FreeCAD: The 2022 Complete Beginners Guide To Part Design |JOKO ENGINEERING|

[@JokoEngineeringhelp]

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[@waynefilkins8394]

what is STEM?

[@JokoEngineeringhelp]

@@waynefilkins8394 STEM is an acronym used to reference topics for Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics

[@svr27rr87]

​@@JokoEngineeringhelpHow do i purchase or is it free to get and to. Be able to use this free cad program software??.. i really need this and would love to have this program on my lap top to learn to use..so i can finish and get to mass produce my invention prototype performance system.

[@JokoEngineeringhelp]

@@svr27rr87 This program is licensed as open source and free to use, so anyone asking you to pay for it is a scam. It is always free. You can download it here: www.freecad.org/downloads.php

[@svr27rr87]

@@JokoEngineeringhelp thankyou so much.. also enjoy learning from ur very well put together videos about..I smashed that like button and sub .

[@clarencematney4721]

this video is absolutely fantastic! you took me from "how do i even start" to "now i can actually create models!" i cannot express how valuable this tutorial has been

[@JokoEngineeringhelp]

Thank you, that was my goal

[@xacharon]

Wow, this is basically a Part Design Workbench reference book, but in video form, with explanations and examples of how to use EACH of the buttons. FANTASTIC! I know this was made 2 years ago, but years later, it's still helping out beginners and people new to FreeCAD. Thank you so much for taking the time and energy to create this!

[@JokoEngineeringhelp]

My pleasure!

[@MartinAnderer]

@@JokoEngineeringhelp By the way, the Clone Icon shows the Sheep Dolly, the first animal that was cloned succefully in July 1996 🙂

[@chikokishi7030]

I made it to the end. I cant believe you did this in one sitting. Absolute champ!

[@JokoEngineeringhelp]

Thank you! It was a long day haha

[@otokonokorecon2169]

It may seem dumb that you have to explain this to us like we are dum, but it really helps with the newer users. i hate when the tutorials say terms and use hotkeys like we took 2 years of college courses already. by far the best tutorial i have found, i watched ALOT. Liked and subbed i will be following your content!

[@JokoEngineeringhelp]

Thank you!

[@davidspreadbridge1419]

Honestly, best tutorial I've looked at. Complete novice to CAD but after this I think the drafting table can finally go. Brilliant.

[@chikokishi7030]

I love how you giggle occasionally. Its clear that you really enjoy this kind of work.

[@JokoEngineeringhelp]

I'm glad that comes through, I really do enjoy parametric CAD

[@franfecha9919]

Man, I don't usually leave comments, but this video deserves one. Thank you so much for teaching me how to use CAD! Keep up with the good work and thanks again

[@JokoEngineeringhelp]

Thanks a lot! I'm not much of a commenter myself usually.

[@salvarojas1560]

people like you deserve a lot of likes. Just bringing knowledge for free so that others can grow. Thanks for your time

[@bryan192]

THIS is the best!! I was about to give up on FreeCAD due to bad documentation

[@Palamatar]

Still relevant in 2024. I'm coming from TinkerCAD and needed to change because of the limitations. Excellent introduction, thanks for the hard work.

[@butsukete1806]

2D sketches are easy enuff, but putting them together into 3D objects never quite clicked until watching this. Been using mostly primitive boolean shapes in the part workbench, it's worked well enough to do FDM 3D prints for a few years. Thanks for helping move on to the next level.

[@ThomFox436]

As an absolute beginner, this is easily the best way to learn FreeCAD! Great job, and I look forward to making things!

[@ronthered138]

I believe that the "Clone" icon is the head of Dolly the Sheep, the first mammal to be successfully cloned, now stuffed and on exhibit at the National Museum of Scotland, in Edinburgh. I remember seeing Dolly while touring the museum, which is how I made the association. I have been fumbling around trying to find a truly free CAD program to use, and this video makes me lean heavily into Freecad. Thank you for your efforts. They are helping a lot of people.

[@ronthered138]

Fun fact, they named her "Dolly" because the cell that they cloned was a cell from a mammary gland!

[@tompayne8863]

The best beginner tutorial I've seen. Very easy to follow. Thanks!

[@Dr_Frazion]

Just to add another vote of thanks. The part design workbench has been looming over me for a while now and I've been doing everything a rather long winded way in the part workbench. My eyes have now been opened!

