freecad

tutorials

Sheet metal plugin

3D navigation

  • Set '3D navigation' to 'touchpad' in Preferences

Draw a rectangle

Extrude

  1. use the 'Draft' workbench and 'Trim or Extend' to extrude a face
  2. or in 'Part' workbench use 'Extrude'
  3. ... more ways to extrude: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlmd5_lnwXM