FreeCAD Beginners Guide Chapter 2 - Part, Surfacing, Analysis, CNC and More

This course introduces FreeCAD’s Part and Surface Workbenches, including solid and surface modeling, sketches, booleans, lofts, sweeps, and geometry checks. It also demonstrates add-ins and workflows for wing design, CNC paths, sheet metal, FEM analysis, technical drawings, hardware generation, and assemblies.

Syllabus

- Premise.
- Brilliant!.
- Part Workbench Intro.
- Part Workbench & Primitive Shapes.
- Part Workbench & Booleans (CSG Modeling).
- Part Workbench & Sketching, Extrusions.
- Part Workbench & Fillets, Chamfers.
- Part Workbench History Tree Navigation & Updates.
- Part Workbench & Revolve.
- Part Workbench & Mirror Body.
- Part Workbench & Lofting.
- Part Workbench & Sweeping.
- Part Workbench & Surface Generation.
- Part Workbench & Slice Apart.
- Surface Workbench.
- Part Workbench & Thicken/Offset Surface, Convert to Solid.
- Part Workbench & Paramitized Geometric Primitives.
- Part Workbench & Projection to Surface.
- How to Add Workbenches (Add-Ins) To FreeCAD.
- Curved Shapes Workbench - Wing Design.
- Part Workbench & Geometry Checker.
- Path Workbench Example.
- Sheet Metal Workbench Example.
- FEM Analysis Example.
- Mechanical Gear Generation.
- Fastener/Hardware Generation.
- Techdraw (Technical Drawing) Workbench.
- A2+ (Assembly Workbench).
- Ending.