Design your own template for the TechDraw workbench
This video shows you how to create a new template for use in FreeCAD's TechDraw workbench.
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Contents
🔹 00:00 Introduction
🔹 00:52 Creating the sample part
🔹 01:43 Introduction to InkScape
🔹 02:13 Setting the template page size
🔹 02:37 Creating a basic template
🔹 04:44 Testing the template without editable text
🔹 04:59 Making the text editable (almost)
🔹 06:36 Testing the updated template in FreeCAD
🔹 07:04 Adding the last ingredient for editable text
🔹 07:20 More testing in FreeCAD
🔹 07:32 What happens if the text is rotated?
🔹 08:45 Using line styles, etc
Workbenches used:
🔹 General
🔹 TechDraw
FreeCAD namespace - The TechDraw workbench uses an XML namespace to draw the editable text fields on the screen. You need to create an attribute on the "svg" tag called xmlns:freecad and set it value to: "http://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/index...."
👉 InkScape website: https://inkscape.org/
FreeCAD links
👉 FreeCAD website: https://www.freecadweb.org
👉 Downloads: https://freecadweb.org/downloads.php
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Credits
Writer, Editor, Producer: Geoff Glasson