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[@billbailey6007]

Hi Regis! Thank you for all your HARD Work with creating these Videos. I am an old timer Architectural designer and Builder. But I have used mostly my Drafting Boards. I am really finally looking forward into using FreeCAD .

[@RegisNdeTene]

Hello @Bill Bailey, thanks for your message and thanks for your interest in Freecad. Indeed Freecad is a good step from a Drafting Board to Digital computer aided design. Once you are well acquainted with it, i'm sure you will not be dissapointed. Much regards and I look foward to seeing some of your works with the software.

[@jayweidner8522]

This is a very good introductory tutorial. Your English is quite sufficient and you do a great job of explaining.

[@RegisNdeTene]

Thanks a bunch. I did try my best.

[@CDN_Torsten]

Regis - thanks for taking the time to create this video. It's quite excellent for understanding the Arch workbench workflow.

[@RegisNdeTene]

+Torsten Tiedtke I am glad it can help.

[@unretrofied88]

Great tutorial! Especially architectural part. Came here to plan my apartment, was glad to find your video

[@RegisNdeTene]

I'm glad it was of help to you. I would like to see your project result when you will be done.

[@maksimryndin992]

Dear Regis Nde Tene, thank you very much for your excellent tutorial! A very informative gentle introduction to Freecad Arch.

[@RegisNdeTene]

Much regards Maksim. Glad it is still of use after all these years.

[@draganmajkic3093]

Thank you for great tutorial. I find Freecad very much atractive after your hard work here. I will download it now to check how it can work in real time.

[@RegisNdeTene]

Thanks. Glad to hear. It's not a perfect program but it is pretty promising for what part time passionate programmers can do.

[@judegraham463]

hi. Just found your site and it appears to be the 1st explanation on how to proceed using CAD that I have had the slightest incline in understanding. though, and here we go, 'I can't figure out how to get the 'Grid Lines' up on the screen. Do you have a video that demonstrates how this can be brought up. Also, to scale. I am wanting to draft a floor plan for a house at 1:100 scale, and the line I draw on the page can only just fit in 1 metre. thanks Regis. hopefully I will have deleted this question by the time you get to read it to save you any bother. thanks.

[@brownmuta7537]

I just want to say I really enjoy your attitude in the video. You seem to just have fun designing these things and that's the best part. I genuinely enjoy designing stuff in FreeCad whether it be for 3d printing or simply trying something new. I've taken CAD and architectural design classes but it was only high school level, and I feel I've gotten more from this video than I did in a year of drawing up designs and having them graded based on the mechanical drafting format.

[@RegisNdeTene]

hello my good friend, i'm truly grateful that my efforts to help show the usefulness of open source CAD found you and that my untrained capacity to explain what i know was of use to you. It would be great and fun to see what you come up with. Looking forward.

[@KingLiongWong]

Thanks for making this lengthy turtorial video, it's really help me a lots as I am new to FreeCAD. Otherwise, i really don't know where to start. Thanks again for your great efforts.

[@RegisNdeTene]

You are very mostly welcommed good friend

[@mikebwallace8522]

Excellent video thank you. But Please help, I can't get Draft Edit to grab points and move them. I feel as if there's a setting I'm missing somewhere. Any thoughts? Also, new objects are "behind" older objects. It's like they're stacked and I can't see all of them.

[@RegisNdeTene]

live:regisndetene here is my skype for a screenshare so i can see what you are talking about.

[@WRECKTANGLER]

I'm using a 2010 iMac and when in ft, the line is so long it goes way out of the grid. Also, the line is very hard to get straight. Any thoughts? Thanks for any help!

[@RegisNdeTene]

I'm not exactly familiar with such issue. I also have never used mac to know if it is mac related. You could probably try joining the freecad forum and the freecad facebook page so that you can display your questions with pictures to help anyone better understand?

[@PL-VA]

I'm left with the feeling that this is not a tool to help but to illustrate you know how to use graphical drawing tools - I cannot feel that most of these drawings would have been made a lot faster by hand with the same flexibility as what FreeCAD produces? No basic assets like Doors and Windows? No walls in the 2D design? The archs and spacing that any architect would need the tools to help with are just "fyi" only as hard-coded drawings?

[@RegisNdeTene]

Perhaps you are right with your assessment. However as it was à new tool back in the days it was neccessary to establish some basics. Buy as you know with most things once you are familiar with à told you can do great things. As à 3d application all u need to work os design and all the other views can be extracted and that in of it self can save more drafting time by had. Especially when it concerns more complex things. Secondly not everyone comes to the industry with knowledge of hand drafting sot it helps to give à leap to those with difficulties.

