Part Design


  • Part Design – Your First Sketch

    In FreeCAD, as many other CAD systems, we use Sketches to draw out features of a 3D shape. When the feature is defined we use a 3d tool like Pad […]

  • Part Design – Thickness

    The Part Design Thickness tool removes the selected faces from a solid and adds thickness to the remaining faces. The tool can be applied to a basic box to hollow […]

  • Part Design – Chamfer

    The Part Design Chamfer tool simplifies the process of adding a chamfered corner to shapes, or features, of our Part Design Body. The Chamfer tool adds a face to the […]

  • Part Design – Multi-Transform

    The Multi-transform command will apply successive patterns and transforms to a single or multiple features on the currently active body. The transformations available under the Multi-Transform are: Mirrored Transformation Linear […]

  • Part Design – Polar Pattern Feature

    The Polar Pattern Feature adds a circular array of features to an existing body. The Polar Pattern Feature is more or less a sub-set of what is a available in […]

  • Part Design – Linear Pattern Feature

    The Linear Pattern Feature adds an array of Features to an existing body. The Linear Pattern Feature is distinct from Draft Arrays, as it does not create individual entities, rather, […]

  • Part Design – Fillet

    The Part Design Fillet tool simplifies the process of adding a filled radius to shapes, or features, of our Part Design Body. This Fillet tool adds a single radius chosen […]

  • Part Design – Sweep Path ( aka Pipe, aka Additive Pipe, aka Subtractive Pipe. )

    The Sweep command takes a profile in the form of a sketch, ( or wire ) and it moves that profile along a path to create a solid. The sweep […]

  • Part Design WorkBench – Loft

    The Part Design Loft command will join two sketches to create a solid. The loft creates faces between two shapes with compatible edges. The edges need to form a face. […]

  • Part Design – Revolve

    The revolve tool in the Part Design Workbench creates a solid from a sketch or draft wire. This is accomplished by “extruding” around an axis. To use the Part Design […]