FreeCad for Beginners | Pad and Pocket | Lesson 2

After watching lesson 1 where I taught you the basics of FreeCad we will now dive a bit deeper into the pad and pocket tools in the Part Design Workbench. Padding is the FreeCad Part Design equivalent of extruding in other CAD programs. In addition, I will review basic navigation, using a mouse, and cover the basics of Fillets and Chamfers.
This lesson is in preparation for the 3rd lesson in the series where we will model a desk attached cable holder in FreeCad.
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Let's continue to learn together.
Irv
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FYI for those who are watching this series of tutorials one after the other and still have the previous body listed on the Model tab, you may find that you get the message "To create a new PartDesign object, there must be an active Body object in the document. Please make one active(double click) or create a new Body." You can't double click the "body" in the 3D view to do this, you have to double click the name of the body in the model list, or you can right click on it and choose "toggle active body". How do you know, which body is active? It's not highlighted in the 3D area, but the name of the body is written in bold in the Model list.

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Hi, Thanks for the great videos. Please make more. Quick question: what setting allows for the 3 axis arrows that are always present in your 3d Model view screen? Thanks.

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I've been looking for that too :D

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@DrVax you might be having the same problem with the fancy Logitech mouse as I did. The mouse wheel on mine was intended to also scroll side to side and if you click very carefully straight down you can get a middle button click but usually the scroll click gets in the way. I mapped scroll left and scroll right clicks to be just regular middle button clicks with the downloaded Logitech software.

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Great series of videos. You've made getting started quite easy. I'm using .19pre as well. There appears to be a change in later builds from your video. (Change? Bug? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.) @9:59 when you go to create another body you show "Body" as being selected. As of the today's build (9/26/20) you actually need to select "Unnamed", then you can create a new body. If you have "Body" selected you can only create a new sketch in the same body. Ah, the joys of running the daily build.

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This is true with version 18.0 as well. I'm not sure why it is possible in his version, possibly a bug, but since it's behaves the same in 18.0 as in a later 19 build, i would assume this is the expected behavior.

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[@richardroche1463]

Hey Doc, Nice tut and I'm looking forward to many more tutorials from you. I was wondering if you could possibly show me the best way to transfer pockets done on one side of my part to the opposite side (mirror) if it is possible I would very much appreciate that

[@WrathOfVaz]

Hey DrVax, I just wanted to thank you for these videos. I trained with Catia for 3 years almost a decade ago and have since lost all my CAD/CAM skills. I recently tried using Fusion 360 but couldn't get along with it. To my surprise FreeCAD is actually quite good and in many respects similar to Catia. It's just got a slight difference in terminology. You're a great teacher - will you be making more videos on FreeCAD?

[@WrathOfVaz]

Also, when I create the third rectangle (as you are doing at 09:16) it didn't throw up any errors. Am I doing something wrong?

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[@MakeWithTech]

Thanks.

[@richardroche1463]

Hey Doc, I like your clear understanding voice in your tutorials and thank you for replying to my last now I'm just wondering if it is possible to mirror a pocket from one side of part to opposite side

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Thank you I Ben using blender for mi3D printing but the scale in blender is a problem I can't never get the numbers right from the virtual world to the real world this is got hope for me tanks great videos