![]() But overall, it is a quite powerful and usable program for 3D drawing, and you can already do a lot with just making sketches, making pads of them and combining those into more complicated objects. It seems that in this version, you can select to model a real thread in 3D, which could be very useful for many users. Then i dowloaded a pre-release version of FreeCAD 0.20 here. I noticed that my current FreeCAD version, 0.19, was not able to create real modeled threads. ![]() ![]() 3.) Create a Datum plane in the Body, and use the objects origin to align it. The software i used in this video is FreeCAD. One of the bugs that has annoyed me for a long time is that faces of objects get renamed all the time, which breaks objects (sketches) depending on such a face. They tend to break your drawings, sometimes only after FreeCAD updates. Because of those bugs, I'm also apprehensive to use "fancy" functions in FreeCAD. Documentation and tutorials are scattered around, and partially outdated or simply wrong. On top of that, it has some nasty bugs you have to work around, and those workarounds are hard to find without reading the proper documentation. ![]() Every workbench in FreeCAD is a struggle on it's own, and combining stuff has it's own quirks. The ability to convert imperial mesh (es) to Metric and vice-versa. It's one of the main reasons I'm among those 3% of desktop users running Linux daily. Never! I simply refuse to be taken hostage by a company like that. ![]()
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