Great video! I find when learning new CAD software that it's just nice to watch someone's workflow and see how they do things. I felt like I learned a lot more here than in an actual tutorial.
@@OffsetCAD I misunderstood your title. I thought you teach us how to quickly build a box. Please accept my apology for misunderstanding the purpose of your instruction. Instead I now understand You are quickly teaching us how to do difficult tasks. My apologies for not understanding. I am older and do drawings by hand. I am deciding if I should try to learn this program. But it will take me a long time to learn and I will work very slowly. So trying to make sure I can learn how to use this and that it isn't so difficult and time consuming to discourage me. You have done an excellent instruction video. Thank you.
Many thanks! I made it in 40 minutes, with lots of pause/rewind, but this small exercise is packed with many useful concepts. Maybe it is for advanced users, but if you follow precisely the steps everyone should also succeed. Sometimes it is difficult to see where you clicked and my icons are disposed differently, so I must find it elsewhere. You may want to hover 1 second before moving away for an easier tutorial. Nevertheless the pause button is your friend.
For beginners, it's often the initial steps that are the most confusing and can discourage people from learning a new tool. Unfortunately, most creators tend to skim over those crucial steps in their tutorials.🙁
@@OffsetCAD I completely agree here with bigwreck81. It is way too fast for a tutorial. I got about half way through and stopped the video. I couldn’t keep up and i didn’t want to have to keep rewinding. Plus your English is a bit hard to understand. Showing down will help this as well.
Also - hover over an icon so a beginner can SEE the action performed by that icon - helps us understand what you are showing us! Thanks for trying to help beginners like me!
Wow... Amazing work, learned a lot from this video. To fit everything in 15 mins you did amazing. For those who require this to be slower, you could make a modeling video that explains things in details. For me this was amazing and most of the people can pause and rewind. Really good stuff, you have new subscription!
I appreciate the format of this tutorial, as I was already familiar with SolidWorks going into FreeCAD and so this type of pacing helps provide a quick rundown of the functions in FreeCAD without overly long introductory sections or low info density. By knowing how I would model this in SolidWorks and watching how you model it in FreeCAD I can find the analogous functions.
Thanks. I love the speedy tutorial, saves my time and I appreciate it. If it's to fast for sb, its youtube, you can pause any time. So don't slow down :) Edit: a better microphone would be good ;)
Very impressive show case. I don't mind that it isn't a tutorial, this would make it a 2 hour video. Inspired me to finally try freecad. Moving sketches afterwards seems powerful. I just wonder if doing the chamfers and fillets (you made in the sketch) would break the body if done afterwards.
Very great tutorial to learn! I fallow the exact step show, but the version 1.0.0 of freecad won't let me do all without a lot of error! I try to understand what I did wrong but my knowledge in modelling and 3d cad software are very low! Did you know if the official release of FreeCad are more restrictives then the RC2 version?
Woah, what have I been doing. I have STRUGGLED with Sketchup 2017 to make more specific and complex designs....I now see I was utterly wrong and CAD is where it's at.
great videos. Could you please let us know your profile settings? I like the way your user interface looks. It is very clear and easy to work with. Thank you
Thanks so much for the tutorial, love to step by step style without explanation! Unfortunatly i already stumbled at 1:15 because i got a dotted Red line (instead of a continious one) as i used the link external geometry tool and after creating the polyline i got an error when trying to define the length of the lines... is there a connection between the Dotted line and me Not beeing able to define the length? Thanks again!
It's a good video but god damn u are too fast and even when i slowed the video down, needed to rewind it 4-5 times if not even more. Thanks for the video but would been appriciated if the each objects were explained and slowed down by minimum the half haha Good contains Zero explainations Way too fast, just here then here and there...
Hey, a small tipp for you: please look for new video tutorials only, That will make you learn faster since you will avoid unnecassary extra steps due to lack of features from old versions. FreeCAD 1.0 RC1/RC2 is the most current versions. I hope the stable version will come out soon.
@@johang1293 Thank you.. For some reason I hard a hard time drawing this part, try several times following the video, but have a redundancy constrain errors. I use FreeCAD 1.0 RC2. In the end I was able to make that extrusion, but not sure if I can make the same again. 😁
@@Sokol10try again. As it worked for me in the video, will work with you too. Don't give up. I remember when I discovered FreeCAD 2 years ago. In my first interaction got several problems.😂😂😂
Hi, thanks for another great tutorial, if you allow me to make a sugestion, could you make a tutorial on how to create, modify the original shape with the intention of generate errors and how to fix them. I've been practicing and sometimes I get some, for example wire not closed or eliminated edges that used to have a chamfer and when the new shape it's finished in the sketch, the missing edge error don't allow the object to reflect it's new shape... a tutorial like that will be very helpful for begginers, including me 😉
Hello! Much thanks for the suggestion! I'm considering you done your previous models in version earlier to the current (FreeCAD 1.0 it's now out as stable version), as 1.0 is considered the big game change for the CAD community maybe in this version that errors you used to find will not appear in this current version. I'm also testing the new FreeCAD 1.0, if I find issues like you mentioned a video of this model solving errors will be available indeed.
