FreeCAD - Arch Workbench - Getting a Result, Simple House

[@miku224]

I've never seen a CAD program in my life, it is three and a half minutes into my first tutorial, and I have the outline to my house. This is exactly what I was looking for and I can't thank you enough.

[@HumphreyBoogaerdt]

Great to have someone explaining it who is not an architectural drafts person

[@brownmuta7537]

Thanks for the help. There's a lot of little things you just have to learn from someone else before you can really understand how the program works. And I appreciate you being the person that helped.

[@mirrorcoloured]

I'm just starting out on a similar venture so I really appreciate this info share! I love the x/y locking, that's a really handy feature. To throw a tip back your way, if you use the Extension (···) or Perpendicular (⟂) snapping modes you can draw lines like that interior wall easily. Cheers!

[@mathcodeprint]

Good tip! It is kinda funny, i get locked in to certain snap tools and tend to ignore the rest.

[@RomanErokhin]

Thanks for tutorial! On 7:10 there was an extra foot sign when you entered the dimensions, so the door size got funny.

[@mathcodeprint]

Thanks ! Easy to miss those little things.

[@AwakeTruthSeeker]

Before you select the Polyline, how did you get an orthogonal grid to put the line on? Sorry, I am just starting to use this, and you missed out that first step. Or maybe something is different as I am using 0.21.2?

[@mr_tom_1_0]

Yeah instead of telling us to Patreon it'd be useful if you told us what you're DOING.

[@VincentTubed]

great explanation, also great you mention the keys specifically and repeat,very useful! thank you !

[@NargilTheMrNooB]

It suerly does help, thanks :) Now i can show this to an architect.

[@brucewilliams6292]

I really appreciate this video. I still have a long way to go but you got me going in the right direction. Merry Christmas.

[@mathcodeprint]

Good luck, merry Xmas :)

Very explanatory! Thank you.

[@gordonfrank]

Good to know about X Y keys to lock draft move direction. Regarding copying Windows. I am able to do a draft move > copy and make additional windows.

[@sergevereecke680]

There is no odd reason , it is a valid reason. I am venturing to do the same but go the next step and introduce the finished work in Blender and add to it to make it photorealistic. It is not odd , it is a great idea.

[@mathcodeprint]

Love it ! The only reason I think it might be odd is wether or not there is a market. :)

[@sergevereecke680]

@@mathcodeprint Are there people in the market for having their home digitized ? Maybe . But there are a boatload of other instances like archeology , architecture , history and nostalgia reasons.

[@mathcodeprint]

Great point hadn't thought of those.

[@buachaille]

Thanks for the taking the time to put the video together. To put your mind at rest over the 1st door height, if you review the steps closely, you left in the "feet" part of the initial measurement, so your input was essentially saying "six-feet-8-inches-feet" which is pretty confusing. Hard to spot since "' looks very like ". Would probably be nicer if the interface told you it didn't understand the measurement you entered, but instead the program accepts it as "6 feet plus 8 feet" and so gave you a fourteen foot door.

[@mathcodeprint]

Thank you! That gets me so often. I usually everything i type has 'mm' after the value. :)

[@ПетрПроценко]

Was helpful on my level. Might be not suitable for an absolute beginner. And thanks for the roof explanation, official manual keeps this knowledge a sectet, guess, many a beginners will try to make his roof a complete one, wasting a lot of time in vain.

[@bobbuilder4268]

Thanks this has given me a good start with arch. I have been using part design and sketcher with good result for a while. But what i cant understand with arch is just where is the window that i placed. I can see it but cant see any measurements describing location in the tree. If i move the window then the tree object describes how it moved but not its actual location. What am i missing. Thanks still working through your vids.

[@TexasEdition]

OK - Great video, dumb question. How do you get a grid like that? Im stuck wtih a 10mm x 10mm grid.

