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 .

[@patrickhouchins9074]

Pretty sure that button that you called an orange Cyclops is supposed to look like a sheep, you know dolly the cloned sheep.

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@douglasw7806]

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

[@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)

[@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!

[@zdravkobuljan6931]

Excellent Tutorial

[@davidspreadbridge1419]

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

[@janmaciejko]

Excellent video and about the cloning animal face I hope you remember what first animal was Cloned (Sheep) in Ireland so I believe it is a sheep face.

[@handdancin]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@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 .

[@arielkaragodskiy4950]

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

[@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!

[@wax_axiom479]

You really realize the replay-ablity of a youtube video is super convienient when you're trying to learn something

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@Ormsby504]

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

[@zarrokea]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@maciekM1978]

Thank you :-) You are a great teacher! All I need to get the parts for my car project done is presented here , love it!

[@Shenanigans3D]

This is exactly what I was looking for. Great video.

[@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.

[@spks-nj7kl]

Nice video. Great tuition

[@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!

[@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.

[@DavidJones-we2ex]

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

[@romanovrex]

Thank you!

[@RixtronixLAB]

Nice video, well done, thanks for sharing it with us :)

[@absenn]

Amazing video! I hope you ate something after filming it 😉

[@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!

[@BennettSanderson]

Shape binder never made much sense before. Maybe now I can use it. When doing chAAImmfer and fillet I would reiterate that those should almost always be done last. If you try to move or change much of anything on the history tree edges and faces tend to get shifted around and fillets and chamfers are the first to go "bleh x _ x".

[@KetogenicGuitars]

2024 april 20. FYI1. 1:08:53 Version 0.21.2 Arc tool of FreeCad is not able to close the ring. "Sections must be all closed or all open". I stuck in this for several days. I learned a lot at that time but you better know "it is not your fault". At 1:24:40 V0.21.2 Ortographic view mouse hover does not every time show the chance to link an external geometry. 2:16:14 Hotkeys have changed. Distances are i, L and kd. Hotkeys can be lower case.

[@bl4688]

I've been looking for this video!

[@tompayne8863]

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

[@019nawakinaryapalupi9]

Much much thanks

[@MOXsomething]

I'd love it if you could make a tutorial on Asembly4 and how to multi-part designs, with master sketches and cross references if possible.

[@7urg154]

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

[@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.

[@christopherjpetrarca9267]

Thank you very weel done

[@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

[@MuzzaBoogie70]

Oh and your orange cyclops is Dolly the sheep me thinks 😉

[@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.

[@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.👍👍👍👍👍

[@BillChmura]

This has been great so far... but I am stumped. At 1:08 when I add the final arc in, it does not seem to add a constraint coincident between the last end of the final arc and the start of the first arc. I've made sure I am absolutely lining them up and getting the constraint indicator. All of my other arcs lock together nicely. This leaves me with 5 DoF's instead of the 4 you get. I've tried manually connecting them and that also does not work. I am on v 0.21.01. Thanks! (PS> To get around it, I basically set constraints on those points individually)

[@JokoEngineeringhelp]

That's tough when something like that happens. Sometimes the computational engine can get something mixed up and think the sketch is overconstrained when it's not. I've seen it in other platforms too. It might also help to take the two points you want to connect and give them a vertical and horizontal constraint in place of coincedent, I've seen that work too.

[@DJ-Hollandica]

TOP gonna need time but super thanks just what i need

[@AndrewHelgeCox]

I’ve been thinking recently that because of the topological naming problem, I should save all fillets and chamfers to be done as the very last step, and delete and recreate them if I modify anything further back in the history. Would you agree with that?

[@JokoEngineeringhelp]

Yes, and that should be a best practice for every parametric platform even without topological naming issues. Well done.

[@HKM1983]

Thank you 🥳

[@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)

An almost complete course in one video. Thanks!

[@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

[@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!

[@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.👍

[@jayg4424]

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

[@rynnjacobs8601]

FYIO: In the development-version (0.20), PartDesign Hole can create the threads too (toggle: Model Thread). This is computational expensive, as you already mentioned.

[@IlfStoyanov]

I'm following the tutorial and playing around in a nightly version on Fedora and when I toggled Model Thread, my CPU went in a Boost mode for few second, I thought FreeCAD was about to crash. My immediate thought was "OK, not gonna touch this one anymore" 🤣️

[@lunareclipse363]

Great video! Really helped me to get started! I came here because I found out about a local makerspace and wanted to be able to make models for 3d printing. I only had some limited experience with blender before (mostly as a video editor though).

[@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

[@ExMachinaEngineering]

Great video, as always. But can I just point out that if you had designed a Mitsubishi A6M instead of that Corsair you could title the video: "From Zero to Zero" Hmmm, maybe that wouldn't have gotten as many views though...

[@JokoEngineeringhelp]

I actually laughed out loud, this is a great comment!

[@MattJonesYT]

Could you set the background color to something other than the default gradient in your videos? It looks much cleaner with just a white or dark grey solid color usual CAD UIs.

[@arefaladwani4323]

Fantastic

[@philliprevels5627]

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

[@salvarojas1560]

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

[@gabril0205]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@AnotherByteData]

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

[@tripleplay6230]

really helful, thanks from Southgermany

[@Bindelreit]

Great video, as usual. At 1:08:20, connecting the final arc creates a partially redundant constraint. While it didn't affect the outcome, is this something that could cause problems later? And, if so, how would one go about making the sketch fully constrained without the redundancy?

