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FreeCAD 0.20 For Beginners | 1 | Setup , preferences and navigation | Easy Tutorial for Learning CAD

FreeCAD 0.20 For Beginners | 1 | Setup , preferences and navigation | Easy Tutorial for Learning CAD

MangoJelly Solutions for FreeCAD
3 HN recommenders · discussed 2023–2024
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About this video

The first lesson of MangoJelly's FreeCAD 0.20 beginner course, covering setup, preferences and navigation. The series teaches fundamentals through complete workflows such as sketching, Part Design and STL export.

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HN recommends it as an excellent beginner series that fills FreeCAD's gap in learning material.

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ranting-moth · 2023-05 · strong rec

FreeCAD's arch nemesis has been lack of good educational material, until very recently. Checkout MangoJelly's "FreeCAD 0.20 For Beginners Tutorials" and follow along. It will change your life. [VIDEO]

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deskr · 2024-06 · strong rec

Look at MangoJelly's beginner's tutorial playlist, start on first video and follow along: [VIDEO] There are definitely problems with FC (but then even expensive CADs have problems). One of the biggest problem I think was lack of good learning material. MangoJelly does an excellent work on that.

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avaldez_ · 2023-03 · rec

My experience exactly. I wanted to make cases for my electronics projects and just learned following this series [VIDEO]

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