Learn CAD/CAM today! with SolveSpace and CadQuery

[@alienforce7688]

Please please make more videos!! CadQuery ... Also you probably already know about Openscad but i thought to mention it if you dont.. thanks again for very good videos.

[@lutusp]

Thanks for posting! Yes, I'm planning to create more CAD/CAM videos. I know about OpenScad, but I need to get more experience with it, see if it's as easy to use as CadQuery, find out how many export file types it supports. Again, thanks!

[@BeefIngot]

How do you find making more complex assemblies in CadQuery? For example the type of mechanism that would use a Scotch Yoke and might have levers triggered by it or similar (just trying to establish a level of complexity and relationships)

[@Anonymouzee]

Thanks man.... you're the best!

[@lutusp]

You're most welcome! I especially like making people aware of CadQuery, where you can design models using Python instead of a graphic editor. Thanks for writing!

[@kowalenzo]

Haha totally agree on Freecad. I'm an FEA/modelling engineer with 10 years experience and I confirm Freecad is by far the worst CAD program I've ever used.

[@lutusp]

Thanks for posting! It's always nice to hear from someone with the same awful experiences. :)

[@l3d3ni]

How do you Chamfer/Fillet in this program

[@lutusp]

Unlike my now-favored environment CadQuery, to fillet in SolveSpace you need to deliberately put rounded corners into your design. This sometimes means changing your approach to a design. So, instead of simply drawing a circle and extruding it using Shift+X (no chance for fillets), to get fillets you would instead change drawing planes, draw a half-cylinder shape *in profile* with intentionally added fillets, then rotate the profile through 360 degrees with Shift+L to get the same cylindrical result with fillets -- fillets you added in the first place. In other words, you must add explicit curves at corners to get fillets -- there's no magic button-press or explicit command as in my CadQuery examples. This is one reason I'm now more in favor of CadQuery than SolveSpace. There are other reasons, this is just one. See more about CadQuery at this time position: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mJ3Om4pmf8aojpo I hope this helps, and thanks for writing!

[@BAD_CONSUMER]

do you know if there is a way to pad/extrude a solid between two different sketches (I think SolidWorks calls this drafting)? An example would be a circle with a thickness of 1mm transitioning to a square with a thickness of 1mm across some arbitrary distance. I dont think it can do this, or at least I certainly don't know how.

[@lutusp]

> Do you know if there is a way to pad/extrude a solid between two different sketches Here's an example: imgur.com/gallery/QFu65j8 It shows three versions of two solids, one local, one imported, that overlap -- with different colors so they can be distinguished. The images show union, difference, and intersection. Again, one of the images is locally generated, the other is imported from another SolveSpace session. The same result can be gotten for two solids, both imported, into an empty parent SolveSpace session. In fact, in my assembly example in the most recent video, three arrows all overlap with one another, from a separate SolveSpace file, and they get along fine. That could have been three unique solids, all from different files. I hope this clarifies how this works, but if not, please ask a more detailed question.

[@BAD_CONSUMER]

@@lutusp Thank you but i meant more like a tube that changes cross-sectional shape as it progresses.

[@lutusp]

@@BAD_CONSUMER Okay, but what would this have to do with an assembly? Since what you describe could be performed in one SolveSpace script? An assembly would only add complexity with no compensating advantage. Also, I would need to see either a picture or an equation to know what you mean in a clear way. Here's a circle becoming a square: imgur.com/9baW1kP -- only because I can't figure out what you're trying to describe. I hope this helps.