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. This makes it an excellent resource for reference, but a less practical tool for learning FreeCAD. Like most wikis, it contains huge amounts of information but is somewhat difficult to access and navigate by newcomers. The wiki is written collaboratively by dozens of community members. This manual is an experiment, taking a different approach from the official FreeCAD documentation wiki.

The data you produce with FreeCAD is fully yours, and can be recovered without FreeCAD.įreeCAD 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. FreeCAD is free to download, use, distribute and modify, and its source code is open and published under the very permissive LGPL license. 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. Please see the Installing on Linux page for more installation options, including daily packages for Ubuntu and derivatives.FreeCAD is a free, open source parametric 3D modeling application. Instead you can download the AppImage above, mark it as executable and launch it without installation. 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repositories, however, if the distribution doesn't follow a rolling release model the version they provide might be outdated. For macOS 12 and older the 'Unsigned Intel disk image' should be used, the signed version does not work on those systems.MacOS 10.12 Sierra is the minimum supported version.

The Chocolatey package is currently not up-to-date. The package can also be installed from the Chocolatey manager.The following Windows versions are supported: 64-bit 7/8/10/11.Previous versions can be downloaded from the releases page. You can find SHA256 checksums to verify the integrity of your download on the 0.21.2 release page. To find out what's new, see the release notes. The 0.21.2 release of FreeCAD was published on.

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