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FreeCAD is an open-source parametric 3D modeler made primarily to design real-life objects of any size. Parametric modeling allows you to easily modify your design by going back into your model history and changing its parameters.

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Can Freecad help me for an assembly? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by 1ko@lemmy.world to c/freecad@lemmy.ml

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I have to design several wood boxes who will be bases for acrylic showcase boxes. They have all different sizes but the construction is the same and quite simple. So what I'm looking to do is to design a generic construction with constraints once, and then be able to change a few variables like the boards thickness, the thickness of the acrylic and the width height length of the box and I would get the dimensions of my wood boards to do the cutting.

I never used the assembly workbenches, can they be useful in my cases?

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[–] evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

I did a very similar project. I was designing cabinet doors that all needed to look the same, but needed to be different widths. I did it before the update to 1.0 so the process is a little different now. I will say it wasn't that hard, and I definitely parameterized way more stuff than I needed just cause I was playing around with it.