Embedding a vintage component creating a professional looking home for a circuit board or
even designing a complex apparatus complete with a chassis - these and many other challenges
turn into a stimulating pleasure with FreeCAD. Once you have internalized the basic processes
there are virtually no limits to your imagination. Starting to use a new software is never
straightforward - especially with a tool as versatile as FreeCAD. Manageable but at the same
time easily usable individual components provide the starting point in this book. Putting these
components together later results in assemblies. In the FreeCAD universe a workable
trajectory is demonstrated. The described procedure is illustrative so the examples are easily
applied to custom tasks. The devices were made by the author and illustrated with photos.
Creating a 3D design is requiring some effort but the initial investment pays off soon. Besides
the impressive spatial representation of the projects the extracted drawings yield a solid
base for documentation and production. Extended FreeCAD capabilities like the unfolding of
sheet metal parts enormously add to efficiency and pushes models forward into practical
assembly. Soon you will definitely not want to do without FreeCAD!
