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FreeCAD is designed to fit a wide range of uses including product design, mechanical engineering and architecture. Whether you are a hobbyist, a programmer, an experienced CAD user, a student or a teacher, you will feel right at home with FreeCAD.

• Discovering FreeCAD
  • Installing
  • The FreeCAD interface
  • Navigating in the 3D view
• Working with FreeCAD
  • Preparing models for 3D printing
  • Using spreadsheets
• Python scripting
  • A gentle introduction

• Sep 05, 2020 FreeCAD is a free, open source parametric 3D modeling application. It is made primarily to model real-world objects, ranging from small electronic components up to large objects such as buildings and civil engineering projects, with a strong focus on 3D-printable objects.
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• Apr 17, 2021 FreeCAD's development is active. For Linux users, check out the development AppImage. For MacOS and Windows development builds and development source code, see the weekly builds page. To compile the latest source code, see compiling. Additional modules and macros. The FreeCAD community provides many additional modules and macros.

FreeCAD is a free, open source parametric 3D modeling application. It is made primarily to model real-world objects, ranging from small electronic components up to large objects such as buildings and civil engineering projects, with a strong focus on 3D-printable objects. FreeCAD is free to download, use, distribute and modify, and its source code is open and published under the very permissive LGPL license. The data you produce with FreeCAD is fully yours, and can be recovered without FreeCAD.

FreeCAD is also fundamentally a social project, as it is developed and maintained by a community of developers and users united by their passion for FreeCAD.

This manual is an experiment, taking a different approach from the official FreeCAD documentation wiki. The wiki is written collaboratively by dozens of community members. Like most wikis, it contains huge amounts of information but is somewhat difficult to access and navigate by newcomers. This makes it an excellent resource for reference, but a less practical tool for learning FreeCAD. This manual will walk you through much of the information available on the wiki, but we hope the step-by-step approach based on examples and a more unified tone due to a smaller number of authors will make it more suitable for a first contact with FreeCAD. It will become a companion for the wiki, but not replace it.

This manual is being written for the newest stable version of FreeCAD, version 0.18 (early 2019).

The contents of this manual are published under the Creative Commons 4.0 license, and can be freely used, downloaded, copied, and modified. The source files for this manual are hosted on this wiki, and on the original github account used to write the first version of this book. Easier to read HTML, PDF, MOBI and EPUB versions are available on GitBook. A printed version is being prepared.

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• 1Current stable version

Current stable version

The first 0.19.1 release of FreeCAD (24276) was published on 2021-03-20. To find out what's new, see the release notes.

You will find SHA256 checksums to verify the integrity of your download on the 0.19.1 release page.

Previous versions can be downloaded from the releases page

Notes for Windows users

• The 32-bit installer (x86) supports the following versions of Windows: 7/8/10.
• The 64-bit installer (x64) supports the following versions of Windows: 7/8/10.
• A portable version (64-bit) that doesn't need installation is on the release page.
• The package may also be installed from the Chocolatey manager.

Notes for Mac OS X users

Mac OS X 10.12 Sierra is the minimum supported version.

Notes for GNU/Linux users

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Most distributions carry FreeCAD in their official repositories, however, if the distribution doesn't follow a rolling release model the version they provide might be outdated. Instead you can download the AppImage above, mark it as executable and launch it without installation.

Please see the Installing on Linux page for more installation options, including daily packages for Ubuntu and derivatives.

A portable version that doesn't need installation can be achieved by starting FreeCAD with these commands: introduced in version 0.19

More information about FreeCAD's environment variables can be found on the configuration page.

Development versions

FreeCAD's development is active.

• For Linux users, check out the development AppImage.
• For MacOS and Windows development builds and development source code, see the weekly builds page.
• To compile the latest source code, see compiling.

Freecad Documentation Package

Additional modules and macros

The FreeCAD community provides many additional modules and macros. Since 0.17 they can be easily installed from within FreeCAD using the Addon manager.

• Installation:Download, Windows, Linux, Mac, Additional components, Docker, AppImage, Ubuntu Snap
• Basics:About FreeCAD, Interface, Mouse navigation, Selection methods, Object name, Preferences, Workbenches, Document structure, Properties; Help FreeCAD, Donate

• Help:Tutorials, Video tutorials
• Workbenches:Std Base; Arch, Draft, FEM, Image, Inspection, Mesh, OpenSCAD, Part, PartDesign, Path, Points, Raytracing, Reverse Engineering, Sketcher, Spreadsheet, Start, Surface, TechDraw, Test Framework, Web
• Deprecated or unmaintained workbenches:Complete, Drawing, Robot

• Addons:Addon Manager, External workbenches, Scripting and macros

Freecad Tutorial

• Hubs:User hub, Power users hub, Developer hub