Maybe I should stop cross-posting, but I think it's useful to have a central topic to show the projects we do with FreeCAD.
This is something I just shared in this topic.
kwahoo wrote last week on Google+ about the fact that FreeCAD has been in development for 10 years, and that it would soon reach the 5000 commits barrier (which it has today). We joked about modeling a cake to celebrate, so here it is!
You'll notice that for the candle, I put my script to generate a sweep to good use. There are actually 4 sweeps along the candle. I used the Draft rotate tool to copy the original sweep at 90 degrees intervals. I fused the 4 solid sweeps together, then I substracted them from the cylinder.
The following workbenches were used:
- Sketcher
- PartDesign for the plate (revolve), the bottom and middle of the cake (pad & fillet), the candle cylinder (revolve) and the flame (revolve), the sketch for the sweep section
- Part for a cylinder primitive to make the upper half of the cake (because it failed with a pad?!?), the helix for the sweep, and of course boolean operations
- Draft to rotate my sweep section to a acceptable angle (but not exactly normal to the helix start), to copy & rotate the generated sweep, and to move/rotate/scale the FC logo which was modeled in a separate file and copy/pasted.