For a parametric solution I would do this: - Attach a sketch to target face - set all the Placement properties to the same values as the sketch using Expressions. I have read here in the forum that in 0.19 it should be possible to assign the whole placement at once, but I don't know how. It would be great if somebody can enlighten me.
Greetings. I am new to FreeCAD 1.0 and My best experience in making quick, off the cuff, schematics & diagrams for electrical was using Visio. It really helped in just getting a print of some kind into the hands of the team so that wiring could get started; cleaning up and/or simple wire route terminations were made latter, but using useing Visio really helped. It was almost too easy sometimes ...
Re: Create a part by tracing an image by clintonsam75 » Mon May 11, 2015 1:05 pm David.Boettcher wrote: I find it much easier to understand than any other CAD software I have tried. I worked through the tutorials on YouTube by Bram de Vries and he explained everything so well that it became easy.
Prepare a Drawing template in Inkscape Create a new sheet in FreeCAD's Drawing workbench, give it our template, and start adding our stuff there, by using the Draft View tool, either with section planes selected (for cut or viewed 3D geometry), or groups containing linework, texts and dimensions (for 2D and annotations).
Hi FreeCADers, This is something I have imagined for a while. Imagine natural language prompts to create a model. I have an exciting release for a new plug in, GPT4FreeCAD. This plug in integrates OpenAI's GPT-4 model to generate Python scripts for creating sketches and 3D models based on user input. I decided to focus on this free, open source release for FreeCAD since it goes along with the ...
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I can adjust to this way of working, and for many tasks it is perfectly appropriate, such as when you are transcribing a model from an existing drawing or measurements. But for something more free form, it is a little awkward. It's not as much of an issue if you base things on sketches, since you can do more mouse based operations there.
I was able to open the .dxf I saved from FreeCAD in Autodesk DWG Viewer which is free software and print 1:1. Its too bad that this feature is no implemented as I use it in AutoCAD all the time.
I was using a free drawing tool (emachineshop) to create files and then exporting to dxf for laser cutting. Now the software only exports to sti files. So I am stuck with a bunch of proprietary files (I know it is my bad). To recover from some of this I want to convert the sti files to dxf using free cad. I tried looking through all the forum posts on how to do this, but am totally unsuccesful ...
