FreeCAD for Beginners #3 Offset Sketches and Datum Planes

This video demonstrates at a beginner level, how to create offset sketches and datum planes. It explains why you would use one over the other and helps to avoid the topological naming issue.

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00:00 Introduction
02:50 Opening the second file from part 2
07:00 Creating the first sketch
08:33 Creating the first offset
11:57 Creating the second offset
14:08 Creating a datum plane
16:00 Creating the sketch on a datum plane
17:11 Creating a second sketch on the datum plane
18:45 Explaining why you would use a datum plane
20:00 How to build a complex model
20:26 Final Thoughts