[@PL-VA]

@@RegisNdeTene I think you misunderstood or I didn't put it right. You spend a lot of time with intetrigete odd drawing features but in the end, the tool is not helping to see what fits where - it's just a drawing composed of a bunch of drawings that you assume are all in the same aspect/scale. Being able to tell "I want this 50cm from the the door frame" isn't really possible this way. I looked at the current version and found your descriptions weren't too far off where things are today. And my comment was simply to state, that I don't feel this helps anyone design/architect anything - it seems more a proof of concept for doing things graphical.

[@RegisNdeTene]

Ah gotchu. Yeah my apologies I misunderstood you initially. Yes I agree with you for the proof of concept.

[@alexandr-spb]

сделайте пожалуйста видео: 1.Как удалить часть полилинии (точку или сегмент). 2.Как разбить сегмент полилинии 3. Как достроить новый сегмент к полилинии 4. какая кнопка позволят прекратить чертить полилинию? 5 Как перетащить точку на полилинии в сторону от нее под заданным углом и заданное расстояние?

[@RegisNdeTene]

what version of freecad are you using?

[@wycliffnyachwaya7233]

Great Tutorial. Finally i get to learn Freecad. Excellent work flow for a beginner

[@RegisNdeTene]

+Wycliff Nyachwaya thanks a bunch.

[@mejias4682]

hello, my name is Ray, i notice your workstation is not the default color theme. the reason i mention this is because i am having dificulties seing .because i am vision impaired and being able to change the color theme allows me to see better .. would you be so kind help with this . thank you for the video i hope u can help

[@RegisNdeTene]

Hello Ray. Thanks for watching and finding the video useful. Indeed my workstati n is not the default. Also for the somewhat similar reasons as you I have the theme in dark because bright and light colors on the screen hurts my eyes especially when I work for longer hours. As for your specific request unfortunately I can't help. Once the videos have been recorded I cannot undo it. But perhaps for future recording I could be mindful of vision impaired viewers. Thanks a bunch for your comments and appreciation.

[@gengistr4566]

Thank you very much. Just one advice: "Dimensions always when possible should be out of the drawing".

[@RegisNdeTene]

Thanks for the advice.

[@aspected]

Thank you for this, I really want to get into architecture even if it's just for hobby/home use.

[@RegisNdeTene]

Your are welcomed good friend.

[@hoosierwoodworks]

I can't get Survey to turn off. I never see the Close screen at 11:25.....? Thanks!

[@shimulahmed6784]

How do I measure SQF and inches when sketching? do they have anything for it or we have to visualize while sketching

[@RegisNdeTene]

maybe if you set your units to imperial and then use the survey tool, perhaps that can help you, wiki.freecadweb.org/Arch_Survey

[@davidk.3450]

In Version 0.20.* the Copy of a compound will still remain its child. (And for me it makes sense to change them later...) What is the base idea behind your compounds001 without childs? (Was it a bug in earlier Versions you just liked or did you touched them a little bit different than I did during reproduction of your tutorial?)

[@RegisNdeTene]

The compound tool has evolved from the time I did the video till today.

[@wandererfux]

Hi love the video got some questions tho, how do you manipulate grid? I got this tiny little 0.1m x 0.1m grid but want to make it bigger...havent found a way tho. also what theme are you using and where could i get it the default white one feels like its melting my brain

[@RegisNdeTene]

Hello Wanderer Fux, to manipulate your grid size, go to the "Edit" menu --> "preference" --> "Draft' option --> 'grid and snapping' tab and you should see the grid spacing that you change change, currently mine is at 1000 mm for the grid spacing, so basically 1m, and the grid size is 100 lines. The theme I use is the theme of the operating system. So if you are on Linux mint like me, it easy, just change the theme of your operating system and freecad should automatically acquire those colors. I hear you on the white, it does strain my eyes quite alot.

[@tabudnb]

@@RegisNdeTene - Thank you. I just downloaded a couple of days ago and the grid size has been frustrating me since I've been going through so many tutorials along with the FreeCad manual and forum. I feel like I can finally start on my little personal project of designing the layout of my room for the best frequency response. Thanks again!

[@RegisNdeTene]

Glad I could be of help good friend.

[@gopinathsinga3305]

Thank Regis, how do you fix higher dimension lines within the grid.

[@alexpierce6904]

how were you able to get the division lines in the sofa to show up for you without having to change any settings? i had to play around with the axis of each piece

[@RegisNdeTene]

At what minute in the video?

