An Introduction to FreeCAD 1.0 Part 1

[@Adventuresincreation]

Thanks for watching the first in this new series.

[@Jdlucas44]

I have just started using FreeCAD 1.0 RC2 to 3D print objects for camera and other electronic projects. Thanks so much for providing this valuable information, would love to see more.

[@Adventuresincreation]

Excellent, in part 3 we'll go over the Sketcher

[@rossgoodnight7790]

Thank you for starting a series of tutorials for beginners using Freecad 1.0 RC2! I look forward to working through these tutorials and learning in the process. Its also nice to see that the bugs are getting fixed and the software is becoming more polished.

[@Adventuresincreation]

It's really becoming a great tool. I am going to cover as much as I can to help you with the learning curve.

[@jhonny1392]

First of all, thank you SO MUCH for taking the time for starting these tutorial series for all of us using the latest version of FreeCad ! and more important; *from the very beginning* This is a very important issue that is almost forgotten nowadays. Everyone takes for granted what in reality not all of us know !. I have been following your channel since a long time ago, so I know your knowledgment on freecad is profound and your way to teach is also very good and clear. I am already subscribed !. I will be one of your most faithful followers. Thank you very much again and big greetings for you from Santiago de Chile, South America. This is John. Cheers !.

[@jhonny1392]

BTW, please try to rise a bit more the sound volume when recording your vids. It´s too low and I have to use head phones in order to hear you clear an loud. Thanks. John.

[@Adventuresincreation]

Thank you

[@Adventuresincreation]

Will do, not sure what happened on that video. My usb microphone normally does a good job.

[@erhanlale]

I want to learn Freecad. All other tutorials are old and the interface is not the same. I don't want to learn with the old version and then learn new interfaces again. This tutorial was just what I needed. Thank you so much! I don't usually write comments. I just wrote this for support the channel! If you want to support, plese write any comment!

[@Adventuresincreation]

Thank you. I will definitely be using just the latest versions.

[@jhonny1392]

@@Adventuresincreation Good !.

[@Breeegz]

i watched the first series, and I'm actually due for a refresh, and your timing is perfect.

[@Adventuresincreation]

Excellent!

[@tomthompson7400]

thats exactly where I am , I have been busy at work and have forgotten so much , so I started again ,,, except I now get Freecad 2.12 as the version thats latest and stable , do I need to get that or an earlier version , ??

[@Adventuresincreation]

@@tomthompson7400 get the version 1.0 RC2 you can download it from www.freecad.org. The version you are referring to is 0.21.2 that's the current release the the release candidate is very stable.

[@hymermobiler]

Good to see a new series on the latest version I will follow along and look forward to learning a lot as your other videos show you are a good teacher. Thanks for your efforts!

[@Adventuresincreation]

Thabk you

[@naproctor]

Thank you for the video. You are absolutely correct that most videos assume some basic experience in using this style of software. The terminology was different to what i thought it would be. Part in free cad to me is an assembly, and body i would have thought to be called part. No wonder its difficult to start learning this stuff. Maybe i am jumping the gun a bit, but i down loaded the software and then tried following and copying what you had done. it took me a while to move the task window over to the right of the screen. And i was not able to rotate my model with the mouse (scratch pad and button), or scale the drawing up and down. i did however create the drawing (Body). Looking forward to your next video.

[@Adventuresincreation]

Excellent, all of that info is in the next video. I will explain how my freecad is set up so you can copy me exactly

[@rayams]

Thank you for starting the tutorial on the new version - waiting for more / full tutorial -

[@Adventuresincreation]

It's coming, I will try to go at a good pace.

[@TheRetiredtech]

I hope you keep this up. None of the tutorials actually follow how FreeCad works.

