How to use FreeCAD?
Notes on how to use FreeCAD, an open-source general-purpose 3D-CAD.
Tips
- Installing FreeCAD on Windows
- Installing FreeCAD on macOS
- Installing FreeCAD on Linux
- How to fix if FreeCAD faile to start
- How to use each GUI panel?
- License and commercial use
- List of supported file formats and extensions
- Mouse operation setting
- How to switch auto-rotation on 3D view
- Language Setting (switching between your language and English)
- Changing unit system
- How to set background color?
- How to change sketch line color?
- How to set size of toolbar icons?
- How to reset user preference
- How to customize a toolbar?
- How to install addon with addon manager?
- How to create solid from a sketch?
- If sketch constraints cannot be applied
- How to edit shape parametrically?
- How to copy, move and rotate a object?
- How to scale a 3D object?
- Creating a complex shape by connecting the cross-sections (Loft)
- Extruding a cross-sectional shape along the curve (Sweep)
- How to hollow out a solid?
- Sweep with a 3D sketch
- How to create a solid from a sketch by rotation extruding?
- How to execute a boolean operation between solids?
- How to fix a failed boolean operation?
- Copying and arranging in a circle
- Coping and arranging shapes in a grid
- How to create character string shape solids?
- How to project a shape onto a curve surface?
- How to cut a solid with a plane?
- Divide a face into multiple faces
- How to create a solid from meshes?
- How to create meshes from a solid?
- How to make gear with Involute Gear tool
- How to create solids from 2D image?
- How to export shapes as STL file?
- How to extract faces from a solid?
- How to create an airfoil?
- Display settings of parts (color, material, transparency and so on)
- How to change the color of a face on a 3D solid?
- Inserting a measurement
- Creating 2D drawings from a 3D shape
- Creating 2D orthographic drawing from 3D shapes
- How to calculate a volume, surface area and gravity center of a shape?
- Recording operations as a Python script and executing it from the command line
- Change unit system on importing DXF file
- How to smooth circel and arc in sketch?
- Assembling multiple files into a single file
- Deleting holes and fillets from shapes in STEP files
- If calculation stopped on the FEM workbench
- How to manage dimensions with a spreadsheet?
- How to build on Windows?
