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@meistermeier
Looks like you've drawn 2 overlapping rectangles, right? – Then the geometry of the sketch is not distinct what's "inside" and "outside" (FC 26.3 should "fix" that w/ internals AFAIK)

Use "trim edge" tool (keys: G,T) to remove the upper and right edge of that small square. Pull out the remaining two edges to select and delete them.

Then you can pad the resulting "L" shaped sketch.

#FreeCAD

I am too stupid in the simplest things how #FreeCad wants me to work.
Just tried to have a L-shaped sketch and pad / extrude it. Let's say the result is surprising to me. Do I really have to go with 25 and 24mm sides to don't have any overlaps (this works as expected)? Or is there an option I don't see to join/merge elements in the sketch?
Background of the story: I started with Fusion a while back but want to give FreeCad a chance and currently trying to recreate my models in there.

@sam01 @freecad

Hi ! I'm looking for a 3d printer / linux fer m'y classroom. What's the best 3 ? Thanks for pour answers.

#FreeCADFriday #Anycubic #FreeCAD #woodworking

@freecad I am designing and building a new enclosure for my 3D printer. I finished the main part already, but another door is still missing. So today I added my acrylic glass parts to the FreeCAD model to think about the second door.

Since this always feels like a rabbithole to me, I created a model of my room, the shelf next to the enclosure, a Eurobox to sit below and the Anycubic Vyper 3D printer.

#FreeCADFriday #Anycubic #FreeCAD #woodworking

Well, THAT didn't work.

I think the hole for the heat-set insert was too small, so when I pressed down with the soldering iron it melted too much of the plastic around it and it came rushing up through the middle. Time for another #FreeCad tweak!

#Maker #3DPrinting

I've finally added a two way breather valve to my fuel tank which will hopefully make filling the tank easier. I hope to never test its roll over protection functionality.

I could have just strapped it but it was an excuse to print something in ABS. Only the MOT tester is ever likely to see it, but it pleases me.

#WeirdCarMastodon #FreeCADFriday #FreeCAD

Once again it is #FreeCADFriday. Show and tell us what you are working on in #FreeCAD at the moment! #CAD

Every Free App You Actually Need Explained (Part 1-4)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGWSs6laAO0

#OpenSource #freeapps #LibreOffice
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#OBS Studio
#GIMP
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Mein erstes #FreeCAD / #3ddruck Werk

Und es funktioniert sogar.
Jetzt kann ich die Hecktür des Kia einen Spalt offen lassen und trotzdem verriegeln. So dass niemand das Auto samt mir im Laderaum klauen kann. 🤣

Based on a suggestion from @knud here's the Mark III smart telescope lens hood for Seestar S30 Pro. This version has an angled first baffle, and now has a total of 5 instead of 4.

From the sky side you can see light scattering back from the internal surfaces but from the telescope side pretty much all you can see is a little bit of light scattering off the edges of the baffles, which are as sharp as I can make them. Compare that with the amount of light scattering off the outside of the hood and it shows that the baffles are doing their job.

Now I need to test it properly. There weather forecast says there will be some clear skies tonight.

#Astrophotography #3Dprinting #SmartTelescope #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #FreeCAD #Prusa

OK, I've printed off Mark II rev. 2 of my 3D printed lens hood design for my Seestar S30 Pro smart telescope, and I'm now pretty happy with it. The point of this is to prevent stray light from ground level lights getting into the lens. It's not well shielded out of the box and I've already seen exposures that had clearly been affected by stray light.

The Elegoo matte black PLA I've printed it in is neither very matte nor very black, but the design means that shouldn't matter too much.

There are three internal light baffles arranged so that stray light entering the lens hood at an angle can only hit the outside faces of the baffles, while the telescope's lens only has line of sight to the inside faces of the baffles and the walls. In other words there is (almost) no way for stray light to get into the lens by scattering off the internal surfaces of the lens hood once, it needs to scatter at least twice to make it in, which should make it significantly more effective than my simple conical Mark I lens hood.

I did the design in FreeCAD, sliced in PrusaSlicer, and printed on my Prusa Mini+.

