Open Source Ecology / FreeCAD Instructionals

This is our weekly mentorship meeting for replicating OSE in South Africa. At 1 hour - it gets interesting: a swarm build of a 3D printed house, from trash plastic. https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Lesego_Log#Fri_Oct_9.2C_2020

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What you see here at Open Source Ecology is an ambitious open source project for the common good. Join our development team:

http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/OSE_Developers

We run One Day Extreme Build workshops in many locations. Please put yourself on our map if you'd like us to host a workshop near you:

https://microfactory.opensourceecology.org/request-a-workshop/

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Learn basic proficiency in FreeCAD in one hour and get an OSE FreeCAD Badge by following the instructions at https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/FreeCAD_Badge.

Then you qualify to join large scale, realtime collaborative CAD design sessions with OSE to produce meaningful technical design during OSE hackathons, startup camps, and design sprints.

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What you see here at Open Source Ecology is an ambitious open source project for the common good. Join our development team:

http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/OSE_Developers

We run One Day Extreme Build workshops in many locations. Please put yourself on our map if you'd like us to host a workshop near you:

https://microfactory.opensourceecology.org/request-a-workshop/

Take a minute to subscribe to our email newsletter (updates, workshops, etc): http://bit.ly/1LtcM44

Developing a FreeCAD Design Workbench for all 50 GVCS machines - by G Roques. https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/G_Roques_Log

See OSE Design Workbench Requirements - https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/3D_Printer_Workbench_Work_Proposal#OSE_Design_Workbench_Requirements


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What you see here at Open Source Ecology is an ambitious open source project for the common good. Join our development team:

http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/OSE_Developers

We run One Day Extreme Build workshops in many locations. Please put yourself on our map if you'd like us to host a workshop near you:

https://microfactory.opensourceecology.org/request-a-workshop/

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Outline:

0:07 - Selecting faces
2:50 Converting meshes (such as STL) to solids


See also FreeCAD Sketcher Tutorial - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwcFg-anVHE

This tutorial covers the main features of the Part Design, Draft, and Assembly 2 Workbenches in FreeCAD - the open soure 3D CAD program. See Transcript at http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/FreeCAD_Sketcher_Tutorial_Transcript .


Installation Notes:
To install FreeCAD -

INSTALLATION NOTES:

*FreeCAD is available for all platforms. Download is found at http://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/Download
*Assembly 2 is an add-on to FreeCAD - see installation instructions at https://github.com/hamish2014/FreeCAD_assembly2/blob/master/README.md.
*To install Fastener Workbench - http://theseger.com/projects/2015/06/fasteners-workbench-for-freecad/

Credits:

*FreeCAD version 0.16 -
*Ubuntu 15.10 operating system
*Edited in Kdenlive 15.08.1 video editor by Marcin Jakubowski
*Audacity for noise removal
*Nexus 6 with Android 6.0.1 for video + sound capture using Easy Voice Recorder Version 2.0.1
*Vokoscreen 2.4.0 for screen capture of window with magnification
*SimpleScreenRecorder for pointer-following video
*Cursor Highlight in Ubuntu - care of DMZyb cursor theme for X11
*OSEMail clip from 2012 by Tristan Copley Smith for OSE
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To create a spherical constraint - select a spherical surface - and a point. Or, you can select two spherical surfaces.

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