[@JamesKelly89]

Actual tutorial starts at 1:45

[@paolofogaccia9455]

Thanks for video. I have to use Line or Rectangle for wall base, because I cannot modify (if I need) the vertexes of Wire. When I make double click on wire, vertexes become white, but when I try to select one of them to move it, nothing happens. I mean, I cannot change the length of single lines of wire, so I cannot change the length of a single wall. Instead, I can change the length of line or rectangle, and so the length of wall changes. Dou you know why I cannot move the vertexes of wire? I'm using FreeCAD 0.18 on Linux Mint.

[@mathcodeprint]

This is my best understanding of this issue. The Draft Wire has a "Side", sort of a front and a back. You will only be able to click on the white box if you are on the correct "side." Let me try to clarify. if you set your working plane to "top" and draw a wire from the "top", you will only be able to select the white box from the "top." If you try to edit it from the bottom you will not be able to select it. I believe the grid has a physicality to it and you cant select through it. One of the ways I try to cope with this, if I cant select something, I will hide everything around it so there is no selection conflict. Hope that helps.

[@paolofogaccia9455]

@@mathcodeprint I hide everything, and I select Wire. It becomes green. I make double click on label Wire: the label becomes yellow; lines and vertexes becomes white; I try to select a vertex but I cannot move it. I saw also other video tutorials where it's possible modify the position of vertexes in that way.

[@paolofogaccia9455]

I read on a post, I don't remember where, that it's a limit of FreeCAD version 0.18. I'm not sure, can anyone confirm?

[@StefanoVerugi]

@@paolofogaccia9455 did youtry to just click on the white box of the vertex and move the mouse without dragging it? A line should appear and you can click again on the new position But the wire needs to be double clicked fro the tree before starting the process

[@dip8]

i think my grid is too small when i draw on it the wall goes to the orbit, how do i fix that

[@varshaamohan6774]

For some reason whenever I try to build the wall, I'm getting an error saying : Line constructor accepts: -- empty parameter list -- LineSegment -- LineSegment,double,double -- Line,double,double -- Point, Point Any solution to that?

[@mathcodeprint]

Are you selecting an edge. An edge would be a line from sketcher or a line/wire from draft workbench.

[@brownmuta7537]

I get the model of your house thing. I actually plan to build my own house, I lost almost all my money actually so I'm trying to find work so I can get back to that goal. But anyways I like trying to model out my house in these programs also. Mostly so I know how much material and how the plumbing would work out and everything, but also just because I enjoy doing it.

[@leviathanx0815]

7:11 That is likely happening because you actually typed 6' 8"' , so it probably adds 6' and 8' and ignores the ", hence why you got 14' in the end.

[@parodoxis]

Nah it's because when the selected the previous value, only the number gets highlighted, not the apostrophe. So he typed 6' 8"' (notice the triple tick at the end) which is not a valid value. Later on he enters the values from scratch and it works fine. He just didn't notice what was in the input box.

[@jakegingrich7214]

i wish to model my house because i want to see what it will look like with renovations of wall and kitchen placement.

[@githuikimondo9692]

Use sweethome 3d ... very straight forward

[@mathcodeprint]

Sweethome3d is wonderfull for floor plans. And visuals. Freecad is for more basic needs.

[@ZugTheDragon]

This is good if you're throwing together a random house for fun, not if you're trying to create a plan with specific dimensions

[@fredmanteghian5913]

Stinks that you can't set the defaults for 3-1/2" walk to 3-1/2". You have to convert it to mm first.

[@mathcodeprint]

It is a bummer, however arch is actively developed so you never know when it will get added.

[@jaimeduncan6167]

Very nice video, and another demostration that the inches and feet stuff is nonsensical when we have Indu-Arabic numbers and it's the only think all humans agree with: they are far better.

[@x256h]

How do you increase the grid size and make the lines snap to the grid. My grid is 3/8ft long

[@mathcodeprint]

Snapping is turned on and off from the snap toolbar in draft. The draft grid is set in Draft Preferences. To make snapping easier turn on snapping and turn off all but the one snap tool you want to use. To set grid size use main menu edit-preferences, select draft on left then look for grid settings. Note: you have to start draft workbench b4 draft preferences will be present

[@2000jimidini]

Bella spiegazione, complimenti

[@mikedenmark7854]

Why do when I select WALL my poly lines disappear?

