Its pretty simple to use.
Lower the dremel so it just touches the rod
turn on the dremel
slowly turn the the rod as you feed it into the dremel.
If you take light cuts, you get pretty accurate results.

I'll post the finished project soon, and a short video if I can attach it.

I needed to turn down 1/2" threaded rod to 8mm diameter, and I so not own any metal working tools such as a lathe or a mill. Looking around the shop I gathered a Dremel, bunch of aluminium scrap, small bearings and a block of of oak. This is what I came up with. I started using Assembly4 but th...

Thank you, that worked.

This was driving me nuts

I'm modelling a timing belt and tried to use Draft Path Array function, from the description is sounded like the right tool. At first the tooth profile was facing outward, I was able to have the tooth profile face the inside by rotating the original sketch 180deg. In the PathArray object I set Align...

Thanks to all.

The file was too big, I removed some of the items .

Modeling a drill press pedestal, I'm getting suck on the first step. Any advise to create a robust model. Is path sweep the wrong tool for this? Would it be better to start with a solid block and then use the "Thickness" tool? Selection_008.png The model above is actually broken, but gives...

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Thank you both for the answer, because I was attaching to the external reference it did not occur to me that the DOF still apply.

Thank you
Sal

I am trying to create a more accurate angle grinder model, and I'm not understanding how to use Shape-Binder. OS: Ubuntu 22.10 (ubuntu:GNOME/ubuntu) Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit Version: 0.20.2.29603 (Git) AppImage Build type: Release Branch: (HEAD detached at 0.20.2) Hash: 930dd9a76203a3260b1e6256c...

in the Sketcher workbench the icon of two squares (see screenshot below) toggles the construction geometry mode.