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This tutorial is an introduction to Draft Workbench in FreeCAD. It is meant for complete beginners and shows basic concepts of working with the Draft Workbench. The resulting work will be simple architectural 2D drawing of a cabin plan view with lines, hatches (patterns), dimensions and text annotations. Some of the draft tools used in the tutorial include move, copy, offset, trim, line, polyline, arc and others. Construction geometry usage is also demonstrated. The example used in the tutorial is from the AEC field.
The offset tool used in the tutorial has a bug, where input units are by default taken as milimeters. Only if user types “cm” after the number will FreeCAD register these units correctly.
The video follows Yorik van Havre’s tutorial, which can be found here: https://wiki.freecad.org/Manual:Traditional_2D_drafting
You can support Draft Wrokbench development by supporting Yorik van Havre on his Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/yorikvanhavre
Learn how to install DWG import/export options for FreeCAD: https://youtu.be/Ybur9Wjq76A
Learn how to place the 2D drawing of a cabin plan view, that you created in this tutorial, on a sheet and export it to PDF: https://youtu.be/rnQ_Gd177NM?si=TxpDgl7xslyW0Lhr
Comprehensive overview of FreeCAD Draft dimensions: https://youtu.be/d_YRcyqfDg0
FreeCAD version used in the video: 1.0RC2
Dxf-file icons created by rizal2109 – Flaticon: https://www.flaticon.com/free-icons/dxf-file
Content:
0:00 Introduction
1:00 Basic FreeCAD setup
3:18 Draft construction geometry
6:35 Using the offset tool
8:40 Snapping to endpoints explained
9:55 Creating lines in orthogonal orientation
11:15 Move tool
17:30 Hiding and unhiding elements (turning visibility on and off)
17:55 Creating the wall geometry with polyline tool
20:15 Working with groups
21:12 Changing the background color of the 3D view
22:55 Creating dashed lines
23:52 Changing width of lines
24:50 Creating arc
27:20 Snapping to midpoint
29:08 Extend tool (Draft Trimex)
30:35 Creating dimensions
39:39 Creating labels (tags)
43:00 Hatch pattern creation
46:57 Importing DXF geometry
50:57 Conclusion
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