I am going to show you how you can add editable textfields to your custom TechDraw symbols. I will use the surface roughness symbol that I have already created as a starting point. Enabling editable fields for FreeCAD TechDraw in the SVG To generally enable editable fields you first need to add a freecad namespace […]
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Designing a functional shaft on paper In order to demonstrate the application of the newly created surface roughness and edge annotation symbols, I created this real-life project of a functional shaft used in a transmission machine. As the first step I created a hand drawn sketch of hte shaft to define all the requirements. The […]
Downloading the edge annotation symbols To use edge annotation symbols in your technical drawing download the symbols from the github repo FreeCAD-TechDraw-Symbols After you have downloaded the symbols, the will come in a zipped folder. You need to unzip them and store them so you can find them later. Annotating a specific corner or edge […]
Finding surface annotation for technical drawings in literature A lot of manufacturing drawings of mechanical parts need to include definitions about the surface quality of the produced part. Surface annotations tell the manufacturer of the part, how it should be produced and what the surface finish should be. When creating techniucal drawing in FreeCADs TechDraw […]
This is the result of the first day of the 30 day 30 minutes challenge. Because I often needed surface roughness annotation in TechDraw drawing in FreeCAD I now finally created one for myself. I have also uploaded it to Github for you to try. Downloading the surface roughness annotation from Github Download the surface […]