FreeCAD on Video

This documentation is a work in progress. Please don't mark it as translatable since it will change in the next hours and days.

Introduction

There are a lot of Videos about FreeCAD, to many to list here. Even the number of "channels" is high. I think that many channels are under subscribed, you may want to help change this. Also encourage creators by liking the videos. Based on considerable time watching videos here is a list of some of FreeCAD on Video channels. If you are a creator and wish to be included you can edit the wiki or contact one of the authors of this page ( see View History ) to have your channel included. You may also want to check out the discussion page.

If the video is not in your language of choice, this may help:

• How to Translate a Foreign Language Video on YouTube • Jenni Wiltz

Let us know if you find other or better references to this topic.

So far just YouTube but other outlets are welcome.

See Also

I believe this is the most comprehensive page on videos, but is not the only Wiki page or the most detailed one:

• Video tutorials -- broken down by application
• Video tutorials for product design -- as it says, for product design
• Video tutorials for architectural design
• Best Practices with SpreadSheets see section on individual videos
• Category:Tutorials - FreeCAD Documentation -- The category on Tutorials links to tutorials that may or may not be videos.
• Searching the forum FreeCAD Forum - Index page will also locate a lot of material, in a not very organized way.

Support FreeCAD

FreeCAD is free, but you might consider supporting in not just going for a free ride ( but if you do that is ok too ). There are a variety of ways. We mention this briefly here because without documentation software is useless so:

• Consider supporting channel content creators.

But there are other routes as well:

• Support the developers in a quite direct way, see: Donate
• Help with documentation, this wiki for example.
• Help develop the code see: ( coming soon )

Lots of this covered in Help FreeCAD

Video Channels

So far, for convenience of editing the links on this page are broken into separate sections, and so far, ordering is arbitrary.

Discussion tab has some info. on source of column contents and meaning of column headers.

Quality of Content

The videos here are not judged by quality of content, version of FreeCad, or even continued existence of the channel ( but known dead links will be removed ). The list may not even be maintained to keep it really up to date. But here are some ways to judge these things for yourself.

• Quality of Content
  • It is quite a chore to create a channel. With that effort involved, most channels seem to make a corresponding effort to know what they are talking about. But view the content, make your own jucgegement and if you have a comment: this is a wiki, so you can make a comment in the table below.

• Version of FreeCad
  • YouTube dates the videos, compare to time now, and to releases of FreeCAD. In my experience videos use the official release of FreeCAD or the next one in process. Some videos show what may be coming in branches of FreeCAD

• Timeliness of this page
  • Check out the tab "View History" and the column "Last Tracked Video"
  • You could of course do some work on updating the page yourself.

