FreeCAD Tutorial 1b: Design of an Electronic Box, Continued

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Introduction

This tutorial is the second in a series teaching basic CAD sketching and modeling tools using the open-source package FreeCAD.

In the previous tutorial, we designed a simple hollow box. In this tutorial we will add the features that will give it its function: A sample electronics enclosure that could be made on a 3D printer.

In this page we will explore more aspects of sketching, especially those that add features to the surfaces of a simple model, and the addition of geometric relations between features so that changes to the model's dimensions will carry through more smoothly.

The pace of this tutorial will be somewhat faster than the previous one because knowledge of tools already presented will be assumed.