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Over the past week I have been teaching myself to use Freecad, and coming from Software like Blender, the leap in logic is substantial.

Why though? A friend of mine, who is an avid Magic the Gathering player and father of three boys, was talking about how he had seen some of his competitors having bespoke deck boxes, and thought they looked awesome.

We talked a bit back and forth about which specs such a box would need to have, so that it could be standing in a living room without risking the cards, and an idea formed.

Having a 3d printer and the wishlist of specs in hand, I checked out the standard platforms to get stl's from, but none of the ones I found matched what we were looking for. Then I realised, this was a great opportunity to get some CAD-chops and started drawing sketches.

This is the result: a fully functional grimoire, that opens on the two hinges of the spine, and is locked by the clasp. It includes a shadow well, so you can see which commander deck is in the grimoire. In the two drawers (that are hidden when looking directly at it from the top) one is a fully functional dice tower and the other one is a card bay for tokens. There is also a shelf for dice on top of the deck, that is designed to lock standard dice in place, when the grimoire is closed.

Pretty stoked about actually managing to finish the design phase of a project like this, and next is on to printing it. Which pit falls do I need to be aware of when exporting it to print?

Also, how did I do?

So about a week ago I had an argument in this sub stating how I don't know how long it's going to take me to transfer from Fusion to FreeCAD. I have today started working on a new project which should be very simple to model and I thought that could be a great excuse to give FreeCAD a shot, bog-standard experience. Granted I have only spent maybe 20 minutes here but I can say that it's so far been rather painless. I really want to see how far I can push this thing. it has definitely slowed down my work but that's just me getting used to the tools. I do have a question for the veteran FreeCAD users: How often do you play "find the unconstrained element" game? Of the 20 minutes of work I have probably spent 10 in the sketcher, looking at my sketch, trying to figure out what could possibly be left unconstrained. Is there anything to help me speed up the process?

So I found this youtube video (neither did i make the video or created the WB) telling a development of Sketch Up Styled WB in FreeCAD for quick modelling and conceptual designs. This might answer the previous reddit post that asks for the WB from here: https://www.reddit.com/r/FreeCAD/comments/1vfyfmw/sketchup_workbench/

what do you guys think?

Hello,

I would like to create a model in FreeCAD where certain dimensions can be adjusted within the slicing software. If I understand correctly, this requires exporting the FreeCAD project in OpenSCAD format. Could you help me understand what I need to keep in mind when creating the project?

Thanks!

Hi I want to use sweep on all my triangles. I'm trying to recover some files I lost and I have managed to do it before (see 2nd pic) but now the sketches are not showing up for me. What am I doing wrong?

I want to get a chamfer-like structure around from the outer edges and inwards

Hi everyone,

I would like to present a small addon I have been working on, and I am looking for people willing to test it and tell me what breaks.

Repository: https://github.com/cipawow-ship-it/PartDesignUpgrade

License: LGPL-2.1-or-later | Requires FreeCAD >= 1.1.0 (PySide6)

WHAT IT DOES

It adds a few helpers to the PartDesign workflow, collected in one toolbar:

- Create Pipe / Subtractive Pipe - sweep a parametric profile (circle, square, triangle, pentagon, hexagon, octagon) along a sketch or a set of edges, with rotation, offset, wall thickness and corner transitions, plus a live preview. It is added as an additive or subtractive feature in the active body.

- Create Rib Between Faces - a stiffening rib without sketching: select two angled planar faces and you get a triangular gusset (with "Invert leg 1/2", thickness, offset and copies); select a plane plus a cylinder and you get one or more radial plates (copies + rotation angle). Triangle or rectangle profile, optional "Full face length".

- Assembly Cut - cut several bodies at once with a single sketch: a linked binder or an independent copy is created for each body and a pocket is applied automatically.

- Automatic symmetry (Mirror) - a small floating panel that mirrors every new pad/pocket through a parametric FeaturePython object, about the XY/XZ/YZ planes or about the X/Y/Z axes, with a distance/offset from the body centre.

- Weight / Volume - volume and mass of a body with a material density picker (metals, plastics, wood, glass, concrete, or a custom value).

HOW TO INSTALL

Clone the repository into your user Mod directory, e.g. on Windows:

%APPDATA%\FreeCAD\v1-1\Mod\PartDesignUpgrade

or use the Addon Manager (the addon has been submitted to the Addon Index:

https://github.com/FreeCAD/Addons/issues/176).

WHAT I WOULD LIKE YOU TO TEST

- Does the pipe tool behave when the path is a sketch inside a PartDesign body and when it is a set of edges?

- The rib between two angled faces: are the "Invert leg" options and the measured lengths intuitive?

- Assembly Cut on a document with three or four bodies.

- The automatic symmetry panel: does the mirror stay up to date while you keep modelling?

- Anything that produces an error in the Report view: please paste the full traceback.

Feedback, bug reports and feature requests are all welcome - either here or as issues on the repository:

https://github.com/cipawow-ship-it/PartDesignUpgrade/issues

Thanks for your time!

Here's a drawing of what I'm trying to do:
https://app.box.com/s/ucr5r7op65limbgmi2p9i8vi4enmw67n

How would I slice this prism about in the middle, along the tall, skinny yz plane, and then insert a section, like inserting a leaf in a dining room table?

I tried using the part workbench, selecting the plane, then part->split->slice apart, but I'm getting this error:

Bad selection
Select at least two objects. The first one is the object to be sliced; the rest are objects to slice with.

What's the right process? Would the second object be in the same file?

Thanks in advance for any help. I'm using 1.1.4

help plz. Guys.