An (almost) painless top-down design approach in FreeCAD

We're back to modeling practices, this time looking at top-down driving part changes from a skeleton model. I explain how to avoid the topological naming problem when working with master sketches across multiple parts in an assembly.

The process is simple:
- create a skeleton model in a document containing driving sketches and planes
- create your part and use the link tool to import the geometry from the skeleton
- create a shapebinder object from the link
- ...
- profit!

As usual you can download the tutorial models from here: https://github.com/da-crivelli/freeca...

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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:48 Creating the skeleton model
05:34 Using formulas for symmetric references
07:24 Modelling the arm: bringing in references
16:20 Shapebinder of a plane: rendering bug?
19:20 Changing a part via the skeleton
20:44 Creating the Fork part
30:53 Assembling the parts together in Assembly4
33:40 Changing all parts at once from the skeleton
35:00 TL;DR: Recap of the whole process in 1 minute!