FreeCAD - Arch Workbench - Getting a Result, Simple House

This Tutorial uses the Arch Workbench. It is the approach I am using to get a decent result with minimal frustration. I am not an Architect, Engineer or Building. So it is probably wrong in many ways, just an attempt to help get passed the FreeCAD learning curve. Hope it helps!

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[miku]

I've never seen a CAD program in my life, it is three and a half minutes into my first tutorial, and I have the outline to my house. This is exactly what I was looking for and I can't thank you enough.

[HumphreyBoogaerdt]

Great to have someone explaining it who is not an architectural drafts person

[brownmuta]

Thanks for the help. There's a lot of little things you just have to learn from someone else before you can really understand how the program works. And I appreciate you being the person that helped.

[VincentTubed]

great explanation, also great you mention the keys specifically and repeat, very useful! thank you !

[NargilTheMrNooB]

It suerly does help, thanks :) Now i can show this to an architect.

[sergevereecke]

There is no odd reason, it is a valid reason. I am venturing to do the same but go the next step and introduce the finished work in Blender and add to it to make it photorealistic. It is not odd, it is a great idea.

[mirrorcoloured]

I'm just starting out on a similar venture so I really appreciate this info share! I love the x/y locking, that's a really handy feature. To throw a tip back your way, if you use the Extension (···) or Perpendicular (⟂) snapping modes you can draw lines like that interior wall easily. Cheers!

[RomanErokhin]

Thanks for tutorial!
On 7:10 there was an extra foot sign when you entered the dimensions, so the door size got funny.

[ZugTheDragon]

This is good if you're throwing together a random house for fun, not if you're trying to create a plan with specific dimensions

[AwakeTruthSeeker]

Before you select the Polyline, how did you get an orthogonal grid to put the line on? Sorry, I am just starting to use this, and you missed out that first step. Or maybe something is different as I am using 0.21.2?

[gordonfrank]

Good to know about X Y keys to lock draft move direction. Regarding copying Windows. I am able to do a draft move > copy and make additional windows.

[ПетрПроценко]

Was helpful on my level. Might be not suitable for an absolute beginner. And thanks for the roof explanation, official manual keeps this knowledge a sectet, guess, many a beginners will try to make his roof a complete one, wasting a lot of time in vain.

[brucewilliams]

I really appreciate this video. I still have a long way to go but you got me going in the right direction. Merry Christmas.

[buachaille]

Thanks for the taking the time to put the video together. To put your mind at rest over the 1st door height, if you review the steps closely, you left in the "feet" part of the initial measurement, so your input was essentially saying "six-feet-8-inches-feet" which is pretty confusing. Hard to spot since "' looks very like ". Would probably be nicer if the interface told you it didn't understand the measurement you entered, but instead the program accepts it as "6 feet plus 8 feet" and so gave you a fourteen foot door.

[dip]

i think my grid is too small when i draw on it the wall goes to the orbit, how do i fix that

[jaimeduncan]

Very nice video, and another demostration that the inches and feet stuff is nonsensical when we have Indu-Arabic numbers and it's the only think all humans agree with: they are far better.

[brownmuta]

I get the model of your house thing. I actually plan to build my own house, I lost almost all my money actually so I'm trying to find work so I can get back to that goal. But anyways I like trying to model out my house in these programs also. Mostly so I know how much material and how the plumbing would work out and everything, but also just because I enjoy doing it.

[bobbuilder]

Thanks this has given me a good start with arch. I have been using part design and sketcher with good result for a while. But what i cant understand with arch is just where is the window that i placed. I can see it but cant see any measurements describing location in the tree. If i move the window then the tree object describes how it moved but not its actual location. What am i missing. Thanks still working through your vids.

[leviathanx]

7:11 That is likely happening because you actually typed 6' 8"', so it probably adds 6' and 8' and ignores the ", hence why you got 14' in the end.

[varshaamohan]

For some reason whenever I try to build the wall, I'm getting an error saying <class 'TypeError'>: Line constructor accepts:
-- empty parameter list
-- LineSegment
-- LineSegment, double, double
-- Line, double, double
-- Point, Point
Any solution to that?