@@OffsetCAD Hi, I'm using the version 1.0, I have encountered a few errors, for example... in the first sketch I draw a rectangle of 30mm lenght by 18mm height with a circle of 5.5mm of diameter, with a distance 9 mm from the left border and a height of 9mm from the bottom line, all lines are constrained, finish the sketch, apply Pad of 8mm, then add a chamfer of 2.5mm to the circle and everything is fine, but I change the position of the circle then there is an error with the chamfer, it says border missing or something like that I don't remember the exact description... And I wonder why... there are no other geometries of objects that "colide" with the new position of the circle... It's a little confusing... jajaj sometimes I want to quit and stay with fusion 360, but for some reason I keep returning and giving freecad another chance 😁
A friend used something else: construction lines in the first sketch, with a name like a legend. Then you can link constraints to these names. And if you want to change some dimensions of the sketch, you can extend or shrink these lines easily with the mouse or precisely with a constraint and the sketch changes accordingly.
You can skip spreadsheets nowadays. Use Varset method. Varset icon is in the same Toolbar as Part-Group-Link. That's the one with 2 curves brackets. The is another channel using a lot that method.
Great "challenge" - as a FreeCAD guys i am going to challenge my colleagues at work who use CATIA and Autodesk Inventor - if they can do it significantly faster or not :D
Ok, this is nice because it shows how FreeCAD can be used very effectively. *But* this is for skillful designers used to CAD tools. Beginners take notice of that, you have to get a lot of experience to grasp it all. Or put the reproduction speed at 75% or 50% to get a nice "stoned designer mode" view.
The author is hard coding measurements and using fragile geometry like fillets for reference construction geometry. That's in keeping with novice approaches.
it's a very cool video, suitable to introduce stubborn people into freecad but please, please try to avoid unaligned arcs like at 5:26 - i know it's a very quick introduction project, but people will learn this, their designs will break, and they will think freecad is not worth learning it
I messed up the original rectangle radius dimension (entered 6mm instead of 16). When I went back to change it that sketch at 5:26 broke with those arcs. I don't understand it well enough to understand what went wrong though. Spent an hour chasing down the constraints and getting the model back up and running. Whatever I did, apparently it was right since now I can put in whatever radius I want there.
@@mikequinn8780 probably the usual stuff - imported edge changed it's name or orientation when you have changed something the arc sketch relied on. this is what topological naming problem looks like and in my assessment it won't go away completely in FC1.0. however it will drastically decrease the amount of cases it occurs in. tho at that point i will learn doing unbreakable parametric designs on my own :D
Good video but if you could explain what each sketch tool does at the begining when using them it would help to actually learn FreeCad vs following clicks.
Yes, I got the impression that's the world record for fastest part creation in freecad :) I know it's a YT video and you can pause, slow down playback and rewind, but some explanations would be actually helpful!
@@OffsetCAD yeah it really was impressive the speed at which you were able to create model. And you can pause rewind to see how to create yourself. I know there is documentation you could reference for each step as well.. a picture or video in this case is worth a 1000 words, lol.
@@OffsetCADwhy not? This is a genuine technical question, not me trying to be pushy. I can't think of any reason that that sort of software shouldn't be working so I'm curious why you can't currently use them. (If you know that is. If they just don't seem to work for no clear reason then I'd be curious what software you've tried)
Regarding slowing the video down you should just be able to use the yt playback speed adjustment. It might make the audio sound bad but it'll do the job.
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@@felixjohnson3874 that slower is not listenable. Many steps need to be shown more in detail, that s not just a question of framerate.
first minute and a half had to replay each step twice to see and read each tool used to understand it lol... slow down! and maybe explain to us neewbies each tool you use purpose.
Is this practice to avoid TNP issues? I see you are creating sketches on primary places(XZ,YZ,XY) and then adding offset. You are extruding to a fixed distance. This is when you want your extrusion to go from one face on object to another. In Solidworks, I would've created sketch on one face and extruded till another face.
Hey, Solidworks hat like an half century to grow like it is today. FreeCAD had like 10 years of hobby programming, like 10 years of active open source programming and 1 year of professional programming behind. So the core has to improve while new features will be added step by step. I think that this software is the future of CAD for hobby, school, university and small bussiness. As it gets better, it will get more mainstream and this will result in more open source programmers which will improve the software.
You can do that as well in FreeCAD. I think this video just shows you all of the variables you can adjust if needed. It also means you can get precise placement if you need to.
I never used SolidWorks before, so I can't say anything about it. I worked with AutoCAD and merged to FreeCAD. My commons problem during design is always fillet, Chamfer, thickness and shape destroyed. It's very hard for me to find the called "Topological naming problem" as I understand how to proceed well in FreeCAD.
