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Basic Beginners FreeCAD v1.0 : Introduction to Course

Basic Beginners FreeCAD v1.0 : Introduction to Course

MangoJelly Solutions for FreeCAD
3 HN recommenders · discussed 2025–2025
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About this video

The introduction to MangoJelly's beginner course for FreeCAD 1.0. The course teaches solid modeling with the Part Design, Sketcher and Part workbenches.

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HN users recommend MangoJelly's thorough tutorials as the best way to learn FreeCAD properly, since trial and error doesn't work.

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From the Hacker News discussion

titaphraz · 2025-05 · strong rec

I highly recommend MangoJelly Solutions's tutorials. Here's a playlist for FreeCAD 1.0: [VIDEO] But he has a bunch of other videos.

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foofoo12 · 2025-11 · strong rec

I use FreeCAD and it's pretty good. But I think it's impossible to learn by trial and error. MangoJelly has done an amazing job in churning out high quality tutorials for FreeCAD: [VIDEO] (this is just one playlist, there's a lot more on his channel).

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deskr · 2025-01 · rec

I switched to FreeCAD 2-3 years ago. It suits me just fine and I'm so glad I can store my project in a local folder. I also don't have to worry Fusion360 taking any more features away or locking me out. I also don't have to beg them to renew my licence every year. FreeCAD has improved a lot recently. MangoJelly has also done massive work creating thorough video tutorials: [VIDEO]

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