quick Freecad notes
There is a ppa with packages for stable and daily versions here toward the bottom of the page. https://freecadweb.org/wiki/Download. There is a PDF/wicki book here explaining the basic principles and how to use it here: https://www.gitbook.com/book/yorikvanhavre/a-freecad-manual/details It is very much bata software and evolving quickly there is a lot of work being done especial with the Path work bench (cam) with changes happening almost daily in the daily build. There is almost no activity on the mailing list every thing happens on the forum: https://forum.freecadweb.org/ I seem to use the part design work bench to make almost all my models. Once i got my head rapped around constraining sketches and it is better to make several small sketches rather than one big one it just clicked. here are some good tutorials English https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_9HwDkwxllq5lFGkYBIH9g Deutsch https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsrwVwvqYb8G4Ri0iz1JIebsOXkgoytAY hope this is of use to some of you linden PS there is a user show case here where you can see what people have done with it. Some really impressive stuff https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewforum.php?f=24 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
