Interesting links

This page contains some maybe useful links to other FLOSS resources and project in this area.

FreeCAD on the net

Specific platform pages related to FreeCAD

• SourceForge The FreeCAD project page on SourceForge
• Ohloh Ohloh statistics for the FreeCAD project
• Cia CIA activity tracking for FreeCAD
• Debian Debian package info
• Ubuntu Ubuntu package info
• Slackware Slackware package info
• Gentoo Gentoo package info
• OpenSuse/Fedora Packman package info
• Freenode The official #freecad IRC channel on Freenode
• Facebook The official FreeCAD facebook page

Other CAD Projects

• BRL CAD Big Open Source package, a bit old fashion
• Heekscad a CAD/CAM application based on OpenCasCade and WxWidgets
• Narocad another OpenCasCade-based project, windows-only
• Salome more a FEM system but have also a modeling part
• PythonOCC complete python bindings for OpenCasCade, with own GUI builder
• PythonCAD a simple 2D CAD application programmed in python

Tutorials

Written tutorials

• Introduction to FreeCAD
• Parametric modeling at work

Video tutorials

• FreeCAD parametric modeling
• Making a 2D drawing from a 3D model
• Creating a "mushroom"
• Creating arrays with python

Advanced

Research

• Pasm functional language to programing shapes

FEM

• Calculix our favorite for FEM in FreeCAD
• Salome FEM system with complicated design
• Z88 is a fast, powerful and compact Finite Elements Analysis Program especially designed for PCs running LINUX, workstations and large computers with UNIX and PCs with Windows XP/95. Z88 is a work of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Frank Rieg of University of Bayreuth. License: GPL

Math

• Octave powerful MathLab clone