FreeCAD 1.0 Release : Beginner guide to become PRO

[@ecolucid]

I literally cried. After having to learn other proprietary tools, I can finally be free. Thank you.

[@JoaKarle]

Two months ago I got my first introduction to parametric CAD at school using Fusion. I also got a student license for Fusion and was going to start learning by my own. But as a child of open source I remembered something called FreeCAD, so I had a look. Turned out that FreeCAD was in version 1.0 RC4, so I instantly installed it and threw away Fusion.Now I'm learning parametric CAD using FreeCAD :) I'm very lucky that the 1.0 version is released and that @Deltahedra makes these learning efficient videos for the brand new v1.0! I expect FreeCAD's power will grow a lot in a couple of years after this v1.0 release, we are just getting started!

[@ggsap]

That's not how you use the word literally...unless you did cry, did you?

[@TechWayTamil]

I am from India. I'm a Pro/ENGINEER - Creo Mechanical Designer and I'm now taking training for FreeCAD. This is very amazing and lightweight software. I'm very happy to be using it and learning from your KZbin tutorial videos for making all part models. Thank you very much, Deltahedra.

[@NorbertHarrer]

We just discovered fire. The world will never be same again. Great tutorial!!!

[@AlmazWorks]

Great tutorial! It would be great to see a continuing series all the way up to the full bike model.

[@mattsoto4329]

We making out of the caves with this one!

[@MrHotshoe22]

Caveman like dark mode!

[@sh4n940]

The best channel to learn freeCAD, thank you, you saved me to install windows for fusion 360 😢😢 its the second tutorial im watching from your channel you're amazing.

[@contra_plano]

Use Linux it will BE faster

[@georg2478]

I refer to "The Doors": you light my fire for FreeCAD 1.0. Great job, excellent presentation.

[@iamminimoreland]

Great tutorial, i havnt used CAD system for over 12 years. So starting from scratch this really helps!

[@Ezlivin]

This was all done without saving the file! Amazing bravery! Anyone else smile when he pronounced "fillet" like it was a cut of steak? In mechanical engineering it is pronounced "fill it."

[@deltahedra3D]

@Ezlivin It shows how confident I am that FreeCAD won't crash and is stable :)

[@Ezlivin]

@@deltahedra3D One shortcut: Instead of clicking on the "Fx" icon when you want to use a variable, just press the "=" key.

[@EvenTheDogAgrees]

@@deltahedra3D Crashed once on me when I was following along. But after killing the process and restarting, it asked me if I wanted to restore my last (unsaved) project, and I believe I only lost a couple of operations. So yeah, even when it crashes, it still manages to recover gracefully.

[@harrymagooslum5770]

Yes, it's "fil-let" (not pronounced like what you do to fish). And yes, I'm an engineer. Regardless, I am very thankful for the video. 🥰

[@EvenTheDogAgrees]

@@harrymagooslum5770 You guys realise this guy is a native French speaker, and you're listening to text-to-speech, right? Or as Jeff Foxworthy would say: "That ain't them dog's real voice!" Sorry if I spoiled it for everybody else...

[@JamesTaysom]

This is great. I'm a novice modeler using freedcad as my second (and now preferred) tool. This tutorial is fire

[@88rhoracio]

Cave man here! Discovering fire in FreeCAD!

[@leroycasterline1122]

Great job! I await your next lesson with great anticipation.

[@RohitBanerjee]

Fire 🔥 . Well documented, wonderfully presented, and beautifully explained tutorial, which is rarely observed in technical subjects. Keep it up! ❤

[@Corollakongen]

Fire is so cozy, I Love the tutorial, which will be essential to solving my next design task.

[@laureatum]

I'm only at 5min but want to thank you for this new tutorial. Your previous one already helped me a lot ! Obviously liked. (Ps : Adding some warmth for this cold winter. Let's all model together by the FIREplace 🔥)

[@Casca_de_Bala_7]

Thanks, Sr.! Here in Brazil we don't have Freecad tutorials as detailed as yours! I hope you continue making more videos! This helps a lot!