[@Albin_Andersson]

This is by far the best Freecad video I’ve seen, thank you!

[@jayg4424]

*3 WEEK REVIEW OF THIS TUTORIAL* This video has become my "handbook" for FreeCAD "part design." I tried 2 other tutorials before this channel, and they weren't nearly as rich and efficient as this one. If I need to know something else more specific, I'll search KZbin for that specific topic (hopefully Joko-created), ask the freecad forum Joko recommends, or post a question here. Joko has been extremely helpful. Very grateful for this video and teacher. 👍👍

[@NewStreamLine]

Thank you very much for presenting the basics of magic FreeCAD. Long video, lot of ads, but worth watching. I'm new to FreeCAD. 👌👍

[@philliprevels5627]

OMG!!! I am new to cad. This is the best video I have ever seen. Thank you so much. You are the best.

[@matyf_]

This is awesome! A lot of really useful content to learn how to use every single tool in the part design workbench. I hope more people get to this video because it's really well done. Thanks for the effort you put on recording this!

[@danielphillips6783]

The Bob Ross of freeCAD! Thank you so much this was very helpful!

[@JokoEngineeringhelp]

I hope to live up to such a standard

[@wantafastz28]

Thank you for this. For whatever reason, construction lines did not make sense to me until this video. Such an abundance of knowledge you’re passing on. Thanks again.

[@zdravkobuljan6931]

Excellent Tutorial

[@douglasw7806]

This was very engaging. I learned more from this than all the other videos I've watched combined. Thanks for putting this together.

[@AmritEmperor123]

You know what's crazy? I've been working on a car design in Blender for quite some time and then came across FreeCAD which made it easier to design an engine. Then I came across this video.

[@aaronhorn6849]

Wow! I thought that this 2.5 hour video was going to be drawn out with a bunch of fluff. Was I wrong. No fluff and pretty much to the point. Well worth watching. Thank you for your effort. I am just getting into FreeCAD and this is a great leasson.

[@DavidJones-we2ex]

Thanks to your video I have made and printed many parts. Next will be pt 2.

An almost complete course in one video. Thanks!

[@jayg4424]

*BEST FREECAD TUTORIAL* 🥇🥇🥇 I tried the two other most popular ones, and this blows them out of the water. Thank you!!!

[@crustaceanwilliam1380]

Wonderful presentation, concise and paced just right for an old engineer who lost his slide rule. Look forward to your other presentations.👍👍👍

[@JokoEngineeringhelp]

I have high respect for engineers with slide rules. Thanks for watching

[@SimonSlothindianer]

Thank you so much. This is just an amazing quality video for a beginner like me. 2.35.54 hours of golden educational material! Love the way you present the stuff btw. Very steady and calm.

[@flypic1098]

What a fantastic video. I can't watch it now though I'm very busy at the mo. I did flick through it and am VERY impressed. You've obviously put in a tremendous amount of work to produce this superb tutorial. I thank you. Jim

[@jhaand]

This videos works fantastic if you already started using FreeCAD and need to get back to basics. It covers all the tools you can use with Part Design. I had quite a few 'aha!' moments while you pointed out the things I missed. I really liked how you explained the more advanced stuff that people will only start using later on. Tools like sweep and loft I have been putting off for ages, because they look so daunting. This will make it easier to get started. I already recommended this video for everyone who I know already uses FreeCAD to get a more solid basic foundation of the Part Design toolbox. This video will give you enough information to get into trouble with the object tree, topological naming problem and a few other issues I had in the past. It took me ages of puzzling to figure out that the list of actions in the Model tree concerned the chronological order of how FreeCAD draws the Body. Especially when different actions start to interact, it might get complex. So a video on troubleshooting the common things you might run into, would also help. But I'll first let you get your voice back. (Also a video on using A2+ assembly, Part Design and Fastener workbench to create a mechatronic assembly would help a lot of people.) Thank you very, very much for making this video. The clone icon represents 'Dolly the sheep'. The first cloned mammal.

[@JokoEngineeringhelp]

Thanks a lot for this! Those are great suggestions and I am planning on making a 'chapter 2' to follow this up (Once I get my voice back of course). That reference to the sheep is awesome!

