FreeCAD v1: Logos, Text, SVG, Sketch on a Sphere / Curved Surface : Easy Workflow

[@AbuzarToronto]

Please, always add your new videos to a playlist. You have an unusually large number of tutorials that fit into different specialised areas and they're easy to miss as they get lost in the shuffle when videos from different tracks are interspersed among the discrete videos. I don't know how you do this, but clearly this is a lot of consistent work. Thank you for the content, but also take care of your mental/physical health! (yah, I'm a bit concerned about people who generates this amount of content!)

[@Andrefa75]

I could not even imagine that this could be possible! Thank you so much!

[@MangoJellySolutions]

Glad I could help :)

[@frankbauerful]

Perfectly logical. Who WOULDN'T expect an extrude option in a tool called "Facebinder".

[@langrock74]

No worse than naming the grouping function 'Upgrade' ... ;-) Sometimes one wonders who is in charge of creating a meaningful and consistent naming convention. Are common names somehow patented by the big CAD companies? Why reinvent the wheel? Even calling an extrude function 'Pad' is odd. Stick with 'Pull' or 'Extrude'.

[@frankbauerful]

@@langrock74 Yeah. The worst thing about "Pad" is that in the Part Workbench it actually IS called "Extrude". So FreeCAD is inconsistent with itself.

[@frankbauerful]

@@depthoffocusmike How are they different?

[@frankbauerful]

@@depthoffocusmike Language lawyering. I read your words but I do not see the difference you claim to be described therein. The lack of a one-click function in Part to perform Extrude+Cut does not a difference make. I could write a macro, give it the name Pocket and put it onto the Part workbench toolbar and your argument collapses. And I have actually missed this as a built-in feature. They should absolutely add "negative extrude" or "extrude-cut" or "pocket" or best of all "Intrude" to Part workbench. It is a purely arbitrary decision that it is missing. There is no deeper meaning behind it. The implementation is trivial and it is just as useful in Part as it is in Part Design.

[@alexg9362]

Tip for Mac users to easily add fonts from Font Book... 1/ In Font Book find the font you would like to use, right click on it and select 'show in finder'. If you already opened the preview in Font Book you can select 'show in finder' from the File menu or press 'command + R' 2/ From finder right click on the font file, when the context menu appears hold the 'option' key down. 3/ 'Copy “File-name” as Pathname' wil appear in the context menu, click on it. 4/ In FreeCAD paste into the font file dialog. Done! Thanks MangoJelly for another fantastic and clear tutorial. FreeCAD would be so much more difficult without you. Side note, I tried this on an Ellipsoid and the resulting facebinder refused to extrude, not too surprising in retrospect, I can't even begin to imagine how hairy the maths behind that would be.

[@MangoJellySolutions]

Thank you so much for adding that information and in such detail regarding the fonts on Mac. I know there are a number of Mac users that view this channel and I have seen some hurdles before. I wish I could add more Mac specific content at stages like this but unfortunately I don't have one and I have to borrow one from work for areas like this. Glad you enjoyed, and thank you so much for the kind words. i'm off to try this on a ellipsoid now to see what's going on :)

[@denisw398]

Love it FreeCad 1.0 is certainly demonstrating its power with your help - thanks

[@Stemfie3D]

Thank you for making this tutorial. It demonstrated a couple of new aspects regarding how to extrude faces in FreeCAD. 🙂

[@marcvandoornik]

This is so awesome, thanks for the great video! Side note: coming mostly from SolidWorks and Inventor, the part design workbench is most intuitive to me, but the part workbench seems to be seriously overpowered. The ability to mix and match operations from different workbenches as well as choosing to build assemblies from multiple files or within a single file or a combination of both is mindbogglingly amazing. FreeCAD seems to be a bit rough around the edges, but in a very powerful way. Love it!

[@MangoJellySolutions]

Glad you enjoyed :) Yes part design follows that of traditional CAD feature modeling but with part design your limited to working with solids all the time and not allow a shell. The part is where you can mix and match and allows for surface modeling so you can create, shells, composites etc and really combine and experiment. I normally do a lot of prototyping in part :) FreeCAD can be a bit of a Frankenstein sometimes but it's great at being flexible.

[@sjn8099]

Wow. Thank you. Perfect 🙂

[@billytalentrocks345]

Thanks! Never heard of the facebinder. Very useful

[@logicalfundy]

Thank you! Very useful information. But this is one of the frustrating things about FreeCAD - I would have never thought to use the face binder in the draft workbench. It's not intuitive that you need to use that to fix the projection.

