Ideas I may try in SharkCAD to expand my own learning

"Can FreeCAD pass the SOLIDWORKS Pro Certification CSQP?"

This video is giving me ideas on doing things in SharkCAD. (I've already with help of other CAD YouTube videos drawn ship propellers, between 2018 and 2023, but never with any ViaCAD or SharkCAD help files help.)


I don't usually use construction lines or planes in SharkCAD. As I mentioned in a prior post, I use geometry local to an area of work effort. (I have issues with clipping or other planes creating unseletectable-by-left-mouse-button geometry.)

The presenter shows setting up variables, something I have yet to use or even approach in SharkCAD.

I, too, wonder what that part is he is working on. I'm bouncing between a braking or mounting aide, or some airplane part, or maybe something related to a transmission.

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At 14m 50s, as I was preparing my post, the narrator mentioned "turn the two points into "construction points so they won't interfere with the operation later."

At first I misheard the points comment and thought he meant exploded edges, but that's not what he said.

Since this video (using FreeCAD) was heavy into constraints-driven modeling effort, this got my attention as it moved along. It's interesting to me because in the recent two weeks, I began drawing another ship hull using constraints. In February, I had already done it, but back then couldn't figure out how to anchor the transom and cause other bulkheads to influence one or more 'free-floating' bulkhead positions.

So, in the October effort, I did it almost subconsciously. Days into the effort, while perusing
my prior activities, I inadvertently found my February drawing.

Strangely, I found that constraints can largely help me do things I couldn't figure out over the recent two years.





"Can FreeCAD pass the SOLIDWORKS Pro Certification CSWP ? (Full Tutorial..."

https://youtube.com/watch?v=VEfNRST_3x8&

Deltahedra

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