Section 1

Name/Link	Author Says	Last Tracked Video	Narration/Subtitles...	Comments	Related Links
mathcodeprint - YouTube	Devoted to 3d Printing, Embedded Electronics, Education and Related. ( And anything else I love ).	Dec 2020 - 4 Months	English Audio		mathcodeprint – Erwin Schroedinger was quoted to have said "Curious until death." I thought to myself hmmmm like a cat.
Learn FreeCAD - YouTube	Na	Dec 2020 - 2 years	No Audio Naration, shows Mouse selections clearly.		Learn FreeCAD
sliptonic - YouTube	Na	Dec 2020 - 3 weeks	English Audio		Fun with hot, pointy, caustic things – Fun with hot, pointy, caustic things sliptonic (sliptonic) User sliptonic - Stack Overflow
Joko Engineeringhelp - YouTube	This is a channel covering Engineering Tutorials for Math and Solid Modeling, Computer Programming, some Thermodynamics and a few other topics.	Dec 2020 - 9 Hours	English Audio		Transitioning from Solidworks to FreeCAD - FreeCAD Documentation (2) FreeCAD Forum - Viewing profile - Celica_Supra
Ha Gei - YouTube	Videos for Beginners , some English some German. For V 0.17 and 0.18 . No advertising embedded.	Dec 2020 - 4 Months	English Audio and German Audio		Ha Gei site:forum.FreeCADweb.org at DuckDuckGo
BPLRFE - YouTube	Vorstellung des Open-Source-Programmes FreeCA	Dec 20 - 3 years	German Audio		na
Andrew CAD - YouTube	Hi! My name is Andrew and I'm a CNC programmer, setter and operator for 3, 4 and 5 axis vertical milling machines! Taking a concept and turning the idea into a physical object is awesome! Being able to unleash your inner creative and make it a reality changes your view on life - nothing is impossible and only your imagination is the limit! Join me on my CNC CAD CAM journey as I teach others to create designs and bring them into reality!	Dec 2020 - 4 days	English audio.	New to me, I have found informative. Channel has few subscriptions, I think should have more, check it out.
Ivan Oblak - YouTube	This channel will primarily help you to raise your level of knowledge from Solidworks and Autocad. You can also find various tips from mind games on it.	Dec 2020 - 9 hours	Music, most work done with mouse so you can see it.	Despite description lots of FreeCAD Content.	Extreme SolidWorks Oblak Ivan
FreeCAD Newbie - YouTube	A newbie learning FreeCAD and CAD in general by making random objects and parts. Location: Indonesia	Dec 2020 - 1 week	Music, most work done with mouse so you can see it.		na
Linux 好好玩實驗室 - YouTube	這是南臺科技大學電子系「Linux 好好玩實驗室」教學頻道，Linux 可以好好玩，不必很辛苦、很痛苦的「學」，只要想玩就可以玩好 Linux。 除了 Linux 之外，我也會放一些其他的影片，重點都是在「玩」。 Linux 好好玩實驗室，歡迎大家一起玩。 Location: Taiwan	Dec 2020 - 2 Weeks	Mostly music with mouse movements shown.	Lots of content other than FreeCAD, new FreeCAD videos may not be in the works	na
MECH INFOTECH - YouTube	Na	Dec 2020 - 1 Week	English audio		Na
Brodie Fairhall - YouTube	I make educational videos for Makers. Location: Australia	Dec 2020 - 1 month	English Audio		MakeOr is creating Open source gadgets and tutorials | Patreon Brodie Fairhall @Brodie - MyMiniFactory
thomas neemann - YouTube	Dieser Kanal versucht auf J. Krishnamurti aufmerksam zu machen. Auch gibt es hier aktuelle Informationen und Empfehlungen z.b. zum Thema Corona. Eneuerbare Energie ist hier auch zu finden. "Der Grund-Irrtum der Menschheit (daraus entsteht alles menschengemachte Leiden): "Ich denke" ist ein Irrtum, weil das Denken das Ich erzeugt, eine Illusion. Diese Illusion erzeugt Angst, daraus entsteht Hass, Trennung usw... Wenn genug Menschen das erkennen, entsteht Mitgefühl, Weltfrieden, eine neue Gesellschaft und Miteinander." frei nach j.krishnamurti hier ist noch mehr von Jiddu Krishnamurti: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvX-mnuIOsQ	Dec 2020 - 5 hours	No audio, titles in German, Mouse movement clearly shown		na
Glasson Design Studio - YouTube	I am a part time wood worker with an IT background and an interest in 3D furniture design. The goal of this channel is to share information about fine wood working design using software and how to use the software as well. I choose to use the FreeCAD software for designing furniture and contribute to the FreeCAD community as much as I can. How to support me: I am very grateful that you watch my videos. I am constantly trying to improve the quality of the videos on this channel. If you'd like to help me do this, please consider supporting this channel to allow me to continue to produce content for your enjoyment. You can support this channel by buying me a coffee at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/gds All donations are greatly appreciated and will be used to purchase equipment to improve productivity and the quality of the videos that I produce for this channel. Location: Australia	Dec 2020 - 3 weeks	English Audio		Home | Glasson Design Studio Glasson Design Studio (@glassondesignstudio) • Instagram photos and videos
