FreeCAD 0.19 - Datum Plane

[@JimHenderson19]

I only wish I had found this lesson earlier. I have navigated from AutoCad into FreeCad, and it has been somewhat frustrating. I've really found this lesson helpful and easy to digest. I'm looking forward to more. Thanks!

[@napalmpig3772]

Easily the most useful vids I've found so far. No waffle, to the point, concise and using simple examples to illustrate the point. Def worth a sub.

[@tasmedic]

I love FreeCad. It's a love-hate relationship, though. However, thanks to you, I've found RealThunder's mod and I have to say it's much easier to work with, and more intuitive, than the parent program. Thanks for your great content. Please keep it coming! Best wishes from our little heart-shaped island of Tasmania.

[@baxrok2.]

Excellent information! This topological problem makes learning FreeCAD very challenging for beginners.

[@Gherson069]

Nice. This channel will be a goldmine for us FreeCAD newbies.

[@pamukpasa]

This is the best tutorial I have ever seen so far on Freecad.Congrad,keep the pace!

[@cna9708]

After watching hours of tutorial videos which were done with noble intentions but just done really badly, I can watch your videos almost for entertainment ;D. Good focus on the current topic without explaining unnecessary steps. No annoying music, intros, rambling. Information obviously comes from a lot of experience. Really valuable stuff

[@SKpetter]

Thank you Andrew from the Slovak Republic in Central Europe! Your English is so hard for me, but youtube has added subtitles with automatic translation (I assume youtube). It helps me a lot to understand you, to understand the topic, even if I sometimes have fun on a distorted translation ... Please continue and do not be discouraged. This is important for us and many silent viewers! Thank you again!

[@now-you-know-it]

Perfectly clear and good speed. Still the standard on KZbin.

[@KobblersCorner]

Thanks again Andrew. In my book you're still at the top in content, quality and educational value! Kudos my friend and please keep up the fantastic tutorials! They are more than worth every penny. Lol

[@AndrewCAD]

Thank you for watching Arlen! 😀 I enjoy making these videos and learn a lot in the process 😁

[@SomeGuyInSandy]

I really really really like this mod! The transparency, no TNP, amazing work! It's a breath of fresh air.

[@usuariodenombre3178]

Thank you dude, my faith in freecad have been restored

[@PeterOstergaardNielsen]

Inspiring and excellent

[@foootz]

Hopefully and probably realthunder's solution for the problem will be merged in 0.20 master. Great video

[@KJChaput]

Thanks Andrew! Keep them coming. Congrat's on the +1k subs, you deserve it.

[@AndrewCAD]

Thank you Keegan! 😀

[@striveupward]

Excellent! Thank you so much. Clear. Concise. Good variety.

[@mangelozzi]

Brillant, finally understand how to use datum plane to overcome the dreaded TNI.

[@customcycle6330]

I am very glad I found this channel. Thank you very much for your work! Wish you luck!

[@roncouch]

Unlike one contributor I have no problems with Andrew’s command of the English language, or the articulation per se other than the fact it ‘s all carried out at a pace. A pace that I, as a member of the aged population, find challenging. Very reminiscent of my three 15 year-old granddaughters’ patois: a kind of vocalised ‘shorthand’ which half the time is indecipherable. Andrew clearly knows his stuff, but the verbal pace means frequently having to wind the video back in order to establish what or how the process is or being carried out. Am new to FreeCAD, but before I retired, CAD was my everyday tool. This datum plane exercise is actually very important, but confess am not fully grasping the use of “formulae” to change position of the plane: even simple algorithms are something of a mystery to me…….

[@JohnWinquist]

Another great tutorial, very helpful! Looking forward to more.

[@jaimelopez7486]

Excellent explanation, very good sequence of logic steps, had been very helpful for a beginner. Appreciated very much.

[@bassam.2023]

Very useful. Thanks!

[@prblmchild83]

So freakin awesome videos! to the point and with straight forward examples. 👏

[@crazyhank99]

Great stuff. Really appreciate it.

[@textbookscience6936]

Thanks for the nice explanation

[@lukemartin5429]

Nice ! Thank for the brilliant content !

[@alextrezvy6889]

Hi, Andrew! Your tutorials are very useful for me. You asked how to make your channel better. My advice is: please speak slowly. For me as a no native speaker sometimes is very hard to recognize your speech, and I forced to rewind some pieces of the video several times. Listen, for example, to professor Dennis Meadows, which IMHO speaks good enough.

[@JDMils68]

In the example you gave with the three rectangles, most FREECAD experts will say NOT to use datum planes. All you need to do is create a new sketch on the origin and offset the placement by the same method using the formulae you used. Datum planes should really be used for angled sketches.

