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If you're looking for inspiration from the FreeCAD community, you’ll want to check out the remarkable work of Jan Jindra , featured in the FreeCAD Facebook group. Jan has combined architecture, history, FreeCAD modeling, and 3D printing to recreate some of the Czech Republic’s most iconic landmarks, its many tourist lookout towers . Czechia: The Land of Lookout Towers Did you know that the Czech Republic has more tourist watch towers than any other country in the world ? Over 300 towers (and counting) dot the Czech landscape. Many of these architectural gems are free to the public and serve not just as observation points, but as historical monuments that span centuries, from the late 1800s through both World Wars and into modern times. As new towers continue to be built, the tradition is still very much alive. These structures are more than just attractions; they offer a view, both literal and historical, into the country's rich and evolving past. From Travel Photograph...

This is a quick tutorial of how to make organic structures in FreeCAD's curves workbench. Inspired from the original Rhino 3D tutorials I created that may be somewhere on the internet (it's been a long time!) I have taken inspiration from the curve tweeting tool which creates intermediate copies of the curve by dividing two supplied curves into an equal number of points, finds the midpoint between the corresponding points on the curves. and interpolates the tween curve through those points. At time of writing FreeCAD doesn't have this feature but we can get a similar result using the iso curves. Here's the process: 1. Create a sketch with two curves, individual sketches could be used but the Curves WB can be used to extract and move both curves. Think of this just as a template. 2. Go to the Curves workbench and select one curve and click the join curve tool or from the top menu; Curves >join curves. Repeat for the second curve, note: the newly created join curve may...