Drawing within the confines of FreeCAD gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "there's more than one way to skin a cat".

Just discovered this, wow, I. have learned form you, thanks.

@MangoJellySolutions

10 ай бұрын

No probs, it's an excellent workbench.

Excellent illustration of an interesting and complex Workpackage

@MangoJellySolutions

Жыл бұрын

Thank you 😊

thank you so much sir

perfect. we need tools like this on a board, default. thanks for share it

Thank you very much. I'm always amazed how much you know about FreeCad and how well you can explain it.

😍 thank great job !!!

@MangoJellySolutions

9 ай бұрын

Thank you too!

Great explanation und tutorial. Thank you 🙂

@MangoJellySolutions

11 ай бұрын

You’re welcome. And thank you 😊

Very handy! Thanks for sharing the excellent tutorial as always. i'll be having a play around with this technique.

@MangoJellySolutions

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed and good luck with your experiments

Oh that is great. Thx for another great video

@MangoJellySolutions

10 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

If you want to precisely control where at spline tangents to, just create an extra point. The spline will just touch the midpoint of the two control points. You can not only control where the spline touches, but at what angle it hits that point.

@ryanmcgowan3061

11 ай бұрын

Actually, this requires a polynomial curve. Not sure if FreeCAD has this capability.

I found this workbench about a week ago and installed it thinking this could be useful , just need to know how to use it ... the gods heard me 😊

@MangoJellySolutions

Жыл бұрын

Hope it's going to help. It's the most underrated workbench I have come across. Needs way more exposure.

@NUeB_net

11 ай бұрын

@@MangoJellySolutions Indeed. I wish I knew about this when I started w/ FreeCAD last year…

you can incrase more items in the property section to close the shape more easily

aside from its ovious utility, it looks like a way to make cool looking, mor organic forms

@MangoJellySolutions

Жыл бұрын

I think so. I was playing with this yesterday and combining it with freehand bspline in the curves workbench. I think there is a lot of possibilities. Also the workbench has the sweep version which makes things even more interesting.

What about in the case where we want to maintain a constant thickness to chord ratio such as in a NACA foil? Is there an easy way to do this?

You are going to put surf board shapers out of work. Beautiful example of curves. Thank you.

@MangoJellySolutions

Жыл бұрын

Lol, you saying that there are alot of board builders around in my neck of the woods. I wonder if they can be tempted with freecad 😁

Super explanation of this workbench. I didn’t know it was so easy and versatile. Next, can you show us how to add servo cut-outs and ribs to a model wing like this? Even ailerons using assembly technique or however you think is a direct and practical way? Thank you. Thank you..

@MangoJellySolutions

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed, It's a great workbench, few tool but very powerful. Thanks for the request I think that is a pretty good idea.

@russellw5447

10 ай бұрын

I'll second that Darren@@MangoJellySolutions

Very Useful WB. I just finished 28/53 aeroplane canopy and I knew there had to be a more calculated procedure. How can I create templates from the profiles inorder to create a wooden plug for making a mold for composite work Thanks I am really satisfied with my increased FreeCAD skills!

@MangoJellySolutions

9 ай бұрын

It's a great little workbench, only a few told but so powerful. The surface is a compound when you set solid to false and see all the profiles. The profiles can be "exploded" in the part workbench (top menu, part, compund, explode compound) . You will now have a folder of individual profiles which can be extruded / exported separately. I have a video coming up that will show a very similar workflow. It's already been released to patreon and will be public soon.

The *Twist* control at 14:00 actually works like "rotate"! Or am I missing something here? (On the other hand, the *Twists* control _does_ twist the body.)

I just can't get the Loft to close up the way you do. The last section (no matter how small I make it all ends up being all screwed up. If I add a point then it seems to get worse and reverts to sharp points. I have ver 0.21.1. Not sure if its anomalous to this version or I need more practice.

Just trying to figure out how to atach this to a hub and polar array it for a prop, can you help? Please, and thanks

@MangoJellySolutions

10 ай бұрын

Give the draft workbench a go. Look at the array tools within and you will find what you need there. You can build the hub as seperate part and boolean them In together.

I have a problem. the profile I chose is somehow smaller than my sketch. Does anyone know why this is?

I was actually working on a tail of a helicopter a couple days before you posted this video. Oh boy hoe that wouldve made things so much easier than a bunch of gradually changing lofts like how i did it because that needed reference vertexes to use as base points on each loft

@MangoJellySolutions

Жыл бұрын

I knew I should of released this earlier, your not the only one that has said how this would of saved them so much time. It's changed the way I work as well. When I first tried it I sat looking at the screen for at least 10 minutes muttering 'how did I miss this!'

Just a quick Question. While building a box, and using the thickness tool, the sides and the to, all change, and I would like thicker walls and a thinner roof. Is there away to keep the roof thickness at 1.5mm and the walls at 3mm? It is quite a wast to have the roof the same width. It is a small box, and it is causing some troubles with other dimentions. Thank you for all your video's, I've learned a lot from them. Michael

@MangoJellySolutions

Жыл бұрын

Just had a quick look through my video collection as I am sure I did a video on that. Yes here it is kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZWmOsZqvgaiTY6w.html

G'Day Darren, I'm running FreeCAD 0.21.0 at 19:40 when attaching the sketch instead of InertialCS I get offered Inertia 2-3 (amongst other options)? I'm trying work through it using a Wing of my own Design but using the above when I get to the Loft the Curved array is not showing (just my Sketches to create the wing). I'm ok up to this stage and have found experimenting with Various options and Parameters give Me decent results. Would however like to keep following your Tutorial as close as I can. I like some other posters are looking to construct Radio Control Models and Some guidance on converting to drawings that we can manufacture, cut templates form would be nice. Regards, RW I'll experiment to see which attachment option works.

@Appregator

8 ай бұрын

I have vers 0.21.1 and I used that Inertia 2-3 and I cannot move the point at all but if I go to the data Tab the Map Mode has Inertia CS creates and if you double click it one can change the xyz placement. But in the end using a point makes the LOFT go weird, I made the profile scale tiny and that ends it OK but not closed to a point. Not sure what to do to close it in this version..

Not related to this video. But I searched for the surface workbench in the addon manager. I cannot find it. Help please.

@MangoJellySolutions

Жыл бұрын

The surface workbench is a standard workbench that comes as standard with freecad. It should be in your workbench drop down, no need to install.

@stoffel89

Жыл бұрын

I feel like a complete idiot. Didnt scroll down far enough😂

Not my kind of loft know what I mean no roof on it do you do that kind room plans ect. Cheers

@MangoJellySolutions

11 ай бұрын

😂👍👍