[@warperone]

this is a great video and so well explained. I hope you do a lot more across all aspects. I would really love to know how we easily create BSP male and female threads

[@danydilo]

Great tutorial!

[@marcopieralli8544]

Good. I would like more examples.

[@Elephantine999]

Great video

[@astronomyforbeginners-a4b-217]

I just love your guides. Your voice can be heard clearly, and you always describe each action that you do. I don't suppose that you know how to do text that follows a Arc. For example a curved nameplate like you get above a wheel on a Steam loco? All the best - Fletch -

[@AndrewCAD]

Thank you for the support Fletch! 😀 I've had a quick look into manipulating text around an arc, but at this moment in time it seems slightly complicated! However I'll keep looking to find an easier solution 😀

[@ChainsawDNA]

Excellent video!

[@donstelfox2936]

Thank you

[@dnmnsmith]

Cool, thanks! Any plans to cover toolpaths? I was completely stumped by the process for setting up coordinate system for machining.

[@xl000]

We wouldn't have to basically reimplement a pad using a datum plane + the pad length if FreeCad allowed the user to simply name the extruded face of a pad, if it applies, maybe create symbolic datum plane automatically, that could be referred to as "PadX.datum.something" and it would not be subject to the topological naming problem. Note that it only works for objects which faces are nicely aligned with the construction planes. Otherwise you basically have to reimplement your objects in a parallel track if you want to get rid of the topological naming problem.

[@steveu235]

Thanks for the video. Some of us need a course on how to download and install the files we see in github any link to something quick that can show us.

[@emmfranklin]

Superb

[@dnmnsmith]

A video on the basics of solving Sketch constraints would be helpful. I'm having a lot of problems fully constraining sketches, over-constraining sketches, wierd behaviour. Identifying and fixing constraint issues seems a bit of a dark art. Often freecad won't let me do what I think should fully constrain a sketch, or it tips over into over-constrained. Fusion360 doesn't seem to suffer the issues nearly as much.

[@AndrewCAD]

Hey there Duncan! I know what you mean, sometimes it can be a little confusing, so I'll look into creating a video 😀 As for toolpaths I did a video a few months back on 'path module'. It might be a little outdated now as I've learnt alot more, but perhaps start there and see how you get on? 😀

[@chaitalimahanty9348]

Really helpful video. I just needed understanding about how u removed all the datum planes from the final sketch?

[@kb3cxe]

Very very informative video. A pleasure to watch. Question: Does realthunder work on Mac? Thank you again. Roland

[@yiukeicheng217]

I don't know what I did wrong.... If you are trying to create a datum plane between top and bottom faces, you can do that easily by selecting first top, then bottom faces to. This feature doesn't work for vertical plan (z-y plane, for instance)

[@davetomlinson55]

Nice I find your videos very good. How do you get the round red circle around your pointer, that would be very useful.

[@tobyadams5763]

Up thumb!

[@fishemrock]

thanks!!!

[@GarryNichols]

What I don't get is, Why isn't this the default action for creating a pad. PROGRAMMERS TAKE NOTE.

[@nicolaeprepelita8560]

Hello! I watched this video, which I found very useful, then I went to your channel and found movies with things I'm interested in that other movie creators haven't addressed. That's why I subscribed to your channel and in the next few days I will see all the movies that interest me. But I'm interested in something I didn't find anywhere, that is: I design bags, purses and backpacks, which I will make of leather, at a hobby level, with less common shapes. I would be interested in decomposing (exploding) the bodies I make in freecad into 2D drawings. In other words, for example, after drawing a cube, I would like to break it down into the six squares that make it up, and then print them out. Do you think this is possible in freecad? Nowadays, I work differently, that is, I sculpt in foam the body I am interested in making in leather, I totally cover it with adhesive tape, which I then cut into component faces, which I peel off and then glue on cardboard. This process takes time and money. In computer, in freecad, it would be simpler. Of course, there are computer programs dedicated to bag design, but they are extremely expensive, programs that do not do what I want them to do, and I work at a hobby level. I would be delighted if you would make such a film, of course with slightly more complicated bodies (but which could start with a cube) from which I would learn how to freecad my bags and backpacks with special shapes. Thank you! Nicolae Prepelita

[@giuliobuccini208]

Brilliant! Question: if I place the datum in the middle of an object, may I still reference the edges of the generated section? (e.g: I want to place a circle on the datum plane 10 mm far away from one edge.)

[@ayahraka]

how to download and install realthunder. can you help me. please.

[@dex3k]

perfect, temporary solution,. Thanks. But sadly on complicated models it take double time to prepare such setup. We need Blender funders to push development of FreeCad

[@arguspanoptes1469]

Hello I'm completely new to FreeCAD, but this Topological Name Problem it seems is just a better word for a serious bug in the software! ...Are any more of such "problems"?

