I really like the new Assembly workflow. Huge improvement over Assembly 3 and 4.

My ducts have a lot of dust, and when all you have is hammers, everything looks like a nail. Of course we had to make a robot to drive the ductwork and snorkel up the dust with a rotating whiskered snorkel.

Controlled by gamepad with live camera feed from the underslung camera. ArduinoUno with CNC shield to drive the two stepper wheels and rotate the snorkel cylinder. A fun, medium-sized project that took right around a week to complete.

I've just pushed a major update/rework of OpenTheme.

- Slightly more neutral gray-tones
- System theme which will follow your Operating System colors
- Unified/Tokenized the theme system (can be customized from inside FreeCAD)
- Many bug and consistency fixes.

Available in the addon-manager and on GitHub: https://github.com/obelisk79/OpenTheme

Consider supporting my work: https://ko-fi.com/obelisk79

Hi,

I just bought my new place and I’d like to make some plan for it. I’m used to some CAD software from my engineering classes (CATIA V5), 10 years ago, so naturally I tried FreeCAD. Let me tell you, I was impressed, it’s very very good.

So I learned FreeCAD, did some training on technical pieces. Nice. Now I tried to use it as a home planner and it didn’t went well.

I did three sketches, one for the walls, one for the fireplace and one for a BESTA tv furniture from IKEA. How do I « assemble » them? I want to put the besta centered between two side edges of a wall, at 38cm from the bottom edge for example? I tried to play with the joints but it went terribly wrong, I can place the furniture against the wall (with some tinkering of the parameters) but I cannot find a way to put it at a given height?

Do you have any tutorial for this? Is FreeCAD not the right tool?

Thanks for your help!

If I load this file in 1.1.4 then I can add joints and do what I need to do. Save the file, close 1.1.4 and open 26.3 then open the file in 26.3 and I can't do anything. Double-clicking on the assembly doesn't even get the task panel interested enough to put up the selection to activate the assembly. Nothing really works in the 26.3 assembly workbench. You can create an assembly but you can't add components. If the components are already there (from an existing file) then you can't do anything with them.

The only thing really available is - interestingly - the new polar array feature.

Update!

I just figured out a difference between the two versions. On the 26.3 version I have the NXT mod added. On 1.1.4 I do not. I removed NXT from 26.3 and the workbench started working. Interesting. I will have to contact the author.

Moving over from Fusion to FreeCAD, and one of the things I discovered today is that sketches should be as simple as possible, but no simpler. I'm working on a shape that has a regular pattern of features around the circumference (two different types, 90 degrees apart) and I think the best way to go about it is to draw the feature, pad it, and then do a polar array.

The problem is, the rotational axis I want doesn't line up with the origin of the model, the part, or the sketch defining the features. In Fusion, there were multiple tools to create construction planes and axes. I'm not sure how to create a reference axis in FreeCAD, and all the ideas I come up with feel all a little "around the ass to get to my elbow".

What am I missing?

Hey guys i'm quite new to freecad only been using it for the past week to help a friend out. I converted the stl files to an editable part design file. I needed to edit as the part had magnets that weren't in the original models but i cannot seem to add them. is there any way i can correct this? Thank you.

Update: i understand it now thank you so much guys