FreeCAD 0.20 For Beginners | 1 | Setup , preferences and navigation | Easy Tutorial for Learning CAD
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN recommends it as an excellent beginner series that fills FreeCAD's gap in learning material.
What it is
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.
Recommended by 3 HN commenters across 3 different months, 2023 to 2024.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec ranting-moth · 2023-05 · on “A blocky based CAD program”
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]
Strong rec deskr · 2024-06 · on “Versioning FreeCAD Files with Git (2021)”
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.
Recommends avaldez_ · 2023-03 · on “FreeCAD User Book (2019)”
My experience exactly. I wanted to make cases for my electronics projects and just learned following this series [this video]