[@no8reek]

Hi Andrew, Very helpful video, great clear and to the point. I cannot find a description below to get the link to Realthunder's mod pack Can you help

[@AndrewCAD]

Hey Mark! Thank you for watching my video 😀 The link is: github.com/realthunder/FreeCAD_assembly3/releases Hope this helps 😁

[@no8reek]

@@AndrewCAD thanks for the link, is this a plugin or like running FC0.19 before it was fully released

[@AndrewCAD]

@@no8reek similar to running FreeCAD 0.19 before it was released

[@bilaltariq7819]

How come the topological naming problem doesn't affect the datum plane you made to slice the box at the end? (when you're resizing the box)

[@thomasbach4206]

Can the files saved by RealThunder's fork be opened in the original FreeCad version?

[@The4lexO]

Hi, How to give a specific color to a component ? Apparently it's only psosible to give a random color..

[@ricardo-iw9sq]

Hi Im looking in to down loading freecad and have just looked and the latest version is 0.19.2 ( todays date 30.11.2021 )does this have the same fixes that you are describing because I've been watching loads of videos on how to use and am getting a bit confused as into which one I should get because i will be totally new , sorry if this is a stupid question but I'm no Tec person in the sense of programs, I use a cad cam system at work for edm wire cutting but that's just a 2d program and have been using it for 20 years, its a point based drawing lines arcs.

[@stephenobrien1183]

work around 05.00. Why are you bothering with all the extra work of a datum plane when you can attach the sketch directly?

[@eddieed_2328]

I wonder why youtube videos are blurry? out of focus?

[@antilogism]

To support slow internet connections they use lossy compression. It will try to guess what resolution will allow continuous play. Often it's wrong so you can force more resolution with Settings->Quality. 720 will usually show the fine print on a screen. 1080 is better. If you guess wrong it will stall occasionally.

[@rctrix9063]

Most of my TN problems come from chamfers and fillets. Hence I try to leave them to the end.

[@patinpalero]

So do datum plane work with round surface? For example to make a cylinder's cross

[@AndrewCAD]

For creating two cylinders that cross each other, you can create a datum between the two flat faces, then rotate it around the X/Y axis 90 degrees (depending on the direction you'd like your second cylinder) and then extrude (pad) in two dimensions to your required length? 😊 Theres a few different ways of creating two cylinders that cross each other

[@patinpalero]

@@AndrewCAD ohhh I'll have a try and see if I'm able to do it, thanks for your help!

[@AndrewCAD]

@@patinpalero no problem 😀

[@psynautic]

interesting tidbit mm and mil are different in the USA

[@AndrewCAD]

Hey James! That's awesome! Never new that. Learn something new everyday 😀

[@voytechj]

Great tutorial, but Datum example 2 doesn't prove anything about topology. Only box dimensions changes but not topology. Ordering of the vertices are the same, but their coordinates are different. If you create more complicated object with features that can mess up internal ordering of points, edges or faces, then errors for datum plane will shows in FC Link as well.

[@bretcannon3826]

I tried using the technique you showed to place a datum plane midway between two faces, but it does not work when the object is a simple model of a 6" long piece of structural angle. In the Part Design workbench, I sketched in the x-z plane using the polyline tool the outline of a simplified model of equal leg structural angle with 2 inch legs and 3/16 inch thick. I then padded the sketch to be 6 inches long in the positive y direction. I selected both faces of this object and clicked on the datum plane icon, which created a datum plane that was perpendicular to the two selected faces and tilted at 45 degrees to the x axis and says that the attachment mode is inertia 2-3. Thus, the datum plane is parallel to the y-axis rather than perpendicular to it. Have I found a bug or am I doing something wrong? I am using Freecad 0.19, OS: Windows 10 Version 2004 Word size of OS: 64-bit Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit Version: 0.19.24276 (Git) Build type: Release Branch: releases/FreeCAD-0-19 Hash: a88db11e0a908f6e38f92bfc5187b13ebe470438 Python version: 3.8.6+ Qt version: 5.15.1 Coin version: 4.0.1 OCC version: 7.5.0 Locale: English/United States (en_US)

[@RustyTube]

Sorry, right off the start I had to stop because you talk about a datum assuming that we all know what a datum is. I was sent here because I searched the web for "FreeCAD: What the hell is a datum?" And since you did not start by defining what it is...

[@matteoverardo8005]

Thank you very much for these videos. Your english pronunciation is adorable but please, in future videos, speak a little more slowly.

[@bonvi2896]

Nice, consider a patreon?

[@dg808c9]

Demonstration could be very interesting but Andrew is talking so fast that it becomes painful to reach the end of the tutorial for people having another mother tong ! Sory to be so direct !

[@joannesberque817]

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