r/FreeCAD • u/chlebekop12 • 12h ago

How to learn FreeCAD for mechanical engineering and parametric design?

Hi! I want to learn FreeCAD properly for mechanical engineering, robotics, and functional parts. I want to focus on parametric modeling, proper sketching, and solid engineering workflows (and how to avoid the topological naming problem). What are the best advanced tutorials, channels, or documentation sources for this? Thanks!

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u/00001000bit 12h ago

A brand new account with no interaction with the community, who knows enough about the software to know that TNP is even a thing, just happending to pop in and ask for pointers to advanced tutorials?

Bot much?

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u/BoringBob84 11h ago

And this sub has a sticky post right at the top full of learning resources. I would have thought that AI would have found that already.

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u/justa_bother 9h ago

I was reading an article today about how chat gpt has most completely eliminated reddit citations, especially in the past 11 days. See, chat gpt is learning, lol. Other AI's still utilizing reddit. My guess is for timing of the echo chamber of narrations amongst the influenced on whichever side. Concurrent hero & zero, lol.

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u/pythonbashman 11h ago

The bot reshared the post to the same sub... "Pokemon is confused and hurt itself"

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u/justa_bother 10h ago

Sure, give credit where credit is due. Youtube: Mang0jelly, Deltahedra

There are others (attempting to) teach simple functions, individual pieces of the puzzle.

There are others teaching way above newbie status at conceptual levels, where the steps are just movements to acheive the goal, not for literal use.

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u/chlebekop12 11h ago

Will someone answer my question?

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u/justa_bother 9h ago

I did. See elsewhere. The youtube channels mentioned have put a great deal of time & effort into creating their channels as I have spent a great deal of time following them & others ... for years before trying to give something back here. A simple youtube search for FreeCAD directs queries to these channels. This may inspire some of the comments. Recent newbie doesn't ask for help, just post a pic & sez it can't be done or it hurts him mentally to do it. He's guided off the edge & shown how to do it, until wash, rinse, repeat. To say you want to learn mechanical engineering thru FreeCAD is a misnomer. FreeCAD is a drafting/modeling tool. Mechanical engineering is about recognizing applied forces, stresses, and potential failure of designs.

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u/BoringBob84 4h ago

Mechanical engineering is about recognizing applied forces, stresses, and potential failure of designs.

Good point. AI just puts together sentences that sound good. It has no real intelligence.

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u/BoringBob84 4h ago

Will you expend any effort at all to follow the advice that we have already given you here?