FreeCAD Beginner #42 Sketcher Copy & Link - You won't believe what you can do with Sketches

We will show how and when to copy a sketch or link a sketch. It's easy to do once you know how to do it ;-)
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[@SomeGuyInSandy]

Definitely see links being useful for bolt holes along the edge of a plate with their mating holes on another.

[@Adventuresincreation]

absolutely

[@JDMils68]

The Topo Naming issue is still present even today. The developer admit it won't come in FREECAD version 1.0. However they have included Topo Naming mitigation fixes to make the issue less prominent.

[@Adventuresincreation]

Agreed, I have seen it first hand.

[@FPV777]

Wow, just amazing 🤩🤩🤩 that's what i need right now 👍👍👍

[@Adventuresincreation]

Glad it helped

[@danaschoen432]

Glad to hear you came through ok. The rest of the country was terrified for you!

[@Adventuresincreation]

Thanks!

[@wildflowers465]

Thank you, thank you for pointing out the essential part of making the subshape binder from the link. I was struggling with getting my links into desired bodies, and it wasn't until your video that I learned that, despite having worked with binders before. Well done, great video.

[@Adventuresincreation]

Glad it helped

[@forresterickson6225]

Thanks. It sure seams counter intuitive how that sketch to which you sub shape binder linked is just floating out there with out a body.

[@Adventuresincreation]

It's a process.

[@brianprice7020]

Thank You. Another useful snippet to the learning of freecad.

[@Adventuresincreation]

Thanks Brian

[@Stigmata195]

Thank you. This video gave me a better insights in how to work with FreeCAD !

[@Adventuresincreation]

Excellent!

[@BrainDeadEngineering]

Very help full man ! thank you !

[@Adventuresincreation]

You are welcome

[@JoanMendoza]

Thanks for the info!

[@Adventuresincreation]

You are welcome

[@rickcox3743]

Very nice! I learn a couple things from each of your videos. To take this reuse a bit further, It would be VERY useful to me to do similar reuse with bodies: - Build up a non-trivial body. - Make dependent - or independent copies of this body and further build upon them. I've tried to do this, but always failed - getting the body all scrambled up - and end up re-building a copy of the body....

[@Adventuresincreation]

Take a look at this weeks video and you will see just how much you can do with that.

[@factoryfresh9141]

Hi another great and interesting tutorial… thank you. You may have mentioned this before, but how does free and compare with other programs like Turbocad and Fusion 360 in functionality?..cheers Geoff

[@Adventuresincreation]

I personally think Freecad is doing well to have the functionality that it does but it's very hard to compete with a commercial product such as fusion 360.

[@KnotHead1008]

Welcome to Florida bro 😊😊😊

[@Adventuresincreation]

Thanks! 😃

[@Ub3rMario]

Maybe i missed it, but why create a linked sketch when you could just create a shape binder from the original in the first place? Maybe there's a nuance with that I'm unaware of, or an advantage the linked sketch middle step provides. Could you elaborate?

[@Adventuresincreation]

The linked sketch gives you a bidirectional way of editing the sketch, imagine you are In a separate file.

[@marcus3d]

0:42 realthunder's versions fix the TNP, and are truly so much better than the version you're using that I couldn't imagine ever going back to all the headache the your version brings.

[@Adventuresincreation]

I understand. I prefer to stay with the main branch and be patient for the TNP to be ported.

[@marcus3d]

@@Adventuresincreation Normally I'd fully agree. In this case, however, realthunder's branch contains so very many so very good additions that I just had to make an exception. I'd use it even if I could live with the TNP (which I really can't).

[@Adventuresincreation]

@@marcus3d fair enough 👌

[@mordantly]

Ciuld you cover how to make a master model then copy or clone it to make different versions?

[@Adventuresincreation]

I will certainly look at it.

[@myleswillis]

9:33 I never would have figured this out in a million years if it wasn't for this video. A little confusing is somewhat of an understatement. I'm sure there is some subtle reason it's setup like this but it's such a shame that Freecad is full of these unintuitive workflows.

[@Adventuresincreation]

Some things are just the way they are. I am glad the video helped you.

[@GeezerGramps]

I’ve noticed that you start with a Part the add a Body, what is the advantage to doing this? I normally just use bodies

[@Adventuresincreation]

It's useful for assemblies.

[@mat060]

I would like to know if there's any particular reason why around minute 10:54, you select the first object to transform (move out of the way), I've been trying to move the second body, but it gets reset back to its original position, I wonder if this has anything to do with the second object linked to an object hence it gets stuck in its original position. I have several objects in my project that are based on the same sketch, but I'm unable to move them to a different position.

[@Adventuresincreation]

Can you share your project ?

[@timrobey3480]

How can we reference 'External Geometry' in different Bodies?

[@Adventuresincreation]

By External geometry what do you mean?

[@tsesarbg.r.9771]

Thank you for the video. I think I did not understand the concept. When I have been in need of having an sketch as reference, I copy the sketch and set it up as reference lines modifying it a little bit to make sense ( being this original sketch constrained over an spreadsheet ), So I always have an updated version of the sketch. What is useful the shapebinder or the link or sublink for? :) thank you in advance!

[@Adventuresincreation]

Shape binders are a powerful way to make copies of bodies

[@tsesarbg.r.9771]

@@Adventuresincreation but for what purpose? to have it as reference?

[@Adventuresincreation]

@@tsesarbg.r.9771 you can use it just like any other geometry, it's not just a reference but a usable copy of the original.

[@tsesarbg.r.9771]

@@Adventuresincreation okey! thank you very much! I´m going to play arround a little with this to see how I can benefit from this. May I ask you something about having an sketch from another body as reference in another body?

[@52Quantum]

I know I'm a bit late this this video, but any idea if it's possible to link a sketch and duplicate it a few times based on a value in a spreadsheet while also allowing each instance to have a calculated position?

[@Adventuresincreation]

I am not 100% sure but you could certainly try, maybe a macro required but I would have to play around with it.

[@52Quantum]

​@@Adventuresincreation Thanks. I've not done any macros in FreeCAD yet. Maybe that is an option.

[@jojojo9240]

the linking does not work with sweeps

[@Adventuresincreation]

Can you elaborate?

[@NewStreamLine]

Where does the stuff start?

[@Adventuresincreation]

Not sure I understand the question 😕

[@guerillagardener2237]

Does this work if you pad the first sketch, so I could pad them all at the same time

[@Adventuresincreation]

Honestly I am not sure without looking at it.

[@guerillagardener2237]

@@Adventuresincreation I got around it by just copying the padded sketch and moving along the z axis. Then I somehow copied an old attempt over my hard work and sighed in frustration.

[@Adventuresincreation]

@@guerillagardener2237 UGH! I hate it when that happens.

[@guerillagardener2237]

@@Adventuresincreation How do I draw a sketch connecting 2 or more bodies? Do you know?

[@Adventuresincreation]

@guerillagardener2237 not exactly sure what you are trying to do but if you want to combine bodies you would use a boolean

[@infamousforrest]

I know this can be called the difference between a free program and a multi-thousand dollar program, but all of this effort is one button press in Solidworks. Why does this have to be so insanely over-complicated?

[@Adventuresincreation]

Take a look at the latest development version, there are lots of efficiencies built in.

[@infamousforrest]

@@Adventuresincreation If I just installed it, don't I have the latest version?

[@Adventuresincreation]

@@infamousforrest If you installed the "DEV" version 0.22 that is soon going to be version 1.0