FrameForge

Frameforge helps designing beams and frames, with cut, mitter joins and so on

Prerequisite

• FreeCAD
  • 1.0
  • 0.21
  • Should work with other

No other packages

Quick Start

Create the skeleton

Beams are mapped onto Edges or ParametricLine (from a Sketch for instance)

For a start, we are going to create a simple frame.

1. In a new file, switch to the Frameforge workbench.

2. Create a sketch, and select orientation (XY for instance)

3. Draw a simple square in the sketch... it will be our skeleton

4. Close the Sketch edit mode.

Create the frame

1. Launch the Profile tool.

1. Select a profile from the lists (Material / Family / Size)

You can change the size just below the family, the tool has a lot of predefined profile, you can also change the parameters...

3. In the 3D View, select edges to apply the profile creation:

1. And press OK in the Create Profile Task. Now, you have four profiles !

And voila ! You have your first frame !

For more information, follow the tutorial

Maintainer

Vivien HENRY [email protected]

Credits

This workbench is based on MetalWB

Special thanks to:

• Vincent B
• Quentin Plisson
• rockn
• Jonathan Wiedemann

And others people that I don't know but they should be in this thread

Changelog

• V0.1.1

  • remove f-string with quote and double quote

• V0.1.0

  • Porting code from MetalWB
  • Improving UI
  • Split Corners into EndTrim and EndMiter

Licence:

FrameForge is licensed under the GPLv3