For anyone wondering about the TNP fix and release date - work on TNP sped up but they still need a few more months. Another team is working on a built-in assembly workbench. In February (during the Hackathon) they should decide whether to release 1.0 when both milestones are reached or release something like 0.99 with the currently implemented features for now. They concluded that it depends on when 1.0 can be ready. If in a few months, meaning around a year from the release of 0.21 (August 2023) then it doesn’t make sense to release an intermediate version. Hopefully, that will be the case and TNP or assembly works won’t extend significantly beyond that time. They are also working on a large overhaul of the material system but most of that is done. The next release after 1.0 will focus on UI improvements and smaller missing features which makes sense to me.

@MangoJellySolutions

5 ай бұрын

Thank you :) I have pinned your comment so should stay at the top :)

I downloaded a weekly build as soon as I watched your last "new features" video. Wow the freecad devs are knocking it out of the park lately. Looking forward to the sketcher vid.

I am really happy that the team is working on a lot of UI improvements.

I think a really good feature in the new 0.22 version is the text justification. For example, the draft->ShapeString can now be centered as Middle-Center. This is so good! :)

I donated to the freecad developers. This program helped me out so much. Its an unbelievably powerfull tool.

@ajarivas72

4 ай бұрын

We all should donate to show our appreciation.

I hope I'm still alive when Freecad has mature enough to be used in a real professional environment

@JustinDeane1979

5 ай бұрын

It will get there, if it isn't there already. I'm glad they named it FreeCad in case they get any idea$ to start charging

@ajarivas72

4 ай бұрын

@@JustinDeane1979 FreeCAD is already professional ready. Let us support all the developers financially and with our codes and libraries.

@brianbates7490

4 ай бұрын

DIY Makers are using it every day to design, 3D Print and CNC their own parts. So it is possible. It's great that FreeCAD exists so people like myself can learn how to use these types of programs, for free, and create our own things at home. There are so many different operations I've yet to utilize I figure it will take me at least another year to get through it all. What Professional Grade CAD/CAM program would you recommend someone upgrading to, moving from FreeCAD?

@Friendroid

4 ай бұрын

@@brianbates7490 whatever your employer uses. DesignSpark Mechanical and Fusion 360 are free and closer to Solidworks or Catia, if you want to step up.

@nick4088

4 ай бұрын

I'm using it for professional design already. It's been here. Just because it's free doesn't mean it's useless or not professional.

Thanks Darren, great as usual, I am excited to try these out. Happy Holidays to you and yours.... I so enjoy your concise videos, right on subject...

@MangoJellySolutions

6 ай бұрын

Thank you for all the kind comments and support. Happy new year to you to. And all the best.

As always, very educational and perfectly explained. Looking forward to the final 0.22 version.

@ajarivas72

4 ай бұрын

Same here

@simduino

4 ай бұрын

As an update to my comment I can say that I'm using the weekly dev 0.22 for some time now and it works waaaay better than the 0.21. Yes I know there's a risk involved but all my designs are automatically backed up so if anything fails I can go right back to a previous version and open it in 0.21 without problems.

I'm still using the "Link branch" version by RealThunder mostly. It just working when I split the Body in two or more part is so helpful. As is the "pad to face" in Part Design which doesn't stop at a single plane while extruding past it into infinity, but stops "at where something else sits in its path". I'm curious as to what will make it into 0.22. Same for the topological nameing - RealThunder isn't perfect, and I can imagine it is not good enough yet - but it is a great improvement.

@depthoffocusmike

5 ай бұрын

Pad "up to face" works in 0.21. You can select a face or pad "to first", "to last" etc.

Please continue this series, thanks 🤩

Excellent video....as usual. The Freecad team really scored big with this update!

Excellent video. Transform needs a way to change its origin. Personally, I use Draft WB for moving/rotating objects as you can also snap to many different control points as well as limiting any change to lie on the current workplane set in Draft WB.

Another excellent video. Thanks!

there is no such filtering in Revit, but there is! That's great! see more often the drawing method in ARCHICAD!

Thank you for these news!

thanks for your explanation.

thank you very much

Excellent video 😍😍😍

@MangoJellySolutions

5 ай бұрын

Thank you! Cheers! 👍👍👍

Thanks!

@MangoJellySolutions

5 ай бұрын

Thank you so much 😊😊👍👍

The coders need to simplify some functions. I used an old version of Bobcad (just after DOS). In a crowded drawing you could move the cursor near a what you wanted to select, press P to highlight a point then left mouse button to select, 1 click, press L for line, A for arch, etc Freecad really needs this for the point selection. Also the array function was super simple, you selected the object, clicked which side you wanted the array copy, a box popped up the asked for the INCREMENTAL distance how many iterations up/down, left/right, and done..basically the same for the offset command too.

