FreeCAD

Action Plan

Recruit software developer to analyze FreeCAD and build with/upon their work. Short-term Objective: Get Assembly Module Working.

Document FreeCAD source code in github repository.

Document FreeCAD's code structure.

Info

FreeCAD Website

FreeCAD Bugtracker/Issue Queue

<rss>http://www.freecadweb.org/tracker/issues_rss.php?project_id=0</rss>

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Ok, first FreeCAD:

As they say themselves, it is still in the early stages of development. I (Conor) have searched for documentation, and apart from the getstarted [1] there are 2 nice articles from December (so version 0.9, which btw. is in Lucid already). The funny thing is that for some reason, both are in... Polish! I understand you have polish origins, so maybe you speak Polish. Otherwise just google translate. They give you examples and a better idea of what it is right now capable of. [2] [3]

So I propose the following: you try to reproduce the steps in the articles, so you get a feeling for it. But then regardless stick with Blender a bit longer, and try FreeCAD again when version 0.11 or 0.12 comes out.

Undo doesn't work

Using FreeCAD 0.13.1828 on Windows.

• Situation: I draw a box and modify it's size. Then I hit Ctrl+Z (or Redo from the menu).
• What happens: Box is deleted :-(
• Expected: Box returns to old size.

OSE FreeCAD Documentation

I (Mark Norton) have created a very simply, introductory guide to FreeCAD. It only covers the very basics at this point, but we can expand on it as needed. - User:Mjn

File:FreeCAD-3.pdf

This document covers the following topics:

• Views
• Workshops
• Sizing a Primitive Part
• Positioning a Part
• Making a Cut
• Combining Parts
• Rotating a Part
• Extrusion

See also, FreeCAD Documentation and Tutorials [4].