FreeCAD 0.20 For Beginners | 10 | Curved surfaces using Surface Workflow | Part Design

[@Dolfost]

If someone is struggling to make ruled surfaces on 17:50 (created surfaces between ellipse arcs is overlapping with the main shape dent), then you have to click on newly created ruled surfaces and go to data and set Orientation field to Forward.

[@jason_a_clark]

Before reading this, my solution was to use edges from the sketch then mirror that ruled surface. While not as correct or elegant an approach, this still though got to the compound and solid result. Thank you for the advice toward a better and more correct solution.

[@gordofat2911]

Thank you for taking the time to post this!!!

[@russellw5447]

Hi MJ, Really enjoying the Tut's. Starting to appreciate the ins and outs of FreeCAD. Did give Fusion 360 a Go but the limitations on workspace lost Me. I'm an Aero modeller and wish to design my own and Scale RC Aircraft . I can see FreeCAD being very useful. Keep up the Good work.

[@MangoJellySolutions]

Great to hear! There is a lot of RC and aero engineers using freecad out in the field. Check out @LVAeronautics on Twitter who are in the middle of a very complex project. Great to hear your progressing.

[@voidexp7180]

Great tutorial, as always. Clear, concise and useful. Donate well deserved ;) I'd love a tutorial about gears and sprockets

[@Elephantine999]

I had no idea that it was possible to do this or that there was something called the Surface workbench. I need to grow some new brain cells in my hippocampus or something so I can incorporate all this! ;) Another great video. Thanks!

[@MangoJellySolutions]

Lol, yes the software has alot to offer and trying to remember it all is starting to even get hard for me lol. I am working on something to make remembering some of it a little bit easier. I have scrapped it and started it again about 3 times but hopeful I have got it this time.

[@Shenanigans3D]

Ahhhh... so that's how it's done. Game changer

[@Ticktok_of_Oz]

fantastic. This is something I've struggled with and other tutorial videos didn't seem to help.

[@MangoJellySolutions]

Great to hear you have now got something to help you, great stuff. Thank you for the comment.

[@shaygus]

Your content is just wonderful

[@MangoJellySolutions]

Thank you, much appreciated.

[@fooballers7883]

Just Brilliant... Thank you so much.

[@isorport32]

13:00 No need to extrude the body, it is enough to create a surface to also reflect it. And further according to the instructions. + The bottom surfaces will already be created for the Compound.

[@donstelfox2936]

Very Informative, Very Useful, Thank you. Cheers

[@MangoJellySolutions]

Thank you

[@hjtv3900]

Another great tutorial! Thank you very much. 👍👍

[@communicationiskey-]

Excellent tutorials Thank you

[@MangoJellySolutions]

You are welcome! Glad you're enjoying

[@eljodioerrante]

Great job. Thank you very much

[@BrainDeadEngineering]

incredible Mango ! Winter indoor lock down is coming lol I have learned to many bad FC habits over time and I can,t wait to refresh .I need to save up and get few boxes of Oville popcorn and tea bags and enjoy this series. to many carbs though ( giggles . Hero in Life , not in death ! You ROCK!

[@MangoJellySolutions]

Lol, incredible response lol. Glad your really enjoying the videos. Enjoy, lots more to come 😁😁👍👍

[@BrainDeadEngineering]

@@MangoJellySolutions you have paypal? I want to give a little while I have some loose change , before ww3 starts 🥵then I will be extra broke ! 😪

[@MangoJellySolutions]

@@BrainDeadEngineering Ah thank you :) yes it's [e-mail]

[@BrainDeadEngineering]

@@MangoJellySolutions GBP? prefer ?

[@darrenstone8820]

@@BrainDeadEngineering yes please 😁👍

[@williamweatherall8333]

Wow, this is cool.So many possibilities with this tool.

[@edh3268]

What addon is the Curves workbench under? The only Addon I see is the Curved Shapes addon, which seems pretty cool too! Thanks again for the amazing videos!

[@shinkansen4521]

that was fun! thank you for this great tutorial :)

[@MangoJellySolutions]

Glad you enjoyed 😁😁😁

[@buteomont]

These are great tutorials! My only suggestion is to please increase your audio volume. If I turn the volume on my laptop all the way up, I can make out most of what you're saying, but it's not 100%. Thanks!