[@Adventuresincreation]

I intend to

[@jeffholloway8345]

I'm a total new guy to CAD. When I do little wood projects, I always have to draw them out to understand what I need to do. I thought doing that with CAD would be an improvement over my pencil sketches. As they say in the online hub, though, it can be a steep learning curve for newbies. But I watched your video on constraints and your clarity is extremely helpful, as is this first in the new series. Looking forward to future releases. Thanks!!

[@Adventuresincreation]

You are welcome, I sometimes put my woodworking sketches in freecad other time just a cut list on a pad

[@jeffsellers6277]

Thanks for producing these videos.....Very Well Done !!!

[@Adventuresincreation]

Thanks

[@heinrichentenmann2246]

I was looking for an introduction into FreeCAD, seems like I'm in the right place at the right time. I may add that you sound like a proper adventurer.

[@Adventuresincreation]

Thanks, I am hoping to making it easy to get on board with this software.

[@EcoHamletsUK]

Thanks for this new series. I watched a lot of the previous series, and am still finding parts of FreeCAD confusing, so it's worth starting from the beginning again! I don't think you mentioned making sure you're in the Part Design workbench, as the variety of different options, and different names for similar features in different workbenches, would totally confuse a beginner who ended up in the wrong place!

[@Adventuresincreation]

I am glad you said that, the second lesson will cover that in detail and the confusion with the interface.

[@scottallen3660]

Nice basic intro to FreeCad. I'm a Mech Eng and use Solidworks at work. Want to move to Opensource for home projects and similar to SW. With V 1.0 dropping this seems like the time. Interesting that FC makes you explicitly use Bodies while SW just kind of makes Bodies automatically in Parts. Keep up the good work, learning these little differences is going to be a big help for me.

[@Adventuresincreation]

Thanks, I am going to try and cover all those nuances. Let me know if there are things that you want to see.

[@workforth]

Thank you, Just in time. I've got a 3d printer last week. hoping to learn a lot from this series.

[@Adventuresincreation]

You are going to have great fun with this and your 3d printer.

[@rodneysmith1750]

I have followed you for some time and always enjoy your videos, I will follow your progress through the latest and greatest version. I always get something new from each of your videos.

[@Adventuresincreation]

Excellent!

[@jb510]

TY. Just watched 1&2. I've tried FC and found the UX frustrating. As in hard to even figure out how to draw a line/box... and I have used AutoCAD extensively and F360 a little. So I like that you are going slow on explaining the basics of the FC UI in part 2. Worry less about customizing the UI though and more just explaining the logic of the defaults and how to use it. Personally 'll customize it only after I've figured out how to use it. Please do also explain keyboard shortcuts, I can never figure that out in FC. Finally at the end hope you get to exporting to 3d pritners (easy) and CNC (seems hard). Finally, hope you can put out more videos faster and longer. I'll look a the older videos in the meantime, but eager for more baced on v1.0rc.

[@Adventuresincreation]

Thanks for the feedback. I agree with the customization but wanted to explain why my interface may be different from what the viewer sees. I will use your feedback for part 3

[@davidcooper3871]

Well done. A complex program with a steep learning curve. I’d have pointed out that one must be in the part first before any operation can take place.

[@Adventuresincreation]

I will add that to the next video. Thanks!

[@ValThomas-c5j]

Thank you. Very Helpful

[@Adventuresincreation]

We'll get into the complete modeling in this series

[@Ed_Downunder]

Tone, pitch, and volume were perfect. How do you catch everything? At 110:07 you used a view button, this was new to me. An explanation about what and why this button will be useful. Workflow is a difficult thing. You explained your workflow and why, perfect. I will use this now. My sketches become complicated. Thank you. I am already subscribed, but will follow along. We don't know what we don't know

[@Adventuresincreation]

Excellent, I will highlight the view button next time.

[@PaulG.x]

It would be good if you let us know of any bugs you have encountered while using 1.0 RC2. I have installed it , too. I have always used the development version of FreeCAD and have never encountered bugs that affected the work I was using it for.

[@Adventuresincreation]

I will definitely do that.