#Astrophotography #3Dprinting #SmartTelescope #Seestar #SeestarS30Pro #FreeCAD #Prusa

Prototype#1

Fabrication par la société NES 3D programmée // Building by NES 3D ongoing.

https://www.nes-3d.fr/

#electricite #electricity #greenEnergy #greenTransition #greenpower #transitionEcologique #transitionenergetique #hydroelectricite #renouvenable #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #UpheavalClimate #ecology #environment #climate #changementclimatique #savoirscientifique #pédagogie #citoyenneté #transitionEcologique #shutterprecision #frenchtech #codesaturne #codeaster #EDF#salome #salomemeca #mesh #maillage #codeaster #codesaturne #simvia #linux #linuxmint #freecad #freecadfriday #3Dprinting #Impression3D #tech #technology #technologie

Prototype#1

Dessin sous Salomé_Méca+Freecad terminé et prêt pour impression 3D//Technical drawing completed in Salome_Meca+FreeCAD, ready for 3D printing

#electricite #electricity #greenEnergy #greenTransition #greenpower #transitionEcologique #transitionenergetique #hydroelectricite #renouvenable #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #UpheavalClimate #ecology #environment #climate #changementclimatique #savoirscientifique #pédagogie #citoyenneté #transitionEcologique #shutterprecision #frenchtech #codesaturne #codeaster #EDF#salome #salomemeca #mesh #maillage #codeaster #codesaturne #simvia #linux #linuxmint #freecad #FreeCADFriday #3Dprinting #Impression3D

Sigo avanzando con el proyecto del **Timbre Escolar Inteligente** y hoy quería compartir dos frentes en los que estuve trabajando en paralelo.

Por un lado, el **diseño del gabinete en FreeCAD**, pensando en una solución más prolija, compacta y lista para llevar a prototipo físico. Y por otro, una **API REST de consulta de feriados**, para que el sistema pueda identificar fechas especiales y evitar que suenen los timbres en días no laborables.

Me gusta mucho cuando un proyecto empieza a integrar distintas capas: software, electrónica, mecánica e integración con servicios externos. Ahí es donde realmente se empieza a transformar en una solución completa.

Todavía queda camino por recorrer, pero cada avance suma y le da más forma a la idea.

#FreeCAD #PCB #IoT #ESP8266 #API #REST #Electronica #EmbeddedSystems #ProyectoPersonal #Ingeniería

Hahaaa! Success! 🥳

#AgfaPhotoAPX100 developed in #Rodinal 1+50 for 10 minutes at 20°C, agitation (swirling) for the first minute, then 10 seconds every minute. Fixed in #Adofix 1+4 for four minutes.

Shot on my #YashicaFX3Super2000 with the ML 50mm f1.9 and a yellow filter. 🤓

#filmPhotography #filmDevelopment #3dPrinting #FreeCAD

Sarjassamme koti-insinöörin tähtihetket:

Ensimmäistä kertaa pitäisi tehdä FreeCAD:illä jotain - poraohjain eli 4cm pitkä putki jonka ulkohalkaisija on 26mm ja sisähalkaisija 18,5mm. Ei kai tämä nyt voi vaikeaa olla?

Vähän aikaa käyttöliittymää ihmeteltyään ei auttanut kuin lähteä kaivamaan netistä ohjeita. Mutta ei ne ohjeetkaan ei tuntuneet täsmäävän: "täällä mitään create pipe -nappulaa ole."

Sitä ihmetellessä osui silmään "shaft design wizard" jonka parempien ideoiden puutteessa avasin. No kas, tällähän tämä hoituu, saa paksumman jalustan siihen, vaikka en oikeastaan tarttis. Koska Riimu nukkui niin printtaamaan ei viitsinyt heti ryhtyä, ja siinä muita ihmetellessä löytyi se "create pipe" nappikin - sitä varten piti vaan valita eri työkalupaletti käyttöliittymästä. Ei siinä mitään, tämähän on ihan normisettiä, mutta se miten se on toteutettu tuntui tuntui aika omituiselta ratkaisulta. Ehkä se on CAD-piireissä normaali systeemi 🤷

Sitten seurasi tovi ällistelyä kun pipe-työkalulla tehty putken mitat oli ihan pielessä, näytti äkkiseltään että Bambulabissä katsoessa se oli venynyt 5cm ulkohalkaisijaan? Sitten kun lopulta näin jossain tarkan mitan 52mm alkoi raksuttaa: niin, shaft-työkalun parametreissa oli halkaisija, sen sijaan pipe-työkalussa käytettiin sädettä. Eihän siinä sitten, mutta MIKSI kaksi sukulaistyökalua käyttää eri yksikköä tuossa? Ehkä tosi-insinöörit tietää 🤷

No, lounaan ajaksi sitten printti tulemaan. Kesken lounaan tajusin että olin syöttänyt sisähalkaisijaksi 18,1mm - tuo ,1 oli tarkoitus olla välys, mutta lähtömitta oli jossain kohtaa mennyt ajatuksissa vikaan. Kyllähän mulla ne mitat ylhäällä oli mutta mitä niitä tarkistamaan kun muistin ihan hyvin mitä ne oli. Ainoa vaan että syöttäessä taphtui jotain outoa - nyt ei ollut off by one, vaan off by half. Vapaapäivän spesiaali? 🤦‍♂️ 😂

Tätä kirjoitellessa se väärän kokoinen printtikin valmistui niin voi sitten tehdä uuden. En viitsinyt keskeyttää koska saatan hyvin kaivata tuommoistakin putken pätkää joskus johonkin...

