FreeCAD Boolean Operations in Part Design.

In this video we look at boolean operations in the Part Design workbench. FreeCAD has the ability to fuse, cut and common bodies to create new boolean bodies. This can be very powerful in creating complex models.
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[@bell_khalo]

This helped me solve the "Body object error is not allowed", that I got when using the cut function. I am definitely subscribing, thank you!

[@Adventuresincreation]

Glad it helped!

[@tomthompson7400]

that move the part to get the sketch back visible is worthy of a subscribe on its own , handy tip

[@Adventuresincreation]

Thanks Tom, I appreciate your feedback.

[@jhonny1392]

Amazing !. I am just starting in FreeCad and watching this advanced techniques you show in this video is truly amazing for me to see what can this program does, when is performed by someone that knows it in profound !. Thanks a lot for sharing your deep knowledge with all of us !. Greetings from Santiago de Chile, South America. This is John.

[@Adventuresincreation]

Thanks John... Brilliant to hear you are in south America, I am glad it helped

[@jhonny1392]

@@Adventuresincreation Thanks to you, sir. And sure it will help me a lot !. I know the most of the tutorials about freecad, start using Part Desing as the base, and that is a pity for someone who is a newbie in this matter, because I would prefer start from the begining and that is, for me at least, the *Part Workbench* So, if you can go deep in Part Workbench in later videos, it would be very useful. Thanks in advance. This is John from Chile. South America. Cheers.

[@nineh9739]

Very useful, cheers. I never knew about section view and this whole time I was trying to boolean pads not bodies. Made life much easier.

[@Adventuresincreation]

I am glad it was helpful

[@kizz.Commented]

Thank you for the video, amazing how different systems name their boolean ops differently. I suppose it is all about advancement. Good vid though. from clouds to cars, nice.

[@Adventuresincreation]

Yeah, even within FreeCAD they appear to get slightly different names, don't get me started with Blender ;-)

[@ddacombe4752]

Excellent tutorial. Thanks for walking through some real world examples. Coming from an Engineering background also, it was great to see with the car how one could use a front/plan/side elevation drawing to construct an object simply by mapping out the structure from an image on each plane.

[@Adventuresincreation]

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it.

[@jasonc9194]

Great video , thankyou :)

[@Adventuresincreation]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@funkysod]

When stuff disappears while entering a sketch usually you can just unhide it from the model tree. Thanks for the vid!

[@Adventuresincreation]

Yeah, either way it's an extra step. I think that's unintentional but as long as there's a work around. Thanks for watching.

[@raytry69]

No need to put outside of the part, just need to go out of sketch and go in again. That worked for me.

[@brianprice7020]

thank you for another useful video. I find your videos better after the second or third time of watching. It must be challenging for you to decide what to include and/or leave out because Freecad allows us to do simple procedures in many different ways.

[@Adventuresincreation]

That is true Brian.

[@jamesbrewer3020]

Thank you for the videos.

[@Adventuresincreation]

You are very welcome 😎

[@gregwoolley]

Again a very helpful video, thank you.

[@Adventuresincreation]

You are welcome!

[@iModel-ft6kh]

another great tutorial. Great help Thanks

[@Adventuresincreation]

Glad you liked it!

[@zmitrolapconak6458]

thank you for the demo of how to work with boolean operations. very convincing cut vs pocket - to create holes with not-trivial form (this is like molding, create mold as counterpart to cast). it would be nice, if you declare before the start of each example, like: "now I'll show how to use CUT, I'll create two bodies, then apply cut to them", this should be very helpful in more complicated example, as in your COMMON operation. additional thank for using mm, but not inches :)

[@Adventuresincreation]

Thanks for the constructive feedback.

[@phillipnewman9174]

Thanks for this!

[@Adventuresincreation]

You are welcome

[@RCAPERS23]

yes yes yes!!!! Thank much!!

[@Adventuresincreation]

You are welcome 😉

[@paulg3336]

18:00 As you say, it can be done with pockets but it involves multiple sketches on datum planes and is quite messy. I never noticed that section view button before,very useful.

[@Adventuresincreation]

Yeah, I wouldn't attempt with sketches at that point. That section button is a life saver :-)

[@brucewilliams6292]

Your timing on this video couldn't have been better. Thank you so very much for making this video; they really help! Having the boolean in part design is much better than using the part work bench. I hate to bother but how can I make a tangential hole into a cylinder? Or have a pipe enter a cylinder tangentially? - Never mind, I was just being daft. I figured it out.

[@Adventuresincreation]

Glad you solved it.

[@nielsero]

What program are you using to show and record mouse clicks etc. in the video? Really useful.

[@Adventuresincreation]

It's in the description. It recently got updated and is even better

[@tiger12506]

Interesting. That Boolean Common operation must be how photogrammetry works. You just manually input the profile of your little car as seen from 3 dimensions, but if you extended that to many different profiles from many different angles you could get the full 3d profile of something. Yep. That must be how laser scanning, and photogrammetry work. Cool.

[@Adventuresincreation]

It does make you wonder if that's how it is done.

[@now-you-know-it]

Very good and informative. I am using 0.18 how do I upgrade to 0.19

[@Adventuresincreation]

You can go to the download page on the freecad website and scroll all the way down to the development version section and click on the freecad release page or go here github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/releases/tag/0.19_pre

[@MikeMike-wc8on]

Thank you! Though I must say the realisation and visualisation of this operation in FreeCAD is really complicated :-( really strange.

[@Adventuresincreation]

Try this one studio.kzbin.infoS9e_nWgk4kY/comments it might help.

[@HaloWolf102]

Common does not work as presented in this video, with my program. I believe my program is bugged.

[@Adventuresincreation]

That's odd, do you have the same version? - Perhaps a re-install will fix it for you.

[@HaloWolf102]

@@Adventuresincreation I figured it out. I came from Autodesk Inventor. Been making way too many assumptions. I guess I didn't pay attention well enough when I watched this video. I needed a separate body. I was trying to use two different pads for a boolean operation.

[@RiccBallard]

@@HaloWolf102 been there done that, should have gotten the T-Shirt 😆

[@kelvingreaves1723]

i have times when i select the main body the create Boolean but the added part disappears and although the Boolean is created i cant see the added part

[@Adventuresincreation]

You can go into the model tree and select the part then hit space bar to toggle the visibility.

[@RichardLionPhoto]

Show me how to make an AR-15

[@Adventuresincreation]

Lol 😁