How would I ensure that the drawing is taking an exact view of the working plane of each sketch? So for instance, if you look at the 3D picture in my original post, you can see that my panels are tilted toward one another at angles. I can't ever seem to get the views right. I've tried to do some of those things before but I seem to really struggle with FreeCAD's drawing system. This is a 3D image of some of the pieces together without the holes for buttons cut out.

So how would I print something like this out so only the outline and holes for the buttons I need to cut are showing and it is exactly to scale on Letter paper? There will be smaller circles on the inside to represent where to actually cut out holes.

The blue circles represent the exact spacings of the arcade buttons I am going to be putting in. Here is what one of the sketches looks like so far: I want to do something similar with FreeCAD but I can't figure out how.Įssentially, I want to make a sketch for each piece of cardboard, use 3D positioning to determine certain characteristics about the sketches, and then print them out to scale on Letter paper. That way I can tape them on top of cardboard sheets to cut out my pieces. What I've been doing in the past is using Photoshop and printing my layouts out on pieces of Letter paper. I am basically trying to make cardboard cutouts that fit together, so I needed a 3D CAD program to figure out how they should be oriented in 3D space. I am in the process of prototyping a custom controller for a video game.

Freecad print drawing