An Introduction to FreeCAD 1.0 Part 2

[@jjs3863]

I was postponing a project because I needed to learn freecad assembly. Your videos (and a couple other CCs) helped me understand and it’s easier than I thought. Thanks - now I’m eager to start the project!

[@Adventuresincreation]

Honestly, this is the first time I have been using assemblies in design because it's so much better than the older versions. I used to just model everything in place but now I quickly build an assembly and modify the design to suit.

[@michaeltallent7459]

So good. Thank-you.

[@Adventuresincreation]

You are welcome 😉

[@jimzweighaft8079]

12:24 Thank you for the layout option discussion. Many other tutorials assume that the layout they use is the same as the default. I ended up searching all over for the correct icons and sometimes couldn't find them at all. Now I know why.

[@Adventuresincreation]

Excellent, glad it helped.

[@Jose-tw9bl]

Great to see a new version of freecad!

[@Adventuresincreation]

It's exciting

[@workforth]

Thank you. Your teaching style is unique. Keep making great content.

[@Adventuresincreation]

You are welcome, I am going to create much more

[@jimzweighaft8079]

Thank you for explaining what a "workbench" is. This is an important idea that the other 4 videos I watched just ignore.

[@Adventuresincreation]

You are welcome.

[@landlocked4771]

Thanks I will be watcher from now on.

[@Adventuresincreation]

I appreciate that

[@hymermobiler]

Keep up the good work

[@Adventuresincreation]

Thanks!

[@nams37]

Thank you sir

[@Adventuresincreation]

You are welcome

[@rodneysmith1750]

Great to see a new release, hopefully, they were able to address everything that was a problem or missing in the previous version. Great video, keep 'em coming!

[@Adventuresincreation]

I think they have addressed a lot of the issues. Of course, there's still more improvements that they can make but this is a massive step forward.

[@bme-uk]

Binge watching to catch up !! great content !! TY

[@Adventuresincreation]

Part 5 is coming soon

[@colinoreilly5438]

Fantastic video thank you so much

[@Adventuresincreation]

You are welcome 😉

[@aaamott]

Love it! Would also love a simmary of what's in each party in the description!

[@Adventuresincreation]

I will work on that

[@aaamott]

@@Adventuresincreation sweet, thank you!

[@Cradley684]

Great friend Thank's keep um comin, just the right speed for me, some sites are just to fast hardly gives your mind to digest anything !!!.👍👍.

[@Adventuresincreation]

Thanks for the feedback ☺️

[@hymermobiler]

If you hover your mouse over the icon for in your case at 14.40 the blender option it pops up a list of the buttons and moves available for that option in case you forget

[@Adventuresincreation]

Good tip

[@hannuhanhi183]

Currently using Fusion which I like a lot. This seems to be way different. However, if Autodesk starts charging the free version this seems to be a viable option. Great series!

[@Adventuresincreation]

Thanks! That's where I came from. I made a few fusion videos but then autodesk changed the licensing. I didn't want to put all my time into something that might go away.

[@puaspiton]

Thank you so much

[@Adventuresincreation]

You are welcome

[@filiepmaes9071]

You can even move your toolbars to a second screen, so you have a bigger workplace

[@Adventuresincreation]

That would be interesting

[@floydthorne6444]

I am in the USA and still think in terms of Inches or in my case I prefer decimals. I figured out to set up my system accordingly though.

[@Adventuresincreation]

I am in the US too but still prefer the metric system

[@ElTelBaby]

Well another GR8 tutorial;... things R making sense & U even answered my next ? That being... How 2 get a lost;... broken or missing Task bar after I move it 2 the right hand side...

[@Adventuresincreation]

Excellent, glad you liked it

[@PaulG.x]

Note that the tool bars can be placed anywhere on any of the 4 sides of the workspace

[@Adventuresincreation]

Good note

[@jimzweighaft8079]

It would be nice to define what is meant by a "sketch". From the context I gather that this is a 2 dimensional drawing but there is probably more to it than that.

[@Adventuresincreation]

It is a 2 dimensional planar sketch.

[@jimzweighaft8079]

7:01 What is a "body" as opposed to a "part"? These terms need to be defined. Maybe that will come later, but I need to understand now.

[@Adventuresincreation]

Yep, I cover that.

[@TheRetiredtech]

If any one is watching this that is a developer we really need a panel choice that goes back to default.

[@Adventuresincreation]

Agreed 👍

[@robertcartman3502]

Thank You for the video! Very helpful! I have one question: if i model a table for example. Are the desktop and the legs separate "parts" or separate "bodies"? What is the difference?

[@Adventuresincreation]

You can do it as separate bodies. Then the part is a table and the bodies are the top and legs. Then if you want chairs they would be another part with legs and a seat as bodies.

[@robertcartman3502]

@@Adventuresincreation Thank You! Now it's clear.

[@Adventuresincreation]

@@robertcartman3502 Excellent!

