CAD Modelling & Rendering – Blender & FreeCAD for Beginners

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Getting Set Up in FreeCAD with An Introduction to the Interface and Tools

Lecture 1: Where to Get your Free Copy of FreeCAD & the Installation Process

Lecture 2: FreeCAD Home Screen & Interface

Lecture 3: Workbenches, Toolbars and Macros

Lecture 4: How to Navigate in FreeCAD

Lecture 5: How to Snap in FreeCAD

Lecture 6: The Working Plane in FreeCAD

Lecture 7: The Draft Move, Rotate, Scale, Mirror, Offset, Trimex, Clone and Array Tools

Lecture 8: The Edit, Join, Split, Upgrade, Downgrade, Wire to B-Spline, Draft to Sketch

Lecture 9: Line, Polyline, Fillet, Arc Tools, Circle, Ellipse, Rectangle, Polygon

Lecture 10: B-Spline, Bezier, Point, Facebinder, ShapeString, Hatch

Lecture 11: Style Settings, Construction Mode, Layers

Chapter 3: This Section Covers the CAD Modelling of the House Model

Lecture 1: Unit Scale, Grid & Snapping, Style Sheet

Lecture 2: Importing the DXF File and Adding the Floors to Layers

Lecture 3: The Draft Wire Tool & Arch Wall Right Alignment Process

Lecture 4: Creating Arch Walls from Draft Wire Lines

Lecture 5: Arch Structure to form the Ceilings & Floors

Lecture 6: Creating an Arch Stairs Part 1

Lecture 7: Creating an Arch Stairs Part 2

Lecture 8: The Remove Component Tool for Subtractions

Lecture 9: The Arch Roof Tool

Lecture 10: Creating Doors and Windows using the Arch Window Tool

Lecture 11: Subtraction & Pillar Creation

Lecture 12: Exporting the House Model as an OBJ File

Chapter 4: Introduction to the Blender Interface

Lecture 1: Where to Get the Free and Open Source Software Blender & the Installation Proces

Lecture 2: Saving Incrementally, Increasing Undo Steps & Navigation Settings

Lecture 3: Enabling Add-ons

Lecture 4: How to Recover Blend Files after Crashes & Auto Saving Files

Lecture 5: Get Your Free Blender Shortcut Key Guide

Lecture 6: How to Navigate the Blender Interface

Lecture 7: The Tool Shelf, Sidebar, Modes, & Changing Editor Types

Lecture 8: Selection Types, Quick Favourites Menu & Transform Orientations

Lecture 9: Pivots, Snapping, Zoom Range and Object Visibility

Lecture 10: Activating Selection Types & the 3D Cursor Tool

Lecture 11: The Annotate Tool, Dimensioning Add-on and the Interactive Cube Tool

Lecture 12: Extrude, Bevel & Edge Loop Tool

Lecture 13: The Knife, Bisect & Poly Build Tool

Lecture 14: Using the Spin Tool to Form Profiles

Lecture 15: How to Create, Split & Join Editor to Form Custom Workspaces

Lecture 16: An Introduction to Collections and how to Organize the Scene

Lecture 17: The Versatile Multi-Purpose 3D Cursor Tool

Lecture 18: Snapping using Relative or Absolute and During Rotation

Lecture 19: Face Normals and the Face Orientation Overlay

Lecture 20: The Coordinates System and Vertices, Edges & Faces

Lecture 21: How to Start Building your Asset Browser and Linking Blend Files

Lecture 22: Common Issues

Chapter 5: Importing and Scene Scale

Lecture 1: Setting up the scene scale for import

Lecture 2: Importing as an OBJ File and Updating the Camera Clipping Settings

Chapter 6: Material Library & Environment Setup

Lecture 1: Setting up the Environment using Blender Blosm

Lecture 2: Setting Up Your Material Library

Chapter 7: UV Mapping the 3D House Model

Lecture 1: Applying Transforms Face Orientation & Overlapping Vertices

Lecture 2: UV Mapping the Walls

Lecture 3: UV Mapping the House Roof and pillars

Chapter 8: Automate Actions using Blender Python

Lecture 1: UV Mapping Automation

Lecture 2: UV Mapping the House Walls

Chapter 9: Adding Materials to the 3D House Model

Lecture 1: UV Mapping the Roof

Lecture 2: Internal Wall and Ceiling Material

Lecture 3: Adding Brick Detail

Lecture 4: Adding Window Trim Detail

Lecture 5: Adding External Brick Material

Lecture 6: Garage Door and Support Material

Lecture 7: Balcony Floor and Ceiling Material

Lecture 8: Modelling the External Environment

Chapter 10: Cameras & Lighting

Lecture 1: Setting Up Cameras and Stored Views

Lecture 2: Setting up the add-on Dynamic Sky

Lecture 3: Setting up the Add-on Sun Position

Lecture 4: Sun Position and HDRI

Lecture 5: Instance the house collection

Chapter 11: Rendering

Lecture 1: Rendering an Image using Cycles

Lecture 2: Export the Model in Format to Twinmotion

Lecture 3: Setting up the Model in Twinmotion

Lecture 4: Building the Scene in Twinmotion

Lecture 5: Rendering Images

Lecture 6: Rendering Videos

Chapter 12: Bonus Section

Lecture 1: Blender to Twinmotion

Lecture 2: Bonus Lecture