[@MangoJellySolutions]

Thank you glad your enjoying. You be glad to hear (excuse the pun) that this was also commented on by others. Later on in the series I fixed this issue, I went out and bought a decent microphone. Wish I caught this earlier. Sorry about that.

[@stevelongton2992]

Brilliant, you make it look so easy.

[@MangoJellySolutions]

Thank you, it's only easy when you know how :)

[@robgoodsight6216]

Just excellent! Thank you!

[@shaygus]

Thanks!

[@MangoJellySolutions]

Thank you so much :)

[@bazook1948]

Your tuts are clear and concise. I have downloaded FreeCad 0.21 but cannot find the Image workbench. Please assist me in this regard. Many thanks Barry

[@eddyproft8390]

The Image Workbench is no longer included after version 0.20. You can import an image using File -> Import... Once imported, you can scale and manipulate the image.

[@bazook1948]

Thank you very much for the information

[@MangoJellySolutions]

If you want more information regarding the new way of importing and scaling reference images I have put together a video kzbin.info/www/bejne/jZnbdXSdqNCWfqM

[@area-xp3sw]

Best tuts

[@MangoJellySolutions]

Ahhhhh thanks ☺️

[@pablobaffa9610]

Hi, MJ. Thank you for these tutorials. If you're still reading these: @ around 5:50 when trying to cut the sphere into the compound, the face where the sphere is turns glitchy and the sphere doesn't cut into the body, it only cuts itself and even then, a part of it still remains outside of the body. This does not happen when using a different shape, like a cilinder or a cone. Is this a glitch or am I doing something wrong?

[@eddyproft8390]

I encountered the same problem. I am using verrsion 0.21.1. Perhaps this is where the problem lies.

[@callumstuart9094]

@@eddyproft8390 Same, same problem, same version. It is as though there is still a face set to visible, but all items in the tree are set as they should be.

[@markmartin9413]

This might be a nomenclature thing, but when I think "surfaces", I think of finish surfaces. Is there a way to pattern the surface we've just created? ie Wood grain or mesh or whatever?

[@ורדעזרו-י5ד]

TNX. DEDACTIVELY, I THINK YOU SOULD BUILD THE SAME SOLID SHAPE - IN TWO DIFFERENT CONSTRUCTIONS METHODS. AND SPEAKS MORE MATHEMATICALLY WILL BE BETTER TO MY OPINION.

[@tenlittleindians]

While I find it easy to understand, it's retaining how to use all these various tools becomes the challenge. And to think there are people out there that have total recall. Wouldn't that be nice.

[@timinwsac]

I'm in the same boat. I find I can watch the videos and vaguely remember the subject long term. Later when I have a need to use the tools and techniques covered I go back and review the video.

[@MangoJellySolutions]

Yes fully understand where you are coming from, so much to remember . I am working on a way to catalog and index these videos to allow anyone to search and locate the video they need for what they are trying to do. Building up a keyword database. It's something that I have been working on in the background.

[@Larryn7luf]

At almost the age of 77 yrs, I to have problems with recall, but do find it help to follow along on my PC and then come back for review and surprised how much I did retained, I do have to rewind to see where I missed a step. If it was easy, everyone would be doing it.

[@paulg3336]

I'm 63 and technically competent. Whenever I show one of my contemporaries how to do something on his computer , he gets his notebook out and writes down each step he needs to take. I point out that the computer can take searchable notes. He persists with the book. Later he will completely forget the process as well as the note he made in the book. Your browser probably has some form of note facility built into it .If it doesn't you can use Google Keep

[@tenlittleindians]

@@paulg3336 At least with his book he won't have to start from scratch after his operating system does an update and hoses him and locks him out of his backups. My last three laptops were purchased because they were cheaper than taking an aging computer in to a file recovery expert. All killed by unwanted system updates from Microsoft.

[@dwightrigel4611]

The Arc of Elipse is unstable or I am not understanding how it works. It's jumpy and does not want to allow movement from a circle to an oval with the control points. Anyone else?

[@rburke7211]

Same here. Am using 0.21.2

[@3P4JC]

I have the same problem. I just did a half circle and fallowed the steps starting @ 7:28 to shape it. I also found that I didn't have the problem when selecting the x axis first and the y axis second. So if you don't mine having a different frame of reference than MJ, that might be an option too.

