FreeCAD: Tutorial Tablet stand (1/3)

Summary

What we will create?: Tablet stand

Mouse operation

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Note: FreeCAD has other modes like Inventor mode, Blender mode and touchpad mode. Please refer to "FreeCAD: Mouse operation setting".

Creating base sketch

1. Creating a new document

   Start FreeCAD and create new document.

2. Creating a sketch plane

   Switch workbench to Part Design workbench.

   create a new sketch plane and select XY-Plane in the dialog. Click OK to create sketch plane.

   

3. Drawing a sketch

   Select polyline and draw a rough sketch. When you have finished drawing, right-click to finish polyline mode.

   

4. Rounding corners

   Select fillet and click 2 straight lines making a corner to round it. Round all 3 corners of the sketch.

   

   

5. Matching the centers of the rounded corners

   Select the centers of the inside-arc and outside-arc and apply coincident constraint. If sketch is constrained in wrong shape, you should drag the 2 point closer before constraining. Constrain all centers of corner in the same way. By these constraints, the inside-arc and outside-arc is in parallel.

   

   

6. Setting straight lines to be parallel

   Select the 2 straight line connecting the corners and apply parallel constraint. Constrain all straight sections in same way.

   

   

7. Set sketch position

   Select the horizontal axis of the sketch plane, the origin of the sketch plane and the outside-arc on left side of the sketch. Then apply tangent constraint. The horizontal axis and arc will contact each other at the origin with this operation.

   

Next, we will set the dimensions of the sketch.