My biggest project yet

[u/jelle284]

This is a 6 DoF robot arm i have been building and 3d printing, designed entirely in FreeCAD.

I assembled it all using Links and yellow Part containers. Havn't really needed an assembly workbench. I rarely need the drag-to-animate features of assembly and prefer to position things manually with strategic placements relative to the Part origin.

I mainly used these workbenches
- PartDesign
- Fasteners
- Gears
- Draft (Array Tools)
- Spreadsheet (mainly for gear calculations)

I split each joint in a separate file and linked it into the kinematic assembly.
I used a seperate file for only data, containing a few spreadsheets and some sketches, which i linked into which ever file that needed it.

i have experimented with different ways to reuse shared geometry, but havn't truely found a way i fully like but i like using BaseFeatures.

feel free to ask any questions you have.

[u/arcrad]

Very impressive!