[@jadams3427]

I am a Catia and Rhino user. I have used other CAD systems. I always recommend Rhino. Friends who do not want to spend the money can get an awful lot of value with FreeCAD, and use this excellent tutorial. Well done, and many thanks !

[@JokoEngineeringhelp]

Thank you!

[@allannortje6440]

I don't how to say this, but we love you man

[@wangarooi]

Thank you... My uncad brain has just had a wiring update For whatever reason I find it difficult to grasp CAD packages ...all the mouse clicking and many menus and icons...i just find it so frustrating... Now I find you video and it starts making sense... Spot on vid!

[@Dead-Walking]

This was an amazing video. I just moved into FreeCAD from basic modeling in blender. It explained a lot. Feeling pretty confident in making a few parts here. Cheers!

[@JokoEngineeringhelp]

Those who can do direct and parametric modeling are formidable modelers.

[@scottellefson1155]

Thank you so much! I messed around with Solid Works several years ago, but only for reference or to share part modification ideas. This gave me such a good starting point with CAD. I see that you have a chapter 2 video out. I can't wait to get started!

[@matthewhintz932]

I'm on my third attempt to learn FreeCAD. By far, this has been the best tutorial I've found. Paced well, taught well, and builds logically in fundamental skills. Thank you.

[@adrianstephens56]

Thank you for your video. I always found the shape binder a mystery. By the way, the "clone" icon is the head of a sheep. Dolly the sheep was famous for being the first clone of an animal that complex.

[@emildovis5334]

Thank you for the video. It's what I needed for a full introduction to Freecad, and the way you explained everything helped a lot in understanding quickly!

[@joeoconnor4126]

Your status has been elevated to legend. great job and thank you so much for pulling this together!

[@travmckeown8494]

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! This is the most comprehensive tutorial I've found. I appreciate you taking the time to create such a long video.

[@jeffbeck6501]

I love the way you talk man. I think you are going to be my "go to" FreeCad teacher. I am going to check out all of your videos. I heard of you from other channels, and I think you are probably the guy that made a fork of FreeCad to fix an important bug having to do with "topology naming". Either way, it is nice to hear someone talk who has your level of intelligence. I never get to talk to people like you in real life. All the people I meet, ....well, ...let's just say they are not like you. I'm going to be here on your channel for a long time. Thanks.

[@JokoEngineeringhelp]

Thanks! I'm not the guy who made a fork of FreeCAD, but mad respect to the talented developers that brought us such a wonderful software. Best!

[@freddyt55555]

His voice reminds me of the way a KZbinr named C0nc0rdance speaks.

[@arielkaragodskiy4950]

Thank you so much for this video. I have been watching it for a few days now, and I have learned so much!

[@peterchan1498]

Excellent tutorial, I have use Freecad for 2 years and still learning from this tutorial. Great stuff.

[@marlonsamaniego7884]

Very useful and informative. You go at a nice pace and present a lot of interesting tools. Thank you for posting and helping others out.

[@narender64]

Great Video to learn from start ! I had to search several videos and found this one as the best to learn from the beginning , the pace is optimal , the sequence is good !

[@mikehibbett3301]

Very, very helpful, thank you. I've been watching freecad for many years, but I'm getting ready to move over to it for my work (PCB design using KiCAD)

[@AnotherByteData]

Nice to see a channel with many tutorials about FreeCAD! Thank you! And continue doing this great work!

[@harveybc]

This is by far the best tutorial I've seen on FreeCAD. I installed the program to draw out the plans for a chicken coup. Could have done it with pencil and paper but wanted to be able to make it easier to make changes as I designed it. Looked at several tutorials but couldn't make head or tails of how to use the program. Finally figured out pretty much on my own how to do what I needed but knew there was much more. Now I think I'm going to actually be able to use the program.

[@ZacharyRodriguez1]

I love this video. So much information. Thank you! 🙏 Also, I think the clone body is a sheep - the OG clone.

[@DominicI1]

Thank you so much for this tutorial! I'm an hour through so far and I can't wait to finish and start creating functional models for 3d printing. One strange thing that happened in the beginning was when I box selected to delete lines every line immediately turned black with the connecting dots also being black. I repeated the same process (creating a couple of lines and trying to box select them) and the same event occurred, even after restarting the program. After being confused and annoyed for a minute I simply continued on with the tutorial and about 20-30 minutes in it started functioning normally. Very confusing... Again, thanks so much for this tutorial. It's extremely useful!

