FreeCAD: Inside Fillet 2 variations and an abject failure.

There is more than one way to have FreeCAD make a decorative inside fillet.
There are also a few things that probably should work but don't.

00:00 Intro
00:30 Part workbench another way
01:52 A complete failure
04:02 Part Design workbench success.
04:32 Important safety tip
06:24 Conclusion

[philclayton]

Like your guides/ tutorials, very easy to follow without errors that were not expected.

In one of your guide videos you said that if anyone has something problematic or challenging to put it forward to yourself to have a look at, so here goes.

I have only dabbled in freecad so this is the start of my issues.

There is a tutorial in BricsCAD named “how to use 2d constraints and parameters to create a bracket”

The basic L shaped bracket is easy and so seems to be the variations until, switching dimensions of the basic L shape to the angle braced variant. The shape brakes and distorts.

By distorted I mean that some vertices move to a negative position rather than a positive from origin
I’ve been attempting the more advanced design at the end of the video, I know my spread sheet dimensions are correct, but I get the same results with a distorted sketch when switching between model dimensions.

The start shape for the advanced design is a + with the lower vertice of the left most edge fixed to original.

The next part I am completely baffled with, one can create the equivalent of the “array” of objects (the holes) but, you cannot seem to make two because the second initial hole shares the same name as the first, therefore using the same constraint values. There seems to be no way of renaming each one, unless I have missed a step in this process.

The steps I took closely match, as much as possible, the steps in that tutorial. For the array of holes I created new sketches on the top face of a pad from the first sketch.

Any help here is appreciated as I do like freecad as I’m not held in the shackles of propriety.

[SomeGuyInSandy]

Super nice! I actually have a need for this on a Lewis Gun model (the spade grip struts). I feel you on the "command not done" error msg. too. Thanks!

[dbeelee]

I suspect the different methods/results are caused by Freecad being open sourced. In other words, some different coder(s) wrote part design (the original Freecad) and part workbench. As you are experiencing the nuances of Freecad, meaning how to make a model is best decided prior to beginning. Mixing part design methods and part workbench methods don't always play well together.
I consider this is by design. Why would Freecad development group accept a submitted workbench if it worked the same as an already listed workbench ?
This is a key consideration when watching yt Freecad tutorials. More than a few channels demonstrate making a model, however, the methods are spliced in the vid. Example would be watching intently which workbench the method is using, often swiching without mention/explanation.

Great vid ! Please keep them coming !