Introduction to FreeCAD [DIGIKEY VIDEOS]

[Chris Savage]

Posting these for myself and anyone else who wants to check out FreeCAD. 10-Part Series.

Part 1

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Part 2

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Part 3

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Part 4

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Part 5

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Part 6

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Part 7

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Part 8

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Part 9

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Part 10

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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.

[granz]

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.

[Chris Savage]

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.

Totally. I will be "re-learning" FreeCAD 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. 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.

[Chris Savage]

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.

[Jeff_T]

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