
My FreeCAD project, how did I do?
Hello, Because I wanted to get free from educational licence for at least some projects, I've decided to give freecad a chance. For now I used mostly Fusion360. I'd be thankfull if you checked my project and told me how did I do. (link on the bottom)
It was a re-design of model, I've already done in fusion but with some improvements. After initial issues with sketchs modelling went pretty smooth, tho I dislike lack of "offset face" tool, I used in fusion quite a lot. I really like how sketches do auto-crossection, but I couldn't find general crosssection tool. Another thing that gave me a headache was measure tool, especially fact, that you cannot use it while in sketch.
I've tried to make my model parametric and name the feature tree, but at some point I gave up as it took too much time. Hovever, I've used configuration table for drawers and handle.
Later on I'll try to do variant of the main part with engineered supports for 3d printing.
Assemlby is whole other story. It took me a while, to figure out, how to handle configuration of components, but I've done it. however creating joints was a pain. First, lack of pin in a slot joint, which made me do handle only symblically swivel. Then for some reason top compartment started gliching out and now is basically welded shut. I also disliked how I could only change configured part to wireframe and not every component/
Generally it was better than I feared. Some things like separation of commands into additive and subractive took some time to adapt but after that was intuitive. I also like how fraft angle works in here over fusion.
I think, I will use for projects, I want to publish, but for my private ones, I'll keep using fusion. However when I watched last week's stream, it seems to fix about 1/3 of my issues.
Here's link to my project, would be thankfull if you took a look and told me that I've done well and what poorly. Mostly focusing on use of FreeCad rather than design itself.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wOwiVz1eO8fbtooMRcHjkjgxiYDgqwm3/view?usp=sharing