636K views · Nov 11, 2022 · 24:04 · 3 HN recommenders · 3 mentions · discussed 2023–2024
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.
Why Hacker News points people here: HN recommends it as an excellent beginner series that fills FreeCAD's gap in learning material.
“MangoJelly does an excellent work on that.”HN comment, 2024
“It will change your life.”
Good beginner tutorials fill FreeCAD's educational gap
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. this video
“MangoJelly does an excellent work on that.”
Excellent beginner playlist addressing FreeCAD's lack of learning material
Look at MangoJelly's beginner's tutorial playlist, start on first video and follow along: this 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.
“I wanted to make cases for my electronics projects and just learned following this series”
Commenter learned CAD for electronics cases from this series
My experience exactly. I wanted to make cases for my electronics projects and just learned following this series this video
