The New Assembly Workbench of FreeCAD 1.0

I try to build my own excavator arm in FreeCAD's new assembly workbench.

[pierreboyer]

Writer of assembly wb here, watching to see if there's anything anoying to fix in the workflow :)

[JLTSoft]

Thanks for this video. This gave me what I needed to start being able to use the new out-of-the-box Assembly workbench for my OpenHarrier project!

[DefF-ml]

I worked long time ago as design engineer on this kind of machine. I have to say your observation was accurate, but the reality is a bit more complicated than this.
Anyway that's a awesome demonstration. Thank's for sharing your talent and the time you spend on this tutorial!

[brankelly]

Thank you so much! Helps me at least understand how much I can commercially rely on Freecad haha.

Edit : Message to the programmer of assembly WB, plane to plane and origin to origin mating would be awesome, just like solidworks. Much easier to centre-align things.

[engina]

Thanks for the great description.
It’s very much appreciated

[Paulklampeeps]

I hope freecad can do external geometries from other bodies like without sing shape binders. Also they should add intersection external geomtry tool

[leroycasterline]

At about 7:15, you are able to move the Long_Boom. For some reason I can't get the boom to move. The Assembly is active (bold). What am I missing? I'm using FreeCAD Version 1.1.0.38728. I downloaded Ondsel 2024.3.0.38705 (dev), loaded the project and had the same problem.

[philchadwick]

I think you're adding more constraints than you need. e.g. the max bucket ram extension is not needed as the angular constraints will limit that movement. Similar situation with the other rams.

[Rez]

Nice, might download that and try to assemble it. I used the A2 workbench in freecad 0.20 and 0.21 for very simple assemblies, this looks like a nice improvement. Which CPU do you have btw?

[Nikalai]

Good job, bro! Watching the design, it seems like the restriction of the pistons should be sufficient and no artificial angle restrictions is needed. Since by the end of the video it looked like some angles were causing trouble, I was wondering, have you tried to remove all angle restrictions and leave only the max/min length of the pistons?

[bernardchadebec]

How do you get the workshops in tab form? Nice presentation.

[jimbober]

I'm new to FreeCad since RC1.0 tried the assembly. Please modify some parts in part design and see your assembly break down.

[chethanmahesh]

Sir i am using FreeCAD 0.21.2 version but I don't know which workbench can i use to perform like you done on this video, can you please suggest me which one i have to use and how i download

[germona]

I have downloaded this excavator, and tried to do what you did in this video, but nothing seems to move. I have version 38506 so the latest and have the same 'blender' navigation style. Then i built a new project, with a plate with a hole and a pin of the same diameter. Then i made 1 part fixed, and 1 part revolve, but again nothing moves, maybe there is something wrong with my computer.

[paulmitchell]

Thank you for posting this video, it was most informative.

[odayltonprof]

acredito que deveria definir as constriçoes depois para que tudo pudesse se movimentar e assim detectar os limites