[@deltahedra3D]

Thank you ! :)

[@Andrefa75]

Great tutorial! Really appreciate the model, your clear explanations and - really outstanding - the graphics supporting all of it. Amazing!

[@DavidGunter]

Fire! Great tutorial. Thanks!

[@otooleger]

Thanks for this clear tutorial. I have learned quite a lot, especially around symmetry and using the loft tool.

[@ook99]

Very clear path usage, thank you.

[@laureven]

Spectacular on Fire Tutorial :)

[@Hemingslay]

Amazing tutorial. Thank you for describing the process so well

[@caujka]

Thanks for the light theme and for bigger icons 🙂

[@deltahedra3D]

You're welcome :)

[@michaelo2l]

Ugg! Nice, this video series will bring me to the next level ;)

[@lic4X4]

Thank you so Much. The Greatest Tutorial for beginners!!!

[@abuthook]

S is your hot key for symmetry. No need to repeatedly select if from the tool bar. Much appreciated tutorial!

[@EvenTheDogAgrees]

There are many hotkeys that can be used instead of the UI elements. But he's not trying to teach the hotkeys, he's trying to teach a workflow. These are beginner tutorials, you want to keep things as simple and clear as possible. What you don't want is to overwhelm beginners with a ton of irrelevant information they'll discover on their own anyway. The application shows you the hotkeys when you hover over the button, you'll pick up on that soon enough if you keep using it. Knowing what the button looks like so you can quickly locate it is far more valuable to a beginner than 20 hotkeys they'll forget by the time they sit down with their own FreeCAD installation to try and create something.

[@caujka]

Awesome walk-through! Hot like fire!

[@obeygiantrobot]

Good work, more please

[@AxelGonzalez-ct7nn]

FIRE, ur giving freedom to many of us

[@StevenJWang]

Excellent explanation

[@MsVelog]

Very nice tutorial and all the explanation are so good. 👌

[@andririan6342]

So good tutorial, please keep up

[@gudongnetman355]

Great tutorial! Thank you very much!

[@LifesAnagranFiles]

excellent tutorial...thanks

[@alexl.3965]

Di nuovo bel video. Veramente bravo. Complimenti....

[@schrodingerscat1863]

I abandoned FreeCAD a couple of years back as a waste of time, which it was, but I have to say V1.0 looks extremely polished compared to previous versions and the massive problems it had seem to have been solved. I may give it another go as it looks really good now. Second tutorial I have watched on this channel and they are really good.

[@sickBARRS]

Insta-subscribe! Great work on this one. Hyperspeed learning activated!

[@user-11Il10I1]

fellow caveman here 🔥🔥 ungga bungga!

Nice video ! Thanks a lot !

[@sistemamarco]

Fire 🔥 Why not go down the rabbit hole with the Shape Binder.

[@joeljulienmullerprivatkont4025]

Fire 🔥 could you make a video on how to reverse engineer a 3D Scan or an image in FreeCAD v1.0?

[@EvenTheDogAgrees]

OK, I managed to recreate the model, although I had to do some things differently from this video. The binder stuff isn't really clear yet, so I'm gonna have to revisit this, perhaps watch it again without simultaneously trying to follow along, so I'm not distracted trying to keep up with the pace. Thanks again for a great tutorial.

[@DavidGunter]

I cannot get the Binder to act anything like what is shown in the video. Did you figure this out?

[@EvenTheDogAgrees]

@@DavidGunter In my case, it appears I was looking at the fork from the wrong side. So I had to reverse the padding direction. Otherwise, mine would start from the middle of the fork stem outwards. Not sure what I did different from the video when setting up my plane.

[@TheAlexandrewz]

Impressive tutorial, your way to deliver information is very good, subscribed. I work with solidworks at my job, but I want to try some freelance and it requires a good price CAD software, I guess free cannot be beaten!

