THE VIDEO SHELF · freecad
Basic Beginners FreeCAD v1.0 : Introduction to Course
The introduction to MangoJelly's beginner course for FreeCAD 1.0. The course teaches solid modeling with the Part Design, Sketcher and Part workbenches.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN users recommend MangoJelly's thorough tutorials as the best way to learn FreeCAD properly, since trial and error doesn't work.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- MangoJelly Solutions for FreeCAD
- Topic
- freecad
- Format
- course
- Level
- intro
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 3
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2025–2025
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.
I highly recommend MangoJelly Solutions's tutorials. Here's a playlist for FreeCAD 1.0: [VIDEO] But he has a bunch of other videos.
titaphraz on Hacker News · 2025-05
In Design for 3D-PrintingI use FreeCAD and it's pretty good. But I think it's impossible to learn by trial and error. MangoJelly has done an amazing job in churning out high quality tutorials for FreeCAD: [VIDEO] (this is just one playlist, there's a lot more on his channel).
foofoo12 on Hacker News · 2025-11
In Blender 5.0I switched to FreeCAD 2-3 years ago. It suits me just fine and I'm so glad I can store my project in a local folder. I also don't have to worry Fusion360 taking any more features away or locking me out. I also don't have …
deskr on Hacker News · 2025-01
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