Problem using tutorial to make external threads

[SupDoc]

I am working my way through making external threads: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDg9tXB_7hg and having some difficulty proceeding past the half-way point.

There are apparently some version differences between the tutorial and what I am using to complete the tasks. I have managed to overcome these differences to this point, but now I am stumped. We are just ready to start making threads. The problem is the menu that comes up when one clicks on the Pad in the Model panel. I can show the menu in the attached snippet image of the tutorial, but it goes away in my version, whenever I try to copy it.

I am using Windows 10 64-bit and my FreeCAD is 0.18.4.

Any body know how to proceed past this impass?

[chrisb]

The tutorials of Roland are legend. Sadly he died in an accident before he could transform them to 0.17. There was a serious change in th workflow when 0.17 was introduced, thus we recommend to serious video creators to start with showing their FreeCAD version.

I recommend to use only those videos explicitely telling they were made with 0.17 or higher undtil you have more experience. Then you may decide on your own if a transformation to the new workflow is feasible.

[vocx]

I am working my way through making external threads: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDg9tXB_7hg and having some difficulty proceeding past the half-way point.
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I am using Windows 10 64-bit and my FreeCAD is 0.18.4.
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See Video tutorials.

[chrisb]

As soon as the PartDesign workbench occurs in a video you can distinguish between 0.16 and later:
0.16 had these tools:

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while 0.18 has these (the green shapeBinder is from 0.19 though)

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with DatumPint/Line/Plane, and additive and subtractive features.

[papyblaise]

Hello
the Roland's video is alway suitable in V17 , 18 , 19 but in PartWb only

[grooveman]

Hi SupDoc,

I had a similar problem a little while ago. I found that the tutorials I was trying to learn from were too old. Many times, you can get by with that, but not in this instance.

I started this thread, and with the help of the good people in this forum, was finally able to do make some very nice threads:

https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic. ... 1&start=10

Be advised, though, that if all you are trying to do is create nuts and bolts, there is a very good addon for that now, that could save you a lot of time. You won't learn much from it though, if that is your priority here.

g