[@alexpierce6904]

@@RegisNdeTene 54:13 but im having the same issue with the sink at 1:10:45. none of the shapes i make want to be seen on the same axis

[@paulsmith8289]

At 0:16:06 how do you get your fillet lines so smooth. Mine are made up of noticeable lines, such as 5 small segments for a 90 degree fillet. I can't find an option for that.

[@paulsmith8289]

Just found it I think. It's the Deviation property in the polyline's View, although there's probably a way to set a smaller value for all curved shapes somewhere.

[@RegisNdeTene]

I think it's just visual appearance. They are smooth by nature but for visual purposes the appear as segmented lines.

[@mrcheese3981]

Thanks - this is a really useful tutorial for getting a lot of basic info about how to start with FreeCAD. It doesn't seem to be a very intuitive software, and as a total novice I found it difficult to follow the help on the FreeCAD site.

[@RegisNdeTene]

You are mostly welcomed.

[@chikamichi]

In 0.17+ automatic refresh for some properties, such as length, has been disabled to save up on computations. One has to hit F5 after editing such properties to refresh the 3D model.

[@RegisNdeTene]

Yes indeed. There are some processing that takes quite some time and until better solutions can found it has been disabled. For example freecad doesnt know how to use more than 1core for processing so most systems many cores are underused.

[@unicornofthought]

6 years later, still relevant! Even more so. Thank you for these videos. Do you use FreeCAD anymore? :)

[@RegisNdeTene]

Thanks. I still use freecad. But it depends on the project. For personal projects where I can afford to be picky with every detail I use freecad. But for clients projects where they change their mind all too fast, I don't use freecad because of stringent deadlines.

[@fonkychonky]

im so confused, in your video, you have to click the hard hat for a lable, but in my case everytime i click a line it adds a label and will keep adding as long as I click the line, i tried clicking the survey (hard hat icon) and nothing happens, and I cant figure out how to turn off the auto label function. I just trying to make a simple 2D floor plan right now

[@RegisNdeTene]

I remember having a similar issue one time. Maybe it's the version. What version of freecad are you using?

[@fonkychonky]

@@RegisNdeTene i went to the website and downloaded it like 3 hours ago so its the latest i think, it looked different from yours but close enough to where i can somewhat follow the tutorial, but there were a lot of things that were default for you but i had to change in my case

[@fonkychonky]

@@RegisNdeTene oh the auto label problem fixed itself after i restarted freecad, weird, i'll make a new comment if something else comes up

[@RegisNdeTene]

@@fonkychonky great news, because it seemed to work on my end.

[@JeremyMyersmusic]

I've got a couple issues with comparison here. I'm using Version 0.21.2 so maybe there's a difference since this video. First, I cannot get the grid to show up beyond the little tiny space that started. For example: it was .39" square when I started, I made a rectangle 1200" (100ft) and the grid disappears. Also, I couldn't get it to let me click and drag to center. I found the icon at the top to fit all and that's the only way I can get it centered up. I cannot click and move around. I've tried going between Blender and CAD mode, and nothing works.

[@RegisNdeTene]

Do you want to hop on a screen share to show me what's going on if I can help?

[@selectedvideos6180]

Thanks for taking the time to explain all of that.

[@RegisNdeTene]

glad it was of help to you @Tom H

[@harley75us]

Regis, The tutorial's are excellent, but I'm confused & I just got started. I have what I hope is a very easy question. I changed my units to inches in preferences but I'm still getting mm's in the lower right corner. What am I doing wrong. Thank You, Marty

[@RegisNdeTene]

+harley75us close freecad and restart after you do some preference changes to activate the changes.

[@eddypavlyuk7104]

This is some great stuff, I'm having a bit of trouble with my lines not changing length and filets not rounding corners when I'm selecting and tying things into the "data". It's my first day with the program and I'm wondering, what could be causing this?

[@eddypavlyuk7104]

@@RegisNdeTene Thank you! I reinstalled the program and it seems to work as it should, back to watching these amazing videos

[@wesleytaylor-rendal5648]

Very cool, but defo would not have chosen fitting etc to be episode 01. No doubt about it yours is one of the best videos out there because its structured.

[@RegisNdeTene]

It was my first rodeo. There is lots of improvements to do.

[@RegisNdeTene]

We just trying bro. It was my first rodeo. And too much info needed to get out so yhe global community can start appreciating freecad.

[@ranzeverything4902]

Regis Nde Tene,thanks for your video tutorial. it's very helpful..God Bless You

[@RegisNdeTene]

@ Randy Sayson. Much appreciated, God has blessed me more than I could ever wish for.

[@simonatsomewhere4821]

1:13:30-1:13:40 making a hole, doesn't work whatever i try. always results in WIRE-object shaped like the rectangle and the circle diappears. anybody know why?