Evgeniy Ivanov - YouTube	Tutorials and Lessons for Engienners: CAD and CAE software: FreeCAD, SolidWorks, ANSYS, OpenFOAM Group facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/cfd.intech/ Group vk: https://vk.com/cfd_intech Email: cfd.intech@gmail.com Location: Russia	Dec 2020 - 3 weeks	English audio		na
WayofWood - YouTube	Welcome to the my channel and the Way of Wood. Making things is my passion. What I most enjoy about it is to figure out new ways off the beaten track. There is a wide variety of things that I make on this channel: Furniture 3dprinting Shop projects Woodworking jigs Props and fun projects Small scale dollhouse models Restaurations ... and many more ... With each video I show and explain the methods, share plans and 3D models to make sure you can recreate the project. But most importantly I would like to inspire you to look for new ways and creative solutions to master your own projects. For more information and more details visit my website: http://www.wayofwood.com Location: Germany	Dec 2020 - 1 week	English audio	Channel not limited to FreeCAD	Home - Way of Wood Thingiverse - Digital Designs for Physical Objects Way of Wood (@WayofWood) / Twitter
Aidan Williamson - YouTube	"Remember! Let's not think as consumers 'this is not good', 'I don't like it', 'forget it', 'GVCS is not enough', but let's think more like creators! 'How can we do it?', 'I want to do it like that!', 'I want to change this', 'I want to create this' and do it. Creating and producing is much more powerful than consuming. Nothing is fixed and stable, we are changing it and creating it." ~Nikolay Georgiev "...But there is one other very important lesson the CEB machine development process has taught me. I wanted a perfect, out of the box, plug and play, machine that was both cheap and beautiful. We've come to expect that with our cars and computers. It's a kind of magic that deceives us by its packaging and presentation when behind it, and without fail, is misery, abuse and a huge pile of pollution..." ~Propagelle Project (propagelleprojects.blogspot.com)	Dec 2020 - 1 year ( for a FreeCAD Video )	English audio		na
SamovarXL - YouTube	na	Dec 2020 - 6 months	No audio -- clear mouse movements	include other topics than FreeCAD	na
John T - YouTube	na	Dec 2020 - 1 year for FreeCAD	No audio -- clear mouse movements	Lots of other topics other than FreeCAD	na
(64) Petr Švejda - YouTube	FreeCAD from Beginner to Professional - Drawing tutorials not only for 3D print. Location: Czechia	Dec 2020 - 5 months	Music with clear mouse movements
thehardwareguy - YouTube	My name is Gareth. I'm an Engineer/Maker. I also love to teach. For all things Electronics, DIY, CAD and 3D Printing... be sure to subscribe! Location: United Kingdom	Dec 2020 - 1 month	English audio	FreeCAD is just part of his content.	3D Printing, CAD & Electronics ]
DrVAX	Here at the DrVax YouTube channel, I present easy to understand videos about how to become a maker. Learn about 3d printing, woodworking, basic electronics, computer-aided design, and even a little bit of computer programming. If you are young or old, working or newly retired you can learn something new today by just watching videos. This channel includes tutorials for folks with no technical skills up to experts. Learn something new today. Location: United States	Dec 2020 - 1 month (for FreeCAD)	English Audio
gzumwalt - YouTube	I fail when I decide to stop learning. Follow me on: Instructables: https://www.instructables.com/member/gzumwalt/instructables/ YouMagine: https://www.youmagine.com/gzumwalt/designs MyMiniFactory: https://www.myminifactory.com/users/gzumwalt Cults3d: https://cults3d.com/en/users/gzumwalt Location: United States	Dec 2020 - 2 months ( for FreeCAD )	English audio		see Author Says
Martham Engineering - YouTube	na	Dec 2020 - 9 months	English audio		na

