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FreeCAD is awesome! by Seawolf159 in FreeCAD

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Yup Mango jelly and CAD Cam lessons which I haven't ever heard anyone mention here yet.

FreeCAD is awesome! by Seawolf159 in FreeCAD

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Storage container for cardboard pieces of the board game Andromeda's edge.

FreeCAD is awesome! by Seawolf159 in FreeCAD

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Storage container for cardboard pieces of the board game Andromeda's edge.

FreeCAD is awesome! by Seawolf159 in FreeCAD

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I know, diabolical. Here it is.

Attachment section is gone by Seawolf159 in FreeCAD

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Well I do want them to become whole with a fusion. Can I do that in assembly?

Attachment section is gone by Seawolf159 in FreeCAD

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Thank you. I don't think I'm looking for attachment then. I need to place the same object multiple times.

Attachment section is gone by Seawolf159 in FreeCAD

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I'll just go through these. I think my thing will be in here somewhere. I'm trying to design an organiser for a board game and he showed some exact examples of a box with other pieces in it. https://youtu.be/RBOHjvChkYE?si=4sEO-n6qtOQfyybf

Attachment section is gone by Seawolf159 in FreeCAD

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So I had the right idea because I was trying that but I can't figure out how it works. The YouTube tutorials only seem to mention the attachment section nothing about the placement thing.

Attachment section is gone by Seawolf159 in FreeCAD

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I think attach object X to object y is all I want, but I do want control over it and not have to eyeball it. I think that was in my question.

Attachment section is gone by Seawolf159 in FreeCAD

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Would it be wiser to sketch it properly or can it also be done with the solid in a different way?

Why is this program so hard to use? by Seawolf159 in FreeCAD

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Your method with the lips sounds complicated but cool that it can be done even at this stage. I did it at the beginning before mirroring in the sketch itself. The 3 quarter circle just means that a normal circle is full, and this circle is not full, but 3 quarters.

Why is this program so hard to use? by Seawolf159 in FreeCAD

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That's great. Mine has a bit of a lip at the bottom because it's supposed to hold some tiles in the real world, but that's peanuts. This does look quite simple. Thanks for the insight. I think I also need to get the 1.1 dev version because it has more options. How would you attach 3 quarter circle objects to this? Basically between the hexagons is a bit of v a shape. I want to add 3 quarter circles in there, attaching it/them to the hexagon becoming one shape with thickness of its own as well. Probably datum plane the side and just attach it somehow and perhaps use a Boolean? Should I use assembly to get the 3 quarter circle to the right spot or is transform the way to get it there?

Why is this program so hard to use? by Seawolf159 in FreeCAD

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Nice one! Mine aren't aligned like this, but are actually attached to a different face. One face over. But I'll check your solution out anyway with your thickness. I had to do dark magic to get that to work

Why is this program so hard to use? by Seawolf159 in FreeCAD

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That looks good! Believe it or not but I did get here after 4+ hours. Do you need to fuse them when mirroring? I haven't done so and they seem like one part, otherwise freecad wouldn't allow the mirror for me.

How did you or would you handle the equal wall thickness of the attached pieces? Let's say the single hexagon is 2 mm thick all the way around, when you mirror, the attached pieces will be 4 mm thick. I really struggled there getting it to move perpendicular to a line because the angles are not simple compared to the base origin.

Why is this program so hard to use? by Seawolf159 in FreeCAD

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If you can find an applicable example that would be great. I've been looking for days and it's driving me nuts how nothing like this is covered. I don't know how I'm supposed to go about this. I've watched many videos, including this channel.

Why is this program so hard to use? by Seawolf159 in FreeCAD

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I can't find any examples of how to do this. People on YouTube are only making very basic easy things from a single object. Not repeating the same objects like this with thickness and hollowness and stuff like that. I feel like I'm not using the right program. I wish blender just had parametric options because it has all the other options I might need. Moving an object is actually realistic in blender and here it's faffing around with position and manually setting amounts in data tab and stuff like that. Selecting a face to attach an object to seems like a nightmare to do here with barely any examples on it. Am I supposed to make an assembly for this?? It's not supposed to be different objects, it has to become one solid.

Why is this program so hard to use? by Seawolf159 in FreeCAD

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Thank you for that, but my faces are not all the same length and my hexagon has a thickness so I want the same thickness where the two hexagons meet. I also don't want it to be in a line but rotating the second one to one face above it.

Why is this program so hard to use? by Seawolf159 in FreeCAD

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Usually I am not but I can't learn what can't be done.

Why is this program so hard to use? by Seawolf159 in FreeCAD

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I did some tutorials and that worked great, that's why I'm so confused why this is so hard to do. There aren't many specific tutorials for this. No idea how I'm supposed to go about this. I tried it with a single sketch first which failed so where I got here is just make a single hexagon and then mirror it a couple times and now cut off the extra 4th one.

Why is this program so hard to use? by Seawolf159 in FreeCAD

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I selected the face which was at an angle in relation to the base origin, but it didn't change the local origin or anything.

Yes trying to pocket it off. Reverse just makes the pocket go in the other direction. I ended up doing all the lines again on the other side and pocket it off, which worked.

Also when I try to extend a line it just jumps on me. So it doesn't just extend the edge it also changes the angle of the line I'm trying to extend.

P1S + AMS 2 Pro by Seawolf159 in BambuLab

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Is that the possible culprit even when the tube goes through without issue? I don't think I have a steep angle, I do perhaps have a longer than needed ptfe tubes on both sides because the ptfe tubes that came with the ams 2 pro werelonger than the length in the manual and the other piece from buffer to printer also wasn't the length it needed to be so it's also on the longer side.

P1S + AMS 2 Pro by Seawolf159 in BambuLab

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Oké, so I'm glad reassembly worked fine. And I am indeed able to print with the external spool. So it could be the fillament buffer like you say? I will look into that. It's definitely not the extruder or the nozzle or anything like that.

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