@@OffsetCAD Oh ohkay. New features when based on previous features used to break because of TNP issue. I suspected what you did might be a practice to avoid such issues. Nevertheless, great video.
Experimente seguir exemplos simples primeiro. O mais difícil em CAD é a maneira de se conceber uma peça. Há quase sempre pelo menos mais que 2 maneiras de o fazer (especialmente com o FreeCAD). Também convém ter em mente qual o processo irá ser usado para passar do modelo CAD para o modelo real (materializado), se por 3D Print (nas suas várias vertentes), se por CAM. Isto requer abordagens diferentes na modelagem. É preciso praticar e auto-desafiar-se a conceber por imaginação própria... Boa sorte! ... E muita paciência (menos agora que a versão FreeCAD está deveras muito melhorada, nas versões anteriores 0.16/ 0.17 era desesperante) !!!
@@LFANS2001 Normalmente construo peças para imprimir e tenho o cuidado de as construir de modo a terem o menos suporte possível, ou então construo duas peças e as logo por parafusos, ou faço um entalhe. Já tive de refazer desenhos, por causa dos suportes.
Hey, Solidworks hat like an half century to grow like it is today. FreeCAD had like 10 years of hobby programming, like 10 years of active open source programming and 1 year of professional programming behind. So the core has to improve while new features will be added step by step. I think that this software is the future of CAD for hobby, school, university and small bussiness. As it gets better, it will get more mainstream and this will result in more open source programmers which will improve the software.
@Paulklampeeps could you explain how that tool could work in this model design? I don't understand well why people are fulling RUclips videos with "external geometry tool" in comments section. I was able to design this model without any problem. How that tool could improve the design process?
Thank you for the tutorial. As a noob I can tell you is very hard to follow. Please try to speak clearer. Lots of tools names come out just some "babble" and not even an AI can understand. Subsequently operations are hard to follow because I need to alt tab 100 times just to see where you click every single time as the words are barely understandable. Now for advanced users it might be easy. I am a zero and is unbelievable hard to understand what you say for a... tutorial. Thanks again!
Sorry for my English! Actually, my language is Portuguese, I have a lot of difficulty pronouncing English, so I'm sorry if some things aren't clear. And about the video, it's not for beginners in FreeCAD. It's more for those who already understand the basics of modeling within it. Cheers.
@@OffsetCAD Hi thanks for reply. No big worries, I can understand. I am Romanian so very close to Portuguese regarding difficulty in pronouncing English. I was watching with auto-subtitles and the AI was naming the tools like nothing understandable LOL. I am not a 100% tabula rasa. I now a bit of Blender especially polygonal modeling and also have FreeCAD on my PC since early beta but I use it only to export stuff to STL from STEP etc. I tried to learn it several times but is very counter intuitive for someone like me that knows a little bit of hard surface modeling enough for 3d printing etc. Thanks again for you tutorials. Don't worry too much English will come slowly.
Sorry, but I can’t benefit from your video. Your doing everything way too fast and it’s very hard for me to understand you. I was trying RC2 of FreeCAD 1.0 the last days, but it crashed on my M1 Mac regularly. 😢
@@adrianmack3 I agree. Also there are many other 'slow' tutorials for beginner. Some of us would benefit from tutorial that help speed up the designing process, provides designing shortcuts, copy and paste tricks etc.
Great content but to fast, hard to understand what you are saying and your making to many assumptions about what your viewers understand and their setup. As an example, how have you set up your dimensions when you create the profile to add the lip to the top of the container, for the life of me I cannot duplicate the behaviour of the dimension constraint command as you demonstrate. Missing out on a lot of takeaways from this video.
10:25 at this point i all ready have cnc program that milling it from aluminium. all measures we all ready knew. punch them cnc and cut xD we not need draw nothing
you need a cad model to machine this box from a billet, because it isn't a simple box and have feature hard to translate in gcode... and if you try to write the gcode manually, I think it will take at least a couple hours for all the gcode files needed to machine the different sides
Do you even read the video thumbnail and title??? You level using FreeCAD: beginner, intermediate or advanced? Sorry but I didn't like what you wrote here!
@@OffsetCAD you dont speak clearly and audible, your accent is very thick so native english speakers cant understand what you are saying, speak slower and dont speak inside your mouth, maybe look at some youtube videos on pronounciation and voice acting tips for voice over work. also the device you used to record your audio with , it is very poor quality recording, lots of bass and muddy sounding vocals. also when doing a demonstration, you cant use wording like, move this line here and click on this line here. you will looose customers. for example, if you are a lecturer in a college, they will fire you if you presented classes in this manner. hope this was constructive, you clearly know the program but struggle to explain it well
@@genin69 First of all, please understand that I am not a native English speaker. I am a Portuguese speaker, I can't speak like you, I sometimes fail to find words. I try my best to be understood by most people, always. Another thing: keep in mind that if I were to wait for the "best devices" to record video and audio, this channel would not exist; the environment in which I live does not have the necessary silence for recording activities, I am surrounded by nature, it is normal to hear birds singing, planes passing by, cars, motorcycles, wind. So sir, please sincerely do not discourage me by saying that the video is bad, or that the audio is bad! You have no idea how hard it is to find time to make these videos and how much work it is to record just one video. Thank you for your tips, but keep in mind what I said above.
