Posting these for myself and anyone else who wants to check out FreeCAD. 10-Part Series.
Part 1
Context: I was using FreeCAD when I got my first 3D Printer, but at the time is was Beta V0.20 and was still being refined and developed. It has now matured to V1.0 and it has changed a lot. I feel I need to start over at this point.
Thanks for these videos. I've always likes Digikey (the stuff that they sell, and their videos,) and Shawn does good work in his videos.
Quote from: granz on May 02, 2025, 08:25 AMThanks for these videos. I've always likes Digikey (the stuff that they sell, and their videos,) and Shawn does good work in his videos.
Totally. I will be "re-learning" FreeCAD (https://www.freecad.org/) from these videos. Ever since I saw them being posted I intended to watch them, but I kept forgetting, so by putting them here, in order, I can easily find them,
AND share them. ;)
The first videos I learned from started with this video (https://youtu.be/cJfbINgyz-k). This channel then has additional videos, however these were from back in the beta version (0.19?). In any event, I have noticed that since FreeCAD hit V1.0, there are many new tutorial videos. I will check out others and post links as I find ones I think are very useful.
I will admit that, while following these videos, somehow I ended up with a different result at some point during the example that caused me no end of frustration. I even tried starting over. I think there's too much emphasis on parametrics in this series.
I like the videos Shawn Hymel puts out, he did a few on Micropython I enjoyed.
I need to check out FreeCAD, I don't design a lot of prints but when I do I usually use OnShape, the two must be similar