FreeCAD

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FreeCAD jest otwartoźródłowym modelerem CAD/MCAD/CAx/CAE/PLM 3D, zorientowanym na inżynierię mechaniczną i projektowanie cyklu życia produktu, ale także obejmującym szerszy zakres inżynierii jak architektura czy inne specjalności. Jest on opartym o cechy parametrycznym modelerem z modularną architekturą oprogramowania, która umożliwia łatwe dodawanie funkcji bez modyfikowania rdzenia systemu.

FreeCAD opiera się na potężnym jądrze OpenCasCade, cechuje się zgodnym z Open Inventor modelem przedstawiania sceny dostarczanym przez bibliotekę Coin 3D i obszernym API pythona. Interfejs zbudowany został z wykorzystaniem frameworku Qt. FreeCAD działa dokładnie tak samo na platformach Windows, Linux i Mac OS X.

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Główne cechy

Kompletne bazujące na OpenCasCade jądro geometrii allowing complex 3D operations on complex shape types, and supports natively concepts like brep, nurbs, booleans operations or fillets
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A modular architecture that allow plugins (modules) to add functionality to the core application. Those extensions can be as complex as whole new applications or as simple as python scripts or self-recorded macros
A full parametric model allowing any type of parameter-driven custom objects, that can even be fully programmed in python
Complete access from python built-in interpreter, macros or external scripts to almost any part of FreeCAD, being geometry creation and transformation, the 2D or 3D representation of that geometry (scenegraph) or even the FreeCAD interface
Import/export to standard formats such as STEP, IGES, OBJ, DXF, SVG or U3D

In development

A Sketcher with constraint-solver, allowing to sketch geometry-constrained 2D shapes
A Drawing sheets module that permit to put 2D views of your 3D models on a sheet
A Robot simulation module that allows to study robot movements
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A Rendering module that can export 3D objects for rendering with external renderers

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About the development

Check the Development roadmap for news about what is being planned, the Changelog and Roadmap mantis pages to see the progresses towards next release, or the Project statistics for even more information about the FreeCAD codebase.

Quickbuild

FreeCAD uses cMake, subversion link: https://free-cad.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/free-cad/trunk

Help wanted

FreeCAD would benefit greatly from your help with testing and reporting bugs! Another problem we have, is lack of people to build and test FreeCAD on Mac OSX. If you have a mac, please help us! You are also welcome to help translating FreeCAD in your language.