Software >
https://www.freecad.org/ [ 1 ]
A CAD program.
I couldn't figure it out.
- https://forum.freecad.org/ [ 2 ]
- https://wiki.freecad.org/index.php?title=Getting_started [ 3 ] [ 4 ]
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2020-10-16 - 0.18.4.980bf90 ∞
The fuck.. I can't even comprehend this; FAIL.
2015-05-02 - 0.15.4671 ∞
FreeCAD-0.15.4671_x86_setup on Windows 8.1, updated recently.
- LGPL, nice.
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0.15, that's disheartening. Well maybe it'll be complete enough.
Starting with https://wiki.freecad.org/index.php?title=Getting_started [ 6 ] [ 7 ] and fiddling.
- "Getting started" does not cover what to do about that big confusing opening dialog.
- A browser is built in.. uh, neat?
- I guess I have to exit and re-start the application to get that opening dialog again.
- I'm not sure what to select, but I'm trying with "Part Design".
- For some reason, it doesn't begin with "Create sketch" or some such. I'm expecting a viewport.
- Why would I want some wacky plane to sketch on? Is that for crazy people?
- I figured out how to make a rectangle, but how do I snap to grid?
- Middle-click, hold, then left-click to rotate view. Uh, wut. Now how do I return it to sanity?
- Their documentation specifically keeps stuff for a shitty older version.
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Oh, the start page is a tab at the bottom.
- Tabs should be at the top.
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I can't figure out how to get my grid back. Starting a new project doesn't work.
- Oh, it's
Part Design > Create sketch
- Oh, it's
- When creating a line, I had no clue how to snap to grid. But I see afterwards that it automatically has constraints and a snap to grid feature on the left.
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When resizing my line, the grid disappeared. Unselecting and re-selecting the
Show grid
on the left did not solve this. Is this a bug?- Making a new line attached to my first line revealed the grid again. I don't understand what's going on..
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Isn't there a simple way to make a box?
- Oh, found it.
- How do I turn my manual box into a cube?
- How do I move a square? It only resizes.
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Oh gods, control-y to re-do.
Well at this point it fails. I'll check out the tutorials.
https://wiki.freecad.org/index.php?title=Tutorials [ 8 ]
I guess what I want is https://wiki.freecad.org/index.php?title=Basic_modeling_tutorial [ 9 ]
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"Click on the the box button".. but where is it?
Part > Primitives > Cube
is greyed out.
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"This document is in editing mode and thus cannot be closed for the moment." What the fuck?
- Oh, pressing escape exited whatever the fuck mode I was in.
- New stuff > on the left under "Create Geometry", click "Cube"
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I have no grid, and I see a square not a cube. I can't rotate my view.
Ok, I'm going to stop here.
FAIL - unfinished, complicated.
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Curious, I uninstalled it.. which worked, except I still had the program open. I wonder what it left hanging around.
Last updated 2023-02-07 at 14:20:43
Footnotes
- was https://www.freecadweb.org/ [ ↩ ]
- was https://forum.freecadweb.org/ [ ↩ ]
- was https://wiki.freecadweb.org/index.php?title=Getting_started [ ↩ ]
- was https://freecadweb.org/wiki/index.php?title=Getting_started [ ↩ ]
- was https://wiki.freecadweb.org/index.php?title=Tutorials [ ↩ ]
- was https://wiki.freecadweb.org/index.php?title=Getting_started [ ↩ ]
- was https://freecadweb.org/wiki/index.php?title=Getting_started [ ↩ ]
- was https://wiki.freecadweb.org/index.php?title=Tutorials [ ↩ ]
- was https://wiki.freecadweb.org/index.php?title=Basic_modeling_tutorial [ ↩ ]
- made a proper page
- tried it again, and it failed completely..