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NOTE: For OSE purposes, this is specific to FreeCAD 0.16 on OSE Linux 2.0 (2020). "Starting from FreeCAD v0.17.9940 an Addons Manager has been built-in to FreeCAD. You can use said Addon Manager to seamlessly install Fasteners Workbench." See https://github.com/shaise/FreeCAD_FastenersWB for more info. | |||
Latest revision as of 14:09, 15 August 2025
Introduction
Allows you to make nuts, bolts, threaded rods of many sizes and types. Threads are accurate and to standards.
Installing
Hint: For FreeCAD v0.16 the most updated version of the workbench is v0.3.22
Download the archive (.zip) file here:
http://theseger.com/projects/2015/06/fasteners-workbench-for-freecad/
Extract the contents of the archive to a directory named 'Fasteners' and copy to a new directory named 'Mod' within the '.FreeCAD' directory in your $HOME as follows:
cd /tmp wget http://theseger.com/projects/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Fasteners_V0.2.15.zip unzip Fasteners_V0.2.15.zip mkdir $HOME/.FreeCAD/Mod mv Fasteners $HOME/.FreeCAD/Mod/
NOTE: For OSE purposes, this is specific to FreeCAD 0.16 on OSE Linux 2.0 (2020). "Starting from FreeCAD v0.17.9940 an Addons Manager has been built-in to FreeCAD. You can use said Addon Manager to seamlessly install Fasteners Workbench." See https://github.com/shaise/FreeCAD_FastenersWB for more info.