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Thanks for the instructional video! I admire your use of Linux as a structural engineer, what other open source engineering software do you use besides freecad?

First of all, great video. Only criticism would be please turn up your mic gain. I'd like to see more where similar operations are compared and contrasted between Part and Part Design. At 15:25 Think the major difference is that even though other cad packages will have this problem, some of them might give slightly more helpful error messages - but "its usually the sharp edges" so that's good to know!

Awesome Freecad videos mate. Learning a lot from your content 👌especially design intent different ways to approach designs.

nice job! thanks for the walkthrough

How would u manufacture that ?

Great video. I wanted to add that you might be confused if you also run an extrude cut past this new surface (think if you wanted to drill a hole through that cylinder). The cut might seem like it didn't cut through the surface, however it's just the newly knitted surface being displayed that makes it seem so. Right click and hide it and you'll see that the extrude cut you made went right through without issues.

Great job, thank you! Pretty sure the icon for "clone" is Dolly the Sheep, first successful mammal clone, created in 1996.

That’s a great trick. Thank you.

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I don't understand why the advice for beginners is to only use part design. It's worse than useless on it's own and it doesn;t play nice with all th other workbenches. The reason i say WORSE than useless, is because after you spend a bunch of time modelling something in part design and you HAVE to use a draft or surface or part tool to achieve the shape you need next, then you are screwed and have to start over in part workbench. It feels like the whole part design work bench is holding freecad back from being amazingly versatile.

finally, I thought I could manage finding out by myself the interface, but I just don't know how anything works in practice, so thanks!

Thanks for this uplifting podcast. It's a lot of pressure for youth to find a career path without knowing all the potential opinions. Engineering is one of the sectors that makes for a better future for everyone.

Thank you so much

Man this is so simple and helpful, thank you!

This was very helpful. I kept trying to get the regional mesh to work and did not realize I needed to re-mesh once that was defined. I was going in circles for hours. Thanks

Maybe with the aid of this, i will learn FreeCAD. For the moment, i struggle. PS: what have you used for the OSD the keys ? I use YAKD - Yet Another Key Displayer, but yours is nicer.

Thank you so much. This is just an amazing quality video for a beginner like me. 2.35.54 hours of golden educational material! Love the way you present the stuff btw. Very steady and calm.

Thank God you do this. You know the books will teach you how to Draw the part but not dimension it or put it in a tech draw. Truly life saving thank you.

Oh wow! Holy crap my life just got way easier

Im trying to figure out what to learn. I want to design a motorcycle camper. Will free as calculate structural strength and suspension dynamics?

80% of his words are redundant and pointless.

This is by far the best Freecad video I’ve seen, thank you!

After 9 years we still waiting for the next video you promised.

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Obrigado parceiro, formador de cidadão para o futuro. Valeu. gosteis da sua palavras bem calma e paciente para explicar. Que Deus ilumine sua mente por muito tempo, para passar sua experiência de vida. Vale.💡

Very, very helpful, thank you. I've been watching freecad for many years, but I'm getting ready to move over to it for my work (PCB design using KiCAD)

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MEEEEOOWWWW????? I am fighting had to understand F-CAD ... I think your videos are great ... but ... I don't know ... I am too dumb!! WTH are these WorkBenches ???

You should take a couple minutes to set all the hotkeys as you like. They’re configurable. Share your hotkeys.

Great explanation of the manual step by step tools, thank you!

thanks .. i spend many hours to not figure it out- til you showed me how to do the circular thing in solid state

Too many shortcuts and too fast for me to follow... would like to see you clicking instead of using tons of hotkeys. would be better for a video.

@JokoEngineeringhelp I really love how you mentioned design intent, and also how practicality of manufacturing changes from metal machining to 3D printing! I'm sure there are many 3D printing hobbyists and professionals who will appreciate those mentions.

this looks great! thanks for making this video!!

What degree of tangency is between surfaces? Can you control it? If you create plastic part, would the edges be visible as ridges? Or what about applying the zebra light(does FC even have it? I cannot find any video about it).

thank you.