[@simonatsomewhere4821]

got it: not pushing up arrow but down....:-|

[@claudioguarnieri1060]

Hello and thanks for ALL your videos. Thanks indeed friend.

[@RegisNdeTene]

Thanks to you aswell for they wld be meaningless without someone to watch.

[@lexo1517]

Thank-you Regis for a good video. For a sales pitch. Regis, please just do a 2 room floor plan (without ALL of the possibilities). Put one window, one door, one chair, one ...... It is not a matter of being a dummy. I am. I also have too much experience in the technical field. As a teacher, KEEP it simple. PLEASE. I would like to use this program.(and send them money) Thank-you.

[@RegisNdeTene]

Hello @crazy Joe, thanks for your reply, and no one who watches Freecad or has an interest in Freecad is a dummy ;-), As for your comment to "KEEP it simple" request, indeed you are right, my videos are a bit dense but they were done so for a reason as Freecad is a relatively new program and not well exposed for people to get a first hand well rounded experience of it's current abilities and funcationalities in a way that is practical to the a proffessional and amateur alike, a certain volume of quality information had to be provided for those who really needed this material and can afford to dig in this deep. Currently i'm quite caught up with a few other projects i'm working on but i'm willing to consider your request if we can communicate in a way that allows me to understand the direction of what you want so I can create a plan of how to acheive such. In the mean time if you are so eager and can't wait, there are quite enough basic and quality material I can also point you to should you need to create specific projects. Once again thanks, and I look forward for your reply. Much regards Joe.

[@theoryshaw]

Curious, why your assets are not clones? For example what if you 100 instances of door swing in your project and you want to change the door swing to a dashed line. In this case, wouldn't it make more sense to make these as clones? That way, you change one, and all the instances change throughout the file?

[@RegisNdeTene]

he he, exactly right, this is a basic intro tutorial, whos aim aslo is to demonstrate the approach that is more familiar to autocad/2d drafting, so i have to show one way of doing things first and then on the next tutorial you show how to use clones. This allows the designer to use any convenient approach for a specific workflow instead of just being aware of one way of doing things. But you are absolutely right.

[@theoryshaw]

cool... i just realized object properties, such as color, linestyle, etc., don't translate through to clones. Or it doesn't seem to. Maybe I'm missing something.

[@RegisNdeTene]

somewhat, there could be broken features in there, I will invite you to check out the extent to which i tested some of those features on tutorial 04, modelling with constraints.

[@slackerbelmont]

Extremely informative, thank you

[@RegisNdeTene]

Much welcomed

[@JacobChrist]

Great video, what version of FreeCAD are you using and how did you get the dark theme? Thanks in advance.

[@RegisNdeTene]

this version is the development version 0.17... The dark theme is the linux destop theme. so by chaning the destop them, it automatically changes the dark theme of various applications windows.

[@mikereid6822]

Sorry, I can't watch your video, you need to keep your pointer still rather than waving it around the screen, it is too distracting. Perhaps just park it somewhere when you are not actually pointing, selecting, dragging etc.

[@RegisNdeTene]

You are right about that.

[@rossayvonneify]

Regis, I need to make FreeCad default object size to be meter instead of millimeters. How can I do that?

[@RegisNdeTene]

Which version of freecad are you using?

[@RegisNdeTene]

I see, after investigation I don't see a way to do that. But you can suggest a feature requrest in the freecad forum for that because i can see how it is useful indeed.

[@rossayvonneify]

FreeCad 0.20.1 I used to work with AutoCad, I tought it would be similar, but it isn't.😭 I need a quick course of the basic steps to draw architectural plans. I think maybe I changed something and now the scale is for small pieces. 🤷‍♀

[@RegisNdeTene]

Okay let's see if I can help you. Do you want to do a Google meet?

[@rossayvonneify]

@@RegisNdeTene Do you mean that it is not possible to draw architectural plans in meters instead of millimiters? The version I downloaded is FreeCad 0.20.1

[@Moon888-oy8bb]

Thank you for the video Regis ... it would be so good if there were subtitles; I have my sound on max and still battling to hear/understand : (

[@RegisNdeTene]

Oh my, the automatic subtitles don't work either?

[@otta2219]

Thank you! Very helpful videos to learn FreeCad.

[@RegisNdeTene]

i'm glad my modest contribution could help.

[@peterp4319]

excellent tutorial, thank you very much. Question: what version of FreeCad are you using ?

[@RegisNdeTene]

0.19

[@devbros2241]

What OS are you using because it looks different than windows.

[@RegisNdeTene]

Linux Mint

[@bartk136]

Is this course still relevant to newest FreeCAD version?

