> ... > I assume Fusion360 and Solidworks make it much easier to work in 2D and > 3D. It's not terribly difficult in FreeCAD, but I find it cumbersome to > switch gears. If I want a rectangular plate with some holes or a disk > or tube, it's much easier to use the 3D primitives. It's certainly much > easier to talk a newbie through the 3D process than try to convince them > to draw 2D parts and then switch to 3D to extrude them, which is similar > to telling then to use a 2D CAD program to draw their part and then > export that to a DXF and import that into a separate program to loft the > part and create the G code.
Might be cases there starting from a 2D drawing is rather useful. One nice thing with the sketcher is dimensions could be added and it tell then drawing is fully constrained. You need to start with a sketch to use the hole feature which is useful for holes and threads. Nicklas Karlsson _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
