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and in this lecture we will learn
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introduction to the freead and what are
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the benefit of using freead or the other
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3D software available in the Market at
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the end of the sessions you will
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understand the power of freead and how
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it is benefited for students and small
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scale Industries you can also visit my
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website mecn nexus.com where I write
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articles and tutorials on a free CAD
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and uh you can also download my tutorial
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source file from here which I make on
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freead as I believe that freead is an
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open source and it is very helpful for
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the small scale organizations to reduce
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their operating cost because for small
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scale Industries purchasing the license
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of a paid software is uh very
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challenging so come back to our uh slide
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where we will uh review the one by one
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feature of a freead and why we use
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freead so first one is that uh freead is
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an open source and free which means that
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anybody can modify distribute without
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any license
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fee this means that you can extend the
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functionality of a free card with the
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help of a Python Programming you can
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create your own add-ons and
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workbenches which we will learn in uh
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upcoming
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lectures you can visit to the website
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free.org and you can see that how freead
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is capable and how it can competit with
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a
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modern 3D softwares like solid works and
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Autodesk
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Inventor now come back to the second
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feature of a freeat is that uh it is a
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crossplatform
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compatibility freead is op source which
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means that it is available for everyone
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to use as we have seen in uh our first
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slide and this is a c cost effective
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solution for the individual students and
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small businesses as I have already said
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that and a crossplatform
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compatibility if you go to the free CAD
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official website and if you go to the
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down load sections so you can see that
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uh freead is available for the all major
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operating systems Windows Mac and
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Linux these are the three operating
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system which are the widely used around
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the
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globe let's come back to the third
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feature of a freead which is the
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parametric design when we uh do our part
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modeling tutorials then you can
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understand what is the param parametric
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design but here in this uh lectures I
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will give very short introduction of a
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parametric design so parametric means
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that when you create the model that are
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driven by the parameters and constraint
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and making it is making it easy to
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modify and update the design by simply
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changing the parameters so here I have a
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open-end model on a freead so our first
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feature is this extrude and then I
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created this pocket which means that uh
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if I go to my first features and if I
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change this
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Dimension suppose that I make it from 41
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to
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35 and I close it so this
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cut is already got modified with respect
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to my height change
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and if I again make this height
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41 so you can see that uh this slot got
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bigger here so this is the parametric
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design which is are the driven by the
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parameter and constraint so what we have
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changed here the dimension and
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constraint are the nothing but the
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parameters so this is the parametric
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nature of a freeat
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now the fourth feature of a freeat is
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that modularity of the freeat freeas is
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designed with a modular AC architecture
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allowing user to customize and extend
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its functionality through plugins and
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modules and this make it versatile and
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adaptable to the various design workflow
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so let's uh understand this in a freead
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if we go to the free Cad and if you go
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to the tools and add-on
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manager then here you will get cre lots
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of uh
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workbenches which you can use as per
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your requirement for example in for the
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assembly in freead we have the multiple
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workbenches like A2 plus assembly 4
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where as if you go to the any paid
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software like solid works and inventor
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there you will have the only
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options to use the assembly constraint
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which comes with software install s but
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in freead it is not like that you can
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choose an assembly workbench as per your
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choice you can use multiple modeling
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method of a part like you can use part
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design part workbench or draft workbench
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which we will see in our upcoming
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lectures so I'm not going to much more
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in a depth but modularity of the freead
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that it is provide the extended
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functionality which you you can use it
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customize it as per your
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requirement now the fifth feature is
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that uh 3D parametric modeling so
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parametric design we have understand in
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our slide three same way 3D parametric
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modeling which I have uh shown you with
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this
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model freut support the creation of a
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complex 3D model using the parametric
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modeling Techni this make suitable for
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designing mechanical parts and assembly
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so whatever I have show you this is
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nothing but the parameters once you uh
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change your first features your second
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feature automatically get modified if
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you modify the second feature third will
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get automatically ad
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update updated so this is how the
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parametric modeling works now the sixth
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feature is that assembly design freead
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assembly workbenches allow user to
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create and manipulate Assemblies of a
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free Cat part enabling the design of a
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complex mechanism and structure so here
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I will show you one example of the
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assembly
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design so here is an assembly of a
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crankshaft which I have made with the
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help of assembly 4 workbench and we will
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see this tutorial in our course but here