Now imagine that Google translates the entire text I'm reading from the screen into Hungarian with more or less errors and yet I still manage to create the model, so turn on the subtitles!
Just when you think you're getting better at Freecad and then this.....!! Got schooled big time. Thanks for sharing.
It's FreeCAD, a free program! Always something new to learn! 😄
Great video! I find when learning new CAD software that it's just nice to watch someone's workflow and see how they do things. I felt like I learned a lot more here than in an actual tutorial.
That's awesome to hear! Glad it was helpful.
so much usefull information packed into a quick video!!! i will be returning often thank you!!
Great Instruction very accurate and detailed instructions in a short amount of time.
Thank You Instructor! Great job and very nice design! : )
Off course sir.
@@OffsetCAD
I misunderstood your title.
I thought you teach us how to quickly build a box. Please accept my apology for misunderstanding the purpose of your instruction.
Instead I now understand
You are quickly teaching us how to do difficult tasks.
My apologies for not understanding.
I am older and do drawings by hand.
I am deciding if I should try to learn this program. But it will take me a long time to learn and I will work very slowly. So trying to make sure I can learn how to use this and that it isn't so difficult and time consuming to discourage me.
You have done an excellent instruction video. Thank you.
I learned so much in this video, thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
fantastic masterclass
While the video is fast paced the steps are clear. I learned a lot with this tutorial.
This tutorial contains so much information. I think alone by watching this I could model many different parts
thanks
this channel deserves more subscribers, today I learned M while drawing polyline, not sure how I could miss that
Many thanks!
I made it in 40 minutes, with lots of pause/rewind, but this small exercise is packed with many useful concepts.
Maybe it is for advanced users, but if you follow precisely the steps everyone should also succeed.
Sometimes it is difficult to see where you clicked and my icons are disposed differently, so I must find it elsewhere. You may want to hover 1 second before moving away for an easier tutorial.
Nevertheless the pause button is your friend.
For beginners, it's often the initial steps that are the most confusing and can discourage people from learning a new tool. Unfortunately, most creators tend to skim over those crucial steps in their tutorials.🙁
So, which recommendation you have for the channel?
What I can improve?
@OffsetCAD maybe slow down. Your just zipping through this. It's supposed to be a tutorial right?
@@OffsetCAD I completely agree here with bigwreck81. It is way too fast for a tutorial. I got about half way through and stopped the video. I couldn’t keep up and i didn’t want to have to keep rewinding. Plus your English is a bit hard to understand. Showing down will help this as well.
Also - hover over an icon so a beginner can SEE the action performed by that icon - helps us understand what you are showing us! Thanks for trying to help beginners like me!
This is exactly how the tutorials should be! Great job. Thanks!
Thank you!
Definitive a FreeCAD Master. And the here-tool is very powerful ;)
It is real good and shows the free cad's capability but it is very fast for beginner users.
thank you. nice small workflow improvements everywhere! i usually speed up the videos. You managed to fit my pacing well :)
Wow, thank you!
Wow... Amazing work, learned a lot from this video. To fit everything in 15 mins you did amazing. For those who require this to be slower, you could make a modeling video that explains things in details. For me this was amazing and most of the people can pause and rewind. Really good stuff, you have new subscription!
Thanks!
I love this tutorial. Thank you.
I learned so, so much.
I appreciate the format of this tutorial, as I was already familiar with SolidWorks going into FreeCAD and so this type of pacing helps provide a quick rundown of the functions in FreeCAD without overly long introductory sections or low info density. By knowing how I would model this in SolidWorks and watching how you model it in FreeCAD I can find the analogous functions.
Thank you!❤️❤️❤️
Thanks. I love the speedy tutorial, saves my time and I appreciate it. If it's to fast for sb, its youtube, you can pause any time. So don't slow down :) Edit: a better microphone would be good ;)
Another great tutorial I was able to complete. Thank you!!!
Thank you.
Yes!
Just a time.
This is cool, FreeCAD has come a long way.
Very cool.
WOW, when i seen title i knew im gonna learn a lot from you! so good!
wow, learned so much from such a quick video.
Wonderful video. I have learned a lot from following it. Thank you so much. Would love to see the lid for this box if you can manage to get the time.
Yes.
Really good and easy to follow. A tip for the future would be to include key presses and maybe a voiceover
Thank you.
Freecad 1.0 definitely feels like its getting much better. Still trying to get the hang of it for designing 3d printed assemblies
Great. Thank you very much 🙂
I enjoyed this! Thanks
Nice one!!
One of the other FreeCAD RUclipsrs uses an app which flashes key strokes and mouse clicks on screen. Useful.
Yeah, I stopped to use it.
I Never heard about this!! It seems preety cool!! I'll try it!! Nice video!!
It comes with an asembler of multiple pieces?
@@Xplouding Watch his new video with assembly
really apricate. very goood tuto
Thank you !
I like this model as a basepoint for a electronics project. Can you make a tutorial for the lid and closingclamps please??
Thanks for watching!
Is this what you are looking for (ruclips.net/video/aDgT0UVWV34/видео.html)?
The new freecad like old aolidworks good job
Awesome! I loved it. Thanks
So glad!
What a skill
😍😍😍Thank you.
Thank you sir
Very impressive show case. I don't mind that it isn't a tutorial, this would make it a 2 hour video. Inspired me to finally try freecad. Moving sketches afterwards seems powerful. I just wonder if doing the chamfers and fillets (you made in the sketch) would break the body if done afterwards.
Thank you.
No.
Very great tutorial to learn! I fallow the exact step show, but the version 1.0.0 of freecad won't let me do all without a lot of error! I try to understand what I did wrong but my knowledge in modelling and 3d cad software are very low! Did you know if the official release of FreeCad are more restrictives then the RC2 version?
Maybe.
Woah, what have I been doing. I have STRUGGLED with Sketchup 2017 to make more specific and complex designs....I now see I was utterly wrong and CAD is where it's at.
great videos. Could you please let us know your profile settings? I like the way your user interface looks. It is very clear and easy to work with. Thank you
Do you still need that?
@@OffsetCAD yes. I would appreciate it. Thank you
Obrigado pelo tutorial, bem explicadinho em todos detalhe . O FreeCAD 1.0RC2 este ficando da hora.
Pois é!
E olha que o programa é free.
really helpful, thankyou!
Thanks for watching!
Thanks so much for the tutorial, love to step by step style without explanation! Unfortunatly i already stumbled at 1:15 because i got a dotted Red line (instead of a continious one) as i used the link external geometry tool and after creating the polyline i got an error when trying to define the length of the lines... is there a connection between the Dotted line and me Not beeing able to define the length? Thanks again!
I got the dotted line also for the external geometry and it worked fine. I think that is just a setting in Preferences.
It's a good video but god damn u are too fast and even when i slowed the video down, needed to rewind it 4-5 times if not even more. Thanks for the video but would been appriciated if the each objects were explained and slowed down by minimum the half haha
Good contains
Zero explainations
Way too fast, just here then here and there...
I'm planning to create a video design of the model for beginners!
wow.... I need your skills.
2:44 - What is the command - "press ??? three times" for change the polyline cursor to circle?
Press the m key to change the polyline key
Hey, a small tipp for you:
please look for new video tutorials only, That will make you learn faster since you will avoid unnecassary extra steps due to lack of features from old versions. FreeCAD 1.0 RC1/RC2 is the most current versions. I hope the stable version will come out soon.
@@johang1293 Thank you..
For some reason I hard a hard time drawing this part, try several times following the video, but have a redundancy constrain errors. I use FreeCAD 1.0 RC2.
In the end I was able to make that extrusion, but not sure if I can make the same again. 😁
The command is "Polyline".
@@Sokol10try again. As it worked for me in the video, will work with you too.
Don't give up.
I remember when I discovered FreeCAD 2 years ago. In my first interaction got several problems.😂😂😂
Hi, thanks for another great tutorial, if you allow me to make a sugestion, could you make a tutorial on how to create, modify the original shape with the intention of generate errors and how to fix them. I've been practicing and sometimes I get some, for example wire not closed or eliminated edges that used to have a chamfer and when the new shape it's finished in the sketch, the missing edge error don't allow the object to reflect it's new shape... a tutorial like that will be very helpful for begginers, including me 😉
Hello! Much thanks for the suggestion!
I'm considering you done your previous models in version earlier to the current (FreeCAD 1.0 it's now out as stable version), as 1.0 is considered the big game change for the CAD community maybe in this version that errors you used to find will not appear in this current version. I'm also testing the new FreeCAD 1.0, if I find issues like you mentioned a video of this model solving errors will be available indeed.
@@OffsetCAD Hi, I'm using the version 1.0, I have encountered a few errors, for example... in the first sketch I draw a rectangle of 30mm lenght by 18mm height with a circle of 5.5mm of diameter, with a distance 9 mm from the left border and a height of 9mm from the bottom line, all lines are constrained, finish the sketch, apply Pad of 8mm, then add a chamfer of 2.5mm to the circle and everything is fine, but I change the position of the circle then there is an error with the chamfer, it says border missing or something like that I don't remember the exact description... And I wonder why... there are no other geometries of objects that "colide" with the new position of the circle... It's a little confusing... jajaj sometimes I want to quit and stay with fusion 360, but for some reason I keep returning and giving freecad another chance 😁
Genial, excelente calidad
Fee cad doesn't recognise My 3d connexion mouse. Any suggestion?
No. I never used it.
Why do you have to move the Sketch attachment points along Z when clearly it should've been Y and Z according to the coordinate arrows?
Thank you so much for this video! How did you do the rotating tech drawing shown in the first 20 seconds?
Hooo, that's not a TechDraw drawing. Is only a 3d model with 3D dimensions.
So that's why I could rotate it.
@@OffsetCAD Ok! So how can I add dimensions like these? (Might be good for another video)
+1 I have the same question.
@@mitchdavis8622 there is the basic "how to":
ruclips.net/video/rRXVlwl4Qlc/видео.html
@@LeonardoMuttoni
::::ruclips.net/video/rRXVlwl4Qlc/видео.html
Just need to add some spreadsheets t o it enabling some user configurable. Very nice.
And did you done that?
A friend used something else: construction lines in the first sketch, with a name like a legend.
Then you can link constraints to these names.
And if you want to change some dimensions of the sketch, you can extend or shrink these lines easily with the mouse or precisely with a constraint and the sketch changes accordingly.
You can skip spreadsheets nowadays. Use Varset method. Varset icon is in the same Toolbar as Part-Group-Link. That's the one with 2 curves brackets. The is another channel using a lot that method.
damn, you ae cool, love it, learned something :)
cool!
Ita easier to pause than to fast forward. Its the perfect speed.
Great "challenge" - as a FreeCAD guys i am going to challenge my colleagues at work who use CATIA and Autodesk Inventor - if they can do it significantly faster or not :D
Thank you!
I have learned a lot, thank you!
wow 🎉
It is clear you master freecad, however, explanation is too fast.
Ok, this is nice because it shows how FreeCAD can be used very effectively. *But* this is for skillful designers used to CAD tools. Beginners take notice of that, you have to get a lot of experience to grasp it all. Or put the reproduction speed at 75% or 50% to get a nice "stoned designer mode" view.
The author is hard coding measurements and using fragile geometry like fillets for reference construction geometry. That's in keeping with novice approaches.
WoW!
2:45 how?
amazing with which easy steps you can create something that looks really hard to build
Thanks!
it's a very cool video, suitable to introduce stubborn people into freecad
but please, please try to avoid unaligned arcs like at 5:26 - i know it's a very quick introduction project, but people will learn this, their designs will break, and they will think freecad is not worth learning it
Thank you.
I messed up the original rectangle radius dimension (entered 6mm instead of 16). When I went back to change it that sketch at 5:26 broke with those arcs. I don't understand it well enough to understand what went wrong though. Spent an hour chasing down the constraints and getting the model back up and running. Whatever I did, apparently it was right since now I can put in whatever radius I want there.
@@mikequinn8780 probably the usual stuff - imported edge changed it's name or orientation when you have changed something the arc sketch relied on. this is what topological naming problem looks like and in my assessment it won't go away completely in FC1.0. however it will drastically decrease the amount of cases it occurs in. tho at that point i will learn doing unbreakable parametric designs on my own :D
Damn what happen for it to jump from 0.22 to 1.0 so sudden lol, btw one of the main developer just passed away😢
Yeah it surprised me as well, I thought someone made another fork of FreeCad
Hello. How to make the grid permanent in a sketch? When creating a new sketch, it has to be turned on again.
In custom preferences I think.
@@OffsetCAD Thanks for the video!!!
2:48 I still don't understand how you made the arch here.😵💫
when you are using this kind of line press the m key three times to change to arch-type. press two times to go back to normal line
@@3dpixelhouse I had the same question and now I know the answer, thank you and OffsetCAD
@@3dpixelhouse thank you very much!!!
Good video but if you could explain what each sketch tool does at the begining when using them it would help to actually learn FreeCad vs following clicks.
Yes, I got the impression that's the world record for fastest part creation in freecad :)
I know it's a YT video and you can pause, slow down playback and rewind, but some explanations would be actually helpful!
Thanks, I'll add some explanations for the tools in a next video of the same model!
This video was only to show how I design it in few minutes.
@@OffsetCAD yeah it really was impressive the speed at which you were able to create model. And you can pause rewind to see how to create yourself. I know there is documentation you could reference for each step as well.. a picture or video in this case is worth a 1000 words, lol.
I feel dumb watching this video coming from tinkercad
Amazing, 5 times slower and displaying the shortcuts would be great!
Yeah, I know it. Currently I can't properly use any program which shows the entered keyboard keys.
@@OffsetCADwhy not?
This is a genuine technical question, not me trying to be pushy. I can't think of any reason that that sort of software shouldn't be working so I'm curious why you can't currently use them. (If you know that is. If they just don't seem to work for no clear reason then I'd be curious what software you've tried)
Regarding slowing the video down you should just be able to use the yt playback speed adjustment. It might make the audio sound bad but it'll do the job.
@@felixjohnson3874 that slower is not listenable. Many steps need to be shown more in detail, that s not just a question of framerate.
Press two time what ?
The "M" key for arc in Polyline tool.
I came here from AutoCAD LT 97. What kind of a sorcery is that!?
Esta versão RC2 está mesmo boa. Obrigado
De nada! Feliz aprendizado.
first minute and a half had to replay each step twice to see and read each tool used to understand it lol... slow down! and maybe explain to us neewbies each tool you use purpose.
thanx!!!
Is this practice to avoid TNP issues?
I see you are creating sketches on primary places(XZ,YZ,XY) and then adding offset. You are extruding to a fixed distance.
This is when you want your extrusion to go from one face on object to another.
In Solidworks, I would've created sketch on one face and extruded till another face.
Hey, Solidworks hat like an half century to grow like it is today. FreeCAD had like 10 years of hobby programming, like 10 years of active open source programming and 1 year of professional programming behind. So the core has to improve while new features will be added step by step. I think that this software is the future of CAD for hobby, school, university and small bussiness. As it gets better, it will get more mainstream and this will result in more open source programmers which will improve the software.
You can do that as well in FreeCAD. I think this video just shows you all of the variables you can adjust if needed. It also means you can get precise placement if you need to.
I never used SolidWorks before, so I can't say anything about it.
I worked with AutoCAD and merged to FreeCAD.
My commons problem during design is always fillet, Chamfer, thickness and shape destroyed. It's very hard for me to find the called "Topological naming problem" as I understand how to proceed well in FreeCAD.
I could create the sketch in faces. But even so, you seen which attachment skills you can use.
@@OffsetCAD Oh ohkay.
New features when based on previous features used to break because of TNP issue. I suspected what you did might be a practice to avoid such issues.
Nevertheless, great video.
Ao ver isto, vejo como sou um básico.
Sério isso?
Experimente seguir exemplos simples primeiro.
O mais difícil em CAD é a maneira de se conceber uma peça.
Há quase sempre pelo menos mais que 2 maneiras de o fazer (especialmente com o FreeCAD).
Também convém ter em mente qual o processo irá ser usado para passar do modelo CAD para o modelo real (materializado), se por 3D Print (nas suas várias vertentes), se por CAM. Isto requer abordagens diferentes na modelagem.
É preciso praticar e auto-desafiar-se a conceber por imaginação própria...
Boa sorte!
... E muita paciência (menos agora que a versão FreeCAD está deveras muito melhorada, nas versões anteriores 0.16/ 0.17 era desesperante) !!!
Porque normalmente faço as minhas peças com meia dúzia de funções e se soubesse utilizar estas por vezes as faria, em muito menos tempo.
@@LFANS2001 Normalmente construo peças para imprimir e tenho o cuidado de as construir de modo a terem o menos suporte possível, ou então construo duas peças e as logo por parafusos, ou faço um entalhe. Já tive de refazer desenhos, por causa dos suportes.
Still no proper external geometry tool 🥲
sad
It is called shape binder.
@@leholaaser so tedious tho unlike the link branch version. The link branch is based on an older version of freecad so the sketcher sucks.
Hey, Solidworks hat like an half century to grow like it is today. FreeCAD had like 10 years of hobby programming, like 10 years of active open source programming and 1 year of professional programming behind. So the core has to improve while new features will be added step by step. I think that this software is the future of CAD for hobby, school, university and small bussiness. As it gets better, it will get more mainstream and this will result in more open source programmers which will improve the software.
@Paulklampeeps could you explain how that tool could work in this model design?
I don't understand well why people are fulling RUclips videos with "external geometry tool" in comments section.
I was able to design this model without any problem.
How that tool could improve the design process?
👍
To fast all I hear is click here and click here😅
"create this in less than 15 min?" Nah. Bro, this would easily take 2, maybe 3 and a half years to create. 😮
Thank you for the tutorial. As a noob I can tell you is very hard to follow. Please try to speak clearer. Lots of tools names come out just some "babble" and not even an AI can understand. Subsequently operations are hard to follow because I need to alt tab 100 times just to see where you click every single time as the words are barely understandable. Now for advanced users it might be easy. I am a zero and is unbelievable hard to understand what you say for a... tutorial.
Thanks again!
Sorry for my English! Actually, my language is Portuguese, I have a lot of difficulty pronouncing English, so I'm sorry if some things aren't clear.
And about the video, it's not for beginners in FreeCAD. It's more for those who already understand the basics of modeling within it.
Cheers.
@@OffsetCAD Hi thanks for reply. No big worries, I can understand. I am Romanian so very close to Portuguese regarding difficulty in pronouncing English. I was watching with auto-subtitles and the AI was naming the tools like nothing understandable LOL.
I am not a 100% tabula rasa. I now a bit of Blender especially polygonal modeling and also have FreeCAD on my PC since early beta but I use it only to export stuff to STL from STEP etc. I tried to learn it several times but is very counter intuitive for someone like me that knows a little bit of hard surface modeling enough for 3d printing etc.
Thanks again for you tutorials. Don't worry too much English will come slowly.
