FreeCAD Help - Granet JP - Limoges - France

Create the skip

Questions to ask yourself before you start :

Which function to use ?

Pocket tool :
So you need a sketch ...

In what plane ? how ?

In (x, z) plane ;
With Rectangle tool.

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Click on the steps of
the construction cycle

Select the plane that will support your construction

The choice of the drawing's positioning in the sketch of the previous step gives four possible choices to start the new sketch :

- the red face in the in the plane
of symmetry,

- XZ plane (the plane of symmetry),

- the green face,

- XY plane (coincident with the
green face).

For more stability of the model, we will choose one of the reference planes, for exemple
the (X, Y) plane that will correspond at a top view of the van.

Select this plane by left mouse click, either in the construction tree or in the 3D window if the general planes are visible.

(the Space key is used to hide or make visible any object in the tree).

Create the sketch

* Click (left) on Rectangle tool

Place your points as in the picture :
(Rigth click / Escape to leave Rectangle tool)

Constrain the sketch

1- Position the entities of the sketch.

a- Check that the entities have all been oriented correctly (horizontal, vertical, angle of inclination, ...);

b- Add what is missing;

c- Fill in the particular positions (PointOnPoint, PointOnLine, ...);

d- Position a strategic point in relation to the origin of the system.

2- Size your sketch

Rate methodically, for example :

a- Horizontal dimensions;

b- Vertical dimensions;

c- Radius or diameters ...

Note : the sketch must be completely constraint (all entities green).

and close it.

Create the material

1 - Select the sketch in the tree if it is not.

2 - Select the feature you want to use.
With the sketch selected in the tree, click onto extrude the sketch.

3 - Define the parameters of the feature :

and valid by OK .