Part Design
Part Design – Your First Sketch
In FreeCAD, as many other CAD systems, we use Sketches to draw out features of a 3D shape. When the feature is defined we use a 3d tool like Pad […]
Part Design – Thickness
The Part Design Thickness tool removes the selected faces from a solid and adds thickness to the remaining faces. The tool can be applied to a basic box to hollow […]
Part Design – Chamfer
The Part Design Chamfer tool simplifies the process of adding a chamfered corner to shapes, or features, of our Part Design Body. The Chamfer tool adds a face to the […]
Part Design – Polar Pattern Feature
The Polar Pattern Feature adds a circular array of features to an existing body. The Polar Pattern Feature is more or less a sub-set of what is a available in […]
Part Design – Linear Pattern Feature
The Linear Pattern Feature adds an array of Features to an existing body. The Linear Pattern Feature is distinct from Draft Arrays, as it does not create individual entities, rather, […]
Part Design – Fillet
The Part Design Fillet tool simplifies the process of adding a filled radius to shapes, or features, of our Part Design Body. This Fillet tool adds a single radius chosen […]
Part Design – Sweep Path ( aka Pipe, aka Additive Pipe, aka Subtractive Pipe. )
The Sweep command takes a profile in the form of a sketch, ( or wire ) and it moves that profile along a path to create a solid. The sweep […]
Part Design WorkBench – Loft
The Part Design Loft command will join two sketches to create a solid. The loft creates faces between two shapes with compatible edges. The edges need to form a face. […]
Part Design – Revolve
The revolve tool in the Part Design Workbench creates a solid from a sketch or draft wire. This is accomplished by “extruding” around an axis. To use the Part Design […]