Basic Beginners FreeCAD v1.0 : Introduction to Course
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN users recommend MangoJelly's thorough tutorials as the best way to learn FreeCAD properly, since trial and error doesn't work.
What it is
The introduction to MangoJelly's beginner course for FreeCAD 1.0. The course teaches solid modeling with the Part Design, Sketcher and Part workbenches.
Recommended by 3 HN commenters across 3 different months, 2025 to 2025.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec titaphraz · 2025-05 · on “Design for 3D-Printing”
I highly recommend MangoJelly Solutions's tutorials. Here's a playlist for FreeCAD 1.0: [this video] But he has a bunch of other videos.
Strong rec foofoo12 · 2025-11 · on “Blender 5.0”
I 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: [this video] (this is just one playlist, there's a lot more on his channel).
Recommends deskr · 2025-01 · on “Autodesk deletes old forum posts suddenly”
I 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 to beg them to renew my licence every year. FreeCAD has improved a lot recently. MangoJelly has also done massive work creating thorough video tutorials: [this video]