[@JokoEngineeringhelp]

Many thanks. I'm vaguely familiar with the issue you're having but I have never experienced it myself. I think it's related to software resources or something like that. There is a discussion on it here: forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?t=57744

[@byronwatkins2565]

At 11:00, for flexibility in making changes, 1) create a part and rename it descriptively, 2) create body, and then 3) create sketch. Parts and bodies each have coordinate systems (origin) so that the locations and orientations of pads and pockets are more independent of the first structure when they have different origins. Proper use of datum planes also introduces an essential independence between bodies and pocket/pad intersections. Before I figured this out, FreeCAD was exceptionally frustrating -- every trivial change caused errors.

[@jeffbeck6501]

I think I have heard people talk of this, and how it helps create a stable model. Thanks for bringing attention to it, and with the time stamp marker, so people can check it out, and go right to it. Thanks.

[@laurentcalvignac4693]

I have heard people talk of this but never found a proper tutorial explaining this workflow comprehensively. Almost everybody shows to sketch on faces, but when you want to make a change the model breaks.

[@stevesheliflying]

Just found your channel and watched this video. Awesome job, very nicely done!! I've been watching someone else's tutorials and he does a great job, but I learned some new features watching you today, So thank you very much for do this video. I have subscribed and will be checking out more of your stuff. Have a great day!

[@JokoEngineeringhelp]

Thanks! Have a great one

[@handdancin]

watched on a whim, been using freecad for a year. learned a lot of handy stuff. great! thanks!

[@Guishan_Lingyou]

This video is extremely helpful. Gosh there is a lot to learn, as with any powerful tool.

[@phrizee]

Thank You a lot, Joko! Thats what I looking for a long time, to finally learn FreeCAD.

[@danrammacher9768]

Thank you for your time doing this!! Really helpful!

[@AllVisuals4U]

This is an amazing all-in-one video for every FreeCAD user!

[@mendeemendee1877]

Good luck and good news. There is information that many people need to lead people.

[@7urg154]

love Free Cad ! It’s great to have open source CAD software running natively on linux

[@ck-li6yr]

Absolute fantastic video. Thank you for this.I like the in depth look on a bench by bench basis. By the way, I'm pretty sure the clone icon is in reference to Dolly the Sheep

[@JokoEngineeringhelp]

You're absolutely right. I love the reference

[@nianhbg]

Thanks for a great tutorial 🙂So simple and easy to understand

[@zarrokea]

Very good pacing, clear explanations and complete guide thank you a lot !

[@yuler_]

11:07 If you don't want to remember which plane is which, you can just look at upper right rotation widget and it will say which is top, front, and side (right/left)

[@Ormsby504]

wow what a fantastic tutorial. so clearly explained and presented. Thankyou so much. I must explore your other material/courses

[@stefankrimbacher7917]

Thanks a lot for this long video. Many informations - just right for beginners like me.

[@bargen0w]

reading comments this seems like a perfect video, i used to 3d model in high school using the program Inventor which is way too expensive for personal usage and FreeCAD being pretty different from inventor, seems to be exactly what i need to get the basics of this program

[@toolmakerdave5287]

comprehensive and concise. well worth the time spent watching. exactly the video i've been looking for. will be saving for future reference for sure.👍👍👍👍👍

[@drfaridi]

Good videos. I am new to freecad and may be asking questions sometimes. Regards Dr Faridi

[@gerry1337]

Thank you soo much for that terrific video. I have been trying to learn FreeCAD and this summaries, then adds to the knowledge gained. I particularly like that you include corrections because when learning new software I ways end up wondering whether its me or the programme (usually me) and this type of presentation helps enormously. Again thankyou very much. P.S. I expect someone has already mentioned but I have always taken "Cyclops2 to be Dolly the Sheep, the first live clone.👍

[@gehadyasser1001]

this tutorial is awesome especially if u follow along step by step with him u will get so much benefit really thnx a lot for taking the time to put on such an awesome tutorial series...truly brilliant peace may Allah or God reward u massively for spreading knowledge thnx :))

[@gustavhaber1521]

Thank you for your work! Thanks to the time codes this is a real howto reference.

[@enartuulmees2173]

You sir are a great teacher. Thank you!

