[Solved] Help to draw a bezel

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vk3ohm
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[Solved] Help to draw a bezel

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I'm very fluent in OpenSCAD, SketchUp, Fusion360, but FreeCAD continues to defeat me. I've been dabbling with it for a few years, but every time I come back to it I seem to have forgotten what I learnt before. It's not helped by the fact that the product keeps changing. Anyway, I'm trying to draw something really simple, but I'm baffled how to do it.

I'm trying to draw a simple bezel for a 4x7-segment LED display. It's about 50x120mm. I've drawn one in OpenSCAD, but I want to do some chamfer and bevel, and OpenSCAD just doesn't do that. I thought FreeCAD was the answer but the learning curve is too great.

I hate to ask, but could someone put together a basic bezel like the one attached, and I can adjust its parametric dimensions later? I can also put some chamfer/bevel on it.

The display slots in from the front. The 4 digits poke through the bezel. The bezel then is inserted in a hole in a chassis. I would be very grateful if someone could get me started.
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Re: Help to draw a bezel

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To design a shape like this can be done as well in the Part wb as the Part design wb, I did it in Part design
- make a sketch with the path
- make a sketch with the profile
- make a sweep
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Re: Help to draw a bezel

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Are you looking for someone to just create the model.for you or do you really want to learn how to use FreeCAD? If it's the later, I recommend to work through the tutorials: https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Tutorials#Modeling_parts
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Re: Help to draw a bezel

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Thank you very much Willem. Very helpful. I have successfully drawn my bezel using your technique. Sweeping was the first solution I tried, but I just couldn't get it to work. I was using the blue loft tool. I should have been using the yellow one. I also tried lots of pad/pocket but that didn't work.
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Re: Help to draw a bezel

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Since you're fluent in OpenSCAD you can use your OpenSCAD code to create the object in the OpenSCAD workbench.
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From there you could proceed to chamfer/fillet/whatever.
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Re: Help to draw a bezel

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Thanks TheMarkster. I'll keep that in mind as plan B for next time. How do I mark a question as Answered?
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Re: Help to draw a bezel

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Pad and pocket should work too. In general, those operations should.be used first because they're "cheaper".

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