[@RegisNdeTene]

Yes

[@zoejanephotography_8931]

Thanks for the great video tutorial. Wondering if you can help with a problem I have though, When creating rectangles I cant put them on top of another as you do, they always end up going behind so they cant be seen unless in wire frame and not filled. Do you know how to change this? Thanks.

[@RegisNdeTene]

At what minute in the video is what you are referring to occurring?

[@zoejanephotography_8931]

At minute 54:56 , the dividing lines on the sofas, mine end up hidden underneath the rectangles and minute 1:04:32 starting to do the sink, the smaller rectangle will only go underneath the larger and becomes hidden. Thanks

[@RegisNdeTene]

I see what you are referring to indeed. There are no easy answers for that yet as the ability to bring behind and in front have not been added. So one must find creative ways to play with it. Have you tried to use the sketch work bench and sketch on the rectangle surface you want? That allows to select the face on which we want to draw and that leaves the sketch on the surface. Also you can convert the sketches to d wires as well and see if the new dwire stays on your sketch. Also what about the option of combining them into a group object? and see how it automatically rearranges your work. Let me know what you've tried.

[@raymondcohen7638]

See yur grid settings are in meters how did you do that i have reset myprefrences to mks but my grid settings stay in mm

[@RegisNdeTene]

At what minute are you referring.

[@raymondcohen7638]

@@RegisNdeTene i am refering to your workbench grid its in meters mine stays in milimeters

[@RegisNdeTene]

@@raymondcohen7638 i see, sorry for the delay in my reponse. I suspect you must have a bug, since when i try it on my side it works fine. what version of freecad are you using? also can you change your units to MKS and then close and restart freecad to see if it will take on the new changes? Another thing is the BIM workbench default preferences, perhaps tweaking those aswell could impact.

[@gothicvillasgaming]

Started new project, draw a line, measure.. and its 8mm. I followed your guide.. how do you end up with larger scale?

[@RegisNdeTene]

at what minute in the video did you try to recreate?

[@gothicvillasgaming]

@@RegisNdeTene oh I managed to find the answer. It was at 10th minute right after your 1st break. I realized my cube was set to 1mm :) changed to 1m and all good. Nice tutorial, sitting with cup of coffee and storming thru hehe. Thanks for reply though

[@RegisNdeTene]

@@gothicvillasgaming no prob pal. When ever I can I help. Hope you don't find my voice and poor quality of my recording a hindrance to your learning.

[@isaquesoares6600]

how did you hide the model or the dimensions at 3:49?

[@RegisNdeTene]

Spacebar

[@JonApple01]

HI Regis, You did an amazing job, putting this together, cudos to you. I appreciate the effort you put in completing these videos. However I found it difficult to follow as the resolution on the video was poor to say the least. This creates a problem when trying to follow your work flow as it is blury. Additionally you should update the version as it is now up to 0.21 and do one for Mac as the tool buttons are located differently. It would be a great boon to the hard work you put in.. thanks in advance..

[@RegisNdeTene]

hello @JonApple01, thank you for your consice message. Indeed most of the comments you pointed out are true since at the time i was new to this and also experimenting trying to push as much useful material out. It is also true that Freecad has known some most notable improvements since my last videos and so the videos require some updates. Right now my challenge is gathering enough resources to be able to put together a good set of working hardware (and if you mention mac, then mac hardware aswell). When working at fore front of tech, things do often break and so there is a constant need to invest in back up of systems and hardware, and have fall over and failover systems to support the main infrastructure. Currently that has been my main challenge when it comes to moving this channel forward in the most consistent way possible. I keep on collecting all the comments, opinions, remarks made so that should i be able to put things together, i'll be able to have a guided direction based on some of the comments. Once again I appreciation your comments as they are of value to make things better and without which I would not have a single clue of what makes this works beneficial to others and how to improve it.

[@edgarm7353]

Great explanations, thanks for your work!

[@RegisNdeTene]

I'm glad I was helpful.

[@tioafifmarwan2748]

thank you sir. from indonesia 🙏🏻

[@RegisNdeTene]

I'm glad i could be of help my good friend.

[@kahshah8360]

Were all the 3ds on your website made with freecad ?

[@RegisNdeTene]

Blender and freecad

[@kahshah8360]

@@RegisNdeTene thanks. Do you have or would you do a tutorial on this please ?

[@RegisNdeTene]

@@kahshah8360 everything you see on my website was done with blender and freecad. I don't know what sort of tutorial you need but, in general, i have shown all the main processes of my workflow on all the videos on my youtube channel. For example I show I design in blender and then move to freecad, then I show how i design in freecad and then move to blender. So if you are very familiar with the processes on my channel you can easily model what you see on my website. But if you wish something more advanced and more specific, just contact me and tell me your needs and i'll be glad to discuss possibilites with you.

