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How to not have to draw anything. Screws. Parts. Repositories such as McMaster Carr, Misumi. Maufacturer's CAD. | How to not have to draw anything. Screws. Parts. Repositories such as McMaster Carr, Misumi. Maufacturer's CAD. | ||
==Tractor Design Workbench== | ==Tractor Design Workbench== | ||
The Modular Tractor Design Workbench provides a design platform based on parts that have already been developed. Accepted parts are Power Cubes, frames, wheel units, and hydraulics modules, among others. The part set is sufficient to build a tractor with loader, backhoe, bulldozer, a tracked | The Modular Tractor Design Workbench provides a design platform based on parts that have already been developed for the open source ecology tractor. Accepted parts are Power Cubes, frames, modular wheel units, wheels, tracks, shafts, plates, pivots, and hydraulics modules, among others. The part set is sufficient to build a tractor with loader, backhoe, bulldozer, a tracked machine, a wheeled machine, base mobility platform tractor that have already been developed for the Tractor and related infrastructures,By drag and dropping modules from the workbench, we can arrange them in any configuration, and build just about any heavy machine. To get specialized functionality, such as a baler, we combine a hay pickup, compressor, and knotter. To build a backhoe, we combine a wheel base, articulated arms, bucket, hydraulics, and pivot. And so on. As such we can use FreeCAD as a Tractor Construction Set. The only difference between this and Legos is that we are designing real functional machines that will be built and will weigh many tons. | ||
See [[Tractor Construction Set Modules]]. | |||
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Revision as of 04:04, 5 January 2016
Intro
These are proposed summary video scripts of 2 minute Extreme Learning FreeCAD instructionals. The specific script needs to be developed. You can parse accepted Video Tutorials to refactor them into Best Tutorials - [1]. This is not a complete list, so more searching is useful.
Sketcher
Draw constrained geometry: length, parallel, perpendicular, angle, round corner, offset, line offset. Up to extruding a part.
Assembly
Boolean operations. Draw an assembly of items. Snap to edge, point, line. Align. With any number of parts.
Drawing Dimensioning
Draw pointers to circle radius, lengths offset correctly.
FEA
Do basic stress analysis on single parts. Analizing a bolted frame assembly.
Exploded Part Animations
Exploded part diagrams and animations example.
CAM
Generate a toolpath from a 3D model. See reference - [2] and [3]. From [4].
Reverse Engineering
How best to reverse engineer anything. Start from STL or STEP, and replace with parametric part definitions.
File Manipulation
Importing, exporting, converting in order to use any file from anywhere.
FreeCAD Development
Kernel. Program. Builds. Repos. Workbenches. Libraries. Wrappers. Running scripts. Python. Macros. Command Line programming of FreeCAD.
Libraries
How to not have to draw anything. Screws. Parts. Repositories such as McMaster Carr, Misumi. Maufacturer's CAD.
Tractor Design Workbench
The Modular Tractor Design Workbench provides a design platform based on parts that have already been developed for the open source ecology tractor. Accepted parts are Power Cubes, frames, modular wheel units, wheels, tracks, shafts, plates, pivots, and hydraulics modules, among others. The part set is sufficient to build a tractor with loader, backhoe, bulldozer, a tracked machine, a wheeled machine, base mobility platform tractor that have already been developed for the Tractor and related infrastructures,By drag and dropping modules from the workbench, we can arrange them in any configuration, and build just about any heavy machine. To get specialized functionality, such as a baler, we combine a hay pickup, compressor, and knotter. To build a backhoe, we combine a wheel base, articulated arms, bucket, hydraulics, and pivot. And so on. As such we can use FreeCAD as a Tractor Construction Set. The only difference between this and Legos is that we are designing real functional machines that will be built and will weigh many tons.
See Tractor Construction Set Modules.