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michav
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Looking for a mentor

Post by michav »

Hello freecad community

I am a mechanical engineer interested in integrating freecad into my workflow
Specifically interested in creating my own workbenches for composite molding, assembly instructions, drawing generator, part number generator, and automatic pdf, pdf, stp export


I am a fairly advanced cad user: solidworks, ctia

I am a fairly intermediate python user

I need help getting started with workbench creation


Does anyone want to mentor me for 1-3 hours on google hang out to get me up and running?


I think I have alot to contribute to the freecad community specifically documentation

Please contact me if your interested
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Re: Looking for a mentor

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While you're waiting for reply, there's a great YouTube channel by JOKO Engineering. He does some comparisons between Solidworks and FreeCAD. He also does some great introductions to different workbenches along with demonstrating how to use certain key combo shortcuts (makes workflow very efficient).
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I can set some time aside to give you an overview, if you like. There’s several people around here more qualified than me, though, lol. It really depends on what you need to learn.
FreeCAD Trails workbench for transportation engineering: https://www.github.com/joelgraff/freecad.trails

pivy_trackers 2D coin3D library: https://www.github.com/joelgraff/pivy_trackers
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