What is the best way to design irregular shapes in FreeCAD? I'm a novice with FreeCAD and mostly use PartDesign, and often find myself being very creative about how to pad and pocket from various sides to create the shapes I need, and I'm not sure I'm doing stuff the easiest way always.
But sometimes I don't know quite how to do something at all in FreeCAD. To make an example, here's a simple fishing lure on thingiverse:
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:25829
Here's a render of the parts:
These parts don't seem to be very symmetric at all. How could something like this be designed in FreeCAD? (Even without the eye/gill features on the head part.)
Design irregular shapes in FreeCAD
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Re: Design irregular shapes in FreeCAD
Create cross sections and use Part - Loft.
Re: Design irregular shapes in FreeCAD
hi
an example of creation Designing a Surfboard Fin there in the post links to videos to build a loft
mario
an example of creation Designing a Surfboard Fin there in the post links to videos to build a loft
mario
Maybe you need a special feature, go into Macros_recipes and Code_snippets, Topological_data_scripting.
My macros on Gist.github here complete macros Wiki and forum.
My macros on Gist.github here complete macros Wiki and forum.
Re: Design irregular shapes in FreeCAD
Greetings kefir, it's possible to do - here's a screen grab of my first attempt: If you want to have a look at the model the file can be downloaded from here, with a file-size of almost 7MB it's way too big to upload to the forum.kefir wrote:To make an example, here's a simple fishing lure on thingiverse:
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How could something like this be designed in FreeCAD?
Or you can 3D print it and maybe try for some smallies.
Re: Design irregular shapes in FreeCAD
I was playing around and made a simpler version...
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