Now I need to sketch a M12x1.25mm thread profile/surface on the X-Z centreline of that extrusion but despite hours of trying and looking and searching the help I can find no way to place a sketch plane on that central axis. Trivial you say - and you are right - but just another piece of (needless, pointless) unconventional that makes the whole experience so frustrating.Ī more relevant example: With your help I've got my 3D solid - cylinder with flats - and from watching other videos on youtube, I've managed to wind a helical path around it: Here, those keystrokes go to the beginning and end of line. Ever.Įven trivial things like using this forum are just hard work.Įg1: Any other text editing environment - whether browser of text editor or entry fields in applications, control+left or right arrow key moves back and forth a word at a time.
#Youtube babacad how to
No matter what you want to next, you look at the screen and you either immediately know how to do it, or you have a very strong idea of the possibilities. Those are "conventional".įreeCAD's Sketcher is the only thing that is vaguely similar, but it still provides a grid and snaps and dynamic cursor position, and a dialog where sizes can be set and adjusted that is always there and always in the same place and always works the same way.īasically, no guesswork. The only alternative I come across is a dynamic cursor that displays the current position as you mouse around but that is usually (optionally) combined with grids and snaps. That grid combined with judicious use of snaps, make positioning stuff absolutely and relatively a 'snap' Usually, in (from memory) every other CAD package I've used, when drawing 2D geometries, you do so on a grid with optional snaps. You mentioned earlier something about "new conventions" the thing about conventions is to become "conventions" they have to be "a way in which something is usually done." The point about click counting is simply some metric for how easy or hard it is to do something.įar more important is that (lack of) feedback from the interface. (Maybe I was too quick off the mark and it hadn't converted it to a format firefox understands? It said something about html5 when it failed. That video link worked were the original didn't but now does.
#Youtube babacad code
Maybe the code below will be easier to insert in to a browser's URL window? Did not know they might be browser specific. Don't know how to advise on how to view a YouTube video. Constructing an accurate thread profile with finger painting just seems impossible to me. So, I never reached what I know is going to be the nightmare bit of trying to position anything on a sketch accurately. The two end faces, and the two flat sides appear to be the only choices. nightmare but mostly a one time misunderstanding and tired eyes but I never did find a way to rid myself of those dimensions I did ask for or the point where the corners of the rectangle were.īut, trying to establish a sketch plane along the Y-Z centre line of the extrusion utterly defeated me. Getting rid of the 8 extraneous line & arc segments what a. (There's nothing like consistency and this is nothing like consistent.) (I ended up with 3 extrusions in the features list, only one of which had any depth, but once I found that this time instead of typing into an invisible entryfield somewhere random on the screen, I have to click in the dialog top left. (Some left over construction lines to clean up, 3 clicks in the structure dialog and press the delete key.). click revolve helix, click the pitch entry field and type 1.25, drag right.ĭone. (much easier to do than describe.) 6 clicks.Ĭlick pull tool Click the face of the triangle. Ĭlick the line tool, overdraw the angled construction lines and connect the ends of the arc to the horizontal of the top edge of the section and close the rounded equilateral triangle.
A weird thing popped up and a cursor that seems to be inviting me to left-click. (the 1 appears on the cursor) try typing. Try mousing over it (ithighlights) Try typing. Hit ^Z, and that circle disappears but so does the sizing, its back to the random size but no dimension to click on (not that that worked anyway), so how do I size it?
I caught the '3' key and got a 123 circle. Once more to set a random size of circle.ĭamn. (What if I want it offset from the origin?)
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