Section 2

Name/Link	Author Says	Last Tracked Video	Narration/Subtitles...	Comments	Related Links
FreeCAD jewellery design - YouTube	Videos about chunky jewellery and 3D design of heavy rings and massive pendants / Vídeos sobre joyas tochas y diseños de anillos y colgantes	Dec 2020 - 1 year	No audio, follow the mouse.	jewelery design a less common application in YouTube videos	na
MadeInFondDuGarage - YouTube	Du Vlog, du bricolage, de la bidouille, de l'impression 3D et de la CNC en passant par de la réalisation de tuto, des tests matos et moto, modélisme avion hélico et autre bizarrerie a la sauce steam mais aussi de la réparation utile. bref tous ce qui fait mon quotidien, et le votre. la page facebook qui vas avec @madeinfonddugarage https://www.facebook.com/madeinfonddugarage/ Linux Mint XFCE-ou KDE, linux Opensuse KDE, et parfois Windows10 :( montage sur KDEnlive que j'aime beaucoup, pas de chichi, full fonction bref tres bien caméra, sony bloogie version début, avec écran orientable et objectif mécanique pour une meilleur qualité Location: France	Dec 2020 - 6 days (may not be about FreeCAD)	French Audio
BcastLar - YouTube		Dec 2020 - 3 months	English audio	A one year old channel, not much content yet, but looks promising.
anisim Open Source Engineering Software - YouTube	In meinem Youtube Channel möchte ich euch Videos und Tutorials über freie oder quelloffene CAD, FEM und CFD Software zeigen. Ich hoffe, ich kann damit dem einen oder anderen helfen, Open Source Engineering Software zu nutzen. Viel Spaß bei meinen Videos und ein riesen Dank an die Entwickler! www.anisim.de Location: Germany	Dec 2020 - 3 months	German audio
MangoJelly Solutions - YouTube	Hi from Mangojelly (aka MangoJelly Labs). I’m here to share my journey and Knowledge as an Engineer and Craftsman to help you accomplish your design and engineering tasks faster and easier. If you like these videos and want to see more please consider donating a few pennies. All money will be invested into making better quality content. https://ko-fi.com/mang0 We all have sat through guides that cover too much and end up searching through just for one little snippet of information. I aim to deliver smaller, specific tutorials to get to the point faster. I don’t want to deliver one tutorial that covers everything I want something more concentrated. I want my learning broken into bite-sized chunks delivering an outcome that can be used for a variety of applications. So whether you're a hobbyist, professional or you just have some down time and want to learn something new, join me and subscribe to my journey and get straight to the point and straight to the answer. Location: United Kingdom	Dec 2020 - 2 days	English audio		Buy MangoJellySolutions a Coffee. ko-fi.com/mang0 - Ko-fi ❤️ Where creators get donations from fans, with a 'Buy Me a Coffee' Page. MangojellyLabs Shop | Redbubble
61quick - YouTube	na	Dec 2020 - 5 years	No audio, follow the mouse	quite a bit of content, but old versions of FreeCAD	na
bram de vries - YouTube	*Home	Dec 2020 - 5 years	English audio	quite a bit of content, but old versions of FreeCAD
Mark Ganson - YouTube	na	Dec 2020 - 2 months	English audio	lots and lots of content
FreeCAD Fun - YouTube	Location: Indonesia	Dec 2020 - 1 week	English Audio	More than 30 videos
Bugman - YouTube	FreeCAD, Linux, Technical Drawing https://github.com/bugman63 Location: Brazil	Dec 2020 - 1 day	Music with magnifier on the mouse	Great deal of content, 100 videos ?
Yorik van Havre - YouTube	Yorik's blog	Dec 2020 - 1 year	English audio	seems to have stopped making new video, many old ones mostly about BIM	*Yorik's blog
Peter Phelps - YouTube	Author Says	Dec 2020 - 2 weeks	English audio	Not all videos are on FreeCAD, but there are a whole lot that are.
PJ - YouTube	Location: France	Dec 2020 - 11 months	French audio	Content in French is nice to have after so much English and German. Lots of FreeCAD, lots of other stuff.
flowwies corner - YouTube	Herzlich Willkommen bei flowwies corner. Mein Motto lautet "CAD für Alle". Ich teile mein Wissen in Form von Tutorials hier kostenfrei bei YouTube, damit möglichst Viele (z.B. junge Menschen in Ausbildung, Maker, Menschen in beruflicher Neuorientierung usw.) die Chance bekommen, sich im Bereich CAD und Engineering weiterzubilden. Für mich steht meine Community an aller erster Stelle und so versuche ich z.B. in meinen Videobeschreibungen einen Mehrwert mit recherchierten Inhalten und weiterführenden Infos zu liefern. Affiliate-Links und pure Produktwerbung gibt es auf meinem Kanal nicht. Zu meinem beruflichen Hintergrund: Ich bin Maschinenbauingenieur mit Spezialisierung auf "Digitale Produktentwicklung" und arbeite an einer Hochschule im Forschungs- und Lehrbetrieb an der Schnittstelle zwischen Informatik und Maschinenbau. Geschäftliche Anfragen nehme ich gerne per E-Mail entgegen.	Jan 2021 - 4 days	German audio		*(4) FreeCAD Academy - YouTube -- I think this is similar content in English
