FreeCAD-addons

Just a pre-heads-up: depending on what you're trying to do, the exact tool and thus tutorial you need maybe slightly different. For example, I made a gasket for my mini PC awhile ago using FreeCAD. Designing it was a hell until I discovered the Sheet Metal Workbench in the plugin manager, and just like that, I got it designed & manufactured within ~4 days. During my experience, most of my time was spent on learning how to use the Sheet Metal Workbench as well as how it interacts with other FreeCAD builtin features. FreeCAD itself is not that hard to learn. Also, there are Piping Workbench too if you want to work on pipes, Wood Work Workbench if you want to do wood work etc, see: https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD-addons. Use the correct workbench for the right job will save you a lot of time.

I know that I work a lot with FreeCAD and KiCAD, to develop PCBs and housings in 1 shot. This should explain my workflow. I use things like the interactive BOM https://forum.kicad.info/t/interactive-html-bom-plugin-for-k... along with uConfig, I can make KiCAD parts directly from PDFs. https://github.com/Robotips/uConfig Digikey also has almost all their parts in a KiCAD library. Clone the repo and import it... Its crazy complete, and combined with the BOM tool, even generates DK part number links. You can determine price easily.... Along with that, there's a great many plugins for FreeCAD as add-ons here: https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD-addons . I really like the GDT, a LOT. Open source starts out rough, but the more work is accomplished, we get better than the commercials do :) We all build on each other - we're not competing in a d