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you can make the same assembly with uh
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a2+ or assembly 3 as per your
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Choice that's why freead assembly design
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is a very flexible you can use the
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assembly workbench which you are more
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comfortable next is the mesh modeling
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mesh modeling is basically used for the
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3D
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printing and uh in free CAD you can uh
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edit an STL file like if you go to the
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in free CAD and if I wanted to open my
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this part then we have the dedicated
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workbenches where you can use tools like
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3D printing tools to convert your design
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into the
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reality next feature is that python
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scripting freead is a script table with
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the help of a Python programming
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languages which allow users to automate
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task create system tool and extend the
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software
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capabilities in freead when you launch
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the freead then you will have the
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options to enable the python scripting
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after the installation you can directly
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click on the python console and uh you
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can run the python scripting right from
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here that's why python is a very
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powerful language as we we know that and
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as per my point of view freead is only
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parametric model model which is
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available open source and powered by the
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Python programming
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languages so we can do so many things
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with the help of a python scripting like
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we can create an animations we can
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create our Custom Tool with the help of
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a python scripting so as it is a very uh
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deep topic and it is not recommended for
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the beginner user once you uh complete
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my course then you can learn the python
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scripting and you can do some Advanced
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things with the
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freead next one is the community and
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support as freead is open source and
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freead having the very strong community
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of
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uh freead users for example if you go to
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the Reddit page of for freead and if you
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put your questions definitely you will
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get the reply here's on the freead
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website you can get the various
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community supports of a free CAD like uh
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uh Reddit Twitter Facebook LinkedIn you
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can approach to the community members
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and definitely Community member will
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help you so that is the one of the
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awesome feature of a free
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cat second
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feature of
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uh freead is that freead support variety
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of the file format for
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example if you go to the file and if you
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go to the export
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option here I select my body and I will
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go to the export options then you can
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see that free C support all the major
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file format like St IGS and STL which
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are most common file for
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format used by any software for example
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you can export your file into the step
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or IGS and you can open this file into
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the others 3D software like autod disk
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inventor or solid works so that is the
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main benefit of a free CAD it supports
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all file format for the 3D printing to
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the uh surface file format like IGS and
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solid format
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like step file education
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value if you see that freead is open
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source even though many
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softwares uh charges the fee for the
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students a nominal fees to get the
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license of their software but in free
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CAD there is no such
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limitations college or university
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student just download the free Cad and
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do their college projects on a free CAD
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CAD next feature of a free CAD is that
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continuous improvements as you go to the
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freeads official
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websites then you can find that uh
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freead having the long history of the
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developments it is a not a software
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which is just invented two to three
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years back it is a very long you can go
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to the official website of uh free and
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Wikipedia page and you can study more
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about the freead
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history freead is in uh improving day by
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day and uh we will come to the
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conclusion while freed offer many
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advantages and its improvements not like
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any other software it has its own
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learning curve let me clarify one thing
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is here free is not like uh very easy
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like solid work works but once you learn
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the free CAD once you understood the
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power of a free CAD then you are going
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to
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definitely love the free cat because it
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is a very robust and
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uh it provides lots of uh flexibility to
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customize it with the help of a Python
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programming languages if you have seen
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the softwares or you have used the
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software like solid works and autod dis
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in
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you may have experience that you cannot
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customize it as per your
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requirement and in free CAD you do not
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have to purchase different
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uh um versions like uh if I explain in
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simple words if you're using solid works
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and uh if you want to uh do the analysis
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then you have to pay some extra money
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for the analysis feature or Cam feature
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but in freead there is no such
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limitations you can do modeling you can
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do finan inment analysis you can do uh
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cam works you can do cfd in a single
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software you do not have to depend on
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the multiple module of a software as we
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seen in the market so free cat is not
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only for the mechanical engineers it is
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also a software for the civil
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engineering work or architectural work
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because it has so many
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workbenches which you can
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use so this is uh all about uh our first
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lecture introduction to freead and in
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the next lecture we will learn how to
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install
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freead and we will understand the user
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interface of the
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freead I hope you have liked this
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sessions thank you for watching and
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thank you for your valuable time
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