Название: FreeCAD 1.0: A Power Guide for Beginners and Intermediate Users, 3rd EditionАвтор: CADArtifex, Sandeep Dogra, John Willis
Издательство: CADArtifex
Год: 2025
Страниц: 616
Язык: английский
Формат: epub (true)
Размер: 56.7 MB
FreeCAD 1.0: A Power Guide for Beginners and Intermediate Users is designed for both instructor-led courses and self-paced learning, providing engineers and designers with the tools to master FreeCAD for creating 3D mechanical designs. Ideal for newcomers and an excellent resource for classroom training, this 486-page textbook covers 10 chapters, delving into essential FreeCAD workbenches like Sketcher, Part Design, Assembly, and TechDraw. It equips readers to build parametric 3D solid components, create assemblies, and produce 2D drawings.
The book emphasizes not just tool usage, but also design concepts, with every chapter featuring step-by-step tutorials that guide users through creating mechanical designs. Each chapter ends with a hands-on test drive, allowing readers to apply what they've learned and explore FreeCAD’s powerful features.
FreeCAD is a feature-based, fully parametric 3D CAD modeling, Finite Element Analysis (FEA), manufacturing (CAM/CNC), reverse engineering, and documentation software that enables every industry to design real-life products of any size right from the point of conception of an idea to its production. It provides a wide range of powerful tools that let you create, export, and edit full-precision real-world 3D solid models. It can generate various drawing views of models to create 2D drawings for production, export them for 3D printing or CNC machining, perform Finite Element Analyses (FEA), etc. In addition, FreeCAD allows you to export design data, validate designs, publish 2D drawings, study robot movements, produce machine instructions (G-code) for CNC machines, and so on.
Who Should Read This Book?
This textbook is beneficial for a broad range of FreeCAD users, from beginners to advanced learners, as well as FreeCAD instructors. The easy-to-follow structure and practical approach make it ideal for anyone looking to deepen their understanding of FreeCAD’s capabilities.
Downloadable Resources
Students and faculty can download all models, parts, tutorials, and hands-on exercises used throughout the textbook, providing access to practical resources for deeper learning.
Interactive Learning Support
Key tutorial steps are accompanied by QR codes that link to video demonstrations, helping users through challenging stages of the learning process.
Key Features:
Comprehensive Tool Coverage: In-depth exploration of FreeCAD’s tools.
Step-by-Step Tutorials: Real-world projects and detailed instructions.
Hands-On Test Drives: Exercises at the end of each chapter to reinforce learning.
Additional Tips and Notes: Useful insights and shortcuts for efficient design.
Customized Faculty Content: PowerPoint presentations and additional projects.
Free Resources: Access to downloadable materials for both students and faculty.
This textbook covers the following topics:
Chapter 1, “Introduction to FreeCAD,” introduces system requirements for installing FreeCAD, different FreeCAD workbenches, user interface components, and methods to invoke shortcut menus. It also explains how to customize the Toolbar Area, change the position of toolbars, edit background color, identify FreeCAD documents, export documents to other CAD formats, save a document, and open an existing document.
Chapter 2, “Creating and Editing Sketches with FreeCAD,” discusses how to invoke the Sketcher Workbench within the Part Design Workbench. It explains how to specify the units as well as the grids and snap settings. This chapter also introduces methods for drawing lines, arcs, circles, ellipses, elliptical arcs, hyperbolic arcs, parabolic arcs, B-splines, polylines, rectangles, polygons, and slots by using the respective sketching tools. Additionally, this chapter elaborates on creating fillets, trimming sketch entities, extending sketch entities, creating construction sketch entities, applying geometric and dimensional constraints, editing and modifying dimensions, and different states of a sketch.
Chapter 3, “Creating Base Feature of a 3D Solid Model,” introduces how to create pad and revolution features. It also explains various methods for navigating a model, displaying standard views, and changing the display style of a model, in addition to the application of Navigation Cube.
Chapter 4, “Creating Datum Geometries,” introduces various methods for creating additional datum planes, axes, and points by using the respective tools.
Chapter 5, “Creating Pocket and Groove Features,” discusses how to create pocket and groove features by removing the material from the model. The chapter also describes methods for projecting external geometries onto the sketch, displaying a section view and an earlier state of a model, reordering features, deleting and editing features, and defining display properties to the model. Further, it explains how to tag the degrees of freedom of assembly components and move a component along its free and fixed degrees of freedom.
Chapter 6, “Creating Pipe, Loft, and Helix Features,” explains how to create additive pipe features, multi-section additive pipe features, subtractive pipe features, additive loft features, and subtractive loft features, in addition to additive and subtractive helix features.
Chapter 7, “Mirroring and Patterning Features,” introduces how to mirror features of a model about a mirroring plane. It also discusses creating a linear pattern, a polar pattern, and a multi-transform pattern.
Chapter 8, “Creating Holes and Dress-up Features,” discusses how to create standard or customized holes such as counterbore and countersink as per standard specifications. It also discusses the methods for creating different types of dress-up features: fillet, chamfer, thickness (shell), and angular draft for applying treatment to the existing edges and faces of a model.
Chapter 9, “Creating Assemblies,” introduces methods for creating assemblies by using the Top-down assembly approach and the Bottom-up assembly approach. It also discusses methods for installing the Assembly workbench, inserting components, and applying different types of joints for assembling components.
Chapter 10, “Creating 2D Drawings,” discusses how to invoke the TechDraw workbench for creating a 2D drawing of a part or an assembly. It also explains how to insert a drawing sheet, edit the title block text of a sheet, create an independent 2D projection view, modify the scale of a view, create multiple linked 2D projection views of a model, and display hidden lines on the views. This chapter also elaborates on creating a section view and a detail view, in addition to applying dimensions and exporting a drawing as DXF and SVG files.
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