[@jalfonsovivo]

Great job man!

[@ggsap]

I think everyone would appreciate using the dark theme for tutorials like these. Many thanks

[@SeriousFast]

This is ... FIRE!!!

[@dalarchobby]

Fire 🔥... Stunnig ....

[@pettbcl2690]

Fire ! 🔥

[@lcitters]

I love your caveman references. If you keep up with the good content, by next year we will surpass the stone age, cross the iron age and we'll be launching nukes.

[@likhitd]

Fire 🔥

[@EvenTheDogAgrees]

Appreciate the use of light theme and larger icons to make it easier for us to follow. Not sure how much of a difference the light theme makes; personally I prefer the dark theme and find the icons perfectly distinguishable at an enlarged size (I'm on a 4k screen, so the default size is a bit on the tiny side). Not that far into the video, so no idea if you also slow down a bit when moving through the interface, and point out better what you're doing as you're doing it. The previous video was a bit confusing at times when you went a bit fast, especially when going to the tiny icons. But hey, the previous tutorial was already quite good, meanwhile your presentation style is improving, and that's appreciated. :)

[@EvenTheDogAgrees]

Ah, I see we're doing the caveman thing again? Sure, I'm not that far into the video yet, but I'm gonna follow along on my FreeCAD installation for the entire video anyway. So yeah, let's eat sabretooth! 😂

[@fumomono9626]

Hi, thanks a lot for your video ! One thing I’d like to learn from you though : how to take proper measures of a complex object that you want to replicate. For complex shapes, notably curves, do you eyeball it and do multiple test prints until it fits, do you try to calculate it ? A video with tips and tricks about this would be much appreciated, thanks !

[@JasonSheehan-fy3lb]

🔥 great video.. I’d love to see someone model an electric guitar in freecad (I know about the marz workbench but I’d like to see it done ) something like the Austin Shaner vids on guitar building in fusion.. cheers 👍🔥🔥

[@ronaldwaller4221]

Fire!!!! 🔥

[@JhgguitarsNl]

Fire, fire fire!

[@elokjerside8680]

Great Video.....how will the tech drawing behave? Would it reconise it as 3 bodys? and 3 parts/items in the BOM? or how would it behave,,,, just curius as i am use to inventors multibody solids thats has to be exportede to each part file....please make a video showing how to make a techdrawing with the 'Fork'...

[@Vavelix]

Fire!!! ❤‍🔥

[@cekuhnen]

FIRE :)

[@karlia_mc]

Fire :)

[@adrw216]

Gotta say it, _fire_

[@jedi10101]

subscribed! i'm following along. pls display the keystrokes & mouse clicks longer; don't make it disappear too fast.

[@MichaelBogucki]

Hello, great tutorial so far. I'm having some difficulty at 6:13, when I try to create a dimension, it only assigns a dimension for the angled-line; rather than the base-x-axis. Not sure what I'm missing here. Any suggestions would be apprciated. Thank you.

[@mahefarakotobe1191]

Awesome. and remember to freecad if you find it useful :)

[@Andrefa75]

23 min in, discovering fire!

[@andibausm]

Thank you very much for putting so much effort into producing these very detailed and well-conceived tutorials for us new to freeCAD. It is very much appreciated! Unfortunately my version of FreeCAD (1.0.0 Revision 39109 (git)) reliably crashes when performing the boolean cut operation (shown at 33:13 in the video). I am running 64 Bit Arch Linux on an AMD Ryzen 7 5800U with integrated AMD Graphics, 16 GB RAM. Any idea why this keeps happening? Thank you very much!

[@MrScootermcgoot]

Fire!

[@robinraineri8429]

Fire!!

[@chekrg]

🔥🔥🔥

[@wiewiorpl]

Fire. Exclamation mark.

[@SirCosta1]

🔥 🔥 🔥

[@venzislav]

! FIRE !

