User:R-Frank

About me
My name is Roland. I am working as a mechanical engineer in Research & Development in a german company producing valves.

Motivation
FreeCAD is FUN ! It's amazing to see how good developed it already is.

It just lacks of support/documentation ...

That's where I decided to do tutorial videos and help with the wiki.

My german tutorial video channel has already nearly 300 subscribers and I get a lot

of positive feedback.

I know from experience how helpful it is to get a certain workflow shown on-screen with explanations.

This movtivates me to continue support ...

Relevant experience in CAD
Well, I am now in my mid-fourties ...

During study time i was working with ME10 and ME30 on Unix (now is PTC Creo Elements Direct).

I also learned to know Draftboard Pocket and Vellum (I bought a license for ViaCAD Pro but gave up beacause of the

too complex user interface, too much bugs and too less documentation).

I learned also to use AutoCAD.

In 2002, the company I work for decided to switch to 3D and so we bought Solidworks with one license Solidworks FlowSimulation

and since 2009 one license Solidworks Simulation.

Relevant experience in CAD/Programming
Well, during study time I did quite some work with the macro language of ME10 and ME30.

My bachelor thesis was about programming in TURBO PASCAL.

After a quick look at some of the Python macros in the library that looks at least quite interesting.

FreeCAD Design Projects
Uh, oh ... since I model mostly for my personal joy don't expect too much there.

But I downloaded quite a lot of plans and have quite some ideas of projects so maybe i am able to contribute

something useful to the "User Showcase"-subforum

Features I'd like to see
Ah well, first task is to get to know Opencascade a little better to get some feeling what makes sense and what doesn't.