Freecad [How-To]

Brad Falck · Daniel Falck · Brad Collette

Sep 2012 · Packt Publishing Ltd

About this ebook

Written in cookbook style, this book offers many recipes to create objects, import and export data, create 3D solid objects. Each recipe contains step-by-step instructions followed by analysis of what was done in each task and other useful information. If you've been toying around with FreeCAD and want to have more control over your work flow then this book is for you. The reader needs to have basic knowledge of modeling.

Ratings and reviews

The book does not instruct a person, properly, on how to create anything. After having created items using YouTube instructions, I was utter incapable of taking the author's instructions and producing anything. To be more clear, the instructions do not quite point to the correct places (especially for a beginner) to complete any action. The instructions are much too vague. And this is coming from a person that builds IKEA furniture quite easily using their limited instructions. It could be that the author's work is outdated in 2021

I love it

About the author

Daniel Falck has over 25 years experience in manufacturing, machining, CAD, CAM, and computer programming. He has worked for Gibson Guitar doing design and prototyping for over 14 years. Currently, he runs the Prototype machine shop at King Cycle Group, in Portland, Oregon (USA), where bicycle components are manufactured. His home shop is full of CNC machining equipment that he uses to create guitar parts for customers, using open source software running on Linux. Over the past 10 years he has worked with open source manufacturing software such as Linuxcnc, APT360, HeeksCAD, FreeCAD, and a myriad of specialized python scripts.