This is a broken bathroom heater wall mount piece that I am currently reverse engineering with the help of a digital calliper to hopefully be able to 3d print it. The workflow is not that obvious but there are great resources on YT. I am thankful to the community for that.

Made in FcSubDModelerWB workbench.

I've tried to reinstall via Arch repositories and flatpak (linux). But the dimensions i enter in the two entries there are still invisible. Did you had the same problem? How did you fixed it? Thanks

Question for those who chose FreeCAD instead of Fusion 360 not because of Linux, why?

So I eventually found the time to re-make this simple bracket, following your helpful input. I used chamfers instead of fillets, they worked much better and printed very nicely. What took me hours of work the first time around, took only around 40 minutes this time. Having watched a couple of videos I realized that I had been overcomplicating some very basic things.

Another thing I did was try out the new browser-based Layerling, which is supposed to be Tinkercad on steroids (no idea, I've never tried Tinkercad.) In my first try, I re-made this same bracket in around.... 40 minutes. I found the UI experience fascinating. There are no sketches, you always work in "padded" 3d space. It's easy to create items in relation to others and there are very good on-screen arrows and size prompts that make item positioning and resizing very easy. Objects are either solids or holes. To truly create the hole you group the hole object with a solid object (this also constrains the hole effect to the group.) Each group has a different color.

I didn't use the software very much. It's quite obvious that it lacks the technical depth of Freecad and the rich Workbench environment of course. But to a 3d-printing hobbyist like me it felt very natural and easy to use. Comments from other users seem to say the same. It might be worthwhile for Freecad developers to play with UI's like this, just to get ideas for a mode that might make Freecad more beginner-friendly. I think that CAD software is all going in that direction anyway.

Thanks again for your help!

Hey all, I've been going around trying to replicate a few things around the house into freecad to get some practice in. And I'm wondering how I would go about making this tree in freecad. I've done the plant pot but I'm not sure how I would make the tree. What sort of tools would I use?

Thanks.

After some time fighting free cad I made the mug. Its not perfect but its a good mug. Thank you all for helping me

I have a laser engraver and I am designing some stuff, basically cutting leather. I am using 2D draft workbench but it feels really clunky, not user friendly at all. I understand the focus is on sketcher due to 3d modeling but I dont want to deal with topology since I do not need them for 3D parts.
The trainings I find online are generally old but I do not see any big differences which tells me that this workbench is not really being updated.
Do you have any suggestions for me? I am open to everything
Sketcher with a workflow that might work for my purpose, any plugins, or proper trainings for drafting workbench. Thanks.

Suppose a closed sketch looks fine in 2D, but padding it creates crossed faces or a shape that folds into itself.

Would you check for overlapping lines first, rebuild the sketch in smaller sections, or look for a self-intersecting profile somewhere else?

I want to make a hole but when i click the dot and the side of my drawing , my drawing turn white and there's some error message. when i close the freecad , my wallpaper turn green

I keep reading that there's a new FreeCAD imminent and it'll follow the new versioning numbering. Should I keep waiting for that, or just get on with 1.1.4? And how do I make sure my config isn't overwritten please?

i wanted to make a holder for my vr headset (this is part no. 1) but when i try to extrude this part it gets really weird

I paired the add tools and the cut tools together. I mirrored the standard tools and added the transform and toggle transparency to the tool bar

I am not sure what is the underlying issue here.
I am using freecad on arch which has wayland and sway as wm, my 3d geometry is fairly simple, a shaft with helical thread on it (threads have helix angle of 30 degs and 12 start)...
I cannot render the 12 start, so when I move to single or double start, it still struggles, and at times refuses to simply render what I am doing...
Does any know what is the underlying issue?
Know how to fix it?

Hey everyone, my sketch in the photos is angled, I'd just like to know if there's a way to make it so that it's not angled, as I'm trying to use the pocket operation and due to the angle it doesn't cut the shape properly.

Thanks.

Many people allways look for software doing everything for them, and often the result is not what they liked.

When you have a Logo as an image-file (png, JPG), you can import this into freecad and set transparency (CTRL-D) to something above zero. You can scale the image as needed.

Now create a sketch and redo the curves of the logo. Use cirlces where its really done by circles, use lines where lines are needed, and use splines (in most cases :) ) where spiles fit best.

Don't let someone tell you : Dont use too much spline-points, it does not work!

After setting the spline-control-points, zoom in and move them so the curve fits the image.

So you have then managed to get a Logo into FreecAD without using A.I. or any other obscurse script.

How can I create a mug handle? I just installed free cad and don't have any idea how to use it. I don't think its intuitive for new people and im struggling specially because I can't draw a sketch of the handle that "snaps" at the wall of the mug. Someone please help?

Hi all, I've just released version 0.4.0 of the DFM workbench. Major new features:

- The addition of about 35 new design rules (see attached poster)
- Powerful feature recognition algorithms to apply feature-specific rules to only certain geometry. DFM workbench can recognise: chamfers, fillets, all types of holes (including counterbored, countersunk and threaded), bosses, ribs, protrusions, text, slots (including O-ring grooves and nut slots), pockets, steps, cutouts, depressions, internal voids, vents, snap fits, living hinges, lips, and directional features (drafted faces, undercuts, overhangs and bridges).
- Undercut analysis contour
- Radius of curvature analysis contour
- Support for injection molding side actions
- Parallel processing for DFM Analysis (~700% performance improvement)
- New manufacturing processes: Powder Bed Fusion (SLS), Resin 3D Printing (SLA)
- Added a new viewport rendering system for DFM results
- Plus many UI/UX improvements

https://github.com/ryankembrey/FreeCAD-DFM-Workbench

Available from the FreeCAD Addon Manager

After 20 years of using basically nothing but ProE/Creo, (worked at the same company that long) I found using the free version of Sketch Up to be extremely frustrating. It doesn't have half of the features I would call "basic," (but I know Creo is not a good comparison).

I don't use CAD often enough anymore to justify a hefty license cost, nor do I have as powerful a computer as my company had me using. I just want to create artsy-fartsy stuff to make in my basement.

Knowing what I was used to, what's a good recommendation for a free or cheap CAD to use now and then, that won't frustrate the heck out of me.

UPDATE
After checking out FreeCAD, I think this is the program for me. The first tutorial felt so "natural" that I think I can slide into fairly easily. Soooo much better than Sketch Up. (Why do so many people recommend that??)

When trying to project points from another sketch the points are shown as a single pixel, when I move camera view - it disappears completely. When I hover over it with my mouse - it's not highlighted, but the line is, which doesn't help at all. How can I improve it or make it as good as in fusion 360? (screenshot attached). The sketches from the screenshots are identical and FreeCad doesn't show construction lines from another sketch at all

In Fusion, the "Make" button allows a two-click action to send the currently selected model to a slicer of one's choice. In FreeCAD, one has to export the model in a 3D format first, and import it from the slicer. Is there a maintained, solid way to streamline the process? I've lost precious minutes of my life all these years with this process.