DownloadThis is an official mirror of FreeCAD. Code and release files are primarily hosted on https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD and mirrored here.
FreeCAD is a general purpose feature-based, parametric 3D modeler for CAD, MCAD, CAx, CAE and PLM, aimed directly at mechanical engineering and product design but also fits a wider range of uses in engineering, such as architecture or other engineering specialties. It is 100% Open Source and extremely modular, allowing for very advanced extension and customization.
FreeCAD is based on OpenCasCade, a powerful geometry kernel, features an Open Inventor-compliant 3D scene representation model provided by the Coin 3D library, and a broad Python API. The interface is built with Qt. FreeCAD runs exactly the same way on Windows, Mac OSX and Linux platforms.
Features
- Rock-solid OpenCasCade-based geometry kernel, allowing complex 3D operations on complex shape types, and supports natively concepts like brep, nurbs, booleans operations or fillets
- 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
Project Samples
License
GNU Library or Lesser General Public License version 2.0 (LGPLv2)
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Thank you very much for the program! Thank you for distributing it under a free open source license!
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Excellent program for the design of buildings and structures. Thanks to the author of the project!
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People who continue to download and rate FreeCAD here: please look below in the project summary, FREECAD MOVED FROM SOURCEFORGE MORE THAN 2 YEARS AGO!!!!! FreeCAD v0.17 was released in April 2018 and v0.18 is in active development. Please go to the official FreeCAD website which has an up-to-date download link: freecadweb dot org To those who complain about the unstable nature of FreeCAD: this is not the experience of most FreeCAD users. Did you actually download the latest version? To those who complain about the FreeCAD interface: granted it has a lot of room for improvements, and devs work on it. But they are all *volunteers* who contribute *in their own free time*, please remember that. Plus, anyone who's used parametric CAD software will tell you that without a minimum of training you won't be able to do much of anything. Stop wasting your time here, go to freecadweb.org where all is happening, and register to the FreeCAD forum where people will be happy to help you.
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I love FreeCad!!! The plugin selection is huge, sketch, draft, part .... There is a learning curve, but after you've built a few models it feel natural. This is a project I check twice weekly for updates. If you have a 3D printer I recommend building the parts in FreeCAD.