If you are a beginner, I would advise watching Mango Jelly Solutions beginner series. This is really for intermediate or advanced FreeCAD users.
@@OffsetCAD Your English is very good and easy to understand. Thank you for the video. Look forward to seeing the lid. ;)
Thank you very much for the suggestion!
Sorry, but I can’t benefit from your video. Your doing everything way too fast and it’s very hard for me to understand you. I was trying RC2 of FreeCAD 1.0 the last days, but it crashed on my M1 Mac regularly. 😢
His thumbnail text clearly describes designing a somewhat complicated model in less than 15 minutes, which implies he would be modelling it quickly.
@@adrianmack3 I agree. Also there are many other 'slow' tutorials for beginner. Some of us would benefit from tutorial that help speed up the designing process, provides designing shortcuts, copy and paste tricks etc.
Wouuu, there person's with preferences like me here.
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Sorry for disturbing!
Don't give up; this exercise offers a lot to learn, the pause button is your friend (the RUclips one of course ;-)
Great content but to fast, hard to understand what you are saying and your making to many assumptions about what your
viewers understand and their setup. As an example, how have you set up your dimensions when you create the profile to
add the lip to the top of the container, for the life of me I cannot duplicate the behaviour of the dimension constraint command
as you demonstrate. Missing out on a lot of takeaways from this video.
Thanks for the feedback, I'll try to slow down in future videos!
@@OffsetCAD Good tutorial, thanks for commenting on what you are doing instead of playing silly music. I find watching at 0.75 speed helps. Thanks.
10:25 at this point i all ready have cnc program that milling it from aluminium. all measures we all ready knew. punch them cnc and cut xD we not need draw nothing
I can't understand you.
you need a cad model to machine this box from a billet, because it isn't a simple box and have feature hard to translate in gcode... and if you try to write the gcode manually, I think it will take at least a couple hours for all the gcode files needed to machine the different sides
You move way to fast for me to follow. I think there are some good techniques in here, but they are not presented in a way i can learn them.
Lets just do this as fast as possible so nobody can follow along...
Do you even read the video thumbnail and title???
You level using FreeCAD: beginner, intermediate or advanced?
Sorry but I didn't like what you wrote here!
Absolutely right.
Why?
@@OffsetCAD You explained too fast without paying attention to convincing the audience.
The video thumb and title i think says everthing!
"How would you design the piece less than 15 minutes?"
I have learned CATIA back in 2011. A profi horror tool…
😂
Just correct the title, according to comments, "How I do this part in less than..."
Second, there is no drafting angle, which is mandatory for DFM
DFM means?
No need to change the title!
I still don't believe that you are able to model something like this in F360. Personally i have troubles even with "simple" exercises.
This is not Fusion 360, it's FreeCAD. 😅
Poor audio quality.
Explain more!!!
@@OffsetCAD you dont speak clearly and audible, your accent is very thick so native english speakers cant understand what you are saying, speak slower and dont speak inside your mouth, maybe look at some youtube videos on pronounciation and voice acting tips for voice over work. also the device you used to record your audio with , it is very poor quality recording, lots of bass and muddy sounding vocals. also when doing a demonstration, you cant use wording like, move this line here and click on this line here. you will looose customers. for example, if you are a lecturer in a college, they will fire you if you presented classes in this manner. hope this was constructive, you clearly know the program but struggle to explain it well
@@genin69
First of all, please understand that I am not a native English speaker. I am a Portuguese speaker, I can't speak like you, I sometimes fail to find words. I try my best to be understood by most people, always.
Another thing: keep in mind that if I were to wait for the "best devices" to record video and audio, this channel would not exist; the environment in which I live does not have the necessary silence for recording activities, I am surrounded by nature, it is normal to hear birds singing, planes passing by, cars, motorcycles, wind.
So sir, please sincerely do not discourage me by saying that the video is bad, or that the audio is bad!
You have no idea how hard it is to find time to make these videos and how much work it is to record just one video.
Thank you for your tips, but keep in mind what I said above.
bad tutorial.
And did you read the title and thumbnail of this video?
From the information in the video, it is clear that it is not for beginners.
The UI of FreeCAD is so ugly compared to Fusion360, that is sad because it is important...
doesn't seem so bad to me: i.postimg.cc/s33LKmmd/Screenshot-20241030-095247.png
it definetly got better and it will get even better
Are you sure?
Yeah, we only have to continuing supporting the devs team.
New official themes are coming which is closer to how Blender looks.
pity audio is not great.. would have liked to follow this but cant hear a thing
Dude, are you deaf or what? There's no way you said that!
I put "dislike" on your comment. You can't discourage people like that.
Seriously, you can't hear anything?
Didn't those people who liked and commented positively hear anything like you?
Hmmm, sir, came on....
Now imagine that Google translates the entire text I'm reading from the screen into Hungarian with more or less errors and yet I still manage to create the model, so turn on the subtitles!
sir hindi me banaeye
He don't speak this language.