[@colinwakefield129]

I tried the other day to project and SVG image onto a sphere in V1, and although the tools look the same I failed and reverted to V.21.1. Thankyou for showing that the projection in V1 is possible. However since watching this video, I have tried again to complete a projection in V1. I find it annoying that when selecting multiple parts they do not change colour to indicate that they have been selected, hence I missed some parts. I also spend more time in V1 trying to get the combo view and task view working as with previous versions. I will stick with V.21.1 as I am only a hobbyist and it works well enough for me. Thankyou for all of the helpful videos.

[@jpwillm5252]

Too good the difference of extrusions from an Extrusion and a FaceBinder! 🤓 ** Trop bien la différence des extrusions à partir d'une Extrusion et d'une FaceBinder ! 🤓

[@howardblackwell9667]

Would like to see how to colour the different parts in a future video. Thoughly enjoyed this one

[@MangoJellySolutions]

I will create a materials and colour tutorial at some point soon as it's expanded so much in v1.0

[@billstoner5559]

Absolutely Brilliant!! Thanks, Darren!

[@MangoJellySolutions]

My pleasure! and thank you :) :)

[@RoamingAdhocrat]

Thanks, Darren Tharren

[@retrotechandelectronics]

id like to see this done within a body where the curve is the result of a revolution

[@oneproudbrowncoat]

Absolutely! I've been beating my head against the wall with that for months now!

[@loicnicolas5002]

Excellent ! Je partage 👍

[@Gammelhof]

Thanks so much

[@bilgekurthan]

Great Lesson, Thank you Darron, New version more easy, And how do we make "turntable" view?

[@MangoJellySolutions]

Thank you glad you enjoyed. The turntable view is available from top menu > tools > view turntable. Hope that helps :)

[@FilterYT]

Awesome, thank you.

[@Dogface1984]

Cool! thank you

[@curley6531]

thanks for your videos!!!

[@aleksejsusakovs5302]

Cool❤

[@leroycasterline1122]

Interesting lesson! Is there a way to transfer the string to the surface such that it does not distort as it does when projected?

[@SuperLittlewillies]

Thank you

[@NavyCuda]

Oooo very good. I wasn't able to get Inventor to emboss on a sphere properly, be nice if FreeCAD can do something better!

[@jamesrivettcarnac]

What i dont understand is how the hell youtube didnt recomend me your stuff earlier.

[@Bob-el3iw]

Right, that's it, if you are going to continue to push out useful vlogs, I will have no choice but to donate. I was after this a few days ago & hey presto! Thank you Darren.

[@MangoJellySolutions]

Lol. Thank you very much, really appreciate that :) :) :)

[@gogoaccount7873]

I do such Text and svg things in Prusa Slicer because it is overly complicated in Freecad. In this case I would not even had known how to do it at all.

[@LightAndSportyGuy]

Thank you! All I need to do now is find the secret setting somewhere in windows which will allow FreeCAD to actually see the font directory / files. I'm sure Windows is "helping" me by just hiding things they think I don't need... But thank you for the video!

[@LFANS2001]

You can copy Windows Font folder into a FreeCAD directory 'Bin' for example and within Edit-Preferences-Draft just enter full path of it as Darren did. Note that FreeCAD (previous versions) only accepted TTF fonts (TrueTypeFonts). I haven't try ShapString on this FreeCAD 1.0 version to tell it for sure...

[@LightAndSportyGuy]

@@LFANS2001 Thank you.

[@chrisBruner]

This seems very complicated. Are projections with other cad systems so complicated? Thanks for taking the time to make the video, this is one of those tools I'll avoid until I need it, and having this video as a reference will seriously help.

[@langrock74]

I don't think that the projection part made this complicated. The fact that he wanted to show how to extrude along the normal of a curved surface made it a bit more complex. If all you wanted was an extrude along one of the major axis, that would be much simpler.

[@haysoos123]

Am I correct in assuming that this method wouldn't work well for something like wrapping a design or text all around a cylinder, for example? Like it works for a curved surface, but if the curve goes all the way behind itself, how does it resolve that mapping from a flat plane?

[@MangoJellySolutions]

Yes that is correct, for that you want to use the Curves WB addon from the add on manager. Within you will find a sketch on surface tool that unwraps surfaces allowing you to sketch upon them. I have some older videos on my channel where I have used to tool for some applications.

[@buteomont]

If I try to project an image onto the "north pole" of a sphere, it always winds up with a kind of "cap" on the sphere, which obliterates part of my image. Must all projections be around the equator?

[@Ma_X64]

В любом каде это через булевы операции делается в два притопа три прихлопа.