Well done. Amazing intro tutorial. Thanks!

[@brandonseagert4495]

God bless you, Sir.

[@adityasingh5377]

when i choose arch mode my grid lines does not appear why

[@RegisNdeTene]

Have you turned the grid line button? Next to the constraints?

[@relobmit]

Excellent. Thanks!

[@vanman9607]

Define the size of the space, then spend the next 1 1/2 hours creating the stuff to go in it before a single wall has been created. There's some good content in this video, but time stamps would have helped A LOT.

[@RegisNdeTene]

You are very right my good freind. Can't agree less.

[@Z-add]

Creating the sink in unnecessarily complicated.

[@RegisNdeTene]

I reckon you got a point there, there are lots of better and intuitive ways to do it now, Perhaps, when you are in research you are caught up into the prism of investigation.

[@Abc-sl1nf]

How do I drag the grid around, I can only zoom in and out but not move it around??

[@RegisNdeTene]

I dont think you can drag the grid around.

[@Abc-sl1nf]

@@RegisNdeTene ok. It just looks like it in the video. Thank you.

[@RegisNdeTene]

I see, well I think what's happening is that when ever you assign a working plane on the surface of an object, the working plane moves to that object. This is useful especially if you have angled planes you want to work on. So just draw a face and the assign the work plane to that face and you should see it move to reposition to that face.

[@Abc-sl1nf]

@@RegisNdeTene what do you mean by " draw a face"?

[@RegisNdeTene]

@@Abc-sl1nf grab a rectangle from the draft tools and draw either a rectangle or a circle, or any 2d shape that will generate a face. or it can be even the face of an object you select and then asign a work plane face to it. one you draw the face, or select a face from an existing object, then assign the workplane to that face. and let me know what happens.

[@senakarupasinghe5955]

Hi Can you please post you Arch Dimension settings please. No matter what I do Arch Dimensions do not save and they seem to come from Draft WB. Thanks

[@RegisNdeTene]

when you set up your dimension settings, save and close and restart freecad. that should do the trick

[@senakarupasinghe6748]

Thanks for quick response. Can I save my settings common or globe to all ArchWB? I can'r fid it in Edit/Preference menue

[@RegisNdeTene]

Not sure I understood what you are asking. I believe once the setting are set for the draft, it will work for the archworkbench aswell

[@senakarupasinghe6748]

I reset Edit/Preference. Now it seems be working. Thank you.

[@eeanas]

greetings from palestine , enjoyed your content

[@RegisNdeTene]

glad to hear.

[@oalfernandes]

Wow! You are the best! Thanks from Brazil for you videos. You explain very well and everything becomes easy to understand. And the songs are great! Are they your compositions?

[@RegisNdeTene]

Thanks I try my best. Lots of hard work. No they are not mine. But I have composed before aswell as an amature pianist. You can check some sample on an alternate youtube channel with my name on there aswell if interested. But they are not quite polished. I have a greater repository of composition but it is best To listen to the classical maestros. My music doesn't even compare to the likes of Chopin and Beethoven etc. here is the channel link kzbin.infovideos

[@oalfernandes]

@@RegisNdeTene I like your songs. You are a good composer and pianist. And a good teacher, of course. Thanks again!

[@RegisNdeTene]

Thanks. God blesses, we just execute and share.

[@yourapartment8045]

What Version is this? It is different to 0.19...

[@RegisNdeTene]

O.19 in beta mode. It took 2years to release this one.

[@yourapartment8045]

@@RegisNdeTene ok. ty. now i understand why i do not get it.

[@daveolifent487]

I set mine to MKS but it's displaying as millimetres. I can't seem to get it to metres.

[@daveolifent487]

Also, I seem to always need to close it and reopen to change preferences, and then when I reopen, the toolbars have reset to default setting.

[@RegisNdeTene]

That's strange, I checked mine again, and it seems fine.

[@RegisNdeTene]

Normally when i make a change to the settings preferences I close to save the changes and when I reopen the settings are saved. Now on my windows platform the toolbars always go back to the default, but on my linux system it saves them automatically somehow. Not so sure what causes that in this case.

[@daveolifent487]

Thanks for the great video. I am building a house out of shipping containers and this tutorial is very relevant, making a house from small spaces. Keep up the good work.

[@brandonseagert4495]

I hope you've considered approaching colleges about instructing. Based on my experience (with an unbelievable instructor) I can honestly say I'd advise you to do so, because you'd be great.

