FreeCAD 0.20 For Beginners | 1 | Setup , preferences and navigation | Easy Tutorial for Learning CAD on HackerTube: recommended by 3 Hacker News commenters across 3 separate months, 2023–2024.
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The first lesson of MangoJelly's FreeCAD 0.20 beginner course, covering setup, preferences and navigation. The series teaches fundamentals through complete workflows such as sketching, Part Design and STL export.
HN recommends it as an excellent beginner series that fills FreeCAD's gap in learning material.
“MangoJelly does an excellent work on that.”
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Look at MangoJelly's beginner's tutorial playlist, start on first video and follow along: ▶ this video There are definitely problems with FC (but then even expensive CADs have problems). One of the biggest problem I think was lack of good learning material. MangoJelly does an excellent work on that.
in “Versioning FreeCAD Files with Git (2021)” · View on HN
FreeCAD's arch nemesis has been lack of good educational material, until very recently. Checkout MangoJelly's "FreeCAD 0.20 For Beginners Tutorials" and follow along. It will change your life. ▶ this video
in “A blocky based CAD program” · View on HN
My experience exactly. I wanted to make cases for my electronics projects and just learned following this series ▶ this video
in “FreeCAD User Book (2019)” · View on HN