comments about the tutorial has been the best aspect of making the videos. This video was my first ever instructional video and I find that I tended to mumble and ramble more often compared to my later videos, which you can find by my checking out my RUclips channel. The second tutorial video is about the Part Design workbench, while the third video is about the Image workbench and creating objects from diagrams or schematics. Thanks again, Cheers!
Thank you for this series. Respectfully, other uploaders couldn't compare to what you provide relative to my needs.
Thank you Kethos Viewpoints, I am glad that the series was helpful for you!
Excellent Video tutorial. I watched several before. But none was so comprehensive like yours. Thanks
10 of 10 total like! Rick, you've done a fine job of explaining simply what I wish to simply do.
I know this video is old but it is exactly what I need. thank you so much for this video
soone who does not get complex instructions like..At all, tNice tutorials was simple and clear for to understand. Thanks dude.
Great job explaining the important aspects of the tools!
I'm watching all your freecad video because you do a great job of explaining concepts
It's 2020 and I've just bought myself a 3D printer.
This is an incredibly useful video explaining the basics of FreeCAD. Thankyou.
There's some slight variation in the interface between the Mac & Ubuntu versions but you were using the 2017 version. I'm using 0.18.4 so no doubt that's the main difference.
I'm actually trying to create a better enclosure for the battery I've created for my ebike.
:ThumbsUP:
TNice tutorials tutorial was so easy to understand. Thank you so much!
Excellent! Better first lesson than I could even have hoped for.
tNice tutorials is how an editing software beginner tutorial is done. tNice tutorials video is a standard for all editing software tutorials
Your video is the best one, to the point and short.
going to go make my first soft! My first soft!! Here I go! Wish luck.
I just wanna give you a huge thanks for you cause tNice tutorials is the most helpful video I've had in a wNice tutorialle and it really helped so keep up the
Thanks man. That was basic but fairly understandable. With that in mind one can make lot's of different things. Highly appreciated. Thanks for your time.
very clear and understandable . Thank you.
Thanks for posting. I found this while trying to figure out why I can't rotate or move a part around. As stated in video - press shift key. You also have to hold the right click key down. I'm on Windows 10 FreeCAD version 0.16. Cheers!
Thanks Rick, I'm struggling with FreeCAD. Great to watch these vids. Thank you for showing more simple steps to understand the basics . Cheers!
Hello Peter, sorry about my old reply to your comment, I got you mixed up with another Peter that had commented on my video asking for assistance. I’m glad you find the video to be helpful, if there’s anything I can help you with, let me know and I’ll be happy to help. Thanks for watching !
Hi Rick, I do have an unrelated question. Playing with the Arch workbench I put windows in some walls. I tried to delete one then changed my mind . It returned with opaque glass so I changed the transparency to 80. The whole frame and glass turned transparent. Then all the windows turned transparent How did I do this, and how can I correct this.
Thanks for any ideas!
Hello Peter, sorry for the belated response, to be completely honest with you, I have never used the Arch module before; I have always used the Part Design workbench and sketching for any architectural or structural projects. However, I know that whenever you delete an object in FreeCAD and then undo the deletion that the object will return with its default appearance, so for example if the object you deleted was red with dashed lines at 50 percent transparency, after you undid the deletion the object would return with its default grey coloring with solid lines and 0% transparency. My initial thought is that the window that you cut and then uncut was somehow connected to the other objects which also changed appearance; are the objects that changed without your input somehow connected to the deleted window, like how two objects are connected via Boolean operations? Have you tried to select the objects individually and change their appearance back to how you want? My next thought is that somehow the view mode of the Windows was changed from “Flat Lines” to “Wireframe”; this would cause the Windows which used to be shaded with lines to wire frames with lines only. Another option you could try is to select all of the objects that changed without your input using the CTRL or CMD button to select them independently; then hit CTRL and D or CMD and D to bring up the appearance menu. From there, you can change the appearance of all the objects you selected at once, so hopefully that will help. Let me know how it turns out, good luck!