When I do spreadsheets (and internal naming of constraints) I use a system like this 1. all lower case is a calculated value 2. Capitalized is a User Entered Value (dimensions) 3) All-Caps is a Value that used to determine a whole host of results (like a system Variable) example: VOLUME is the desired volume of an object which will in turn be used to calculate dimensional values to get it. Height or ExitHole1_Diameter, etc would be values u want the user to give. While 'wall1_thickness' is a value set by calculation OR by reference The reason for this is so that in spreadsheets and while digging thru files I can recognize those constraints that are due to human error and hose that are done automatically.

Brilliant video, really enjoyed! Had to try my self in freecad. The hexasphere was the hardest to replicate. But once completed, I understood how the shape actually look. For 3D-printing splitting the model in two identical halves one discover that the modeling could actually be done by just doing 2 180 degrees revolves. Anyway, thanks for the video, love your channel! Cheers from Norway, FreeCAD lover.

Amazing, thank you 8 yrs later! 😊

Thanks for the tutorial. It was very helpful. :) BTW: For me the clone button (at 2:29:37) looks like a sheep. I think it refers to Dolly, the first ever cloned animal. Which was actually a sheep cloned in the year 1996.

As an absolute beginner, this is easily the best way to learn FreeCAD! Great job, and I look forward to making things!

As usual, just what I needed. I'm mounting a portable air conditioner in my van conversion for summer travel, and needed to both replicate the exit air duct that attaches to the unit, but also create a custom set of interlocking sections of "piping" down to the hole in the floor I will vent out through which I will insulate on the outside, as well as a custom pass through there that the pipe attaches to, and that attaches to the flooring and has a screen mounted inside to keep critters from wandering in. All will be custom designed. Learning FreeCAD has given me the freedom to invent at will with my 3D printer and I have more ideas than the time to spend on them with other things going on all the time! I can highly recommend it to any hobbyist with a 3D printer. They may find, as I did, that getting the basics under your fingers and THEN setting a goal to create a pretty complex part will PUSH you over the edge of confidence with it. My goal part was a "cart" for a window actuator in a motorized car window: the part that rides up and down in the curved track, which the steel cables pull up and down (with the window attached) to open and close the window. These are somewhat a "planned obsolescence designed part" as they will break after years of use. Creating it involved two Boolean cuts (one for the curved shape of the track it had to smoothly ride which I think was something like a 5' radius curve!) as well as precise internal cavities for the cables to mount into at the right tension with their springs. Along the way, I learned to do test prints on just a cut down portion of the model to save time and filament to check fit both for the track and the window "pin" that holds it. Works perfectly in my son's car, and now I have a model I can print, or mirror to print for any of the 4 windows! Quite a feeling of empowerment. So far, PETG is holding up fine in the car, but I have ABS and ASA I can reprint in if I deem it failed from heat exhaustion. My best CAD friend is a $3 plastic caliper from Harbor Freight, actually two of them: one in the garage, and one at my computer. I have a battery one that's more precise, but I find unless I'm doing absolute minute precision, and with some experience knowing how filament will expand slightly in your prints, I get all the precision I need and don't have to worry about batteries. Once you "think" in CAD terms looking at or imagining any new object (pad here, pocket here, etc.) it really opens up a whole new world and your channel is on my short list to plug any knowledge gaps...

If you hit the M key 12 times, you can find a great song on CZcams.

Thank you very much 9 years later!! :))

Press F to pay respect and press M for funky slinky lines in FreeCAD.

It's not installing on my end... I'm using FreeCAD 0.21.2 version

Tnx. Can you do "4X basic{9.0}"? I hope someone from the developers community of FreeCAD or Ondsel will recognise the need to make the GD&T tolerancing easier: I think we should not need to give it separately. And converting the bubble to feature is a hassle if you need to give lots of them.

Nice tutorial but I can not create the datums plans... I tried many times doing a simple square with the sketch. my points are in line together. I selected the same exact plan all along the video to see if I had make mistakes. but my datum plan doesn't move from the origine when I select my point... any idea? thanks

it's the use of dead-english romantic-prose "heighth" that really drags it down, coming in close second is the out of touch and forced laughter at things that have zero humor. otherwise a pretty good intro to the tooling, even if the narration has a tendency to grind the ears. but as they say "i'm an engineer, not an english major."

The best beginner tutorial I've seen. Very easy to follow. Thanks!