[@MuzzaBoogie70]

Great video for this beginner that’s for sure, ThankYou

[@sm6fie]

This video is first class! Thanks…

[@thesystemsucks]

great stuff, thank you for taking the time to make this video

[@DJ-Hollandica]

lol omg your a hero it really depends on how you push it but when you know its sooo coool thanks

[@paulg3336]

Excellent tutorial I have been using FreeCAD for years but I always learn new things watching these videos. The chamfer tool also has an angle and distance option

[@ditditdog]

great tutorial thanks for your patience this gave me a very good start.

[@KeithRCmafia1967]

Thank you for making this enjoyable. You're very easy to listen to. Not too fast, and the volume and cadence of your speach is pitch perfect. Believe it or not, that is very hard to find. Also, your knowledge of the product made it easy as well. In the end, I subscribed, rung the bell and gave you a like. Thanks again.

[@kenlam1433]

thank you so much , and that is what my needed, good day to you. thank freecad

[@CraigsWorkshop]

That was excellent - thanks Joko 👍

[@theofuhrmann1984]

Great job and a great help for me! Thank you. By the Way: For me, the orange cyclop is the clone sheep Dolly ;-)

[@leroycasterline1122]

Excellent video - thanks for the effort you put into making it. At about 2:29:40, the icon is a sheep. Her name was Dolly, the first mammal cloned from a single cell. Cute, no?

[@jonlorber5911]

Fantastic video. I just want to point out in current 0.21.1 the hole tool actually has the ability to model the threads now. Still heavy but it's there. I printed some threads and they worked great. Thanks again.

[@JokoEngineeringhelp]

I do need to make a new one of these to cover recent versions. Thanks for posting updates.

[@trip5003]

I have noticed no one has done a training video yet with Free CAD 0.21.0 . Why not ? 0.19.0 is a lot different to follow along as the side bars do not look even close to the same software . Can be a bit confusing for newbie's like me that know zero about AutoCAD or Free CAD but trying to get a grasp on it . Thanks for the training vid . I know there a lot of work to do .

[@Fredrik-Makes]

The "orange cyclops" looks like a sheep to me, at 2:29:40, might be a reference to Dolly -the cloned sheep. Thanks for a great intro video, helped a lot!

[@deadmansouls]

THANK YOU! Keep doing what you do! Brilliant!

[@callumstuart9094]

This video is awesome thank you! Only trouble I had was not selecting auto-remove redundant constraints in preferences. Took a while for me to remember that when trying to figure out why all my shapes were breaking when adding constraints.

[@callumstuart9094]

The cyclops used for the clone function icon is Dotty the sheep they cloned back in the 90's btw, if you're still wondering.

[@Naf623]

This has been so helpful, thank you!

[@gabril0205]

incredible video! thanks you, this can be very usefull for everyone!

[@JBHRN]

Thank you so much. This was awesome! It is amazing that you took some much time and effort to put this out there. I am huge fan of Frecad and have been using it for a a while note. But you did a great job of exlaining a few of the things that have often been a little frustrating. In particular the shape binder. One practice that I have done, that I did not see with you, is am pretty particular about creating new part, new body, then to sketch. I am also renaming my bodies at that time as well. Cheers...

[@petefaraday1093]

Thanks for the guide - extremely useful. I ignored your advice that a polar pattern has to have an axis that is perpendicular to (something?) and tried with an arbitrary axis. It worked! Maybe your attempt would have created multiple solids - or maybe its because I have FreeCAD version 0.21.2?

[@knucklehead83]

This was incredibly useful. I'm just curious though, why did you keep standing on the body? And why don't you use a shovel to hide the body? Seems like it'd be quicker than using a space bar.

[@BattleMachines]

Thanks for you work. I'm Blender user over 7 years and I'm considering learn FreeCAD. Some shapes are pretty easy to do in it.

[@JokoEngineeringhelp]

That's a great balance to know both direct and parametric modeling.

[@BattleMachines]

@@JokoEngineeringhelp Totally agree. It's just not easy to forget everything about Blender once FreeCAD is running :D

[@mijzelfmaardanik]

Awesome and very helpful video ! By the way the orange cyclops is "Dolly" the cloned sheep !

[@nongvangfull]

Thank you , great job, I learned a lot.