@Merigold83

5 ай бұрын

KZread is the wrong place, to state your improvement wishes. If you want, that your wishes come to reality, you should post them in the FreeCAD forum.

I've started binge watching your FreeCAD tutorials, and it seems much further forward than when I looked at it years ago, I started thinking it might be good enough to let me consider not renewing my SketchUp Pro licence next year, then I learned about the topology naming problem, and RealThunder's branch, I'm amazed this isn't treated as an "all-hands-on-deck" issue?

@yash1152

5 ай бұрын

🙄🙄 > _"I'm amazed this isn't treated as an "all-hands-on-deck" issue?"_

@MangoJellySolutions

5 ай бұрын

I have just pinned a reply from one of the freeCAD contributors so it appears at the very top of the comments. The post has a wealth of information and includes TNP

@PaulG.x

5 ай бұрын

There aren't that many hands - I believe it is 7 full time devs

Thank you! I move between CAD programs so often that I can't keep track of this stuff myself. That new default location for the Tasks window. Ugh, why?! (are GNOME developers slipping in to FreeCAD development? lol)

It could maybe be handy to colour the planes (or at least the names of planes XY, YZ, XZ) blue, red and green in accordance with the transform tool (11:28 on the video’

Oh wow, I really like the transparency mode. The freecad team has been making great progress the last year or so. Is there a release date for .22, does anyone know? Thanks for covering this mango!

@glabifrons

5 ай бұрын

FreeCAD has had transparency for a very long time, the difference is that it's easier to get to now. In pre-0.22 versions, you select the part and type control-D to get to the color and transparency dialog. It's not a big change, but it's a very welcome one as being able to toggle it via a hot-key means a SpaceBall button can be assigned to it as well. :) A lot of what the devs have been doing are making using FreeCAD a lot more efficient.

@k1u0

5 ай бұрын

@@glabifrons Thanks for the reply! I'll have to try that in the meantime. I had no idea.

@MangoJellySolutions

5 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed :) I have just pinned a reply from one of the freeCAD contributors so it appears at the very top of the comments. The post has a wealth of information and includes TNP

I seldom need to select faces or vertices, so the selection filter will be VERY handy to help me select edges instead of faces when applying fillets and chamfers. Thank you for the clear FreeCAD explanations and for describing which version you're using as the user interface and features changed frequently in the early versions as FreeCAD was being developed. Thanks also to the FreeCAD developers. I donated some money to the project a few days ago, and I'll continue to do that as long as I'm using FreeCAD.

I am very excited for these updates. Do you know when this is going to be released ?

@MangoJellySolutions

5 ай бұрын

I have just pinned a reply from one of the freeCAD contributors so it appears at the very top of the comments. The post has a wealth of information and includes TNP :)

10:15 Again: RGB stands for XYZ. Here these colored planes let you move an object along as plane with a fixed -color- coordinate. E. g. the green plane alters X (red) and Z (blue) but not the Z (blue) coordinate of the selected object. - Nice feature. I also like the "fast transparency" because it savey a lot of key strokes ans mouse clicks.

@MangoJellySolutions

5 ай бұрын

I remember you like your short cut keys. I guess you been setting up your own from the customise menu option as well?

@NUeB_net

5 ай бұрын

@@MangoJellySolutions Actually not, just for the buttons of my space mouse. I mostly use shortcuts within sketcher, where all the most needed functions already have pretty good shortcuts. In the other workbenches, toolbars are okay. I just arranged all toolbars so that they are fully expanded.

When will FreeCad support assemblies properly without needing to install a specific linux distribution though?

Although I’ve been playing around with a recent build, still a lot of new stuff to learn here 😊. You mentioned changing the point size - have been looking for that quite a while, Is somebody willing to give me a hint where to modify that please?

@callumstuart9094

5 ай бұрын

Edit - Preferences - Part/Part Design Workbench - Shape Appearance - Vertex Size or for individual shapes without changing the rest Select shape - right click -Appearance - scroll down to display section - point size Both can change colours too so they stick out from the lines even clearer.

