Old school prints

[Fueler]

Still a newbie.
I am attempting to understand If I can produce an old school 2d printout for producing parts on the mill manually.
This requires that dimensions/locations all start from an origin/home point. Usually the front left corner of an object.
Simplest example would be a square plate with holes.
I need to see that "this hole goes over here, this far on the X plane from the origin or home point AND over there on the Y plane".
Possible? How to?

[jmaustpc]

That is what the Drawing workbench is for. There are differences between different version of FreeCAD. But generally just use the Drawing WB to create a Drawing and insert views of your solid.

Dimensions have to be made in the Draft workbench and then inserted with the Draft to Drawing icon in the Draft WB tool bar.

If you want an accurate response always post your "Help about FreeCAD data".

Read the FreeCAD wiki, search for Draft Dimension and you should find the page. Also read the Drawing workbench page.

Start with a default Part WB cube and cylinder, then fuse them, then experiment with the Drawing work bench. If you insert something and can't see it in the drawing then it is usually because the "Drawing view" of the item has an inappropriate scale value or position values. For the above default Part object if you set scale at about 5 and position x and y at about 150mm you should see them.

[quick61]

We really need to do a Tutorial on this.

Possible? How to?

Possible, most defiantly yes.

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How to, that's a bit more complicated question at the moment.

Hello Fueler , welcome to FreeCAD and the Forum. As Jim said, learning by doing and figuring out what works best for you is a good way to go. A place you can start is in this thread - Re: Help with first project using FreeCad The new user there is taken through the process of setting up dimensions in his Drawing. There are several pages and within them there is a link to a video that has a small demonstration.

Please be patient, as FreeCAD is not something anyone can learn in a day or two. Once you have gotten into it, please feel fre to ask any specific questions you may have. Remember to include your Help > About FreeCAD information when you do.

Mark

[NormandC]

Hello Fueler, welcome here.

Guys, what Fueler is asking for is coordinate dimensions.

This requires that dimensions/locations all start from an origin/home point. Usually the front left corner of an object.

Unfortunately Draft Dimension does not support this.

[microelly2]

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Hallo Fueler,

I think what you are looking for can be done with the draft direction property.

create a draft point which is the origin on your page

create draft dimension objects form this point to the points you want to measure
these dimensions are at the first escrow (example 54)
then change the direction paramters to 1 0 0 for horizontal (example 34,70)
and 0 1 0 for vertical measures (example 16,40)

you can change the dimline values to place the dimlines as you want.

maybe that is not yet the right syntax for you, but some manipulation is still possible.
can you show us what your outcome should be.

[Fueler]

Actually Quick61's example is a good one on what I wish to do.
Pick an origin or home point and dimension from there for the X and Y travel. No Z is involved.
Thanks everyone. I will tinker with it.

[quick61]

Actually Quick61's example is a good one on what I wish to do.
Pick an origin or home point and dimension from there for the X and Y travel. No Z is involved.
Thanks everyone. I will tinker with it.

Um, I think your describing normandc's example, but your welcome. As I said, once you get into it, please ask any questions you might have.

Mark