FreeCAD - The Complete Beginners Guide to Part Design

Embark on a comprehensive 2-hour and 36-minute tutorial covering FreeCAD's Part Design workbench for beginners. Learn essential 3D modeling techniques, starting with interface settings and progressing through sketches, constraints, and various feature creation methods. Master extrusions, revolves, lofts, sweeps, and helical features while exploring primitives, pockets, holes, and grooves. Discover advanced topics like fillets, chamfers, patterns, multi-body modeling, and boolean operations. Gain practical skills in handling overconstraints, using measure tools, and working with shape binders and cloned bodies. Download practice parts and follow along with step-by-step examples to build a solid foundation in FreeCAD Part Design.

- Premise.
- Brilliant!.
- Settings and User Interface.
- Why Part Design?.
- Theme, Additional Settings and Units.
- Sketches, Constraints, Relations, Defining Sketches.
- Pad (AKA Extrude) Examples.
- Using Faces for Sketches, History Tree Model Editing.
- Revolve Example.
- Planes and Reference Geometry.
- Lofting Examples.
- Sweeping Examples.
- Helical Feature Example (Contains a zero thickness error example).
- Inserting Primitives.
- Pocket (AKA Extruded Cut).
- Hole Parameters (AKA "Hole Wizard").
- Groove (AKA Revolve Cut).
- Subtractive Primitive.
- Subtractive Loft Example.
- Additional Pad Settings.
- Handling an "Overconstraint" in a Sketch.
- Even More Pad Settings.
- Fillets and Chamfers.
- Thickness (AKA Shell or Hollow) Example.
- Drafting Faces .
- Linear, Polar, and MultiTransform Pattern Features.
- Introduction to Multi-Body Modeling.
- Boolean Functions in Part Design.
- Shape Binder for Multiple Bodies.
- Clone Bodies.
- Measure Tools in Part Design.
- Funny Rant and Outro.