MAKE THIS COMPRESSOR-SolidWorks and FreeCAD Side By Side |JOKO ENGINEERING|

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwww inches!!!! Great video, thank you very much :D

I'm biased and love FreeCAD. Thank you for this video!

Freecad is INCREDIBLY powerful. It's easy to dump on it for its UI (which is not great, to say the least), but if you can get over that hill, you have an amazing piece of software, made more amazing by the incredible add-ons. It is my only experience with CAD software, but it seems to be shaping up to compete with the best of the best. It is remarkable software.

16:52 I've taken enough CAD courses that I knew, in the depths of my soul, that when you fixed the error you would say 'now we're cooking'. Great time. Thanks for spreading free knowledge ^.^

Someone probably answered already, but to your question at min 25, just click on the bluish icon next to the sketch icon (three to the left of the line primitive). That will cut off everything that protrudes out of the screen.

Just stated with FreeCAD and 3D printing a week ago. I've sure got a headstart from you. Many-many thanks, learned tons already. And most important of all: what you do is very pragmatic, which allows me to assume the right modelling mindset. Outstanding!

Just want to start off by saying the video was an amazing introduction to FreeCAD. At times I lost you, but after watching it a bit and brainstorming I was able to figure it out! LOL at time 26:48 when you say "zero point 5!" love it.

The improved blade profile built from the time 34:00 is perfectly achievable with FreeCad. I duplicated it with my version 0.18 from the dimensions of your SoliWorks model. On the other hand, the sweeping of the blade must be carried out otherwise, it is necessary to swap the profiles and the paths. It is also better hydraulically to specify the vertical profiles rather than the horizontal ones. SolidWorks has generated a blockage area near the machine axis which is not good for performance. It is also better to improve the profile of the compression path section by using spline lines instead of circular arcs. I do not know how to include a picture of the final result obtained with Freecad in my comment.

To toggle visibility of drawing objects in FreeCAD: in the combo view click on model tab, highlight object you want to hide/see, press space bar to toggle visibility. You can also right-click on the object in the model tab and choose Toggle Visibility from the context menu.

Thanks for a great introduction to FreeCAD. I managed to follow along with the video and I'm amazed that I could draw something that complex looking. I've played with Solidworks in the past so seeing that side by side comparison really made me look at FreeCAD in a better light. FWIW, FreeCAD 0.19 can now add the fillets but it still can't handle changing the shape of the blades (at least I couldn't get it to work). It's not like I'll ever design anything that complex though.

Thank you for this video. I use Solidwork all the time, but I'm looking for something just as capable but for the "Hobby" level to use. Very new to FreeCAD, but already it seems very good.

Wow! One of best video about FreeCAD I've seen. Thank you.

Let me start by saying that this is an excellent concept for a video, perfectly executed. It is mentioned on another comment as well but the fillet issue can be resolved very easily. When you finished you compressor you could see that the lines of the generating bodies where still visible although it was all one body. This can be fixed and it's this behaviour that makes fillets harder. With a part open go to Edit>Preferences>Part Design>General. There click the first 3 options. This might also remedy the collapse in the rebuild after you changed the loft. I am not really sure why this was left unchecked by default. Maybe to make switching between direct and history based modeling easier. I don't know, but it feels like it should have been on by default. Please, show us any different results you might get with this different options setup.

Thanks for the video!! Toggle visibility in FreeCad: From the history tree, select the object and hit the space bar.

Perfect video! I used SW only for some weeks, ...years ago... (I found it realy great!) Some month ago, I searched for 3D cad, to make some drawings (private). I found freecad...amazing for an beta... I don't have professional experience in cad, but I'm an Ing./Tech. Your video is, like my thougt after some days using freecad: It's almost like SW... (this is my fist YT commend, and may my last ;) Regards, B.

Great demonstration, I'm just beginning to study mechanical engineering this fall.

Your object was broken because you edit the profile and alter the number of egdes, planes and vertexes with it. All other features after that can then not rely on the original edges as before. That is in my opinion the biggest problem of FreeCAD actually. You can not edit what you want in the history stack. You can do some workaround in building tactics to avoid that but this makes it really hard and last long. You can test it if you set the view only to the first sweep. It should show the complete object. Anyway, i love FreeCAD too. Its a really great programm. If they can fix this history problem (Topological Naming) it was perfect for my taste. Here my two tips: To hide something select it and just press space. To use the cut-view in scetcher press the bluish icon right next to the scetch icon.

I learned a lot from this video, thank you so much.

If you would like to have two arcs with the same center in freecad you can highlight both and apply the "=" constraint. The same also applies if you would like to make an arc center the same as your construction geometry circle.

Hey the way to see the sketch when you have an object in the middle Is by pressing the 18 button from the left It looks like a blu plane with a Red sketch on it hope ro help you thanks for your videos i learned so much from It 👍😃