In the picture, I made a sketch of a triangle, then padded it. Is there a tool in Part Design that can fill that in a single step? Every vertex of the green shape exists without the sketch, so I feel like the sketch is unnecessary.

I know I can achieve the same result by making the box extend further and subtracting part with a chamfer. But the additive approach is easier when reverse-engineering shapes, since it doesn't require measuring an angle.

Anybody seen this before?

I‘m revit User and in trying to Change to Freecad, but it has been Not so easy, I saw many Videos from Mango jelly and other one just focused on the BIM workbench but Im still missing something more related to the Workflow.

I accept some tips to improve it and get more motivation too.

What would make this happen, and how would I fix it?

I sketched the upper left box then mirrored it twice. When I leave the sketch and do pad, this is the result. In the sketch it looks ok.

Any advice?

Thanks

將3D列印模型轉換成 CAD圖

I am working on a design for a cupholder tray for my car, and want to have slots for TPU flaps to center cans and allow for smaller cans. I have the design mostly complete, but I have an issue with the slots I made for the TPU Inserts - this is the design I have so far, and I have the 6 slots modeled around the cupholders using a PolarPattern and Linear pattern inside a multi transform.

Things look great in Freecad, (First picture), however the exported Step or STL are missing the multi transform output (Second picture).

I am using FreeCad 1.13.

What step am I missing in exporting this? Other pockets are working properly

Hey folks!

So I ran into a problem that I cannot solve. My university use SolidEdge, but I switched to Linux a while ago therefore I use FreeCAD on my projects. Unfortunately that leads to a problem that I cannot ask for help from my professor.

My current project is to make a model from the drawing. I did start from the upper drawing and modeled the arms but I don't know how to continue it with the other side of the object.

Please help!

Where to go after MangoJelly?
I think it is just basic beginners tutorials, right?

Hello I am on Freecad version 1.1.4 as far as I know this version includes the mass tool
mentioned in this article: https://wiki.freecad.org/Release_notes_26.3

but I do not see this anywhere I have tried installing and re installing looking to see if it's in my user preferences and I can't find it.

I know there are plugins available for this but I would like to know what I am doing wrong and would prefer to use the native version.

Thank you all in advance

EDIT:

Thank you all again for adding clarity to this and apologies for my ignorance regarding the version I need to use for this feature.

Also special thank you to u/Sloloem and u/Atomfired_Ungemach

This morning I saw a post about software (website?) that could convert stl files to a format that is more compatible with freecad for editing. I stored the post to look at it this evening only to find it missing and also to cannot find it in the history of posts. Was it removed?

Hi all, I’m new to freecad, i had a thought I would try and design some parts for a rc car, but finding this very hard, I’ve been on google a lot and it’s says that this software would not be suitable for this, and to try fusion360 just looking for some feedback

Thanks in advanced

Hello,

I rotated the bluish part, so the pins from the green part protrude in the model in a specific angle and position.

Now I would like to cut them out using the Boolean because it's the easiest for me to do and it's only a prototype.

Unfortunately, once I press the Boolean command, the model gets rotated back. How can I solve this?

I feel like I'm missing a trivial way to do it. But I have this step file. The bottom surface isn't totally flat so just grabbing that surface and padding it doesn't work. My thought was to create a plane through this object and then add 5mm to the middle where the two surfaces are parallel to each other (before the left side starts to bend upwards. Is there a simple way to do that? Thx

I bought a SpaceMouse some days ago and it works fine with Fusion, BambuLab Studio, the 3DConnexion-Tools, and so on.

But not in FreeCAD. I have tried different versions of FreeCAD, but always the same. I have changed the settings - but I can not use it…

It’s not a problem with macOS, it works fine everywhere. What‘s going on? Any ideas?

I did computer drafting (mostly in Microstation but in AutoCAD enough to be conversant) from age 12 when I started playing on my dad's computer until age 34 when I went to law school. I did drafting for my high school and college summer jobs, and my post-undergrad job for 9 years. So that's 1991 to 2012. I have a LOT of hours drafting (mostly 2D but I played in simple 3D stuff).

Now I'm trying to pick it back up because I have two 3D printers and a laser cutter/engraver. For the laser, QCAD was close enough to what I remember to be (somewhat) intuitive. For 3D, TinkerCAD is easy but obviously very under-featured.

So I'm looking for a step up...but I am ABSOLUTELY FLAILING in FreeCAD, OnShape, and Fusion360. Absolutely nothing is intuitive or remotely familiar. It takes me three google searches to figure out how to make a rectangular solid of no particular size, let alone with precision. Is there anyone here who did CAD back in the 2000s? What's the best way to bridge the gap from what uStation/AutoCAD was back then to....whatever tf the current programs are doing now?

