FreeCAD Beginner Tutorial #1

After many frustrating attempts to understand the program, I stumbled upon your videos. My 73-year-old brain finally "gets it". Thank you for your hard work. I know how long it takes to put videos together and appreciate your efforts.

Jeff, I have watched a lot of free cad tutorials and I have to say your style is the best to me. You speech is clear and on point and easy to follow. Freecad is not easy to work with please continue. So far you are hands down very good at teaching.

Jeff!! U r the Man! I really appreciate your patience and step-by-step explanation. I'm 55 yrs old, very motivated to reach a goal and you have been a real game changer. Thank you and really looking forward to more content! Ben

This is great for people with CAD knowledge but not enough familiarity with FreeCad. Thanks.

This is awesome. Took a few goes to get the 'fillet' at the end. Pity fillet doesn't allow touching as quite complex to make a semicircle in comparison. One thing to note: I found it useful to see the Constraint and Elements windows while I was following along to make sure I was following along correctly but they weren't always visible. It was great that you walked through with the drawing too.

JeffCAD, you ROCK! Very helpful for the guy who just downloaded FreeCAD yesterday. Thank you for making this video!

Very clear explanation of how to start a part from first step to the end. Best tutorial I've ever seen! Thanks for the clarity.

Hello, Jeff. I FINALLY found the perfect CAD program, thanks to you! I've been through LOTS of other videos (and some downloads) and this did it for me (just received my 3D printer a few days ago). Bonus round are the reference images you've included; VERY helpful. You're the best! (ivette)

Great tutorial! So glad I found one that's not 2-years old. Really hard to translate from older versions when you know nothing about the app!

As someone who has never been in the CAD world, you make it quite easy to follow along & learn. Thank you.

I watched other tutorials in spanish and english and this one is the most useful one. I will continue the series. Thanks!

Great tutorial Jeff , looking forward to more videos

Excellent !. Please, we need more clear examples like this one. Greetings from Chile, Juan.

I have been 3D printing for some years and always wanted to learn doing simple designs by myself. Al the courses and instructions I could find were always way to technical from the get go. These 2 beginner tutorials are right up my level, thank you ! Subscribed and eagerly awaiting any follow ups should you make any.

I very much like the way you went thru that, explaining why you were doing what you were doing. For example, stating the problem with the Fillet command where 2 fillets cannot touch and showing us how to use the Pocket tool to get around that. Thank you very much. I'm going to try to spread your channel to other users. I have subscribed and look forward to your next lesson. So far, you are the only one using 0.21.2. Everyone else is using 0.21.1. I'm sure that'll change with time but it's nice to watch a teacher that is using the same version that I am.

Good pace and clarity, thanks. It's slowly starting to make sense!

Keep doing the great work. Very well explained and clear English, thank you

Fantastic tutorial. I agree with the other commenter that your tutorial was easy to follow and very clear. Great job!

Jeff this is SUPER useful Thanks Very much !

Perfect amount of explanation and show with some wax of wax off, my favorite way to learn.