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 contents

• Working with FreeCAD
  • Getting started
  • Mouse Model
  • Use of the navigation cube
  • The FreeCAD Document
  • Property Editor
  • Working with workbenches
  • Importing and exporting to other filetypes

• The 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 all FreeCAD commands
• Tutorials

• Customizing FreeCAD
  • Customizing the interface
  • Setting main preferences
  • Setting import-export preferences

• Scripting and Macros
  • Working with macros
  • Introduction to Python
  • Python scripting tutorial
  • FreeCAD scripting basics
  • Part scripting
  • Basic shape manipulation
  • Mesh scripting
  • Converting between Meshes and Parts
  • The Coin scenegraph
  • Working with Pivy
  • Working with PySide
  • Create a FeaturePython object part I
  • Create a FeaturePython object part II
  • Creating parametric objects
  • Embedding FreeCAD
  • Code snippets
  • Line drawing function
  • Dialog creation
  • Scripting examples

• Developing applications for FreeCAD
  • Licence
  • Compiling FreeCAD
    • Finding assistance
    • Compiling on Windows
    • Compiling on Linux
    • Compiling on MacOS
    • Compile on Docker
    • Compiling (Speeding up)
    • Third Party Libraries
    • Third Party Tools
    • Start up and Configuration
  • Build Support Tools
    • The FreeCAD build tool
    • Adding an application module
    • Debugging FreeCAD
    • Testing FreeCAD
    • Continuous Integration
  • Modifying FreeCAD
    • Branding
    • Translating FreeCAD
    • Installing extra python modules
  • Source documentation

• 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