FreeCAD Guide Creating Parts with Edge Offsets

[@stevenicholas5651]

Ok after a lot of struggling I FINALLY got this training down to the point I can create offsets... Took me hours...

[@sjn8099]

Wow. Great. Thank you 🙂

[@itarozzi]

Interesting workflow for creating sketch from complex faces. Thanks for sharing. But I little complicated, involving a lot of step in several workbench. For this particular case, another way is to use subshape-binder feature (to the face) directly in part-design WB, and use its offset property

[@JBJHonez]

What happened to the “fastener” tab? Seemed really easy to make nuts and bolts then.

[@edwardmcrichy2985]

Isn't that an add on?

[@chishopastik]

what happens when we change original body then?

[@langrock74]

Not exactly sure why you couldn't have used the offset tool here. One might possibly have to first clone the edges, but that's still a lot simpler than what was shown here.

[@stevenicholas5651]

This is a brutal brutal tutorial. Absolutely NOT for beginners... He casually glosses over so many important things. For example, "how do we select all the different faces before we deselect face 3? I had to individually delete each one! While trying to select and deselect faces i was accidentally dropping faces ontop of others without knowing that was possible! Got multiple error messages.. Very hard!

[@marleepop115]

Too complicated.

[@PatrickMcNealPuppets-n-Things]

Complicated, but free. I'm struggling, myself, but I want an alternative to Tinkercad that won't break the bank. As a hobbyist, it's nice to have an option.

[@marleepop115]

​@@PatrickMcNealPuppets-n-Things totally agree. I use it to create objects to 3D print and although I'm learning a lot from this channel, remembering all the steps required to do what's been demonstrated in this video is a huge challenge.

[@PatrickMcNealPuppets-n-Things]

@@marleepop115 Indeed!