User hub
This is the place to come if you want help using the FreeCAD software. All the content in this section assumes that you have access to a fully setup and working version of FreeCAD and are looking for help using it to create content.
Please ask!
These pages are in the early stage of development. If you can't find the information you are looking for, or have found useful information somewhere we have not linked to, then please leave a comment on the talk page and someone will look into it (or, if you are feeling bold, why not edit this page directly!).
Your questions make this manual grow!
Applications
Here some Workflows where FreeCAD can be Usefull:
- David is a very low cost 3D scanning system
Setting up Online Help
The online help system is currently in rework. It will generate a CHM file out of the Wiki. This CHM file will be distributed with the binary packages of FreeCAD.
Starting point of the On-line help system
Contents
The documentation comprises the following sections and subsections and can be accessed by the navigation menu below.
- 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
- Help: Tutorials, Video tutorials
- Workbenches: Std Base, Assembly, BIM, CAM, Draft, FEM, Inspection, Mesh, OpenSCAD, Part, PartDesign, Points, Reverse Engineering, Robot, Sketcher, Spreadsheet, Surface, TechDraw, Test Framework
- Hubs: User hub, Power users hub, Developer hub