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Thanks for participating in the DrVax community. Irv
Folks,
Forum user Geit gave me a helpful push and I learned how to added additional attachment types to our forums. You can now attach/upload FCStd, F3d and STL files. In addition I have increased the PDF file size limit so I can more easily upload DrVAX video slides decks.
All the best. Irv
If you had asked me a couple days ago, I would have said do a video with strategies for getting around FreeCADs issues with doing fillets. Fillets seem to bring FreeCAD to its knees.
If you had asked me yesterday, I would have said a replacement hotend cover for the Ender 3 V2 that accommodates Noctua fans, their buck converters, and an integrated mount for a BL-Touch.
Today I've moved on to wanting a Raspberry Pi 4 case that includes an open slot for the Pi Cam ribbon cable and is designed to mount in the slot of a 20x20 extruded rail like used in the Ender and other printers.
But those are probably better-suited for my own learning projects than a general audience tutorial.
What about Ender5's seat post mounted bag handle hook? That's something many people would enjoy making for themselves.
Yes, finding a way to re-create the headrest post bag hook (with all the filleting I managed to achieve in F360) in FCAD would be a great tutorial IMHO.
Excellent suggestions. Right now I am creating a series of videos about designing and 3d printing a travel chess set and board in FreeCAD with parametric design so you can easily resize the pieces.
Based on other posts I have read many of the forum contributors are much more advanced CAD users than me. My contribution is just explaining things in a way that makes it easier for novices to use these tools. This is consistent with my goals for this forum. I hoped to create a place where I could learn from my viewers, build a community of makers, and then communicate what I learn on the channel.
Another goal for this forum and my YouTube channel are that most if not all DrVax content are free. I will be adding more content over time that is available to registered forum users at no cost. For example FreeCAD models, STL files, and printer profiles. YouTube advertising and affiliate links provide me with the income to pay for the DrVax website hosting, vBulletin for hosting this forum, and for supplies and devices I talk about on the channel.
Since you can skip ads and have no obligation to use affiliate links I think I have found a way to support DrVax that is fair to everyone. I am interested in folk's observations about this economic model.
Your videos are the first I saw on FreeCAD and got me interested in actually using it, so good work there! I think you can definitely fill a niche with some well-produced videos that are good for novices and then progress at a good pace. There aren't many good tutorials out there tbh, I had to do a patchwork of things that I found useful.
I think a good subject to look at is how to design useful parts that are supposed to fit together, so something with multiple bodies. You can talk about how to make holes for fasteners like screws, and how to make parts fit together with tolerances for example. Maybe it's a case or a box for something, or any other useful device really. Also, if you could introduce dynamic data at some point, that would be great. I've started to use it instead of spreadsheets, and they work quite well.
Not really a topic, but I think it's worth pointing out to newbies that print-in-place multi-part models don't necessarily have to print perfectly. It's OK to design a model with small connector bits that hold the pieces in place while printing and then break them loose after the print is complete.
...My contribution is just explaining things in a way that makes it easier for novices to use these tools. This is consistent with my goals for this forum. I hoped to create a place where I could learn from my viewers, build a community of makers, and then communicate what I learn on the channel...
Irv, fyi, my son just turned 9 & he & I both enjoy your videos...they are exactly what we needed to quickly translate our computer skills to FreeCAD in a fun way...your FreeCAD video series made it very clear in a short time how CAD bodies, sketches, padding, etc. worked that I had not been able to figure out on my own. Thanks!
I (and probably a lot of other folks) could sure use some guidance on creating arrays in FreeCad. The FreeCad forums are just to "geeky" for us non-techies and trying to self-teach arrays (particularly polar arrays) is painfully frustrating! A nice long lesson in the Dr. Vax style would be more than wonderful!
Great! I'll be looking for it! Hoping you'll teach us how to do polar arrays soon so I can design things such as coins with ridges on the edge, toy car wheels, checkers pieces that stack with those nice ridges around the perimeter, even petals on flowers. Thanks Irv!
Whoever's hands they're in, I'm comforted to know that Northern Lights are a good indication that the magnetic field of the planet is still working, and the Van Allen Belts are still there.
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