@MangoJellySolutions

5 ай бұрын

Yes, just pulled the video link for you. kzread.info/dash/bejne/onWos5eoac-rc5s.html I believe it's in there along with the pick radius. Or was it point size of Sketcher. I do have a link on my blog for making freecad easier to use which includes point size mangojellysolutions.blogspot.com/2022/12/settings-and-resources-to-help-with.html

@joachimeuler8269

5 ай бұрын

@@MangoJellySolutions A really big thumbs-up, it really was the display -> 3D view -> marker size which I was looking for 😅

Does anyone know if the topological naming problem is still relevant or being worked on? I'm currently using real thunder but want to try out these new features

@GabrielAlejandroZorrilla

5 ай бұрын

yep, still a pain in the ass (id call that relevant 😂 )

@Merigold83

5 ай бұрын

It is currently worked on (with the help from Real Thunder) and it is aimed to be released by FOSDEM 2024 (in February) as FreeCAD v1.0

@MangoJellySolutions

5 ай бұрын

I have just pinned a reply from one of the freeCAD contributors so it appears at the very top of the comments. The post has a wealth of information and includes TNP

@JacobHepworth

5 ай бұрын

@@MangoJellySolutions I would have missed that comment otherwise. Thank you!

@ajarivas72

4 ай бұрын

@@GabrielAlejandroZorrilla Python scripting in FreeCAD is so powerful. Perfect for IA integration

I see you manage to install on Linux, the dev version. Did you just download the package and install locally?

@MangoJellySolutions

5 ай бұрын

There is a link in the description of that video showing how to install on Linux. It's the app image which can be run but make sure you change the permissions to allow for execute.

@CallistoPili

5 ай бұрын

@@MangoJellySolutions thanks, I see the link and I will try it!

Great stuff to look forward to...thanks.

I'm just getting started with fc and at the start, still even, it annoys me with calling extrude "pad". I use many modelers and parametric packages and have never seen this. It behaves oddly as well which i believe sets it back. I really can't take the increasing prices of fusion and the others out there, so I'm putting in the time to learn this approach. I do hope to see this grow like blender did and give fusion and creo a run for their money. With that said, i will be donating to this project in hopes that it does.

@MangoJellySolutions

4 ай бұрын

Yes coming from other 3D packages myself I found this odd. Freecad is going places especially with the progress of 0.22 more commercial companies moving over. I have consulted with a few lately to help with projects which I have never done before.

I didn't understand why you showed the different unit systems (metric, US, imperial). Tell us what situation was before. Or even better: show us. Thanks for the videos, Mr. Solutions. :)

Posting to bump engagement

Always avoided FC because the Space mouse driver was always so poor (flickering all the time)I tried this 0.22 the other day and it worked like a dream; I can't do without it so now I've no excuse!

@NUeB_net

5 ай бұрын

Never had any problems w/ my space mouse since I started using FreeCAD 2 in 2022.

@sirrodneyffing1

5 ай бұрын

@@NUeB_net Hi. Mine just flickered zooming/rotating all the time no matter what driver I used. I read quite a few people had the same issue. I tried few ‘fixes’ that didn't work, so I gave up. No such issue with any other application. It's just been added to Plasticity 1.4 too, so I’m off to the races with that and FC too.

@ajarivas72

4 ай бұрын

@@NUeB_net I started using FreeCAD in 2016, I think it was version 0.14. It is my favorite software since then. I can’t believe all the improvements during these 8 years.

Any guesses on when or if we can get FreeCAD on Fedora 39? Quit working after 38 - not in repos and won't compile

@thegardenofeatin5965

5 ай бұрын

Try the Flatpak version?

Thanks for the vid and thanks to the developers....but....fix the topological naming issue above all else..!!!

@MangoJellySolutions

5 ай бұрын

Just to let you know I have just pinned one of the freeCAD contributors posts to the top of the comments which holds a wealth of information regarding the new version which includes TNP.

Mangojelly I need your help. Can you make a video on how to make a female and a male bayonet mount? I have been scouring the internet for freecad versions I haven't found any.

@MangoJellySolutions

5 ай бұрын

Would this be for say a camera lens or just standard bayonet light fitting (or both)

@powerfulgryphon1260

5 ай бұрын

@@MangoJellySolutions for in general like a camera lense or like how some vacuum clean hoses twist on

@MangoJellySolutions

5 ай бұрын

@@powerfulgryphon1260 got it, great idea 😊 keep an eye out

Is there a reliable source I can get 0.22.x Windows binaries/installers from? (sorry for the duplicate comment)

@MangoJellySolutions

5 ай бұрын

If you have a look in the description of the video you will see two links. One is for a video showing where to download and how to run the weekly builds on both windows and linux. Hope that helps.

sterling review

Release date known??❤

@MangoJellySolutions

5 ай бұрын

I have just pinned a reply from one of the freeCAD contributors so it appears at the very top of the comments. The post has a wealth of information and includes TNP

@The_Unobtainium

5 ай бұрын

@@MangoJellySolutions many thanks!

I use turntable as my rotation mode since that is what 99% of slicer software uses. So I have zero need for the rotate under mouse feature.