Hi Rick, Thanks for your reply and advice. I didn't know I could draw arch stuff in Part Design WB. I just discovered the FreeCAD forum, found a related thread, downloaded V.17 opened up the drawing, problem solved! Looking forward to more of your videos! Thanks again.
Thank you for taking the time to share this info on a great program
Nice video. Good to help getting started in FreeCAD
Great tutorial Rick. Thank you very much.
Thank you very much for your compliments! Im happy that you enjoyed the videos!
I ca back to soft after about 10 years when I was using soft soft 10 and for its best program Ive seen in fact its also simpliest one
Thanks for the tutorials, and thanks for the giggle 14:34
There is a tool called Array in draft toolbox, that allows multiple objects to be arrayed in X-Y or radially. Easier than the duplication you mention here.
Great work! this is just what I needed to get over the first hurdle...I hope you cover some importing of shapes and measurements in 2d, I'm just starting out and I want to measure 3d parts in order to make footprints for Kicad with a view to creating 3d parts for Kicad in the future....I believe with your tutorials I could achieve this....thanks!
Hello andymouse123, I’m glad you enjoyed the video! I made two additions videos which cover some of the topics you mentioned. Part 2 is about sketching and importing mesh files, while Part 3 is about importing images and diagrams and measuring them so you can accurately create 3D images from 2D schematics. It also explains how to use a scanner or a micro lens to get an accurate image of flat objects to make models from them. If you click my name under the video, you’ll be taken to my channel and you can find the other tutorials under my uploaded videos. Thanks again!
YOU ARE A GOD... NO QUESTION ABOUT IT
That cylinder came out of nowhere. Then the box was I guess transparent because you could see the cylinder inside of it. I can understand having done this so much its easy to not realize that you should explain some step. But overall one of the better tutorials with details.
Great tutorial. This program is fantastic.
Great video! Thank you for posting!
Aweso tutorial bro! I like how you gets down to bus
Nice presentation. I learned a lot. Good clear video for us newbies. Looking forward to checking out your newest posts.
Thank you very much Arlie Keith! I'm glad you found the video to be helpful. I think you will also enjoy the next two videos, especially part 3.
Rick, Good Job and thanks.
I've watched a few so far and yours are the easiest to understand. Very well explained, at the right pace. In a few minutes made good progress. Cheers. Sub'd. Will be watching all your videos to learn freecad.
Thanks mate this was so helpful. Finally able to start my project 👍🏻
with it in a few weeks or months if I pour enough ti and effort into it. I'll be watcNice tutorialng many more of your videos for tips and inspiration.
Very helpful, thank you
Very good tutorial, thanks Rick!
By your recent files, I can see you are also a man of culture...
Hello Gabriel Pizarro, thank you for your comment. I’m not sure if you are referring to something specific from my recent videos, or if you are referencing the ‘Arakawa Under the Bridge’ meme. Thanks for watching, I hope you enjoyed the videos 😊
I didn't even think about those lol. I was originally referring to 0:10, but those work too. Keep up the good work!
Ooh yes I see what you mean, haha my mistake. Yes I used the Picitinny Rails for my example of importing images from the internet and creating 3D objects from them for my FreeCAD Tutorial Part 3 video, if you are interested you can find it under my list of videos. Thanks again, I’m glad you liked the video
You do great work bro. Keep it up bro.❤❤
Nice tutorial. Glad you made this.
Thank you very much! I'm glad you enjoyed it
Thanks for the help.
This is great, thanks!
("Euler" is pronounced like "Oiler")
the interface is similar in v 0.17, but more simplistic. Thanks for this tutorial! I can still follow along and I'm getting the hang of the different functions. It was daunting at first but you make it seem easy :-)
Thank you for your reply!
nice tuto bro, that solved!
thanks man !!!! Really helpful !!!!!
i couldnt finish reading it but the first 2 sentences were inspirin LMAO
Yes it can - don't despair!
