FreeCAD - The Complete Beginners Guide to Part Design

This beginner course teaches the fundamentals of FreeCAD's Part Design workbench. It covers sketches and constraints, additive and subtractive features, reference geometry, patterns, multi-body modeling, Boolean operations, and measurement tools through practical examples.

Syllabus

- 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.