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Re: Bunk bed - FreeCAD Production use + Assembly instructions

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Thank you for your description. Very informative. 👍
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Re: Bunk bed - FreeCAD Production use + Assembly instructions

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paullee wrote: Thu Jun 17, 2021 1:19 am I see, sorry for the noise, anyway, that's cool :D

(Are you supposed to post those images )
It is Ok. It was only fittings.
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Re: Bunk bed - FreeCAD Production use + Assembly instructions

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Very impressive! I'm interested in what you're doing in TechDraw.and what in LibreOffice Draw and Inkscape.

I've tried a combination of TechDraw and QCAD during my last bigger project (woodworking including assemblies) but in the end I've done all drawings in TechDraw. My main goal was to minimize to time spend in TechDraw for the dimensions and stuff because I had some drawings which took veeeery long to recompute. I wasn't able to "get warm" with QCAD and my imports somehow didn't look like I've expected them. To be fair: I haven't used QCAD before - maybe I did something fundamentally wrong.
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Re: Bunk bed - FreeCAD Production use + Assembly instructions

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In Techdraw, I generate 3d views of models, avoiding screws and complicated fittings. Use some standard view orientations (I use corners of 3D cube).

In Inkscape you can add fittings. Previously, I generated 3d representation of fittings in different orientations, so I just copy/paste them. Then I add direction lines, adjust line thicknesses etc.
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From postprocessed model you can also create detail views, also in Inkscape. I use same drawing, just make a round clip and enlarge it:
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This cliparts are then imported to LibreOffice draw. Here I add text, position graphics etc.

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In the past I did all of this similar way in SolidWorks but it is also slow when it comes to screws and lot of details.
After some time, when you have collection of generated details, It goes pretty fast. This week I made some assembly instructions for three ranges of beds with similar construction and same steps to assemble. First one took me 2 days, but second and third I did in about four hours each.
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Very nice, thank you very much!
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This is awesome! All open source tools and an absolutely amazing result. Thank you for sharing!
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