Hey that was the clue change to stl and got better result and thanks again
Excellent tutorial. I am finding some discrepancies in the latest version which I just downloaded ....for instance the fillet and chamfer are not available in the Part tool ....but are in Part Design. But when you create a cube in Part and move over to Part design it will not allow you to use those functions on that part.
Thank you for the video, rick. very helpful.
Thanks Jon Takacs, I’m happy that it was useful for you.
Do tutorial itself is pretty good. My recommendation in future tutorial videos if you’re going to say this button right here replace that with what button that button’s name is so per se you are going to track button make sure you say subtract this button right here.
Thank you very much for your teachings I am learning to use FreeCAD for making electronics components such as Switches, ICs, potentiometers, Vacuum tubes etc. Would you create a video showing how to edit an imported STEP file for an electronic component which shows up plain with no colors.I would like to be able to color the pins as gold or copper and color the body as well with different metals or platics colors and then save them as an STL file that could be imported into Autotrax Dex. Your help would be greatly appreciated
*Thank you so much!* I tried the FC tuts, but got bogged down. Partly because the FC tut text does not match the tut vid! Not only does your tut make sense, but you are hitting the _exact skills_ I need to get started. As soon as I'm done w/ your tut 1, I'll be going to 2 & 3. Thanks again!
In version 0.18, the storm trooper has been replaced by Dolly the Sheep, world-class clone.
Thank you so much!
Very helpful! Once thing that i have not figured out was how was it that you had the basic objects such as cube, cylinder, cone, etc on your toolbar They are not there by default on my installation and I did not see anywhere where they could be added. Edited: I found out why I did not see the part objects! I was in the "Part Design" workbench and not the "Part" workbench!
Wonderful tutorial english great thanks
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I wish you could explain the boolean operation form the point that you created the cylinder and the aded it to the cube. I tried to add a colder to a 12 sided die but when I make the cylinder it attaches the die to he end of the cylinder instead of creating a separate object
After so many years of being confused and intimidated by tNice tutorials software I finally understand how to use it. I never thought the day would
I am having trouble with the cylinder. When I create it, it is fused to the cube, and I can't figure out how to get it separated like the tutorial (due to the frame cut where its just there). Is there any way to make both components "free" to where you can move them relative to each other?
Hi, maybe you already figured it out, but just in case, I got it... select the cylinder, "placement" and move (arrow up) the "x" coordinate, then change the view if the cube (i.e. top) and change the "y" coordinate...the axis might be different depending on your settings, but the idea is the same...
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Well done!!
Thanks Rick.
It was the sa for , In the GMS I switched the "Program" to "Analog app 1 TE"
What a great video! Straight to the point and perfectly explained. Thanks for uploading tNice tutorials!
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Hi Rick I really appreciate your approach to teaching and your knowledge of FreeCAD. I have one issue though. I cannot seem to move a part of a sketch. When i click on it, it changes colour but when I move it the whole grid moves and the sketch with it. Is there a particular reason for this that you know of?
Just so you know there is a difference between FILET as in Filet-O-Fish pronounced like fill & lay, and FILLET as in a rounded edge, pronounced as one word sounding like, fill & it, FILLET.
In the video it sounds like you want to debone the box like it were a fish.
Hello archangel20031, my apologies for the pronunciation errors; a few other viewers have also alerted me to this specific mistake as well as some other linguistic faults throughout the series. Thank you for brining it to my attention, and if you happen to notice any other issues please let me know, thanks for watching.
@@RickHoefer89 I thought this video was great and thanks for taking the time to make it but yeah, I pulled out most of my hair with the rapidity and repetitiousness of the filet-o-fish fallacy. I'm sure by now you've rectified any such errant elocution, but I have a suggestion that might prevent many of your viewers from crass impalement of effigial dolls in your likeness by some sadistic ritualized enactment of pseudo-metaphysical psychopathy. Honestly, nobody needs that, right? Of course not.