[@JasonSimpson1966]

computationally intensive basically depends on the quality of your graphics card, which when it came time to buy a new laptop, I opted for a "Gaming" laptop. your "Black" object when working with the helix gave me no issues whatsoever.

[@dwhughes1975]

I rate this tutorial about 4/5. It's genuinely good! But frustratingly, all it needs to be great is to pay a bit more attention to making sure the information your student is getting is complete and consistent. Example of incompleteness: you dive into creating a sketch, but you don't explain what a sketch IS. So you're drawing all these pretty shapes on screen, but that'd make a lot more sense if you'd taken fifteen seconds to explain: look, a sketch is a 2-D drawing that you'll use as the basis for a 3-D shape; here's an example sketch and a 3-D object you could make from it, okay now let's look at the basics of sketching. Example of incompleteness: around 18:16, you're pointing out a horizontal constraint, but then FreeCAD chooses a contingent constraint, and you just carry on talking as if it was a horizontal constraint. That's confusing, dude! This is my third FreeCAD tutorial so now I understand what's going on, but when I was an absolute beginner, and FreeCAD was deeply confusing to me, even minor glitches like this could make a tutorial much harder to navigate. THAT SAID: I'm 20 minutes in now, but it's clear to me that this is going to be a valuable resource, and I'm enthusiastic about what I'm going to learn in the next 2+ hours. Thank you for the considerable time and effort that must have gone into making this!

[@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!

[@Tesserae]

At the start you configured FreeCAD to use Imperial units, but at 19:00 you set the dimensions of the line to 50mm. Why are the units in metric? Did I miss something?

[@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?

[@chrishall2122]

I don't agree w/yr comment and perception of autocad or 2d drafting. I've been a draftsman for over 50 yrs and started implementing 3d way b4 it was main stay. I got into 3d because it was a faster and cleaner(u can't fudge inaccuracies in 3d), but both require a type of artistry that demands a type of articulation most people don't just possess, drafting is an art form to deliver information whether 2d or 3d. If you don't see that way neither 3d nor 2d will make much sense, it's really about information presentation. At that, nice job on freecad presentation which is still somewhat convoluted yet one of of the best non-proprietary drafting programs. It also does so many other things that computer based drawing programs are capable of! It's a great program, thank you for your presentation. I guess this is part of getting older, my view that is. I have degrees in fine arts, mech eng & computer sciences. Many engineers can't do good nice looking drafting, in the end you are stuck with a 2d paper drawing be it done with 3d or 2d ( I guess now we have 3d printers that can't work with inaccuracies ). My point is really not everybody can see or draw the important abstractions, it really requires a certain type of intelligence.

[@photo_n_art]

Imperial decimal is standard in 3d modeling? Last time I have checked the whole world except a handful of countries is using metric system 🤷‍♂️🤔 ... Other than that excellent tutorial, thank you for taking the time to share your knowledge with us 👌🏻👍🏻

[@leroymay8156]

Thanks for the tutorial. It was very helpful. :) BTW: For me the clone button (at 2:29:37) looks like a sheep. I think it refers to Dolly, the first ever cloned animal. Which was actually a sheep cloned in the year 1996.

[@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.

[@ianphilip6281]

Oldish video I know and the comment was likely already made but.. For the record, the "orange cyclops" as @ 2:29:36 is in fact not a cycloptic colleague but Dolly, the first cloned animal "Dolly" the sheep. It has wonky eyes to mimic a slightly degenerated (poor dna replication) clone. I'm not a freecad dev and haven't looked it up at all but it seems logical enough given the open source varied stylistic cues and overall general sense of humour.

[@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...

[@antegeia8388]

The label of the "clone" button is Dolly, the first successful cloning experiment on a living being. It was a sheep. A little creepy, don't you think?

[@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!

[@jackrubin]

Great job, thank you! Pretty sure the icon for "clone" is Dolly the Sheep, first successful mammal clone, created in 1996.

[@macw9160]

Thanks, lot of useful hints... I had to laugh -> the clone-tool, you call it an orange cyclops ... it's a sheep, you remember , it's Dolly, the first cloned mammal

[@isauromanuel]

What graphics card is good enough for 3d modeling and sculpting models for 3d printing in 2022? Not rendering just be able to work with out lag problems.

[@teevorian]

Wow great tutorial, BUT WHEN ON EARTH DO YOU ENGINEERS FINALLY STOP WORSHIPING ICEs??

[@DownSouthBeefy]

"[profound little detail] which is kind of fascinating, but anyway..." hard to not mention those when talking about a lot of subjects 😄

[@SHOGUNGamingg]

Thank you for making this video, it helped me lot. 👍🏽👍🏽

[@totallysmooth1203]

This is better than Flowie the German and the others I've seen. But one BIG complaint. It's too long, for the reason that trying to move the time slider back to a point I can review something, is impossible The longer the video, the harder it is to use the time slider bar. Would have been much better broken up into multiple, shorter lessons, so that the time slider can be used without so much wasted time having to sit through things to get to where I wanted to be.

[@oje101]

Thank you, EXTREMELY... EXTREMELY informational

[@theofuhrmann1984]

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

[@derrickpayne58]

I'm an architect and have used dozens of 3d products. How is this easier to use than sketchup which I happen to love because it does all the things this does and from what I have seen of this product...sketchup is fat easier to learn.

[@M.Elyami]

And I have been wondering.. who is he calling "freak head"! 😳 😭😭😭💔 I get it now, I'm ok 😅

[@vladimirseven777]

After drawing 4 circles in sketch it asking me to read error text in error reporting window before I even tried to extrude anything. Otherwise amazing program I guess.