[@mikedenmark7854]

Face needs to be true. version 0.19

[@mikedenmark7854]

But the whole sketch is a solid extrusion. I am having a hard time with ARCH

[@annar7625]

I cannot get the walls to show. I select the wire, then select the wall and it disappear. What am I doing wrong! This should be simple :(

[@cuitpoisson]

Your house is too small. The default grid size is way to tiny. Go to Edit->Preferences->Draft->Grid and Snapping. For ft-in measurements, I set my grid spacing to 25.4mm (one inch), main lines every 12 (foot), and grid size of 720 lines (60ft by 60ft). You'll need to hide and show the grid for it to take effect.

[@mathcodeprint]

I apologize, I am just now seeing this. I am terrible with comments. If you want to give it a go. Try different types of wires. The wall is finicky about which wire/line/edge you use. You can use Draft Upgrade and Downgrade to change a wire.

[@munikoti84]

I want to animate building a structure step by step, maybe with the click of a button. Can someone help me on how to go about?

[@wgolyoko]

This doesn't work ; just installed, selected Arch in the dropdown, clicked the grid button and I can zoom in and out all I want, no grid appears.

[@judegraham463]

thanks for video.

[@mikedenmark7854]

Following you exactly AND IT IS NOT WORKING

[@dip8]

why you using imperial in 21st century

[@mastnychleba3440]

Maybe he comes from the us?

[@dip8]

@@mastnychleba3440 Why is imperial used in the us

[@mastnychleba3440]

@@dip8 i dont know ask them

[@dip8]

@@mastnychleba3440 yea im gonna take a plane from across the world lol

[@UGPepe]

note to self: never let programmers do UIs

[@paulgush]

So the UI's will be implemented by whom then? People who can't program?

[@specialagent4575]

@@paulgush UI designers.

[@romandark1775]

Not detailed enough

[@willb.383]

It would be great if you actually explained what you were clicking and doing rather than just rambling.

[@tricky4a]

I get where you are coming from but the talking and not describing what you are doing the how and the why makes this really unhelpful. Start with the basics, like why you clicked the hash to switch on a grid, how you orientated it, the entering of the lines you're drawing whilst talking random nonsense rather than describing what you are actually doing doesn't describe the content of your tutorial. Re hash this with why, and how it will be a great tutorial.

[@mathcodeprint]

The basics you speak of are covered in Draft tutorials. They are not really appropriate for this video. You should likely find videos that are on basic topics instead of a more advanced topic like the Arch Workbench.

[@dip8]

what

[@romandark1775]

Really too fast for newbies

[@Ryan_Tidwell]

Lol, the blind leading the blind here... You didn't explain what you were doing half the time so I could not duplicate your work. It should not matter what direction you draw your wire to create a roof that you desire. What happens when you copy the floor line and move it up to make the roof line? The right roof? The wrong roof? I do not think you are ready to teach this subject until you learn how things work. Thanks for trying.

[@mathcodeprint]

Feel free to move along, it seems you are to advanced for this channel.

[@Ryan_Tidwell]

@@mathcodeprint I'll move along but I'm not advanced. I just downloaded the program for the first time. I was hoping to learn to use it.

[@paulreader1777]

@@Ryan_Tidwell There was good teaching in this video. He did suggest to become a little familiar with the Draft workbench and that is probably where you should start. Don't discount the value of the video, come back to it after you have spent time with Draft. FreeCAD is not like SweetHome3d, it is for more serious and detailed work. Also, as pointed out, all developers work for free so it is quite an amazing piece of software, given the circumstances.

[@paulgush]

Dude, this video is provided as is, by someone who volunteered his own time to make it. Just like FreeCAD itself. If it isn't up you standards, don't complain, just make a better video yourself 😀