is it a old space mouse or one if the newer models? and what OS?

Based on the presence of the curly braces, I'd estimate it's version 1.0RC.

Thank you​@@restorationtime9563

Thanks for the kind words, for this particular tut I used FC daily because the same results can be achieved in any FC /Ondsel version for that mater. The wood texture is just an experiment with the EnvConfig in arch textures but the addon unfortunately is half broken and it's not been updated in a long time. You can achieve the same result with a image plane imported in the view port

@@OficineRobotica thank you! Your work is greatly fantastic. The reality you get in piece's appearance impress's me, is something I'm looking for. Again thanks for your great work!

Will do , thx for the kind words.

Totally agree.. the relentless ticking(background “music”)is completely and unnecessary distracting from your content … your information has the ability to stand on its own without the “music” …

I don't really find it problematic at all. But I can see how the hi hat is distracting for some.

I share the feeling, had to turn off sound and watch with subtitles :( It's very annoying

Sorry guys, I'll correct that in my next videos. I'm not a native english speaker I spend a huge amount of time cutting out silence or mistakes from my recordings, the music also helps masking out some of those pauses but I guess I need to chose better the track.

@@OficineRobotica tbh your content is top notch.. it more than has the ability to stand without any music .. I’ve worked as pro musician, I build instruments and run a small recording studio .. my life in general revolves around music.. but when trying to comprehend complex information music can be a distraction … your content really doesn’t need it.. love your stuff keep up the great work 👍

The background grid is the Draft grid. Search on how to add extra tools on your toolbars , add the DraftGrid to your "Global" toolbar , this way you can access the grid from any Workbench

Really really old model , I think it needs rebuilding , it would make for a showcase nice model

@@OficineRobotica make it please

FreeCAD 1.0 has the same topology solution that real thunder uses. So it should be very comparable now.

Luckily Realthunder's solution has been integrated in main FC/Ondsel , we still lack some tools from Linkstage3 but the direction has been set and perhaps those will be integrated too.

That is a good idea , thank you.

I agree! I feel like the UI needs a big modernization. When compared to Fusion or other programs, Freecad looks old and unprofessional. I wish I knew how to help with this.

@@robertpeesel720 Agree...But here Freecad looks great, this can the default or one of the default themes.

Hi, what is that? Can you tell me more about it?

@Lowmbardozzi look at how the WBs are displayed left to right at the top of the screen. Default FreeCAD is a Win3.0 pull-down menu to switch between WBs.

@@jwatkins672012 Ok, is it an addon? How can I activate it?

was thinking the same. Hopefully a preference pack will work.

@@peterjansen4894 I hope too, but I'm still waiting for the tutorial 😊

It is called PieMenu, you can install it using the AddonManager. I will make a video on how to costumiste this addon.

It's the OpenTheme , you can find it in the addon manager and yes there is a dark mode

You are perfectly right in saying that. I have the habit of creating datum planes because they are reusable in the context of more complex models. Set them once with all the offsets necessary then reuse them for whatever you want. For iterative design is faster. Some considerations: -in PartDesign selecting a edge and clicking CreateSketch won't allow you to set the attachment other than the base planes of the body. Just tested now with the weekly build. A solution would be to map to a base plane then use the remap function. I find that cumbersome. - creating a sketch using the Sketcher workbench is giving a dialog to directly map to a geometry feature but the sketch will be created outside of the active body. Again cumbersome and just tested with the latest weekly. -LinkStage3 will open the sketch creation dialog in PartDesign with the complete attachment panel and will permit to easily map a sketch to whatever feature directly just by selecting first said feature. I think that is one highly desired feature in FreeCAD main. If I'm missing something obvious please let me know, FreeCAD is such a vast program and there are so many changes lately that there is always something new to learn.

Thank you so much for your kind words, I'm using FreeCAD on Linux Kde's Plasma 6 desktop on a laptop. What you see is the system top bar with global menu. For me it free's a lot of space.

I'll just copy and past a previous response because it is long lol ... please bear with me You are perfectly right in saying that. I have the habit of creating datum planes because they are reusable in the context of more complex models. Set them once with all the offsets necessary then reuse them for whatever you want. For iterative design is faster. Some considerations: -in PartDesign selecting a edge and clicking CreateSketch won't allow you to set the attachment other than the base planes of the body. Just tested now with the weekly build. A solution would be to map to a base plane then use the remap function. I find that cumbersome. - creating a sketch using the Sketcher workbench is giving a dialog to directly map to a geometry feature but the sketch will be created outside of the active body. Again cumbersome and just tested with the latest weekly. -LinkStage3 will open the sketch creation dialog in PartDesign with the complete attachment panel and will permit to easily map a sketch to whatever feature directly just by selecting first said feature. I think that is one highly desired feature in FreeCAD main. If I'm missing something obvious please let me know, FreeCAD is such a vast program and there are so many changes lately that there is always something new to learn.

@@OficineRobotica Ah, yes, I didn't realize that mainline FreeCAD is missing even basic features like that. (I'm almost always using realthunder's "LinkStage3" instead of mainline.)

Please elaborate what you are interested in.

Sorry, I was asking for a theme tutorial because I thought you were working with the new FreeCAD version. This is ondsel version 😅, i didnt see that in title ​@@OficineRobotica

@@Bill3D The theme and arrangeement of the interface is available in FC main also. In the addon manager search for OpenTheme . After install there is a light and a dark version. P.S. In this particular video I use FC main ;)

@@OficineRobotica thanks

A similar UI arrangement is available from OpenTheme now, you can apply the "OpenPreferences" preference pack and it should automagically apply most of the settings/arrangement. Be warned, it will probably replace any custom settings you've applied. I created the themes/pack.

I loved my dark LinkStage theme for the contrast that offered, perhaps one day I will invent the time to port it to FreeCAD main. You can see it in my older LinkStage3 videos. Although the light theme is elegant I find the dark one easier on the eyes for long modeling sessions.

@@OficineRobotica I customized LinkBranch from your video :)))

It's not a easy life lol .... but my promotional work is now concentrated on FC main in order to bring in the greatness that LinkStage has

In my opinion the freecad link branch is better than the rc1, but the link branch is based on freecad .19 imo it doesn't have the offset tool, etc.

I agree with @Paulklampeeps that realthunder's version is a lot better. It's so much nicer to work with. Some features in mainline aren't present in rt, but a lot of really, really handy features in rt aren't available in mainline.

@@marcus3d FWIW it's the same for me. In addition it's a lot more stable, too. Even for my relative simple assemblies, my trials with Ondsel made it crash several times. Too bad that linkstage and assembly3 are a dead-end - but until main/ondsel have caught up in regards to features and stability I guess us, who use FreeCAD for actual, productive work will have to wait a bit longer... but at least the future looks bright, eh? :)

The 2 are diverging quite a lot lately. I prefer the sketcher and assembly workbench in FreeCAD.rc but I miss a huge list of features from LinkStage. There is a list of features to be ported on the Ondsel team radar but no certainty that everything will come in. I'm begging the developers though knowing that they have a huge amount of work ahead. By the way Thanks devs :) , you are my heroes

it seems they have the same behavior that it's not possible to directly change the variable name, but first delete and then create...