[@RegisNdeTene]

thanks for your kind words. I will take your advice into consideration. But do not hesitate to share your further. From the best of my knowledge, College and University instruction typically requires some type of degree in the so called "West" at minimum a master and finding an institution which wants what I teach is not as obvious.

[@brandonseagert4495]

Regis Nde Tene I went to a 2 year community College in Ohio for CAD, and my guess is pointing a place like that to your videos (clean em up and script em a bit more first) would get you an interview. There may even be some that do classes thru online video conferencing where you can share screens with your students.

[@RegisNdeTene]

not sure I understood you here "my guess is pointing a place like that to your videos (clean em up and script em a bit more first) would get you an interview"

[@brandonseagert4495]

Regis Nde Tene I mean, if you want to pursue it, I'd recommend scripting it all out so it flows well and there is no down time. Basically, just make it feel more professionally produced so you don't sound like you are trying to figure out what you want to say next. Then, I'd contact a 2 year tech school and let them know you're interested in part time instructing, and you have some videos on KZbin you'd like them to take a look at.

[@RegisNdeTene]

Sound advice indeed, I'll be pursuing some of the above mentioned in due time withing my reasonable capacity. However if you do happen to know and have spoken with any of these institutions that showed potential interest, by all means do let me know. I'll be battling other pressing grounds in the mean time while some schools notice, decide and engage.

[@jasonoliver8660]

How do you get that grid?

[@RegisNdeTene]

Point me to the minute in the video where it occurs

[@ravizvisualization]

Thanks for this video!!!

[@cgarnell8209]

Sadly, this video begins with some VERY HUGE assumptions and ends without helping at all. 1. There is nothing to help set up the equivalent of say.. an 8" x 10" drawing Area on which to draw our floorplan. 2. Nothing to help move the origin of the drawing to ... I don't know... maybe near the lower left corner of our drawing area. 3. No instruction whatsover about linewidth, Automatic wall thickness, doors, windows... This is a floorplanner isn't it? 4. No hint even of how one might extrude the walls up from the floor toward the top of the rooms... 5. No way to set the planned lengths of anything related to the Drawing area before they are created... and 6. No hint as to what specific mode *anything* should be set to before the first line is entered on the drawing area. 7. Soo... By guess and by gosh, I put lines on a 'drawing area' only to find out they were USELESS to depict a floor plan. 8. Obviously I thought drawing the basic elements of a floor plan would happen using the long row of tools but not. 9. A rectangle is just a rectangle and will never act as a wall, door or window.... Oh well. I'll try to find something more basic. Any help is ACTUALLY creating a floor plan from scratch using FreeCAD will be MUCH appreciated.

[@RegisNdeTene]

Thank you for your extensive. What is your level of experience with Cad in general? And what are you trying to achieve?

[@KnobbyHobby4130]

Thank you very much, a top tutorial.

[@RegisNdeTene]

I'm glad it was of great value to you.

[@lerneninverschiedenenforme7513]

Too much talking with too less content.

[@vladgaedel8521]

i just measured my living room and all i wanted was to place a couch, instead im watching a dude freestyling a sink for 1h :(

[@RegisNdeTene]

One never knows when that freestyle sink may come in handy 🙂 the point of this video was to démonstrate the capacity of freecad to be used as a CAD tool like Autocad. At the time of making this videos there were not enough references in that sense.

[@vladgaedel8521]

@@RegisNdeTene i thought that im not strictly the target audience for the video, its just hard to find a good guide that actually goes to the point. I actually still learned how to use arch with copy when moving while watching the sink part, so im not mad xD

[@RegisNdeTene]

I hear you good pal. What do you need help with? And if I can afford reasonable time to help you I would.

[@arpitbaranwal1366]

how to transfer the file from Freecad To Stadpro?

[@RegisNdeTene]

Hmmm hard question. Never tried but my good idea is that if you can get your freecad to convert to a 3d IFC, or any other file that can be converted into a 3d did then you should be able to import in staadpro.

[@archcast5550]

keep up the good work!

[@RegisNdeTene]

Thanks a bunch Arch Cast.

[@TheMeJustMe75]

Have you come across any bugs yet that have stopped you from working with FreeCAD?

[@RegisNdeTene]

I do notice a few bugs once in a while that do annoy me, however if it's a minor bug, i'll find a way around, if it is a big deal, i'll make a request in the forum. I must admit though, that these past year's worth of work I haven't found any significant bug that caused me to stop working. The thing that typically frustrates me are speed issues. For example if you come accross a bug, and that bug goes into an endless compute, well it will freeze your memory and resuming that file will simply lead you to the same problem. But experience allows you to better manage, so let's say the videos are mostly what i've found out to be the best ways of moving around freecad to avoid getting stuck. Now I mostly spend my time in the architecture world of freecad. So other workbenches that also in development can possibly have bugs in them. I hope this isn't too much ranting. but what kind of bug are you running into that is leading you to stop working in Freecad?

