Fasteners Workbench in FreeCAD

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Introduction

Allows you to make nuts, bolts, threaded rods of many sizes and types. Threads are accurate and to standards.

Installing

HintLightbulb.png 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/