Systematic Wall Building in FreeCAD 0.20.1

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Systematic Wall Building in FreeCAD 0.20.1

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In this video I show you the most comfortable and powerful way to design walls in FreeCAD objects. I am convinced that FreeCAD is the right choice for you. It is a really powerful CAD design and computation engine. But work in this software - as with many even commercial high-profile projects - is obstructed by various technical flaws such as in this case the topological naming problem. That's why I have decided to compile a set of good, strong work patterns in my very FreeCAD guides series. Let's not waste our time with bad workflows! Important information for 3D manufacturing! Stay tuned for examples, theory and step-by-step tutorial. Let's start with the best way to design your 3D walls!

Level of experience required: Medium, should be familiar with the shown workbenches (Part, Sketcher, Part Design)

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Download the examples:
- https://green-candy.osdn.jp/external/fo ... ng_1.FCStd
- https://green-candy.osdn.jp/external/fo ... ng_2.FCStd
- https://green-candy.osdn.jp/external/fo ... city.FCStd
- https://green-candy.osdn.jp/external/fo ... aves.FCStd
- https://green-candy.osdn.jp/external/fo ... ofed.FCStd
- https://green-candy.osdn.jp/external/fo ... airs.FCStd

Hope that you appreciate it. This approach should be a good starting point. The padding can be improved to increase full parametricity (either sketch references or special math). I tried to follow guidelines for video material but I could have missed some.
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Re: Systematic Wall Building in FreeCAD 0.20.1

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This is the FreeCAD forum, not a bazaar or fish market. Whether it is the "most comfortable" way or not where people should "stay tuned", can be decided by the users themselves. Your work will be judged by its quality, not by the loudness of the advertising.
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Re: Systematic Wall Building in FreeCAD 0.20.1

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It is really astonishing how people create simple things in the most weirdest uncomprehensible fragile and time consuming way possible, which is not even not manageable in a short or long term or anyhow usable for complex things. And it is definitly not tnp save, even worse, with your boolean fragments and handpicking elements, it can not be per workflow tnp save.
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Re: Systematic Wall Building in FreeCAD 0.20.1

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chrisb wrote: Tue Oct 04, 2022 8:56 pm This is the FreeCAD forum, not a bazaar or fish market. Whether it is the "most comfortable" way or not where people should "stay tuned", can be decided by the users themselves. Your work will be judged by its quality, not by the loudness of the advertising.
I believe that motivational work is really important in today's times. Defining yourself, knowing yourself and trusting into your own capabilities. A great help to build yourself is by making the right choices, such as learning the right strategies for work. Realizing this lets you grow as a person. ;)
user1234 wrote: Tue Oct 04, 2022 9:43 pm It is really astonishing how people create simple things in the most weirdest uncomprehensible fragile and time consuming way possible, which is not even not manageable in a short or long term or anyhow usable for complex things. And it is definitly not tnp save, even worse, with your boolean fragments and handpicking elements, it can not be per workflow tnp save.
From your post I read that you have got questions about the definition of faces in my step-by-step tutorial. Don't be afraid: there is no big headache when encountering the TNP!

- if the master sketch changes then the references inside of the SubShapeBinders/Sub-Object-Shape-Binders could change to wrong ones due to the TNP; this can be easily fixed by reassigning the proper edges into the SubShapeBinders by following the steps on this page or listening to tutorial video on the power of shape binders
- TNP save workflows are not "saved" by the software! I believe you have got a big misunderstanding. It is the human that operates the software himself that - following proper guidelines - will know how to save his CAD from the TNP. This is why good and strong workflows are really important. In my Systematic Wall Building workflow it is easy to identify the damaged objects (Face1, Face2, Face3) and repair them! It is a genius idea to organize your workspace as clean as you would on your own desk.
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