So I think it would help a lot if you were to speak in a proper Brittish accent. To the best of your ability, anyhow. Really, anything will be an improvement over what we've got now, so...
Oh - I just thought of something even better - yay! If you could narrate your videos in your best Arnold Schwarzenegger that would be fantastic. Yes, so much more awesomer than any stuffy old snobbish snoot from those dreary isles would ever be 😄
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arrow forward once to get "Analog app 1 TE" like he uses in the video or simply find one you'd like to use alternatively instead.
Thanks for this. I've tried to follow but hit a pretty basic problem... I create the cube OK, then when I create the default Cylinder shape, this gets placed at one of the corners of the cube, not dead centre of the cube as I'd expect... In your video the cylinder is already in the right central place but 'hidden' so I don't know whether you moved it into the correct position or it was created there by default somehow... But OK, I move my Cylinder into the central position of the cube. Now when I try the CUT boolean, the operation takes a corner chunk out of the cube in the position my cylinder was first in, not the position I've now moved it to... confused !
OK, when translating objects in the 'Placement' window even if it looks like the object is being moved into a new position, I have to click OK below the Palcement window (in the dark blue area below the Placement window) before the change is really 'fixed'. Despite what appears on the screen, The Boolean operation will ignore the translation if it has not been OK'ed.
Also, for me , clicking ENTER over the name 'Cube' in the Model window for renaming it doesn't work either... I'm using FreeCAD v0.18 a couple of years after this tutorial was made, so maybe things have changed a bit?
Hi. Nice video. I am new to using Freecad. I am trying to create a pipe filled with marbles with certain distance from each other. I used spheres to create the marbles and used cylinder to create my pipe. I used ARRAY option to spread the marbles through the pipe. I had to create 2 arrays to align the marbles at certain spaces. I cut the extra marbles with the pipe put another cylinder as a pipe to cover them. When I use the Fusion Option, all the marbles from inside the pipe disappear. I there anyway, I can keep the marbles inside the pipe? thanks
Hello Jalil Ahmad Jamily, I’m glad you enjoyed the video, sorry for the delayed response. Let me see if I understand you correctly; so the marbles exist as one solid object and the pipe exists as a solid cylinder, and you are trying to fuse them into one object, so that the marbles inside the hollow pipe exist as a single object, is that correct? I think the issue is that the cylinder you are fusing with the marbles is a solid cylinder, instead of a hollow cylinder; if the pipe is solid, it will end up covering up the marbles when they are fused. Try this; copy and paste the cylinder which acts as the pipe and change its radius to slightly larger than the radius of the marbles but less than the outer radius of the pipe. Then cut the pipe cylinder with the new cylinder; this will create a hollow pipe. Then fuse the marbles with the hollow pipe. Hopefully this makes sense, here’s another way to visualize it using some arbitrary numbers: marble radius=5, pipe inner radius (smaller cylinder) radius=5.1, pipe outer radius (larger cylinder)=6. In this example you would cut the larger cylinder with the smaller cylinder, which would give you a hollow cylinder with an edge thickness of 0.9. Then you would fuse the marbles with the hollow pipe so that the spacing between the marbles and the inner pipe would be equal to 0.1. Having a spacing of 0 between the marbles and the inner pipe can cause the program to create an odd looking fusion, so I usually use a spacing value of 0.1 for objects I intend to be moveable. Hopefully this will help, if I misunderstood you or if you need further assistance I’m happy to help. Good luck!
@@RickHoefer89 Thank you so much. It helped.
I'm using version 0.19 and the cut boolean ball option in the top didnt show up. Can anyone help me please?
Do you have any documentation anywhere so I can follow it, this video at my beginners level ?
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I had to watch tNice tutorials video literally 7 tis to understand how the channel rack, softs, and tracks work. I can see why people either love
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Excellent info - excellent presentation! I have one suggestion for making it even better and that is make more and SHORTER videos. A video 6 or 7 minutes long for me is a lot easier to absorb and easier to find the time to watch. Keep up the good work
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