Will there be an update of all documentation?
I tried to follow along w/ a book which was purportedly for 1.1, but it turned out to actually cover 1.0
I tried to follow along w/ a book which was purportedly for 1.1, but it turned out to actually cover 1.0
The wiki tells you what the tools do. For learning how to use those tools to model something, YouTube channels like Mango Jelly's are a better bet. The pace of FreeCAD development has definitely picked up since the 1.0 release
In the past when I've looked there were a _lot_ of pages tagged as needing to be updated to 1.1 --- a quick search seems to indicate that enough pages have been updated that I couldn't quickly find any tagged as needing that for 26.3 which is a marked improvement.
I'm not patient enough for videos (though I have watched a fair number, they're just not clicking) --- I do far better with traditional documentation where I can walk through things at my own pace --- but I need for said docs to correspond with the UI of the application I'm trying to learn (hence my disappointment in the afore-mentioned text).
What I've found pretty handy for learning FreeCAD is finding an existing model and messing around with it to see how the original creator did stuff. That's where I started with my pinball cabinet. Once you get the basics down it is much easier to pick up on new features, many of which are enhancements to existing functionality.
That's an interesting approach, and I'll definitely keep it in mind --- maybe 26.3 will finally be the version where I learn FreeCAD.
I will note that I was moderately successful w/ Dune 3D on the basis of its quite nice textual documentation: