FreeCAD
The FreeCAD
application is an open source 3D-Solid and general purpose design
CAD/CAE.
FreeCAD is aimed directly at mechanical engineering and
product design but also fits in a wider range of uses around
engineering, such as architecture or other engineering specialties.
FreeCAD has tools similar to those offered by Catia,
SolidWorks or Solid Edge.
The software makes extensive use of open source libraries
include OpenCascade,
Coin3D, Qt, and Python.
FreeCAD 0.13.1830
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Price
Free to download
Size
66.9MB
License
GNU GPL or LGPL
Developer
Juergen Riegel, Berthold Grupp, Yorik van Havre,
mohd_najib and others
Website
freeecad.sourceforge.net
System Requirements
Python 2.5.x or greater
boost 1.33.1 or greater
Qt 4.1.x or greater
Coin2D 2.4.x or greater
SoQt 1.2.x or greater
Xerces-C++ 2.6 or greater
zlib
Support
Sites:
Wiki,
FAQ,
Tutorials,
Forums
Selected
Reviews:
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Features include:
- GUI application with 3D viewer
- Command line version with low memory footprint usable as
server
- Macro recording
- Workbenches
- Modeling features:
- Offset (trivial or after Jung/Shin/Choi)
- Boolean operations (add, cut, intersect)
- Creation of primitives:
- Parametric creation of box, sphere and cone
- Topologic creation of vertex, edges, wires and planes
- Modeling with extrudes and fillets
- Meshes
- Boolean operations like:
- Union - fuse shapes together
- Difference - substraction of two
shapes
- Intersection - cut out the commen
parts of two shapes
- Import: ASCII or binary STL (Stereo lithography
format), OBJ format, Limited NASTRAN support, Open Inventor meshes,
FreeCAD
mesh kernel native
- Export: ASCII or binary STL (Stereo lithography format),
OBJ format, Limited NASTRAN
support, VRML meshes, FreeCAD mesh
kernel native, Mesh as Python module
- Evaluation and Repair
- Tests solid
- Tests non-two-manifolds
- Tests self intersections
- Hole filling
- Uniform orientation
- Raytracing
- Run as a Python module
- Plugin/Module framework for late loading of
features/data-types
- Built in scripting
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Last Updated Sunday, April 21 2013 @ 04:36 PM EDT
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