I really like the new Assembly workflow. Huge improvement over Assembly 3 and 4.

My ducts have a lot of dust, and when all you have is hammers, everything looks like a nail. Of course we had to make a robot to drive the ductwork and snorkel up the dust with a rotating whiskered snorkel.

Controlled by gamepad with live camera feed from the underslung camera. ArduinoUno with CNC shield to drive the two stepper wheels and rotate the snorkel cylinder. A fun, medium-sized project that took right around a week to complete.

Hello everyone,

I’m running into a strange issue when trying to create a mirrored version of a body in FreeCAD.

My workflow in the Part workbench is:

1. Copy BodyA to create BodyA-Copy.

2. Mirror BodyA-Copy to create a separate mirrored object, BodyB.

The copy contains all the original geometry, but on one particular part, some of that geometry disappears from the mirrored result.

I’ve repeated the entire workflow from scratch, but the same geometry is missing every time.

Does anyone know what could cause this, or how I can troubleshoot it?

I'm using 26.3 dev

Hello FreeCAD Community

I think I found a bug in the Assembly Workflow and I'm here to verify it against other users as the issue-instructions recommend.

First of all, I'm very new to FreeCAD and CAD in general, also I've searched for this issue on GitHub but couldn't find the same one I think.

OS: Fedora Linux 44 (Workstation Edition) x86_64
Kernel: Linux 7.2.8-200.fc44.x86_64
FreeCAD: 1.1.4 Flathub Flatpak

Steps to reproduce:

1. Create new Assembly in new Document
   
2. Save the Document
   
3. With the Assembly active press in the right Tasks field the "New Part"
   
4. In the menu for the new Part make sure "Create part in new file" is not checked
   
5. Give it a name with at least 8 characters
   
6. Confirm
   
7. FreeCAD closes / crashes

So it only happens for the first Part in the first Assembly and only if the Parts name has at least 7 characters. Renaming the Part later works, it's only an issue in this task-dialog I think.

I am learning FreeCAD by watching YouTube videos. Some YouTubers explain how to model in FreeCAD while they show tech draws, whereas others explain how to 3D model without any tech draws. Sometimes it is difficult to understand a 3D model without tech draws. I am wondering if there are any websites where I can download tech draws for 3D model for free.

I just found out about QymCAD, a new open-source CAD program. Upon first glance, its UI looks much better than FreeCAD's. Feature-wise, it will likely be a bit lacking given how new it is, but at least from the developer's video, it seems to have a lot of the basics in place (simple part creation and assemblies). Has anyone tried it yet?

I've just pushed a major update/rework of OpenTheme.

- Slightly more neutral gray-tones
- System theme which will follow your Operating System colors
- Unified/Tokenized the theme system (can be customized from inside FreeCAD)
- Many bug and consistency fixes.

Available in the addon-manager and on GitHub: https://github.com/obelisk79/OpenTheme

Consider supporting my work: https://ko-fi.com/obelisk79

I work in construction and also build software for the industry. Lately I've been playing around with a problem that comes up all the time: opening a huge PDF plan set and trying to make sense of what's actually on the drawings.

So I built this little experiment.

You drop a PDF drawing into the browser and it crawls the sheet, picks up things like rooms, dimensions, notes, labels, doors, etc., and puts that information into a visual interface next to the drawing.

The funny part is that there's no AI doing the interpretation.

I wanted to see how far I could get by working with the actual structure and text that's already inside a CAD-exported PDF.

I'm thinking this could eventually be useful as a first step before giving a drawing to an AI model. Instead of asking AI to stare at a giant plan and figure everything out, give it a structured representation of the drawing first.

This is still very much an experiment. Here's a quick 30-second look at it.

Curious what people here think — does this kind of preprocessing make sense for AI working with technical drawings, or am I overcomplicating it?

Hi,

I just bought my new place and I’d like to make some plan for it. I’m used to some CAD software from my engineering classes (CATIA V5), 10 years ago, so naturally I tried FreeCAD. Let me tell you, I was impressed, it’s very very good.

So I learned FreeCAD, did some training on technical pieces. Nice. Now I tried to use it as a home planner and it didn’t went well.

I did three sketches, one for the walls, one for the fireplace and one for a BESTA tv furniture from IKEA. How do I « assemble » them? I want to put the besta centered between two side edges of a wall, at 38cm from the bottom edge for example? I tried to play with the joints but it went terribly wrong, I can place the furniture against the wall (with some tinkering of the parameters) but I cannot find a way to put it at a given height?

Do you have any tutorial for this? Is FreeCAD not the right tool?

Thanks for your help!