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    FreeCAD Basics Tutorial
    FreeCAD Basics Tutorial
    FreeCAD Basics Tutorial
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    The FreeCAD Basics Tutorial book is the essential guide for engineers and designers without any experience in computer aided designing. This book will teach you the basics you need to know to start using FreeCAD with easy to understand, step-by-step tutorials. The author begins by getting you familiar with the Inventor interface and its basic tools. You will learn to model parts and create assemblies. Next, you will learn some additional part modeling tools, drawing.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTutorial Books
    Release dateDec 26, 2018
    ISBN9781540198594
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      FreeCAD Basics Tutorial - Tutorial Books

      FreeCAD

      Basics Tutorial

      Tutorial Books

      Copyright © 2018 @ Kishore

      This book may not be duplicated in any way without the express written consent of the publisher, except in the form of brief excerpts or quotations for the purpose of review. The information contained herein is for the personal use of the reader and may not be incorporated in any commercial programs, other books, database, or any kind of software without written consent of the publisher. Making copies of this book or any portion for purpose other than your own is a violation of copyright laws.

      Limit of Liability/Disclaimer of Warranty:

      The author and publisher make no representations or warranties with respect to the accuracy or completeness of the contents of this work and specifically disclaim all warranties, including without limitation warranties of fitness for a particular purpose. The advice and strategies contained herein may not be suitable for every situation. Neither the publisher nor the author shall be liable for damages arising here from.

      Trademarks:

      All brand names and product names used in this book are trademarks, registered trademarks, or trade names of their respective holders. The author and publisher is not associated with any product or vendor mentioned in this book.

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      Contents

      Scope of this book

      Chapter 1: Getting Started with FreeCAD

      Starting FreeCAD

      Workbenches in FreeCAD

      User Interface

      Menu bar

      Toolbar

      Status bar

      Dialog

      Navigation Styles

      Background

      Chapter 2: Part Modeling Basics

      Tutorial 1

      Starting a New Part File

      Starting a Sketch

      Adding Constraints

      Creating the Base Feature

      Adding a Pad Feature

      Filleting the Corners

      Changing View Orientation

      Rotating and Moving the Part

      Shelling the model

      Saving the Part

      Tutorial 2

      Starting a New Part File

      Sketching for the Pad Feature

      Creating Cut Feature

      Chapter 3: Assembly Basics

      Tutorial 1

      Starting a New Assembly File

      Inserting the Base Component

      Adding the second component

      Applying Constraints

      Chapter 4: Sketching

      Creating Polylines

      Creating Polygons

      Creating Slot

      Constraints

      Constrain Coincident

      Constrain horizontally

      Constrain Vertically

      Constrain tangent

      Constrain Parallel

      Constrain Perpendicular

      Auto Constraints

      Deleting Constraints

      Constrain Lock

      Constrain Block

      Hiding Constraints

      Create B-Spline

      Create periodic B-spline

      Ellipses

      Extend Edge

      Trim Edge

      Constrain point onto object

      Toggle Construction geometry

      Chapter 5: Additional Modeling Tools

      TUTORIAL 1

      Creating the First Feature

      Creating the Pocket feature

      Creating a Polar Pattern

      Adding the Pad feature

      Creating a Counterbore Hole

      Creating a Threaded hole

      Creating Chamfers

      TUTORIAL 2

      Creating the first feature

      Creating the Shell feature

      Creating the Third feature

      Creating the Rib Feature

      Creating a Pocket Feature

      TUTORIAL 3

      Creating the Profile

      Creating the Helix

      Creating the Sweep

      TUTORIAL 4

      Creating the Loft feature

      Creating the Extruded feature

      Creating Fillets

      Shelling the Model

      Adding Threads

      TUTORIAL 5

      Creating the First feature

      Creating the Mirrored feature

      Creating Clones

      TUTORIAL 6

      Constructing a cylindrical shell

      Adding a Slot

      Constructing the Linear pattern

      Constructing the Circular pattern using the MultiTransform tool

      TUTORIAL 7

      Constructing the Groove feature

      Chapter 6: Creating Drawings

      TUTORIAL 1

      Starting a New Drawing File

      Generating the Base View

      Generating the Section View

      Creating the Detailed View

      Adding Dimensions

      Populating the Title Block

      Introduction

      FreeCAD as a topic of learning is very vast, and having a wide scope. It is a package of many workbenches delivering a great value to enterprises. It offers a set of tools, which are easy-to-use to design, document and simulate 3D models. Using this software, you can design your products at free of cost.

      This book provides a step-by-step approach for users to learn FreeCAD. It is aimed for those with no previous experience with FreeCAD. The user will be guided from starting a FreeCAD session to creating parts, assemblies, and drawings. Each chapter has components explained with the help of real-world models.

      Scope of this book

      This book is written for students and engineers who are interested to learn FreeCAD for designing mechanical components and assemblies, and then create drawings.

      This book provides a step-by-step approach for learning FreeCAD. The topics include Getting Started with FreeCAD, Basic Part Modeling, Creating Assemblies, Additional Modeling Tools, and Creating Drawings.

      Chapter 1 introduces FreeCAD. The user interface and terminology are discussed in this chapter.

      Chapter 2 takes you through the creation of your first FreeCAD model. You create simple parts.

      Chapter 3 teaches you to create assemblies. It explains the Top-down and Bottom-up approaches for designing an assembly. You create an assembly using the Bottom-up approach.

      Chapter 4: In this chapter, you will learn the sketching tools.

      Chapter 5: In this chapter, you will learn additional modeling tools to create complex models.

      Chapter 6 teaches you to create drawings of the models

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