[@alessandromalocci1035]

Thank you !

[@Adventuresincreation]

You are welcome

[@Dude902]

I had a project I started in the normal release, nothing too complex, as I am a beginner. I tried it in RC2 and it takes several minutes to import and freezes all the time when navigating. Is there something I missed that I could do to fix/optimize my project without remaking it from the start? Assuming this will be improved in 1.0 final release.

[@Adventuresincreation]

I have not seen that issue, was there something complex in the file like an STL or the like.

[@PaulG.x]

For Linux , FreeCAD 1.0 RC2 is also available as a Snap and a Flatpak

[@Adventuresincreation]

Yes, that's true

[@StephenFarthing]

Thanks for an excellent intro to the new version. I’d class myself as an intermediate user having successfully designed 3D print models for radio projects thanks to your lessons. One question- how do you get that circle around your pointer? I struggle at times to accurately position the mouse pointer over a point on a sketch. Kind regards from Budapest

[@Adventuresincreation]

It's a separate piece of software called Key-n-Stroke. You should be able to google it.

[@loicnicolas5002]

Hello, are you using the Arch Texture addon ? If yes, could you make a tutorial on this addon with this new version of FreeCad, thank you 😊

[@Adventuresincreation]

Unfortunately, I haven't used that addon yet. I will take a look at it and see if it's something I can cover in a later video.

[@loicnicolas5002]

@@Adventuresincreation Ok, I'll be happy to look at that, thank you 👍

[@karlsangree4679]

I need help with design philosophy. For example, do you start with a large object and pocket out what you don't need, or do you keep adding and joining smaller objects?

[@Adventuresincreation]

Excellent feedback, I will cover that

Where do I find Part 2 and up in this series ?

[@Adventuresincreation]

Subscribe to the channel, part 2 is next. It's a brand new series

[@jamesrelf9707]

the biggest problem I have is undoing mistakes. getting back to the beginning.

[@Adventuresincreation]

Great, I will cover that

[@noanyobiseniss7462]

So they Finally released version 1 ??? I'm afraid to go check as I bet they are making it windows 10 only just like the developer candidate builds were.

[@Adventuresincreation]

It's v1 release candidate 2 available in all flavors

[@noanyobiseniss7462]

@@Adventuresincreation Dnloaded and got a few errors on launch so looking into that before digging any further but nice to see them do win7 builds, after not supplying previous ones in the dev builds i was getting concerned they would force win10 dependencies.

[@TheRetiredtech]

It would be great if there were instructions to get back to the as installed. I messed up the windows and had the model and task all over the screen. Never did get back trying a reinstal.

[@Adventuresincreation]

I will take a look at it and see if I can do that

[@nnndoh]

no older 3d mouse support. ill stay with older versions

[@Adventuresincreation]

I haven't tried my space mouse

[@riz94107]

So... You sound like you're trying not to wake someone up. I would politely suggest that maybe a bit louder into the mic and also maybe boost the level in your edit? Its kind of distracting. Ive watched other videos of yours where its not the case and definitely easier to listen to.

[@Adventuresincreation]

Thanks for the feedback

[@ElTelBaby]

GR8 tutorial... So far so G( .)( .)D My 1st dilemma is my tool bar L(. )(. )KS nothing like your & they keep changing... When I pause the video 2 C which 1 U have picked or about 2 click;... Only I spend ages searching & don't seem 2 find the right 1... ? How do we get our tool bars 2 B like yours... As it stands I feel I'm going 2 B the Dumbest (I.D.10.T.) 1 that U R teaching ROFL... I've already watch it 6x's;... & was just to get FreeCad v1 2 open up from my Download Folder

[@Adventuresincreation]

I will go into a setup overview.

[@ElTelBaby]

@@Adventuresincreation ... U R a * Teacher... I apologise 4 expecting 2 much in the 1st video... Bite size R way better... Um... I'm using Ubuntu 22.04