3D Modeling – FreeCAD basics (Journal Entry 7)

Part One: Tutorial

Of course this was frustrating at first but it is a basic tutorial. The hardest part was following directions step by step and losing track of progress. It did become redundant and after a few times of you doing it in class i felt like I could do it on my own easily.

Part Two: The Wire Holder

I simply began making a rectangular prism by padding around 50mm of length to fit it a decent distance on the desk so it would not slip off from the weight of the wire. Making the whole was simple thanks to the circle tool on FreeCad that allows you to drag the circles radius the desired length. Anyways it turned out decent.

Part Three:

This took some thinking… I decided to make something that could slide together and be fairly self explanatory. The first part I created using a cylinder and adding rectangular pieces to the end to make a “T” at both ends of the cylinder. From there I made the second piece that this would slide into. This was made from a rectangular prism with a whole cut in the center of the exact same shape as the first shape. To use these parts in conjunction, one would slide the two pieces together where they align, then once both pieces are together, you twist the end of the cylinder so that it cannot fall through the hole anymore.

Thanks. Jacob Hamm