[@TheMeJustMe75]

Regis Nde Tene I haven't used it yet. I am a SolidWorks guy but to buy a copy costs an arm and a leg. I have been looking for a cheaper alternative. I just wanted someone's opinion.

[@RegisNdeTene]

+TheMeJustMe75 I have modelled with inventor in the past. Not sure how it compares with solid works. Overtime I have found freecad can handle most jobs. Not super large scale projects simply because of less funding obviously. But if a serious company invested a fraction of what they afford on monthly commercial software's alternatives, that will be enough to get enough programmers working on it. In the mean time I highly encourage you to speak of your bugs in the forum. Someone there certainly has a clue how to fix it. I hope my opinion helps

[@TheMeJustMe75]

Thanks for your input! I am in the process of putting together a small company, mainly me. I have a guy that is a machinist who will actually be making the things I design. I am also getting into 3D printing for some of my designs. SolidWorks, Inventor and other high end softwares just aren't affordable at this time. I am going to be buying IntellaCAD PE Plus just because it is much like AutoCAD and includes 2D and 3D options but at a much more affordable price point. What interests me in FreeCAD is that is functions and looks very much like SolidWorks. Most of the mechanical design stuff will be pretty straight forward in the beginning. Really, it will depend on who requests something. Again, thanks for your input and I look forward to getting started with FreeCAD. I will keep watching your videos!

[@Proagusbis]

bagus tutorialnya

[@johnaugust4521]

Hey, really good tutorial, thanks for this!

[@RegisNdeTene]

mostly welcomed.

[@oswinhull4203]

Anyone else not have a grid when going to the architecture workbench?

[@RegisNdeTene]

Ask on the freecad forum, maybe they have an idea with the new upgrades.

[@chickeninabox]

I can't use Linux because of Incompatible Drivers. It is easier than AutoCAD.

[@uekihunter752]

Can i have a Dark Theme on Windows?

[@RegisNdeTene]

Maybe but I wldnt know how to do it.

[@juliang768]

Thank you very much!

[@RegisNdeTene]

you are mostly welcomed good freind

[@Андрейпетров-ш3р7з]

very very cool great thank you!...

[@Kodiak727]

where is part 2?

[@RegisNdeTene]

check for the video that says 02

[@edgarroblesnajar6992]

Nice intro

[@sgamser]

Por Favor agregar subtitulos o traduccion automatica, gracias

[@RegisNdeTene]

Cómo se agrega la traducción automática

[@romandark1775]

you should not title this INTRO when you are going at a Million miles an hour Learn how to TEACH !!!!!!!!!!!!

[@theoambarita148]

1:16:38 8:30

[@erichepperle5902]

35:00 - #humanDimensions

[@ПётрПроценко-б3к]

This is awful! He doesn't even understand what sort of user the tutorial is aimed at. It might be an advanced user who is new to architecture, an advanced architect who is new to freecad. Neither of them needs to be shown "Save As" dialog and how to reshuffle your toolbars. Take me for example, as soon as I am shown a blueprint that is neither a box nor wiring diagram, I have but one question "what is it?" and what answer is given here? "It is a "section"! What is section? Where can it be found in real life? Is it in the wall? Is it on the ground or beneath the roof? And then more epithets, more distractions on toolbars and such. And why the f.. all these CAD users hate people with tablets and smartphones? Why can't you use minimal screen resolution like 768p? Do you not understand that moct of the time nothing happens on 70% of your FullHD desktop and we have to focus in the small area around File menu and Properties inspector table, that has scrolling no matter how high your screen resolution is.

[@Albertmars32]

59:34

[@MatejMarjanovic-o6v]

This is such a waste of time.

[@RegisNdeTene]

Thank you.

[@MatejMarjanovic-o6v]

@@RegisNdeTene a string of random ideas

[@RegisNdeTene]

I agree. Gave it my best shot at the time. Just try to make of it what you can, else it's just as good as trash.

[@wehshijutt6537]

Rubbish

[@RegisNdeTene]

Thank you

[@taddawesome]

what a terrible program

[@RegisNdeTene]

I know, I also wish it was as Awesome as Tadd, but I did my best to show what is possible with it right?

[@taddawesome]

@@RegisNdeTene your tutorial was pretty good yes ;)