Willem Akerboom - YouTube	na	Jan 2021 - 2 weeks	Silent	Tends to very short ( under 5 min ) videos. Comment are turned off.
Adventures in creation - YouTube	This channel will cover topics related to creating things. Whether its techniques to create things or things that we have created. Its supposed to be informative and fun. We are new to creating videos and working on making them enjoyable to watch. - Please feel free to leave comments and suggestions if you thing there are things we can do better. Location: United States Our Blog The Jobbos Blog – Things that make you go ah!	Jan 2021 - 1 day	English audio	Some video on the transition from Fusion 360 to FreeCAD
Bernardo Cruz - YouTube	En este canal podrás ver vídeos de mis grandes pasiones: - Diseño 3D con FreeCAD - Electrónica y Programación con Arduino. - Bricolaje / maquetismo. De vez en cuando hago algún vídeo de otro tema; seguro que algún tema te gusta y tengas un motivo para suscribirte 😉. Cualquier objeto mostrado en mis videos podría estar a la venta. En caso de interesarte algo, sólo tienes que escribirme al correo electrónico que figura como marca de agua en todos mis vídeos. Este canal no es responsable de cualquier daño material o físico que pueda ocurrir en la realización de un proyecto expuesto en un vídeo. Toda persona es responsable del uso de las herramientas adecuadas y medidas de seguridad necesarias en cada caso, así como de saber lo que está haciendo. Si quieres contribuir al canal por PayPal, tu donación será muy bienvenida y te quedaría muy agradecido. Location: Spain	Jan 2021 - 1 year ( for FreeCAD, others - 3 days )	Spanish audio	FreeCAD just one of many topics videos may cover, no recent FreeCAD content.
Christian Tutoriales CAD - YouTube	Un canal con diversos tipos de temas y tutoriales para el aprendizaje de programas de diseño en CAD y prototipos en 3D, como FreeCad, Autodesk Inventor, SolidWorks, Autocad, etc. Location: Spain	Jan 2021 - 4 weeks	Spanish audio	FreeCad and lots of other topics including other CAD systems
Eklavya Self Learning Tutorials - YouTube	This channel is dedicated to all the self-learners. Location: India	Jan 2021 - 1 day	English audio	Lots of individual videos, recently focused on BIM	Eklavya Self Learning Tutorials (Nirbhay Chauhan) – Share Your Knowledge…Increase Your Knowledge… (20+) Eklavya Self Learning Tutorials | Facebook
Eye Skills - YouTube		Jan 2021 - 2 days	English audio	Seem to be just a few short viedos on FreeCAD
Tutorius - YouTube	Tutorius - Hauptsächlich Tutorials für 3D-Software, aber auch Videoschnitt, 3D-Druck. Videos von meinen Modellflug-Eskapaden aus der Vergangenheit... Location: Germany	Jan 2021 - 5 days	German audio
Whitman Technological - YouTube	na	Jan 2021 - 8 months	English audio
Nicola Mingotti - YouTube		Jan 2021 - 7 months ( for FreeCAD content )	Calm music, clear mouse movements	Lots of other content, still active ( Jan 2021 ), but no current FreeCAD
Param Educeng - YouTube	A lot more videos to come. Please SUBSCRIBE and SHARE if you like! This channel was founded with a motive of free software education for all. At Knowledge Era, My aim is to provide quality learning education by the help of free and open source software. The Videos are designed to create a passion for engineering and explain each design steps in a simple way. This channel contains videos for beginners, intermediate & advanced users. I don't have a huge funding or corporate support. I am able to bring some positive changes to the world of engineering education. If you have any question or request for improving this channel, please feel free to contact me. Location: India	Jan 2021 - 2 years	Music, clear mouse movements	About 20 videos about Sketcher, all 2 years ago.
BavariaShape 2-3-D - YouTube	Auf meinem Kanal sind Arbeitsabläufe, sowie Tipps & Tricks in kurzer Form leicht und verständlich erklärt. Die Lernvideos sind sparsam in der Dateigröße, sodass auch bei langsamer Internetverbindung eine vertretbare Ladezeit vorhanden sein sollte. Auf Tonaufnahmen habe ich deshalb auch verzichtet. Außerdem sind die Clips sind für die Betrachtung auf dem Smartphone optimiert.. Ich arbeite als technischer Redakteur und Illustrator sowie als 3D-CAD-Designer. On my channel workflows, as well as tips & tricks are explained in a short form easy and understandable. The tutorial videos are economical in file size, so that even with a slow Internet connection should be a reasonable loading time. I have therefore also dispensed with sound recordings. In addition, the clips are optimized for viewing on a smartphone. I work as a technical writer and illustrator, as well as 3D CAD designer. Location: Germany	Jan 2021 – 6 months	Kein Audio, teilweise mit Untertitel. No audio, partly with subtitles.	Etwa 45 Videos, max. 5 bis 10 Minuten. About 45 videos, max. 5 to 10 minutes.	Der erste Start mit FreeCAD Lernvideos Part & PartDesign Workbench mit unterschiedlichen Arbeitsweisen

