FreeCAD v1.0 tutorials

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Having scared the living daylights out of myself, by trying to set display preferences on the Mac, I went searching for a decent tutorial.

This one [despite being Windows-based] suits my needs nicely … He’s softly spoken, it’s gently paced, and he starts at the right place !

https://youtu.be/zy4TyfWVaTY?feature=shared

MichaelG.

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Yes, it’s loaded with adverts … I can live with that.

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[Russell EberhardtParticipant @russelleberhardt48058]

I’ve always found MangJelly’s Youtube tutorials to be very good.  He has a good beginners tutorial for v.1.0 here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPsLhvgU8kc&t=133s

He also has many more advanced tutorials as well.

Russell

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Thanks for mentioning that, Russell

I watched it on Monday

MichaelG.

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Still struggling to find anything Mac-specific … Grrr!!

[DC31kParticipant @dc31k]

What sort of display preferences are you trying to set? Perhaps describe one or two items and then we can suggest how they might be achieved. It appears that UI (user interface) is the argot used to describe this task.

In the best traditions of science, change only one thing at a time, exit the program and restart to gauge the effects of the change.

If the things you wish to influence are how various items in FC look when you are using it, there is nothing operating system-specific in FC. Another way to say that is the display preferences in FC are the same whatever operating system you use.

This page gives an overview of what is available:

https://wiki.freecad.org/Preferences_Editor#Display

Note the note at the top of the page noting “On macOS the Preferences… option appears in the FreeCAD menu instead (this is the default place for preferences on the Mac)”

You are unlikely to find a video of someone describing how they set their Y-axis to be purple instead of green but a directed search such as ‘freecad UI setup’ could produce something.

[DC31k]

On DC31k Said:

What sort of display preferences are you trying to set? Perhaps describe one or two items and then we can suggest how they might be achieved. […]

 

Thanks for the thought … but I am over that first hurdle now

The problem was that [contrary to claims] the GUI environment is rather different on various operating systems.

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Having set the thing up in a useable configuration, I proceeded to follow the very basic demonstration in the tutorial that I linked in the opening post.

 

I spent several hours, trying and failing to get that ‘Pad’ command to work

… the video, about 9 minutes in, shows it automatically activating as soon as there is a closed shape for it to work-with … but I have tried with both a constructed shape and with the pre-defined rectangle and circle : None of these become “paddable” and I get incomprehensible error messages about them not being ‘attached to a base’ or some-such.

Note: I have a busy morning, but will post some screen-grabs this afternoon

Things may suddenly fall into place, but at the moment I am utterly bewildered.

Grateful for any suggestions, but I suspect that only someone successfully using FreeCAD on MacOS will recognise what I am doing wrong.

MichaelG.

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M1 Mac Mini / 16 GB RAM / Sequoia

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