after bashing my head in my table for a bit, i finally managed to make something “salvagable”… i think.

this is meant to be a vesa adapter, from 200mm to 100mm; the idea is that 6mm metal screw-posts are melted into the holes

the sketch is quite a bit of a hellscape… i will see if i can figure out symmetry on the next iteration. Do you have any advice on how i can use better this program? it’s been quite a bit since i haven’t seen such a steep learning curve on a piece of software

  • madnificent@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    First off, it looks good as it is. Well done! Also, it works and that’s the important bit. Some things which help me:

    • use equality constraints instead of repeating measurements for radii and lengths
    • fillets can be added after creating the main shape, this simplifies the sketch
    • if you know this will be mirrored, draw a quarter and mirror the extruded body in part design (you could use multi-transform here)
    • use formulas, spreadsheets or reuse named distances if you want to change things later
    • make extensive use of the Part Design workbench but sometimes dabble in another workbench because when they click you’ll unlock a new set of combinations and turn FreeCAD into a sort of swiss army knife

    Congrats on your first model 👏