OSE Lesson - FreeCAD - 1 hour
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OBSERVE: You need to substitute the template in order to not change the source
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| Lesson-1 | Welcome & OSE Introduction | |||||
| Lesson-3 | OSE Lesson - D3D Universal 3D Printer | |||||
| Lesson-4 | Universal Axis | |||||
| Lesson 5 | Universal Controller - 1 hour | |||||
| Lesson-6 | D3D Universal - Wire & Calibrate | |||||
| Lesson-7 | FreeCAD | |||||
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| Lesson 3 | Collaborative literacy and OSE product development | |||||
| Lesson 4 | Modular Electronics 1h | |||||
| Lesson 5 | Designing an Arduino Uno in KiCAD 1h | |||||
| Lesson 6 | Build a circuit plotter 1h | |||||
| Lesson 7 | Plotting and Etching an Arduino Uno 2h | |||||
| Lesson 8 | Soldering an Arduino together 2h | |||||
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About this lesson
Purpose of this lesson, what will we build, and why. Where does this product fit in human technology
- Subject(s) -
- Course Topic -
- Time allotment - 1 hour
Learning Objectives
- Basic FreeCAD workflow for design
- Drawing in Sketcher, extruding, drawing on faces and extrusion ad infinitum, and hackig it for round faces
- Basic workflow: keep doing this over and over until you can draw an object with 2 successive feautures in 1 minute.
- Understand hiding, selection vs editing, part tree
- Test: time yourself after 30 minutes of practice
- Drawing in Sketcher, extruding, drawing on faces and extrusion ad infinitum, and hackig it for round faces
- Embedding 3D WebGLand part library into wiki
Course Content
- FreeCAD Tutorial 1
- FreeCAD Tutorial 2
- FreeCAD Workflow Exercise
Product specifications and requirements
pdf-file of full downloadable version
Prerequisites
Prerequisite lessons
You need to have an understanding of
- xxx - covered in lesson yyy
- xxx - covered in lesson yyy
Prerequisite tools and parts
You need to have the following parts to get the most from this lesson:
- xxx - built in lesson yyy - can be bought from *link*
Subsequent Courses
How to enroll
There are three alternatives to enroll
- DIY
- Prerecorded
- Webinar - recordings, live participation, Q&A
Background reading
Background reading - background information, videos, etc - to prapare for the lesson (in addition to earlier finished modules)
Instructions
Original article: Freecad 101
Overview
FreeCAD is a free and opensource program for designing structures, parts, and machines. It is mostly used in architectural and mechanical engineering contexts. OSE uses FreeCAD both for its mechanical design work for the machines in the Global Village Construction Set, and for helping create educational documents for teaching people to build those designs.
OSE FreeCAD Resources
Here are some general resources for familiarizing yourself with FreeCAD.
- Manuals: The FreeCAD Manual by Yorick for a much nicer first contact with program than the Official FreeCAD Documentation Wiki. FreeCAD Architecture Tutorial
- Forums: General FreeCAD Forum Help on Using FreeCAD
- Video Series: Rick Hoefer's Intro to FreeCAD for 3D Printing series, FreeCAD for Dummies , Mindscraper's FreeCAD Playlist
- OSE Introductory Tutorials:
Note: the following tutorials are dense. Please pause the videos as needed in order to practice the demonstrated lesson.
OSE FreeCAD Tutorial 1
Tutorial 1 Introduces the sketcher workbench in FreeCAD, so you can then create any 3D objects imaginable
OSE FreeCAD Tutorial 2
Tutorial 2 Introduces part libraries. Importing parts from libraries and assembling them is a powerful way to do design work. This can get the casual user to powerful design capacity using real geometries.
OSE FreeCAD Basic Workflow Tutorial
Workflow test
To summarize: the Basic FreeCAD Workflow test involves creating a 3D object, putting a feature on it, and then putting another 3D feature upon that feature: in 1 minute of time. This test verifies that a person can navigate within FreeCAD with sufficient effectiveness to begin meaningful development with OSE.
Scale experiment instructions
Modularity experiment instructions
Course Completion
Grading and test
Incentive Challenge
Review
Teacher's corner
Schedule
- 0-15 min
- 15-30 min
- 30-45 min
- 30 min mark:
- Number of people in group:
- Nr of people who succeeded:
- Nr of remote participants:
- Nr of remote that succeeded:
- 30 min mark:
- 45-60 min Round up, try to quite before the end of the class to give people some time to go to the loo before the next class.