FreeCAD [How-to]

I repeatedly had difficulty duplicating the steps from the book in the FreeCAD design environment. I don't know if that is a versioning issue, but makes me reluctant to rate it highly. If you're looking for a CAD program to learn, FreeCAD seems a little undercooked, and the documentation I have found reflects this. The price is right (free and open source), but I couldn't model a usable solid for my purposes following the direction in this book.

I am always hesitant to give negative reviews. I am especially hesitant as this appears to be one of the few books on FreeCAD on the market. Unfortunately I have to voice my opinion as a consumer. This book is worthless to me. Approximately 30% is "About the Author", "What's Covered in this Book", and other such house-keeping.I have read many other instructional books and this not even qualified to be compared to them. I am no better off with FreeCAD than when I started. I'm somewhat experienced with 3D having worked in Cinema4D, Blender, and even AutoCAD (way back); I was able to learn those programs due to the efforts of authors that know quite a bit more about the craft of instruction and the subject of their book.I read the entirety of this overly simplistic and nearly fraudulent book while my daughter watched a single episode of Sesame Street.To say it in a few words, charging money for this book is nearly fraudulent. It is little more than the introduction copied and pasted with 10% more clarity added to each section to make a "chapter". Save your money and bumble through the online help forums.I will never purchase a "Paktpub" book again. If they sent me a copy, offered to pay me $10 to read it and write a review. I would probably still not waste my time. The book was that frustrating.If you value either your time or your money, do something else with them both.

It is out of date and the information is freely available online.

Totally Outdated

There is nothing in this book that you could not learn reading the online help and tutorials. It could still be worth something if the authors focused on the program's "difficult" features, but it is not so. If the contents of the book reflect the authors' skills , they are just beginners, like myself. My undisciplined browsing at the online documentation taught me more than the half an hour reading this pamphlet.

Everything in this book you can get from freecad web page not worth the value. If you burned the money at least it would have given warmth.

The first part was a pretty good walk thru and I used and enjoyed it very much. However the following chapters were disjointed and didn't follow a logical progression for non-cad drafters.

While low cost, the book is very light on content. I hope the authors continue the development of the book to go into more complex concepts, shapes and the like.