P.S. Tämä ei ole avunpyyntö yo. aiheisiin vaan ihan viihteeksi tarkoitettu tarina.

#freecad #3dtulostus

Et puis, même si ça ne fait pas comme dans le tuto que je suivais, j'ai moyen de bidouiller pour rattraper ça .
Du coup je vais quand même finir le tuto

( c'était l'histoire d'une fille qui après avoir bien bien râler contre freecad et décidé de l'abandonner à découvert que fusion avait une version gratuite pour usage non pro. La fille a installer Fusion, puis fait un tuto très facile et qui a parfaitement fonctionné, mais ça lui a trop hérissé le poil* de pas utiliser un logiciel libre, et ça l'a remotivé a s'acharner sur freecad malgré les bidouillages a venir ) (* oui, la fille a du poil, c'est comme ça les vrai )

#freecad #fusion #3D #poils

Made a tube with nice #Voronoi patterns, using the Nodes addon on #FreeCAD. https://www.printables.com/model/1396697-voronoi-tube-using-freecad

Long time since I uploaded a model to #Printables BTW.
#3DPrinting #3DPrint

FreeCAD hat nach 20 Jahren die version 1.0 erreicht

FreeCAD-Version 1.0 wurde veröffentlicht und bald erscheint sogar Version 1.1.

#FreeCAD #CAD #Assembly #IFC #BIM #Ondsel #realthunder #TNP #Solidworks #Inventor #Solidedge #Linux

https://gnulinux.ch/freecad-hat-nach-20-jahren-die-version-1-0-erreicht

@kenney I would love to also raise a glass to #krita #gimp #inkscape #freecad #audacity #shareX off the top of my head as they can help replace their costly counterparts. Is this #fosscars night or what? LoL

My first design in #FreeCAD - two rotating plates that should (theoretically) slot into each other and allow the top plate to rotate on top of the bottom plate.

#Cura says that each plate should take 3 hours on my #Neptune4. Let's see how the tolerances work out...

MEHR HIMBEEREN!!! Soeben ist Update v2.50 der Softwaresammlung für Medienbildung an Schule und anderen Bildungsinstitutionen für den Minicomputer #raspberrypi 400 erschienen. Seit Mai 2021 entwickelt das #Medienzentrum die Sammlung kontinuierlich weiter. Erneut sind wichtige Ergänzungen und Erweiterungen dazugekommen, aber auch einige Altlasten entfernt worden. \O/ Zum Beispiel ist #MINETEST endlich wieder up-to-date - und auch #Freecad... Mehr Infos unter: https://m1z.eu/raspiupdate

@signalskew neat!
Are you using the #realthunder fork of #freeCAD? I've been considering moving to that and using #Assembly3. I'm not doing anything complex at all and just stuck with #a2plus so far.

@danderson Yes, the App Link changes that Assembly3 needs to work were merged into upstream #FreeCAD. Sadly, because Assembly3 depends on a forked version of the SolveSpace solver that is licensed under the GPL, it won't be integrated into FreeCAD proper (unless, I suppose, someone writes a replacement constraint solver that can do the same work but is under a license that FreeCAD will accept).

There has been a lot more than just Assembly3 in the #Realthunder fork, though. In particular, his topological naming stabilization work seems to me to be as robust as SolidWorks was when I last used it about a year ago; that is, it is of course possible to create topological nonsense by large changes to the upstream tree, but I'm much more likely to be comfortable not creating a profusion of datum planes in a part with his fixes. That work is planned to be one of the major headlines of work for the next stable release of FreeCAD, currently in development.

The downside of his fork right now is that because he's been so focused on getting his topological naming improvements merged, he hasn't yet merged released FreeCAD 0.20 into his branch, so it is a little behind on some of the stable release work.

If you haven't looked at it, Assembly4 (assembly without constraints), which like Assembly3 depends on the App Link work, is also interesting. Driven by relationships between datums across parts, it doesn't run into the problem of misinterpreted constraints because it doesn't use constraints, and it makes animating assemblies natural.

I expect it will generally be strictly faster to compute an assembly than to solve constraints; for at least some assemblies, it will be much more convenient to express constraints than to design for assembly by matching datums.

Weeks 895-896 - Bells, Bikes and Lots of LEDs

https://mcqn.com/posts/weeks-895-896-Bells-Bikes-and-Lots-of-LEDs/

#weeknotes #LEDs #cheerlights #IndieMfg #PCB #FreeCAD