FreeCAD Demo: Bike derailleur hanger

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This is a demonstration of how to make replacement parts using FreeCAD. It's the rear derailleur hanger from a Giant Peloton 8200 road bike, built sometime in the 1990s. For this particular part, I'm not sure how well the 3D printed version will work, just due to the strength requirements, but at least I'll have the CAD on hand for when I eventually get a CNC router mill. And again, this is a demo. I'm including the photo I worked off of, the FreeCAD file itself, and exports from that file both with threads and without. You can export any arbitrary part from a FCStd to OBJ or STL. Go ahead and play around with them, see if you can improve them and use the experience to make stuff of your own. If I make updated versions of the FCStd, I'll probably update them under different names, leaving the original intact, so you can see what was made in the video. One easy improvement I could make would be sketching the big hole separately, then pocketing that out of the fusion object, so the diameter of that hole could be changed without editing multiple sketches/pads. There are a couple other videos I link to in the description of the YouTube video there, but I can't link them here without Thingiverse automatically embedding them in the page. I don't want to misrepresent those creators' work as my own on here, so you'll have to click through to get to those.