Online Help Toc

This is the table of contents used for the automatic building of the Online Help system in FreeCAD. A printable version of this manual is also available on the releases page. If you have any questions or need help with FreeCAD please consult the help page including the forums and chat groups.

There is another table of contents for the FreeCAD MANUAL.

• Introduction
  • Welcome
  • About FreeCAD
  • Features
  • Installing on Windows
  • Installing on Linux
  • Installing on Mac
  • Installing additional components

• Working with FreeCAD
  • Getting started
  • Mouse model
  • Selection methods
  • The navigation cube
  • The FreeCAD document
  • Property editor

• The Workbenches
  • Standard tools for all Workbenches
  • The Arch Workbench
  • The Draft Workbench
  • The FEM Workbench
  • The Image Workbench
  • The Inspection Workbench
  • The Mesh Workbench
  • The OpenSCAD Workbench
  • The Part Workbench
  • The PartDesign Workbench
  • The Path Workbench
  • The Points Workbench
  • The Raytracing Workbench
  • The Reverse Engineering Workbench
  • The Robot Workbench
  • The Sketcher Workbench
  • The Spreadsheet Workbench
  • The Start Workbench
  • The Surface Workbench
  • The Techdraw Workbench
  • The Test Framework Workbench
  • The Web Workbench
  • External workbenches

• List of FreeCAD commands

• List of file formats (import-export)

• FAQ

• Tutorials

• Customizing FreeCAD
  • Customizing the interface
  • Setting main preferences
  • Setting import-export preferences
  • Start up and configuration

• Python scripting
  • Working with macros
  • Script tutorial
  • Introduction to Python
  • Python scripting tutorial
  • FreeCAD scripting basics
  • Part scripting
  • Shape manipulation
  • Scripted objects
  • The Coin scenegraph
  • Working with Pivy
  • Working with PySide
  • Interface creation
  • Dialog creation

• Development
  • Licence
  • Compiling FreeCAD
    • Compiling on Windows
    • Compiling on Linux
    • Compiling on MacOS
    • Compiling on Docker
    • Compiling on Docker CLI mode
    • Compiling (speeding up)
    • Third party libraries
    • Third party tools
  • Build Support Tools
    • Bug tracker
    • Bug triage
    • Debugging FreeCAD
    • Testing FreeCAD
    • The FreeCAD build tool
    • Continuous integration
  • Modifying FreeCAD
    • Branding
    • Translating FreeCAD
    • Adding an application module
    • Installing extra Python modules
  • Source documentation
  • API

• Credits
  • Contributors

• Glossary

User documentation

• Getting started
• Installation: Download, Windows, Linux, Mac, Additional components, Docker, AppImage, Ubuntu Snap
• Basics: About FreeCAD, Interface, Mouse navigation, Selection methods, Object name, Preferences, Workbenches, Document structure, Properties, Help FreeCAD, Donate

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• Help: Tutorials, Video tutorials
• Workbenches: Std Base, Arch, Assembly, CAM, Draft, FEM, Inspection, Mesh, OpenSCAD, Part, PartDesign, Points, Reverse Engineering, Robot, Sketcher, Spreadsheet, Start, Surface, TechDraw, Test Framework, Web

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• Addons: Addon Manager, External workbenches, Scripting and macros

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• Hubs: User hub, Power users hub, Developer hub