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Issues for Video Creators

Consider: (This content is mostly from the Forum)

• Include FreeCAD information from the About box, including especially the version of FreeCAD
• Consider sticking to, at most, a lightly customized version of the FreeCAD interface unless part of the point of the video is the interface.
• I've seen a number of tutorial videos for other software packages where the tutor/demonstrator has a webcam image of themselves on the screen during the tutorial/demo. A lot of the time it just shows them looking at the screen and talking, but at other times they are looking straight into the webcam when they are trying to introduce a new topic, explain something, or just adding commentary. Do you think that this sort of thing would be useful or appropriate in a FreeCAD tutorial?
• Videos should never auto-start.
• After starting there should be a way to quit/pause.
• I would suggest calling out all hotkeys used, at least the first few times if they are used multiple times. (key-mon [1] or other tool showing keys/mouse buttons pressed are really handy for that.)
• Briefly describe expected level of FreeCAD understanding at the beginning. If for example tutorial is for FEM user should know how to model the solid to be analyzed.
• Clarity of voice and directions of Cursor that is being clicked or any other combo of keys eg. +ctrl or using shift with FreeCAD buttons.
• it is best to use the default toolbars. If for some reason this is not the case, then it should at least be stated very clearly to avoid confusion.
• Link to "source code" for the model.
• Captions or subtitles can be useful, especially if available in multiple languages. You might pass this on to your viewers: *How to Translate a Foreign Language Video on YouTube • Jenni Wiltz and you might want to look up translation features that YouTube (or other platform) can support.
• Some users like to know where a model is going at the beginning of a video. Should you show the end product or something similar at the beginning of the video?

More Links

• Guidelines for videos and tutorials - FreeCAD Forum
• Community knowledgebase: getting started with tutorial and video contribution - FreeCAD Forum
• Free video tutorials - FreeCAD Forum
• Tutorials and videos - FreeCAD Forum