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I'm new to freecad, so far I made it this way :

Sketch a rectangle for the top surface, pad it, add filets for the corners. Then select to bottom face, make a new sketch, another rectangle, then a datum plane 40mm below, sketch another smaller rectangle, and make a loft between the two to create the bottom of the tray.

Now for the hole I made a rectangle on the top face and made a pocket with an angle.

Downside of this, the thickness of the walls is not equal. Ideally I'd like a 1.5mm thickness everywhere. And I'm not really sure how to proceed to make the separators inside the tray.

What is the most efficient way to do it? thanks

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[–] 1ko@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

thanks, I'll try that. so far I only used the Part Design and Sketecher workbenches, I'll try the Draft.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

To be clear, I'm pretty sure that poster was referring to the Draft tool in the PartDesign workbench:

...And not the Draft workbench, if that's where you were going.

[–] jaredj@infosec.pub 1 points 3 months ago

Oh! Oh yeah, that's what I meant, sorry

[–] jaredj@infosec.pub -1 points 3 months ago

I never gave the Draft workbench any thought at all, until watching Mango Jelly Solutions' FreeCAD tutorial videos, which I heartily recommend. Heck, sometimes I can't get something modelled properly and just starting the video about it somehow reminds me of the right mindset :) https://www.youtube.com/c/MangoJellySolutions https://ko-fi.com/mang0