[@Greolt]

I am enjoying your videos. In the latest build version, when starting a sketch the visual representation of the planes is tiny. Is this me or a bug? Version 1.10dev

[@richardwilliams3408]

how do you get the photo of the part modeled on the screen? much better idea than split screen. thank you

[@Adventuresincreation]

It just in a picture viewing app

[@barrygleeson1073]

How would you scale the sketch to the photo? The measure tool seems to require an edge or vertex, it doesn’t seem to work on an image. Thanks for a great intro to version 1.00

[@Adventuresincreation]

I have another video that shows you how to trace a photo but, for this case, I would rough out the shape then I would add dimension that I measured from the part itself. When you create a sketch it's parametric, meaning you can change the dimensions to anything you like. I alway work to "rough" out the shape then add the dimensions. It is important that you add the "features" in the rough shape so you can later dimension them. Also, when you dimension a shape, one gotcha is not to change dimesions of parts to dramatically, i.e. don't go from 2mm to 200 mm in one step or you may make your sketch go inside out! Most of all, have fun with it and know you can't break it. Try and see what happens, Ctrl+Z is your friend.

[@stevesmith-sb2df]

If you are going to make an assembly is it best to have a separate file for each body or have multiple bodies in a part container?

[@Adventuresincreation]

I would create a part for each item that is comprised of multiple bodies

[@ton146]

You seemed to indicate that FreeCAD was not for animation. I am building an RC model of the cessna 337 push pull and I need to do an animation to determine the angle for the rearward main gear. I dont do python or c++ so I dont know if freecad can do this or not. Perhaps the animation you were referring to was more like a cartoon? If not which Foss software do I need to get to grips with to solve the angle problem. The cessna 210 has a similar rearward rotating main gear and it is relatively simple on the drawing but for the one applicable angle. Tony

[@Adventuresincreation]

I think you can do what you want in the assembly workbench. It will allow you to see how parts fit together. It not the best for full animation, blender is better suited for that.

[@ton146]

Thanks - I will press on with FreeCAD

[@superjugy]

Hi, in the past I have tried to jump from fusion 360 to freecad, but one thing that has stopped me before is how to use parametric parts. I want to be able to enter a variable as a parameter and share that variable across files such that if I update that variable, all my parts in different files are updated. you can do this in Fusion 360 buy creating a root part, call it parameters, and then import this part in all other parts and use the parameters from there as a dependency. In FreeCAD I saw there were several approaches to this like an excel sheet and other meta data objects in the files. but I just want to know the best way to do it that will be supported from version 1.0 onwards as the official way to do parameters. Thanks!

[@Adventuresincreation]

I use spreadsheets extensively but you may prefer dynamic data. I find spreadsheets a little easier to manage. They are both supported in version 1.0

[@superjugy]

@@Adventuresincreation I believe this could be a good video tutorial in the future if you are interested. Thanks for the info!

[@paulradford4100]

What I find confusing is that each Model has a part and each part has a body. However when creating a new file freecad starts (and alway has done) with a body. I don't understand why it doesn't create a part with a body in its tree..

[@Adventuresincreation]

I am not sure why that is but the part gives you a way to contain/group multiple bodies that make up that part. Ie a table may be the part and is comprised of a top and four legs which are all separate bodies.

[@K_Shea]

Does FreeCad have a way to restore the UI to a default. I keep losing my way while docking and then finding no way to return. Found it, Views > Panels > select from choices

[@Adventuresincreation]

Excellent, thanks for sharing.

[@ggburleigh]

What an absolute nightmare, sorry. Unable to get model tree, only get labels and attributes under tree view. I was previously using Freecad 0.21.2 and had it up and going, but switched to this later version (regrettably). Also unable to find drawing templates, even in the last version, but also unable to find drawing sheet templates in this version. I downloaded the appimage file to run under linux 64 bit so I am not sure if this was the right way to go. Any help greatly appreciated. Regards Graham B

[@Adventuresincreation]

I haven't tried the drawing templates yet in 1.0 but I will. I use the windows version and all works with the download. I will try installing on Linux. Have you tried the download instead of the app image?

[@Sparkrdom]

Could you reverse the order of the playlist? Part 1 is currently #8 on the playlist, and part 8 is the first video played.

[@Adventuresincreation]

That's weird, I'll look into it.

[@Sparkrdom]

@@Adventuresincreation Cheers! It gets a bit tiresome having to manually choose the next video in the series, when all of a sudden I'm back on Part 1 after listening to you talk about workbenches :D

[@Adventuresincreation]

@@Sparkrdom I can't reorder them but they seem to be in chronological order and go from 1 through 9 ?

[@Sparkrdom]

@@Adventuresincreation I can't post links because youtube just auto nuked. But I do have screenshots to show what I mean. You'll have to fix the actual URL. Imgur / 9GMOMOc imgur / TPB2pg4 The issue for me is that it's in *reverse* order. Video #1 in the playlist is Part 8, while the final video in the list is Part 1. Ultimately, though, I will deal with it for the content :)

[@Adventuresincreation]

@@Sparkrdom I couldn't see your images but I am not sure why yours are upside down. When I see them they are the same as the other playlists I have. I don't put them in order, they are added when they are created.

[@TheRetiredtech]

My task won't dock on right.

[@Adventuresincreation]

Did you move it until you see the blue box?

[@oclaser]

KZbin is not doing you a favor. I was listening in the background and almost every 3 minutes there was an ad and it went forever until I had to clean my hand and hit SKIP. It is extremely frustrating

[@Adventuresincreation]

Wow! That seems like a lot. I will see if I can reduce it.