[@EuphoricDan]

Same, v 21.2

[@worm4195]

I solved it by turning off snapping. In the Sketcher mode, turn off Snap to Grid and Snap to Objects, or turn them all off by toggling the whole Toggle Snap. It's the button to the right of the green tic-tac-toe (the grid button), the one with a grid and cursor shape.

[@dracojem]

Great video! I have some problem when creating the 2 ruled surface that connect the two domes: instead of filling just the empty space between the selected edges of the two domes the resulting surface actually fills all the space enclosed in the edge of the outer dome. I noticed that creating a sketch with 2 unconnected arcs of 2 concentric ellipses I get the same problem (a ruled surface covering al the space enclosed by the external arch), while closing the shape with a couple of lines that connects the endpoints of the ellipses gives the expected result. Any idea about what I'm doing wrong? Again ....wonderful videos! ❤

[@MangoJellySolutions]

Me and Marco have been working on this today so just updating the comment in case anyone else comes across the same problem. The problem in the end was due to the orientation property on the ruled which as default is as set to automatic. We changed this to forward and this resolved the issue. So it's worth changing the orientation property before you go in and start redrawing geometry etc.

[@martinxp2535]

@@MangoJellySolutions had same issue and you suggestion sole it thank!

[@Not-Only-Reaper-Tutorials]

I have a strange issue with Extrude. Each time FreeCAD is creating 2 extrudes. I solve deleting one of them. I have not clue if it's a problem with my system, or whether or not there is a setting to change.

[@MangoJellySolutions]

I think you may be clicking apply then OK? If so just click ok. I feel into this mistake before.

[@Not-Only-Reaper-Tutorials]

@@MangoJellySolutions yes indeed it’s what I do. Omg … thank you for the hint.

[@classic_sci_fi]

I'm keeping up so far...

[@leroycasterline1122]

Strangely, when I completed the 2nd part of the lesson, I was able to cut the sphere out of the solid. Hiding the compound before doing the cut did not work on the object created in the 1st part of the lesson.

[@waldyeti3744]

Same

[@mdsmedia9]

V0.21.2 Having an issue at 15:40 The boundary edges list looks correct except when I select extrude edge and extrude edge.mirror. the surface does not appear. IF I OK the filling window I get an invalid object Boundary edges must be added in consecutive order. I'll delete it all and restart but something somewhere has upset it :(

[@mdsmedia9]

ok back in extrude/sketch. One of the arc points was not constraint point to object, not sure why that would cause this but all I did was delete back to the original sketches and rebuild from there.

[@AdredenGaming]

They must change a lot of subtle things the rule line at 18:20 is not working for me. Learning lots anyway though :)

[@MangoJellySolutions]

Does it get twisted? If so go to the properties of the ruled surface in the data tab and change the orientation to reverse it forward. Glad your learning new skills 😊

[@russellw5447]

Adjusting Selection sensitivity in Preferences helps. I've found One needs to be very careful that you select the correct Vertices etc, I zoom in a lot to be sure. Hiding Objects in the tree that are redundant also makes it clearer.

[@mshaynerushton]

What I can't find is how to cut that surface in FreeCAD 0.21.1 but none of the features from 19 that are supposed to work are available. It's like the upgrade was a downgrade. I don't get it.

[@everythingcustom4034]

You can always find the cut tool in the menu bar up top under “Part” or go into “View” scroll down to the selection right above “Panel” and it should show the tools that you may have to select to be shown

[@Larryn7luf]

I am having problems with the last sketch being blank when I try to view, back to try again. Just found out it maybe a bug in the software and rebooted it and now working.

[@MangoJellySolutions]

It's a bit strange, I had a Google as I have hear of this before with some users. Looks like there is a forum thread forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?t=57744

[@Larryn7luf]

I finally got it... YEA! Just missed a few steps🙃

[@Clever_Motel]

At 17:54 My ruled surface is glitching and surfacing half of the outer ellipse instead of between the two chosen lines. I am becoming frustrated with FreeCADs "quirks"

[@MangoJellySolutions]

In the data tab look for orientation and try changing that from automatic to one of the other options. See if that gets you further.

[@Clever_Motel]

@@MangoJellySolutions I will try that when I get home. Thank you for the suggestion

[@Clever_Motel]

@@MangoJellySolutions Forward orientation is what I needed. I also need to learn to check things like that when I come across strange results. Thank you again

[@roma-korova]

Thanks!

[@MangoJellySolutions]

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