Loft – snapping through two different profiles In the revolve tool options, you can specify the value of the rotation angle – it does not have to be always 360 degrees. Using the datum line we can get very different effects. The axis can be one of the profile lines, the axis of the coordinate system and also we can create a completely new axis with the datum line tool as well. This technique is based on the rotation of the profile relative to the axis determined by us. To build solids by rotation choose the revolve command in the Part Design or Part panel. With the arrival of new tools in Freecad 0.17 we can create a datum line to revolve our profile which gives many interesting possibilities for shaping solids This technique is very simple and has some properties which make it a very useful in many cases.
In Freecad we can extrude our profile with tool pad in Part Design or extrude tool in Part Workbench. There are several ways to do this.īelow is the brief of the possibilities of creation: Extruding is the first basic technique. We can edit our profile in Part Design or Part Workbench. The profile it could be made as a sketch in Sketcher or a drawing in Draft. The very important is to create a closed profile if you are willing to make a solid. Start from closed profile to create a solid. Now the sketch is ready to create a solid. In this method we make a filled inside solid.Ĭhoose a plan for your sketch which is the base for your solid.ĭraw the sketch – closed profile and give the dimension to make a fully constrained. Division solid and surface comes from differences in the approach to construction and its editing.įirst I look into solid modelling.
Separately each of this methods has some restrictions, work with both gives an enormous high flexibility. The solid modelling is supplemented with surface. The work flow in tutorial no 4 and 5 shows ho w to switching between different workbenches in Freecad 0.17. An introduction based on the examples contained in tutorials 1 – 5.