Perfect, concise, exactly what I was looking for.

I do this all the time. Don't even bother upgrading. Select the whole lot with shift b and convert to a single sketch. I don't know why you took so many extra steps since you deleted the wires and separate sketches anyway. But thanks for making the video and sharing knowledge 👍

Nice. Great tutorial

Perfect 👌

Excellent, very useful, clear and concise.

A very good tutorial, I was lost... previously I loaded the file and sketched it manually, it took ages ;)

you are a life saver <3

So refreshing to find a narrative by someone who's native language is English. When I have trouble following along verbally I usually revert to the transcripts, but some are so bad that even the transcripts are impossible to read. Thank you!

Followed to the finest detail but can not see my DXF on the display!!

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Excellent tutorial. Great pace and esily understood.

You've possibly forgotten you ever made this video (!) but I'm attempting to get up to speed with ASM4 in version 0.22 (development), and this is still the latest explanation. I'd like to point out that in the written tutorial, the location of the axis sketch with respect to the origin is (a) critical and (b) not mentioned, although you take care to put it on the "second shoulder" in the video, without mentioning why. I didn't, and it's a b**st**d to move the sketch later, so I ended up following along twice! You also don't mention the principle involved here, that we're going to make parts, give them local coordinates, and then match up the coordinates to make the assembly work. It becomes clear before the end, for sure, along with why that axis location is critical. I shouldn't carp; if it wasn't for your fine video, I'm pretty sure I would have given up some time ago. Cheers!

Bad tutorial, it never showed that the constraints in the original fusion360 sketch (that was exported as dxf) still remained in the freecad sketch. Also did not show _how_ it achieved that (I actually don't think it did!). Those sketches were likely unconstrained.

my dxf shapes change to block instead of wire. any ideas?

Wait a minute, I'm using the latest FCAD, mine gives me 16DOF's when I have removed some of the lines.. Also, I could not complete the chamfer part. Nothing happened, it was 1,0mm, and when I selected Spreadsheet.dimBodyChamf (5,00mm) nada happened. However I solved it myself.. But thanks for a very good guide! Now I can use the dimensions of other stepper motors, and use that instead.

I have been trying to figure out how to do this for a week. Thank you.

A decent start, but it would help a lot if you explained what is going on when you define and select the lcs origins, and also the edge and choice of "concentric".

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Thank you, you just saved my time!

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I've just been looking into FreeCAD a bit, and was a bit surprised there's no default assembly workbench. Certainly, this seems to do the job at first glance. I've been using SketchUp for a while, and there's many things I really like about it, but SketchUp seems to lack proper constraints, leading to lots of manual adjustments and potential errors that are hard to identify and fix. Constraints would avoid most of those issues. Now I'd also like to venture into some basic manufacturing of parts (milling of sheets and basic engraving), and SketchUp doesn't really do that either (at least with the non-Pro versions). From my perspective, having worked with SketchUp quite a lot, this software here seems... crude. Yeah, it seems to be rather awkward, slow and overall dated. That Fusion 360 seems to be all the rage nowadays, but the pricing on it and similar software is good at scaring off hobbyists considering stepping up their game just a little bit and try selling their designs and products. I'm just not sure.

Thank you so much for this tutorial it sure helped me out.....

Christ on a bicycle!!! WHY??? Does anybody ever tried Assambly in SolidWorks? Nothing ever comes close to that one in term of straight-forward way of use. Why not try to replicate that one instead of making complicated coordinates systems? FreeCAD is wonderful, but so far away from enjoyable.

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This is an amazing tutorial. thank you for putting it together. Can you do a demo to place a sketch from an dxf drawing on a surface, not on xy plane please?

very nice tutorial, thanks for this. as a beginner to freecad this is really helpful for me.

Why in my case circles make a white hole?

Good tutorial. However, the way of adding constraints is slow and complicated (at first view), I think it's not the right direction to go. I'm using frequently Solidworks and Inventor, and looking at how constraints are applied in this workbench make me think it won't get much traction.

If I embossed the text with a pad instead of a pocket how would I add draft to the text? I am trying to make a pattern for green sand casting.

I just found this tutorial, and followed it through with no difficulty, but using a simple octagon top and bottom, to created a tapered octagonal flower pot.... When I tried to twist it, any angle more than 22.5 degrees caused the twist to reverse direction, and become (45 deg. minus my specified angle).... In other words, if I twisted the top 15 degrees, it worked fine.... If I twisted it 30 degrees, it became the opposite twist of only 15 degrees.... If I twisted the top by 45 degrees, it reverted to the original untwisted shape.... I wanted that 45 degrees of twist, so that the pot twisted one flat in its height.... HELP !!!!

Yeah right... watch it to the end... and convert it to a sketch, not a face... right... makes life so much easier 😅 Thx mate.

That was the BEST tutorial in FreeCAD that I have viewed. Very concise, great flow and speed.

thank you very much

Thank you so so much dude you really helped me out!

This is by far the best tutorial I have ever seen: knowledgeable, interesting, and a speaker who mesmerizes with his voice as well as with his great didactic skills!

waste of time....

Yes, even paced, clear and concise. Just a pity age disadvantages me as it’s over 20 years since I retired and last used CAD professionally as an aerospace airframe component designer. I have grasped the basics of freeCAD, but the ‘tree hierarchy’ system is just a mite challenging as earlier systems I used did not employ a visible tree display; allowing for a good measure of intuitive design methodology. I belong to an association of retired engineers, carpenters and craftsmen and, as the only CAD-trained member, I thought FreeCAD could be of use. Am currently building a sphere turning fixture for a wood lathe. I have modelled all the detail parts using FreeCAD as well as creating the 2D detail drawings using Techdraw. The design concept, however, I modelled in SketchUp as this is very flexible and does not need to be modelled parametrically. The perspective capability also helps other members to “see” the finished installation in 3D space. This tutorial is uncanny as the shaft with the bearings - as a concept - matches the shaft and bearing assembly I designed for the turning fixture. I have used just two standard bearings as I am confident only a small amount of axial thrust will be imparted during operation of the fixture.

Wow thank you soooooo much!!

chad. Thank you!

Great tutorial. Clear, concise, well paced. Thank you !

Looks like you need to update the video. It does not correspond to the new version of FreeCad. I could not repeat everything described, because there were errors. And also, please don't use something that the user can't find in a couple of clicks. I'm talking about the bearing. Create it right in the video. Or weak.

Thank you so much!!!

Sorry way to fast can’t follow what you are doing

Have tried numerous times to import DXF from Illustrator to FreeCad. I have changed both units in Illustrator and in the FreeCad import preferences but it always multiplies my DXF by 25.4. Have spent hours trying everything imaginable and scouring the forums to no avail. It just will not take a DXF from Illustrator in mm's as 1:1. I have even tried to reduce the import to 0,03937 and it does nothing. Annoying as hell.

Excellent video. I was looking around your videos for further learning, but it seems to me the rest of the videos are kinda more complicated. I would like, if possible, a tutorial into simple parts and how are they stored and copy and repeated within one project and for different projects. Would you be so kind? I mean specifically for instance if I need this piece and other block pieces of different lenght and the put them together into different puzzles. Or, for instance a lumber piece (6x2x8 ft) to be used repeatedly for a building frame and then in a different project for another building. Can you create such a thing or tell me where to find it? (for beginners) Thanks

How do you do that with a dxf file of an egg?

Excellent tutorial on assembly 4

0.20 FreeCAD allowed me to select the whole thing and create a single sketch. Thank you for the tutorial, this helps allot with designing things, being able to get the .dxf files for parts and fasteners into my designs.

Thank you so mush sir