[@EthanSmith-w5s]

FIRE

[@EvenTheDogAgrees]

17:03: When I try copying the sketch, if I unselect the DatumPlane in the popup, it deselects everything. If I try to re-add Profile 1, it re-adds everything. Even if I leave everything selected and click OK, nothing is copied into the paste buffer, so I can't paste it into my workbench. Not sure what's happening here, but can't follow the tutorial at this point, instead having to recreate the path for the second position. If anyone has any clue what's going on and how to fix, that'd be much appreciated.

[@deltahedra3D]

Check everything, then control v to past and delete everything except Profile 1.

[@EvenTheDogAgrees]

@@deltahedra3D Nah, like I said, even if I leave everything selected and press OK, it doesn't copy anything. Pressing CTRL+V has no effect. I had to draw each of those profiles separately. Not a huge task, but still inconvenient.

[@karasuZanu]

same problem to me

[@karasuZanu]

and uncheck auto select on ctrl+C menu

[@mm_ca4mgn]

fire!!! uga uga

[@jtomek]

Really nice! A quick question: Coming from the previous tutorial, I wonder why you didn't use "Create external geometry" and "Assembly". Is the sub-binder approach a better option? I must say that Assembly crashes often.

[@deltahedra3D]

@jtomek Thank you :). I'm using the Shape Binder to showcase another FreeCAD tool, and I find that for this specific modeling task it's more relevant, especially when I'm using bodies to cut other bodies.

[@Deutsch-Pie]

Fire

[@HumanSystems]

Fire!

[@acheronfail]

I'd love a tutorial that goes into either the MultiTransform or the (Draft) Array tools - I want to replicate a model in a grid, and then apply cuts/chamfers/etc to the resulting grid - but I cannot figure out how to do so without causing FreeCAD to fail or even crash!

[@estebangarcia6614]

fire

[@ScientiaDuxVitaeCertissimus]

Duuude ❤‍🔥

[@konradrus6774]

Fireeeee!

[@tydogey]

Thumbs up campfire!

[@andynurwahyu3904]

TERLALU CEPAT

[@MikkoRantalainen]

Could you create a video that shows how to model standard dimension external and internal threads? For example, when I tried to model external M19x1 (which is not available as predefined dimension in any thread tools) I couldn't simply define thread profile and apply helix because my "cut tool" had 1 mm dimension and using it to cut thread with 1 mm pitch caused FreeCAD to complain about self-intersecting geometry. I had to resort to cutting the major dimension with separate operation and using helix cut for the inner dimension only. I hope there's a better way to do threads but I couldn't figure it out.

[@sunilpatil7134]

Fire

[@Wondersofhumanity-dp5xl]

🔥

[@robertagnarp7502]

Fireeee

[@sephiZ]

fire

[@michakadlof8498]

fire :)

[@TheZzziggy]

Salut! I wonder if you could come up with a parametric staircase model for a single-... or, even better, 2-flight staircase with landing and a 90-degree turn?

[@matthiaskontsevitch4553]

🔥🔥🔥☕🎄

[@yofimee883]

🔥

[@BorkToThe3rd]

@0:25 you mention "video linked above". Is there supposed to be a link on the screen?

[@deltahedra3D]

Yes, if you don't see the link ; kzbin.info/www/bejne/e2KXnmiem5uDrNE

[@PantsProjects]

Fiyahhhhhh

[@leszy_lab]

Great Tutorial an wow Freecad ist nie Realy an alternative zu 360 and onshape

[@lq_12]

People has been surfacing with Curves WB for a while. I have seen airpods with G2 continuity fully modeled with Curves WB and FC

[@lil.shaman6384]

Can you make a video covering reverse engineering parts?

[@UNIKOGAMING]

How do you get your Task and Model to be tabs ? .... I am on Linux so do t know if that factors in

[@unverozkol]

fire fire fire

[@TheAzazzExperience]

Do text embossing on a model next! I need a tutorial that does that shit properly.